In this week's Trendy podcast from @Tortoise Rachel Wolf and I discuss the results of #LocalElections2024 and their implications for #GE24 in front of a live audience. podfollow.com/trendy/episode…

Donald Trump is the first former US president to face a criminal trial.

He’s accused of falsifying business records, by saying a hush money payment to a porn star was for legal fees.

This is the story of that trial, told using the court transcripts.

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An LGBT rights case that landed in Ghana’s Supreme Court on Wednesday poses a test for the World Bank, forcing it to choose between its mission of ending extreme poverty and its support for liberal values.

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A£2.5 million clinical trial has allowed children with cow’s milk and peanut allergies to eat foods that could previously have triggered potentially life-threatening allergic reactions.

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Donald Trump is the first former US president to face a criminal trial.

He’s accused of falsifying business records, by saying a hush money payment to a porn star was for legal fees.

This is the story of that trial, told using the court transcripts.

🎧 lnk.to/TrumpOnTrial

Thanks to Time Out London for including Who Trolled Amber? as their number 1️⃣ podcast to listen to in 2024.

Listen now: lnk.to/WhoTrolledAmber

🗞️ Today's Tortoise's News Matrix

Here's today's news ranked by Tortoise's Sensemaker team from ‘surprising to not surprising’, and ‘important to not important’.

Let us know what you think – and if there are any stories that should be on the grid 👉 torto.se/4bYTEKq

On 29 May, join Tortoise editors giles whittell, Alexi Mostrous and Cat Neilan for a live recording of The News Meeting podcast.

They'll pitch the stories they think mattered most – and take a side-swipe at the ones they think don’t.

Book now to join us in the person or online.

There is a version of the Stormy Daniels story that is fairly straightforward, and most of us probably think we know it well.

But there is another version of Daniels’ story.

In this Slow Newscast from 2022, we went in search of that other story.

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Donald Trump is the first former US president to face a criminal trial.

This week’s Slow Newscast is the story of the first week of that trial, told using court transcripts.

Listen: lnk.to/TrumpOnTrial

“The biggest issue with stress in our modern world today is that we assume it’s a reasonable tax to pay to be successful in life.”

Author of Unstressable, Mo Gawdat, joined us for a ThinkIn on how to live a stress-free life.

Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=9t78jL…

Public hearings into the alleged war crimes committed by British special forces during the war in Afghanistan have been delayed by several months after the Ministry of Defence repeatedly failed to meet its deadlines.

Listen to today's Sensemaker: lnk.to/rJGcaI

This is great for understanding exactly what this is all about.

Tonight, Join top pollster Sir John Curtice What UK Thinks: EU and former Downing Street advisor Rachel Wolf for a LIVE edition of Trendy.

We'll make sense of the local election results, and look ahead to the upcoming general election.

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Just one week to go to Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Evans Investigative Journalism Summit 2024!

📰Take a look at the programme: tinyurl.com/bdhzh22s
📽️Livestream here on Wednesday 15 May: tinyurl.com/5annavk6

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Public hearings into the alleged war crimes committed by British special forces during the war in Afghanistan have been delayed by several months after the Ministry of Defence repeatedly failed to meet its deadlines.

Listen to today's Sensemaker: lnk.to/rJGcaI

📝 In today's Sensemaker...

Xi Jinping is currently on his first visit to Europe in five years.

And while the Chinese leader’s decision to visit France, Serbia and Hungary might seem odd in Brussels, it makes complete sense in Beijing.
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🥈 We’re thrilled to have picked up the silver ARIA in the Best Factual category for Children Locked Away.

The Slow Newscast, by Louise Tickle and Patricia Clarke, was an investigation into how the country’s most distressed and vulnerable children are being abandoned by the state.

Tomorrow, Join top pollster Sir John Curtice What UK Thinks: EU and former Downing Street advisor Rachel Wolf for a LIVE edition of Trendy.

We'll make sense of the local election results, and look ahead to the upcoming general election.

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