Today, we'll start with a discussion about how Facebook is cracking down on illegal gun sales on its website. Then, we're less than 100 days from Brazil's World Cup. What are the issues? Plus, the College Board announces major changed to the SATs, local Venezuelans react to unrest back home, we dispel recent 'guacpocalypse' panic and much more.
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• 8:43
Yesterday, Facebook announced new rules to crack down on illegal firearms online. Yes, the social networking site has become quite the hotbed of gun sales. For more on what's happening with guns online and how Facebook has responded, we're joined now by Jeff Elder of the Wall Street Journal.
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• 4:31
It’s now fewer than 100 days until the first kick off at The World Cup in Brazil. Though that may still sound like a long time away, in a tournament that takes nearly four years to crown a winner, it’s just the blink of an eye.
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• 7:59
The SAT is getting a big makeover. Yesterday, the College Board announced a sweeping redesign of the exam. Among the changes? More obscure vocabulary words, once a hallmark of the SAT, are out.
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• 7:17
Many a mouse has disappeared as users turn to trackpads instead. But there's no fear of the mouse becoming completely obsolete. At least not according to our next guest, Geoff Fowler, personal tech columnist with the Wall Street Journal.
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• 8:06
In a few weeks Russell Crowe will build an ark to save the faithful, in Darren Aronofsky's epic, "Noah."
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• 7:29
In sports movies and documentaries, there are instances where the subject of the film transcends the sport itself. Where the protagonist becomes greater than the game or event that they participate in.
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• 15:07
It's Thursday and that means it's time for State of Affairs, our look at politics and government throughout California. To help us with that we're joined in studio by KPCC political reporters Alice Walton and Frank Stoltze.
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• 3:50
Protesters in Venezuela are speaking out against President Nicolas Maduro, and that's led to violence with government forces. KPCC's Leslie Berestein Rojas reports Venezuelan expats in Los Angeles have responded with protests of their own.
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• 6:09
U.S. Border Patrol agents have stepped into the path of oncoming cars on purpose to justify shooting at the drivers.
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• 4:42
One way state officials hope to make California better able to withstand drought is to stock underground drinking water supplies with recycled wastewater. Water managers across the state could learn from Orange County -- an early adopter of recycled water.
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• 6:23
Already there are signs that Mexico could be moving in that direction. Last month, a number of bills were introduced in Mexico City, and at the national level that could soften drug laws regarding marijuana.
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• 3:51
Reports that Chipotle may have to stop serving guacamole because of global warming shocked the Internet and avocado lovers everywhere.