Trump card marked: the January 6th investigation
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The Congressional committee probing the riot at America’s Capitol recommended that the Justice Department bring four charges against Donald Trump. But the road to indictment and prosecution of the former president is long and winding. The UN’s biodiversity summit ended with a historic but still unsatisfying agreement. And our language columnist presents his choice for word of the year.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:04.4 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. |
| 0:14.4 | So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. Yours, Toby. Take your holiday as seriously as British |
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| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 1:04.5 | In New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 1:07.1 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:09.2 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.3 | The UN's biodiversity summits get less attention than their climate change powwows. |
| 1:20.7 | But biodiversity is crucial to a functioning planet. |
| 1:24.1 | The latest meeting ended yesterday in Montreal with an historic agreement that |
| 1:28.3 | still left many unsatisfied. |
| 1:32.3 | And it's time for our language columnist to select the economist's word of the year. |
| 1:37.3 | Some years, that's hard when the roiling of news and culture doesn't really throw up any worthy new words. |
| 1:47.6 | 2022 has presented the opposite problem. |
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