Reflections on Baltimore’s bridge collapse from the workers who built it
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
When the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was built in the ’70s, it was a chance for workers to prove themselves on a massive construction project. Following its collapse, those workers look back on what many considered to be a monument to their work — and what happens when that monument is gone. Also: foreign aid could be bundled with a forced sale of TikTok, and European Union leaders agree to tighten sanctions on Iran.
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| 0:00.0 | The fight over international aid just got more complicated. |
| 0:05.0 | From Marketplace, I'm Sabry Beneshore in for David Brancaccio. |
| 0:10.0 | House Speaker Mike Johnson has attached a bill forcing the sale of |
| 0:13.4 | Tic-Toc to a foreign aid package which includes money for Ukraine and |
| 0:17.5 | Israel. The House is expected to vote on the measure this weekend. |
| 0:20.4 | Marketplace is Nancy Marshall Genser has more. |
| 0:22.4 | The House has already passed legislation. this weekend, Marketplace's and Nancy Marshall Gensler has more. |
| 0:23.3 | The House has already passed legislation requiring the Chinese company that owns Tik-Toc bite dance |
| 0:28.6 | to sell it to resolve national security concerns. |
| 0:32.1 | Otherwise, the app would be banned in the US. The new measure |
| 0:35.1 | attached to the foreign aid package would give bite dance more time to sell TikTok. |
| 0:39.9 | Regardless of the timeline, TikTok says the bill would violate Americans free speech rights, |
| 0:45.0 | but there are concerns among Republicans and Democrats that China could access Tik-Tok users' personal information. |
| 0:52.0 | Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, a |
| 0:54.8 | Democrat from Washington State, has jurisdiction over the Tik-Tok bill in the Senate. |
| 0:59.5 | On X, she said she had recommended giving Bight Dance more time to sell |
| 1:03.9 | Tik-Toc and now supports the updated legislation. President Biden says |
| 1:08.5 | Congress should pass it and he would sign it. I'm Nancy Marshall |
| 1:12.0 | Genser for Marketplace. |
| 1:14.0 | European Union leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed to tighten sanctions on Iranian |
| 1:19.6 | producers of drones and missiles. This after Iran sent volleys of attack drones towards |
| 1:25.2 | Israel in response to Israel's bombing of an Iranian consulate in Syria, the |
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