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President Trump's defending his latest financial disclosures showing that he made more than
“a billion dollars in crypto earnings last year.”
NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Labin reports the document shows the president has a vast array of income streams.
The cryptocurrency earnings include more than 500 million related to world liberty financial,
the crypto business founded in part by Trump and his sons. It also includes more than 600 million from a company that set up a meme coin related to his inauguration. The form shows the large sums Trump took in related to properties bearing his name. He took in more than 50 million from both his golf course in Scotland and his golf course
near Washington DC, for example. Trump products also brought in money. He took in 4.7 million from Trump watches. The president's financial disclosures document totals 927 pages. In comparison, President Biden's 2020 disclosure form was 11 pages long.
Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR news, the White House.
Oman, which borders the state of Hormuz says it is not in favor of ships paying tolls
to pass through the waterway, but is open to maritime service fees being paid voluntarily. The shipping route was free, and opened more than 100 vessels a day before the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran in late February, and PR's Abitrawi reports. Oman, long and neutral mediator between the U.S. and Iran, says imposing tolls on ships that want to transit the state of Hormuz is internationally prohibited.
That's in line with the positions of the U.S. and Gulf Arab States. But Omani-Forn minister, Betha Adbosaidi, told France's public Arabic radio channel, Monte Carlo Doleia, his country does not roll out the possibility of discussing voluntary maritime services with companies in order to enhance navigational safety and emergency preparation. He compared it to systems in place in the streets of Malacca and Singapore.
Iran says sovereignty over the state of Hormuz lies with Iran in Oman, and that the interim peace deal with the U.S. only waves service charges in the state for 60 days. I Abitrawi and Pernus, Dubai. It is shaping up to be a brutal fourth of July for tens of millions of people across the United States.
A heat wave is spreading from the Midwest to the East Coast. New York could see its hottest holiday in more than a decade. Reporter Steve Cassenbaum explains. With temperatures expected near or above 100 degrees over the next few days, Mirza Ramam Donny put the city's heat emergency plan into effect.
If the forecast holds, this could be the hottest fourth of July since 2010. The dangerous heat comes at a busy time in New York with World Cup crowds here, dozens of tall ships parading in sale to 50 on Friday and Saturday, and the fourth of July firework show, which usually draws millions of people. It is of immense concern given that too often the heat is something that is underestimated.
The city is opening dozens of cooling centers and setting up drinking water stations. The mayor urged New Yorkers to look out for folks who seem like they're struggling in the heat. For NPR News, I'm Steve Cassenbaum in New York. This is NPR News.
There's an uptick and black bear encounters in Tennessee, state wildlife officials are reporting more incidents of the bears breaking into cars and shattering house windows. Carolina, a girl's of member station WPL and reports extreme weather has a lot to do with it. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been in some level of drought since November. It's one factor affected by the warming climate that scientists say pushes bears towards
human sources of food. This year, Tennessee Wildlife Biologist Janelle Musters says the state has received more than 800 calls about bears.
“I think we have seen really high levels, especially this year, of some extreme human bear”
conflict, stuff that we really honestly haven't even seen in the past. What's really unusual is how often these bears have broken car windows or opened cabin doors. For NPR News, I'm Caroline Eggers and Gatlinburg. California has a new law addressing food. KCLU's Lancer Oscar reports.
How do you know when the food you buy is longer safe to use? Some labels say sell buy, but people sometimes mistake that for an expiration date and throw out food that's still good. The result is a lot of waste.
Recycling experts say more than 2 billion meals in California alone are thrown out annually.
After California's new law, packages can no longer have sell buy dates, they have to say best of use buy to show peak freshness and use buy. That's when a product is no longer safe to eat. The law's author says this could be a model for national legislation, but it took multiple tries with the food industry to get the state ruled past.
For NPR News, I'm Lancer Roscoe, in Thousand Oaks, California. It's NPR.
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