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You wake up, look at your phone, scroll through the news for a minute or two, and then think, wow, how did we get here?

Well, that's the question we tackle every week on NPR's ThruLine podcast.

We tell you the surprising stories of the people who made our history.

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Music Fake IT workers from North Korea are scamming companies in the West.

Once you peel back the onion, you realize that these IT workers are across the entire world's landscape.

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

And I'm Marco Wurman.

Today, what North Korea is getting out of it.

Also, the anxiety of living through climate change.

We live in a time of doom scrolling and people are spreading information about.

It's too late.

The toll that takes on our mental health.

Plus, the argument for not negotiating for

peace if you're Vladimir Putin. For Russia to meet its war aims, it doesn't necessarily have to

defeat Ukraine completely. And a document once thought to be a copy of the Magna Carta turns out

to be the real thing. I think it took perhaps a millisecond of looking at it to work out that

it's an original, not a copy. That's all ahead today on the world.

This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. Thank you for tuning in. We start

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