The FBI's recommendation with Hillary Clinton's private email server, the Golden State Warriors take Durant, parenting and religion.
Hillary Clinton and the FBI investigation of her emails
This morning the FBI announced that there would be no criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while serving as Secretary of State.
Here is FBI Director James Comey speaking to reporters today.
He went on to say that the investigation uncovered extremely “careless” behavior by Secretary Clinton and her staff, but that no charges were appropriate.
For more on what was said and how this will play on the campaign trail, we speak to Adam Wollner senior analyst for the National Journal.
ISIS attacks and their endgame
This weekend terror attacks in Bangladesh and Baghdad have left devastation and destruction.
It's been reported that more than two hundred people were killed in both of those attacks, and others have also been killed in a series of attacks in Saudi Arabia, although ISIS involvement has not been confirmed.
For more on the attacks, and what it may mean in the fight against terror, we spoke with Douglas Ollivant. He's a Senior National Security Studies Fellow at New America.
New music from Shakira, Pepe Aguilar, Alkilados and more
If you don't have the time to keep up with the latest in new music, we've got the perfect solution for you: Tuesday Reviewsday. Every week our music experts come in to talk about the best new tunes in one short segment. This week, Billboard's
and music journalist
Justino Aguila
Artist: Pepe Aguilar
Album: "No Lo Habia Dicho"
Song: "Lo Que Siente Mi Corazon," "Maria"
Artist: Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizárraga
Album: "Raices"
Song: "Mujer, Mujer," "Para Que Me Echaste Al Mundo"
Leila Cobo
Artist: Carlos Vives and Shakira
Song: "La Bicicleta"
Artist: Alkilados
Song: "La Bicicelta"
Artist: Intocable Highway
Album: "Highway"
Song: "Quiereme (Amame)," "Dia 730"
The Brood: How families incorporate religion into their kids' lives
Figuring out how to introduce kids to religion or spirituality can be tough for parents.
What to do in mixed-faith families? Or when one parent would prefer not to bring a child up with religion? What about explaining to kids the practices of a faith tradition that's not your own?
To help sort out some answers Alex Cohen talked with Brie Loskota, executive director of USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and psychologist Lisa Miller, author of "The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving."
Interview highlights:
On when to bring up the topic of faith or religion with kids
"There is no age that is too young to start to understand life, our lives together as a family, daily life at nursery school or preschool, all from a spiritual perspective. And in fact, we now have a very large science on spirituality in children that shows that the child, while born with an innate spirituality, actually relies on parents to cultivate this, just as they would IQ or temperament or any other inborn trait." -Lisa Miller
On how families are increasingly affiliating with more than one faith tradition
"People aren't solving this question for themselves by affiliating with one place [of worship], they're solving this question for themselves and their families by curating a set of experiences and affiliations that tailor make their orientation to religion in a way that feeds all of their needs and commitments and questions. So somebody might do Buddhist meditation and also might be a Reform Jew... The empowerment of people to create their own ways of engaging multiple religious traditions or multiple experiences rather than picking one and staying in that lane can be a really complicated questions for religious leaders and institutions, but that's really what's happening on the ground for many people." -Brie Loskota
On how to talk with kids about atheism and agnosticism
"Having inclusive language where you are able to represent a reflection of who is in your community to your children is always valuable. I have a colleague who runs an atheist and agnostic group, and it's really a group for people who are looking for answers of meaning and purpose and community, but outside of the traditional religious environment. And so through my interaction with him, I have become more consciously aware that while we talk about religion or spirituality, we don't want to exclude people who don't make their meaning in the same way that we do in our family. So I talk about that with my kids as a way to explain who they know and who we interact with." -Brie Loskota
How can street racing in LA be curbed?
An investigation into street racing ended in death on Sunday when CHP officers shot and killed a 19-year-old driver in Fullerton.
It's just the latest fatality linked to illegal racing. And it raises a question: What can be done to curb cars and drivers hell-bent on racing each other through our neighborhoods?
James Queally has been covering this topic for the LA Times. He joined the show with more.
To listen to the full interview, click on the blue audio player above.
Pterosaurs take flight at Natural History Museum
There's a new exhibit at LA's Natural History Museum all about Pterosaurs, those amazing, prehistoric flying reptiles
Mike Habib is the resident mind on all-things dinosaurs at the museum.
And even though he's spent many years studying all sorts of Jurassic and Cretaceous animals, he told Take Two's A Martinez that the Pterosaur holds a special place in his heart.
On why he's so interested in pterosaurs
I think the thing that most interests me about pterosaurs is that they're so incredibly strange. When you work on a lot of different sorts of animals both living and fossil, fewer things start to wow you over time, I guess. You get sort of jaded about things, but you never really get jaded over pterosaurs. They're just too strange for that.
On the diversity of pterosaurs
It was a really diverse group actually, much more so than probably a lot of people realize... Some had a wing that was formed largely from one giant finger. A lot had really big heads and had big crests on those big heads ... the smallest ones would fit in the palm of your hand; the largest ones... would have a wing span of about 35 feet.
On whether or not a Bald Eagle would stand a chance against a pterosaur
Well it depends the largest pterosaurs would of course be able to swallow a bald eagle whole, but none of the pterosaurs that we've discovered so far have talons like a bird... So despite what the movies show you, there were no pterosaurs...that could swoop down and carry a human off.
On the lies that Hollywood has spread about prehistoric creatures
The greatest myth in movies about dinosaurs and pterosaurs.. is mostly I would say that they make them all hyper aggressive. There's this myth that animals in the past were monsters. And that... they would go on a murderous rampage. Being trapped with a small to midsized predatory dinosaur would be about as dangerous as being enclosed with a leopard: Risky, not recommended, but not an immediate death sentence.
On what this new exhibit will feature
This exhibit's pretty cool. This is the largest pterosaur exhibit that's ever been launched anywhere. It has a really cool mix of kind of 2016 style stuff and old-school if you will. Plenty of original specimens on display; we've got original fossils as well as research grade casts... Kids and they're parents are [also] invited to get onto two [interactive simulations] and fly like a pterosaurs. It's a virtual reality style capture. So you stand on ti put your arms out and it captures those as the wings. It's not a perfect physic simulation of course, but it's pretty good. You can dive into the water the catch fish, tuck your arms, stuff like that. it's also a lot of fun to watch people on it, so get your kids on it and take video.
Can you actually bring a dinosaur back to life, Jurassic Park style?
I can confirm you cannot do it as you do in Jurassic Park. The best you could do is you could retro engineer something that was pretty close in appearance from what you would imagine a cretaceous dinosaur like from a living bird. Because a lot of the genes are still in there. You could engineer a chicken for example to have teeth and claws. That's not difficult to do really with modern technology.
On what Pterosaur he'd be interested in bringing back for research purposes
I'd bring back quetzalcoatl. One species of quetzalcoatl is one of the animals that's tied for largest known flying animal because I want to see what it can do! You'd have to keep your dogs away from it because we think its optimal feeding size was probably about the size of the average medium dog or ten year old. So you wouldn't want your kids or dogs near it. But with a few safety precautions it'd be pretty cool to see what that thing could do.
To hear the full converation, click the blue player above.
Pterosaurs: Flight in the age of Dinosaurs is now on display at the Natural History Museum until Oct. 2.
"Welcome to Jupiter!" NASA's spacecraft finally reaches its destination
Last night, after five years of anticipation and suspense, NASA successfully put the spacecraft Juno into orbit around Jupiter.
"WELCOME TO JUPITER!" flashed on screens at mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, earning an ovation the space agency's workers.
To tell us more, senior editor at the Planetary Society, Emily Lakdawalla, joined the show.
To hear the full segment, click the blue play button above.
Why PCBs are still a problem: KPCC's Stephanie O'Neill reports for 'Reveal'
Across the country, tens of thousands of public schools could be contaminated with toxic polychlorinated biphenyls – compounds more commonly known as PCBs, which were used widely in building materials such as window caulk.
The sleeper chemical was banned in 1979 but still poses a serious health risk to kids today, including in relatively affluent Malibu, California.
Evidence that PCBs remain in the environment and can cause harmful health effects that range from skin conditions to cancer led Congress to ban it. So what’s the big catch? Schools aren’t required to test for it.
And why wouldn’t school officials want to test? Because it’s expensive – especially for public schools that face tight budgets. Looking for costly PCBs to remove is hardly at the top of any principal’s to-do list.
For more on how PCBs first found their way into the environment in the U.S. and what's being done to protect people from PCBs, KPCC's Stephanie O'Neill and WNPR's David DesRoches join Take Two to discuss.
The two paired up for a documentary from the Center for Investigative Reporting's "Reveal," where they took listeners to the front lines of the outrage – where Malibu parents who were worried that the school district wasn’t doing enough to protect kids and staff have taken the case to court. A teacher who calls herself “Cancer Patient No. 1” told O’Neill her story.
You can listen to the full documentary here and tune in to Reveal every Monday at 9pm on KPCC.
Reveal is a weekly radio program produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. More details available on the website