The Daily Dive

This is a compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we are talking about the people who pay people to kill people. We are getting more details that the attempted murder on “Big Papi” David Ortiz’s life was a hit job, in New York a police officer hired a hitman to kill her husband and a young girl.  Thankfully most of the headlines we see are about contract killings that go nowhere.  For more, we speak to journalist Rene Chun about why more of...

Former Stanford University sailing coach John Vandemoer is the first person to be sentenced in the college admissions cheating scandal: Operation Varsity Blues. He was sentenced to one day in prison, six months of home detention, two years of supervised release, and a $10,000 fine.  My producer Miranda joins us to break it down and the thing that worked in his favor, he never pocketed the money, b...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has signed a bill that would require people convicted of certain sex offenses to undergo “chemical castration” as a condition of parole, a requirement meant to keep them from committing similar crimes.  The process is not permanent and can be reversed but there are ethical questions and concerns if it actually works as a deterrent.  Marisa Iati, reporter for the Washingto...

There is an animal cruelty controversy that is striking the largest dairy producer in Indiana and one of the largest in the country.  Video released by a group called Animal Recovery Mission showed cases of abuse and cruelty in the treatment of calves at Fair Oaks Farms.  There was also drug use by some employees caught on camera.  On one side of the issue is Richard Cuoto, founder of ARM who has...

New tariffs have been avoided.  Mexico has agreed to take stronger measures to slow migration over the border and President Trump has dropped the threat of tariffs for now.  Joe Biden had a rough week reversing his long held position on the Hyde Amendment which some say was a purely political shift to get on board with an issue important for the Democratic Party.  House Democrats are also scheduli...

This is compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was back in April that Walmart announced it was doubling down on robots in its stores to scan shelves and scrub floors hoping to keep labor costs down and open up employees to more fulfilling work.  Well, the roll-out has happened and the results are… mixed.  The human workers are sometimes the ones that feel like machines.  Customers have reportedly fallen asleep on one of the machines, worker...

Homelessness is a problem all across the country, but the headlines out of California are getting out of control and LA County seems to be having an especially bad time.  Homelessness has jumped 12% despite millions of dollars being poured in to help limit the problem, and in the meantime there is constant news of rats, fleas, and feces due to homeless encampments.  Benjamin Oreskes, reporter for...

Some good news for all you coffee drinkers out there.  In California, coffee no longer needs a cancer warning AND a new study shows that even 25 cups a day isn’t bad for your heart, at least when it comes to stiffening of the arteries… all that caffeine might be a different story. Sara Randazzo, legal reporter for the WSJ, joins us for what to know in CA, and then we explore what 25 cups of coffee...

More Americans are living solo and the companies that want their business are upending generations of family-focused products and marketing and catering to single person households with smaller appliances, individual packaging, and GIANT toilet-paper rolls. Ellen Byron, reporter for the WSJ joins us for how many people are living alone now and how they buy things differently. Next, a new study is...

The country has experienced another mass shooting and this time 12 people have lost their lives in Virginia Beach.  DeWayne Craddock was a public utilities engineer who put in his two weeks’ notice earlier in the day before he indiscriminately shot at others in a municipal building. The investigation is still ongoing and no motive has been found.  My producer Miranda joins us for what we know abou...

This is a compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we have a follow up to a story that started in November 2016.  The mysterious “sonic attacks” on US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba.  They reported heard loud screeches or buzzing sounds and then came down with dizziness, headaches, difficulty concentrating, and other symptoms resembling a traumatic brain injury.  We never did find out what caused it and it may stay that way due to the way th...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller made his first public comments in two years since the beginning of the Russia investigation.  In his remarks he recapped some of his findings and made two things clear, Russia did interfere in the election and his report does not exonerate the president from obstruction of justice…DOJ policy prohibits him from charging a sitting President. Zoe Tillman, legal reporter...

The first big trial in the opioid crisis has kicked off in Oklahoma and it will have wide ranging implications for hundreds of other lawsuits. The state will argue that Johnson and Johnson’s deceptive marketing campaign created a “public nuisance” that will cost the state $17 billion to take care of. Sara Randazzo, legal reporter for the WSJ, joins us for what it is all about, can a company be hel...

We are about a month away before the race for the Democratic nomination really starts to heat up.  The first debates are happening at the end of June and it is going to be a packed stage.  We will tell you who has qualified so far and also how the candidates are handling Fox News, some are refusing to go on the network and others are doing town halls. Ginger Gibson, political reporter for Reuters,...

I want to start off by saying Thank You to all service members of the military who fight to protect us and give us the freedoms we cherish so much.  Today, on Memorial Day, we specifically remember those that gave the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country.  Telling the stories of those that have given their lives for us is one of the best ways to honor them and keep their memory alive.  T...

This is a compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is a compilation of the most compelling stories of the week. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Millennials at the far end of the spectrum are turning 38 this year and are approaching middle age.  The bad news is that they are playing catch up in the game of life. New data shows that they are in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation and may never recover. A lot of factors go into why Millennials are in their current situation… they began their working life when the rec...

America was first introduced to him in December 2001.  He became known as the “American Taliban” and he is set to be released from prison today.  John Walker Lindh is being released after serving 17 years of a 20 year sentence for providing support to the Taliban. John Woolfolk, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, joins us for who the “American Taliban” is and the big questions how does a form...