Another big week in politics is coming up as the President is making his way to Vietnam for the second summit with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. Still aiming for the goal of complete denuclearization, the president says he is in no rush as long as missile testing has stopped.  Ginger Gibson, political reporter for Reuters, joins us for this and the House vote to overturn Trump’s emergency declaration. 

Next, new research suggests that a controversial gene editing experiment to make twin girls in China resistant to HIV may have also altered their brains and enhanced their ability to learn and form memories. Lulu and Nana had their genes modified before birth using the CRISPR editing tool and this could possibly be one of the unintended consequences. Antonio Regalado, reporter for the MIT Technology Review, joins us for more on the CRISPR twins.

Finally, emoji are having another moment.  As we use them more in our everyday communication, it’s increasingly starting to show up as evidence in court. Between 2004 and 2019 there has been an exponential rise in emoji and emoticon references in US court opinions, the problem is that not everyone can always agree on what the emoji actually mean. Dami Lee, reporter at the Verge, joins us for emoji in court. 

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