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President Trump is defending his $1.1 billion in crypto earnings last year.
“NPR's Frank Ordonias has more on the Republican leaders' latest financial disclosures.”
The President said he's not the only one to make a lot of money during his time and office arguing that he made money because the stock market is up. "You know what I'm proud of because the stock market is going on. Everybody's proud of it. If you have a 401k, how's your 401k done?
It's about 85%. Thank you, President Trump." The earnings in crypto currency include more than $500 million, related to world liberty financial. The crypto business founded in part by Trump and his sons.
The 927 page financial forms also show large profits from properties bearing his name.
He took in more than $50 million from both his golf courses in Scotland and near Washington,
D.C. Franco, Ordonias, NPR News. "Now while U.S. delegation visits Qatar to try to negotiate an N2 its war with Iran, President Trump departed Washington, D.C. foreign north to code it today on the new Air Force one gifted by Qatar. "This was a gift from a country that's greeted us very well."
The critics raise conflict of interest concerns over Qatar's donation. The trilateral trade deal between the United States, Canada, and Mexico has just hit its sixth birthday. A deadline as the deal is written, the Trump administration elected not to extend the deal for 16 years, but there's still a decade to renegotiate, and Piers Camilla Dominozki
reports. "The U.S. M.C.A. as the deal is now known was the replacement for NAFTA. It allows tariff free treatment for qualifying goods made in North America.
“It's crucial for automakers because auto parts can cross borders multiple times in the”
production process. Every major automotive trade group has expressed support for preserving the trilateral
nature of the agreement, calling that framework essential for the U.S. auto industry.
The United Auto Workers Union, meanwhile, has called for major changes, including a continent wide wage floor, and without those changes, supports withdrawing from the deal. Camilla Domnowski and Piers News." Former CIA director John Brennan is suing to force the Trump administration to preserve all records of its investigations into him, and a lawsuit today Brennan, one of Trump's
most vocal critics, alleges he's being unfairly targeted. His attorneys are fighting to preserve records in the event he needs to mount a defense against any future indictment. America's 250th birthday could turn out to be the hottest independent state on record for much of the United States and actual weather service, has issued extreme heat advisories
affecting more than 120 million people. It says heat indices will likely exceed 100 degrees in set records in parts of the central and eastern U.S. in the coming days. It's NPR. Nearly three and five U.S. adults support banning kids under 16 from using social media
according to a new poll, more from NPR's John Ruich. The poll from the Pew Research Center showed broad support for more restrictions on social media use by minors, cutting across political and demographic lines. 56% of poll respondents supported and under 16 social media banned versus 21% who opposed it.
There was even stronger support for other checks on kids using social media, including companies requiring parental consent to create accounts, age verification, and time limits for use. News said support for those three items grew from its last poll in 2023. Australia, the UK, and a handful of other countries have already moved to curtail access to social media by minors, John Ruich and PR news.
Today marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars for short-term workforce training, more from NPR's Alyssa Net Warning. To qualify, programs have to be in an in-demand field demonstrate high earnings and be the right-length between eight and 14 weeks and between 150 and 599 instructional hours. But for lots of community colleges, existing workforce training programs don't fit these
narrow qualifications just yet. Carrie Worksmith oversees federal policy at the Association of Community College Trustees.
“I think the reality that setting in is that July 1 is not a flood date, it is a start point”
of the marathon. We expect most students will have to wait until at least next spring to get those federal dollars. Alyssa Net Warning and PR News. This is NPR.
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