Objection to the Rule

Reese, Jasmin and Janet talk about the resignation of NYPD commissioner Edward Caban, GOP politicians and white nationalists stoking anti-Haitian sentiment in Springfield, OH, and young Afghan women pursuing higher education in Scotland.

Jasmin and Janet discuss federal investigations of members of Mayor Adams' inner circle, a Colorado mother being threatened with jail for refusing to comply with reunification orders between her children and their allegedly abusive father, the case of a French woman (Céline Pelicot) being drugged and recorded by her husband while strangers assaulted her, and Cooper Union seniors receiving free tuition.

Jasmin, Reese and Janet talk about coyotes making a comeback in New York, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz' interview with Dana Bash on CNN, and polio vaccinations planned for children in Gaza.

A look back at three stories from earlier in 2024 and how they tie into more recent news (Columbia University's crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters -> Minouche Shafik resigns, mother and 2 children drown crossing Texas/Mexico border -> Kamala Harris' tough-on-border rhetoric at DNC, mass student protests in Bangladesh -> Sheikh Hasina resigns, extreme flooding in Bangladesh).

Matthew, Jasmin and Reese discuss the Texas Attorney General suing to block a gun ban at the Texas State Fair, doctors in India going on a 24 hour strike to protest the brutal rape and murder of a medic, and Mayor Eric Adams being hit with a subpoena over campaign finances.

Reese, Jasmin and Janet talk about a mask ban that passed in Nassau County, NY, the global conflicts that the US is currently involved in despite Biden's campaign promises, racist mobs wrecking havoc throughout the UK, and Algerian Olympians making history at Paris Summer Games.

Jasmin, Janet and Reese talk about controversial changes to how residents can and can't get trees cut down in Westchester, the police murder of a Black woman in Illinois who called 911 for help, the violent state crackdown on student protesters in Bangladesh, and advances in cancer treatment for children.

Reese and Jasmin discuss car accident deaths outpacing gun deaths in NYC so far in 2024, the machinations of a secret group of wealthy Christian conservatives seeking to make the US a white, Christian nation, and France bussing immigrants out of Paris ahead of the summer 2024 Olympic games.

Jasmin, Alyssa and Matthew discuss federally-run nursing homes in NYC not being inspected for 15 months or longer, a white Nebraska man shooting 7 of his Guatemalan neighbors before killing himself, and the UK Labour Party winning snap election in a landslide.