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- Seized oil tanker; Trump administration billionaires; interest rates; ancient fire; and more
Thursday, December 11. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - Trump’s affordability tour; Miami mayoral election; a piano-playing octopus; and more
Wednesday, December 10. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - Ukraine and Russia; Nancy Mace airport incident; Golden Globe nominations; and more
Tuesday, December 9. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - U.S. citizens detained in immigration operations; Kennedy Center Honors; lanternfly honey; and more
Monday, December 8. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - D.C. pipe bomb arrest; Trump’s new ballroom architect; Black Death volcano theory; and more
Friday, December 5. The seven stories you need to know today.
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11 min - Pete Hegseth under pressure; Trump pardons Cuellar; pajamas at the airport; and more
Thursday, December 4. The seven stories you need to know today.
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9 min - Trump’s rant against Somalis; Tennessee House race; the companies trying to block the sun; and more
Wednesday, December 3. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - Pete Hegseth and boat strikes; ‘everywhere chemicals’; new TSA fee; Olivia Nuzzi memoir; and more
Tuesday, December 2. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - Pete Hegseth’s boat strike orders; Stockton shooting; Ozempic’s wider impacts; and more
Monday, December 1. The seven stories you need to know today.
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10 min - Post Reports: Kathryn Bigelow on ‘A House of Dynamite’ and the nuclear ‘elephant in the room’
You can read today’s edition of The 7 newsletter here. While The 7 podcast takes a break today, we wanted to share this Post Reports episode from earlier this month. It’s about the movie, “A House of Dynamite,” a new thriller on Netflix about nuclear war.
Kathryn Bigelow has been thinking about the threat of nuclear war ever since she was a kid. “I come from the era of duck and cover,” she says, “where when I was very little, we had to hide under the desk in the event of an atomic bomb blast.”
Over the last 40 years, she’s been directing tightly-paced thrillers such as “The Hurt Locker” (which won her the Academy Award for best director) and “Zero Dark Thirty.” Her latest film, “A House of Dynamite,” takes on a question that has been on her mind for decades: What would happen if the U.S. were targeted by a nuclear missile?
The film, which is out on Netflix, has struck a nerve with audiences, becoming the streamer’s most-watched movie in the world and igniting conversation about the accuracy of its depiction of the U.S. missile defense system.
Today on Post Reports, Elahe Izadi speaks with Kathryn Bigelow and with the film’s screenwriter, Noah Oppenheim, about why they chose to make this film in this moment, and about how they responded when they saw news that the U.S. could restart nuclear testing for the first time in decades.
Today’s show was produced by Peter Bresnan and Josh Carroll, with help from Emma Talkoff. It was edited by Reena Flores and mixed by Sean Carter.
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Bim Adewunmi fills in for Hannah Jewell.
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