INTRODUCING APPLE NEWS TODAY: Every weekday morning, hosts Shumita Basu and Duarte Geraldino bring you up to speed on the biggest stories of the day — and how the world’s top journalists are covering them.

Monday, January 4, 2020

Trump caught on tape pressuring Georgia election official

A taped phone conversation reveals how President Trump pressured a Georgia election official to change the election results. It comes in a pivotal week in politics, ahead of Georgia runoff elections Tuesday that will decide the balance of power in the Senate.

Also on today’s show: The vaccine rollout in the U.S. moves slowly, airline passengers resist coronavirus requirements, and a reporter investigates the curious shortage of bucatini pasta.

Pivotal week in politics

In an extraordinary call, Trump pressures Georgia’s secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor

The Washington Post

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Growing numbers of Trump loyalists in the Senate are vowing to challenge Biden’s victory

The Washington Post

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Can Democrats win Georgia — and the Senate?

The New Yorker

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The United States struggles to administer vaccines

America’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is already a disaster

New York Magazine

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The slow vaccine rollout could portend more problems

The Wall Street Journal

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The challenges of enforcing COVID-19 rules on planes

Airline workers battle mask resistance with scant government backup

The Washington Post

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Coughing, sneezing, vomiting: Visibly ill people aren’t being kept off planes

Los Angeles Times

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A pasta mystery solved

The very real, totally bizarre bucatini shortage of 2020

Grub Street

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The man who believed he found the cure for cancer

The Atavist Magazine

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Further Listening

After she rejected her strict religious community, running helped her build a new life

Runner's World

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Frances McDormand has never achieved anything quite like ‘Nomadland’

Vogue

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About Our Hosts

Shumita Basu is a broadcast journalist with public-radio roots. She’s drawn to vivid narratives and accountability journalism and especially admires local reporters who own their beats.

Duarte Geraldino is a longtime broadcast journalist, editor, and TED speaker. He’s passionate about journalism that focuses on economic justice and migration, and that amplifies voices that are too often silenced.