Every morning before the radio show, Glenn's producers gather for a morning meeting to discuss the big stories of the day and plan out the shows. Here are the stories the team reviewed today.
#1 Estimated 15,000 people join ‘pinstriped Nazis’ on march in Dresden
Its members have been dubbed the “pinstriped Nazis” and they refer to their demonstrations as “evening strolls” through German cities. But on Monday night, an estimated 15,000 people joined Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West, in a march through Dresden carrying banners bearing slogans such as...[more via The Guardian]
#2 Ruble Continues Its Decline in Russia, Despite Interest Rate Increase
Despite the Russian central bank’s extraordinary move to defend the currency, the ruble’s value continued to slide on Tuesday, presenting President Vladimir V. Putin with an acute new set of political and economic challenges...[more via The New York Times]
#3 Taliban Kill Scores in Attack on Pakistani School
Pakistani Taliban gunmen stormed into a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing scores of teachers and schoolchildren and fighting an eight-hour gun battle with the security forces, officials said. [more via The New York Times]
#4 Can’t Have Your Cake, Gays Are Told, and a Rights Battle Rises
Jack Phillips is a baker whose evangelical Protestant faith informs his business. There are no Halloween treats in his bakery — he does not see devils and witches as a laughing matter. He will not make erotic-themed pastries — they offend his sense of morality. And he declines cake orders for same-sex weddings because he believes Christianity teaches that homosexuality is wrong. [More via The New York Times]
#5 Families of Newtown shooting victims sue gunmaker, seller
The families of nine of the 26 people killed and a teacher wounded two years ago at the Sandy Hook Elementary School filed a lawsuit Monday against the manufacturer, distributor and seller of the rifle used in the shooting. [More via FOX News]
#6 New York Magazine Story Of Teen Who Earned $72 Million Trading Stocks Was Made Up
Mohammed Islam, 17, admitted Monday to the New York Observer that the story of how he had made “high eight figures” in the stock market was “total fiction.” [More via Buzzfeed]
#7 NASA’s useless $349 million tower
In June, NASA finished work on a huge construction project here in Mississippi: a $349 million laboratory tower, designed to test a new rocket engine in a chamber that mimicked the vacuum of space. Then, NASA did something odd. [More via The Washington Post]
#8 Millennials exit the federal workforce as government jobs lose their allure
Six years after candidate Barack Obama vowed to make working for government “cool again,” federal hiring of young people is instead tailing off and many millennials are heading for the door. [More via The Washington Post]
#9 Study: Long-term unemployment makes you fatter
Despite more free time for exercise, unemployment likely causes a slight increase in body weight, according to a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. [More via The Washington Examiner]
#10 Cops put homicide cases on hold to deal with protests
The NYPD is pulling detectives from homicides and other investigations to help deal with the endless barrage of anti-cop protests in the city, law-enforcement sources told The Post Monday. [More via The New York Post]
#11 New York bans pet tattoos and piercings
Body art is not for animals, at least not in New York. It will soon be a crime to pierce or tattoo your companion animal anywhere in the state. [More via The New York Post]