Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Backroom deals between animal shelters and dog breeders
Dog rescue groups have long denounced commercial breeders for mistreating animals.
By Madeleine Brand • • 47m ListenPhoto of a poodle seeking a view leaps inside its enclosure at Sugarfork by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post.
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5 storiesHow would foreign policy change under Mike Pompeo?
Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo faced a heated Senate confirmation hearing today. Pompeo is a former Kansas congressman, and current CIA director.
Read the story8 minWhat the California National Guard will do at the border
California Governor Jerry Brown says he’ll comply with President Trump’s request to add more troops at the U.S.-Mexico border. Brown says he’ll send an additional 400 National Guard troops. Around 200 are already there.
Read the story10 minWhy some people buy dogs from puppy mills but say they're rescue dogs
Dog rescue groups have long denounced commercial breeders for mistreating animals.
Read the story7 minThe last Nazi war criminal in the U.S.
Jakiw Palij is the last Nazi war criminal in America. Palij was an armed guard in a forced labor camp in eastern Poland. In one horrific incident at that camp, 6000 Jewish prisoners were shot on one day in 1943.
Read the story11 minThe strange journey of 'Louie Louie'
Three chords and a lot of teenage energy make “Louie Louie” one of those songs you can’t hear without smiling. But the version we know, performed by the Kingsmen, is not the original.
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