First Mobile Voting, WhatsApp Hack & Sundance (+ "Racist Robots") - Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
3.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Thursday, January 23rd, 2020!
What to know about the first opening arguments in the impeachment trial, a first-of-its-kind election, and who hacked Jeff Bezos's cell phone...
Plus: the NFL player retiring, Tesla's major milestone, and NASA's naming contest.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Then, hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday's bonus interview about artificial intelligence and bias.
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Sources:
Opening Arguments: NYT, The Hill, NBC News, Washington Post, Politico, NPR
Vote by Phone: NPR, The Verge, WSJ
Jeff Bezos Phone Hacked: The Guardian, NYT, WSJ, USA Today
China Limits Travel: USA Today, CNBC, BBC
Service Animals are Airlines: Washington Post, ABC News, Reuters
Eli Manning Retires: ESPN, Giants.com
Tesla Hits Milestone: Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC
Cruise's Driverless Shuttle: Cnet, Engadget CNN
Naming Mars Rover: Business Insider, NASA's 'Name the Rover' Poll
Sundance Film Festival: Deadline, Hollywood Reporter
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Thursday January 23rd. |
| 0:02.0 | What to know today about the first opening arguments in the impeachment trial, |
| 0:05.0 | a first of its kind election with mobile voting, |
| 0:08.0 | and who hacked Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, |
| 0:10.0 | plus an NFL retirement, |
| 0:12.0 | Tesla's major milestone, and NASA's naming contest. |
| 0:15.0 | Then hang out after the news for Thing to Know Thursday, where we ask, are there racist robots? |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy. |
| 0:24.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:26.3 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:30.1 | Thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:31.6 | You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:34.0 | All right, the opening arguments have begun in President Trump's impeachment trial. |
| 0:41.0 | Only the third impeachment trial of an American president in history. |
| 0:44.7 | Democrats are up first. |
| 0:45.8 | They have three days, about eight hours each day, to argue their side, before President |
| 0:50.2 | Trump's attorneys will have the same amount of time to defend him. |
| 0:54.0 | On day one of the opening arguments yesterday, the impeachment managers who are prosecuting |
| 0:58.1 | the case went through the evidence so far, walking the 100 senators who are there as the jury through the timeline. |
| 1:04.8 | And every phone call, email, and related document discovered so far, from the whistleblower |
| 1:09.4 | complaint to emails from the president's personal attorney to the 400 million dollars in military |
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