The Real News Podcast

One week has gone by since a massive container ship struck a critical support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending the structure and a group of construction workers who were fixing potholes on the bridge into the water of the Patapsco River. Of the 8 men who were working on the bridge that night, six have been pronounced dead since last Tuesday. As more details have emerged...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, April 4, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us contin...

When the iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed around 1:30am on Tuesday, March 26, eight men who were working on the bridge at the time were plunged into the cold waters of the Patapsco River. Two of those men were recovered alive, six were not. As TRNN previously reported , all existing evidence points to the fact that these workers—who were working for a non-union contractor, Br...

24 hours after Max returned to Baltimore from East Palestine, Ohio, the shipping vessel Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it into the Patapsco River. The catastrophic collision and collapse of the bridge claimed the lives of six immigrant, non-union construction workers who were working the night shift at the time, filling potholes on the bridge. In this interview on The V...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, April 3, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us conti...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, April 2, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 29, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

Years of  meticulous investigation  by The Real News reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis have shown how the city of Baltimore siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds to corporate developers over a period of decades. With their findings now available in a  full documentary , Taya and Stephen's investigative reporting has also spawned calls for an  investigation  from the State...

The drumbeat of intervention is rolling once again for Haiti. Since last year, plans have been laid for a  US-sponsored intervention in Haiti nominally led by Kenya , ostensibly in the name of fighting "gang violence" in the Caribbean nation. While corporate media has breathlessly pushed the narrative of a lawless Haiti overrun by criminal organizations, such framing deliberately excludes the role...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 28, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us conti...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 27, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us cont...

A New York court has found former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of drug trafficking and weapons possession. It’s a huge verdict that will likely see the former president imprisoned for life. In the last episode of Under The Shadow, host Michael Fox looked deeply at Hernández’s time as president from 2014 to 2022, which many came to call a narco-dictatorship. He won office in a f...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 26, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us contin...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 25, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us continu...

The prevalence of sexual violence in the US prison system is so widespread and accepted that it's often made the butt of jokes in popular culture. Yet the reality is that countless survivors of the prison system carry the scars and traumas of sexual abuse—and for many, the perpetrators of these crimes were the very prison staff charged with their protection. Juvenile victims of the prison system a...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 22, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us...

US Airman Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation in protest of the US support for Israel's genocide in Gaza has raised questions from some about the politics of soldiers in the US military. Bushnell's self-avowed anarchist views have become an object of particular scrutiny, raising the possibility of Pentagon surveillance and investigations into left-leaning troops. Ken Klippenstein joins The Real News...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Thursday, March 21, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help...

This Saturday, March 23, unionists and labor leaders, environmental justice groups, community organizers, community members from other “sacrifice zones,” and supporters from around the country are coming to East Palestine to join residents as part of the newly formed Justice for East Palestine Residents and Workers coalition. The coalition has come together in recent months and mobilized around th...

The history of white supremacy in US sports culture is as old as the games, and the nation, themselves. Recent years have seen a push to change the names of the most egregious offenders, most notably the former name of the Washington Commanders. Yet some teams' problematic names and histories have comparatively flown under the radar. Such is the case with the Kansas City football team. Radio Host...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Wednesday, March 20, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help...

Since 2022, the politics of Pakistan have been rocked by a struggle for power centered around former prime minister Imran Khan. Khan, who was ousted from office by a parliamentary no-confidence motion in April 2022, has alleged that his removal from office was orchestrated at the behest of the US government. This January, Khan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking government documents as...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, March 19, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help u...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Monday, March 18, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us...

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, March 15, 2024. TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world. Find more headlines from  Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed . Help us...