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A new financial disclosure shows President Trump and his family raked in more than a billion
“dollars from cryptocurrency ventures in the past year, associated press reporter Bernard”
Condon says the speed that Trump made the money is surprising. His property business, at least according to my judgment, is growing. At the fastest, it has in the century since the Trump organization, his family business started. And yet, crypto triumphs.
Trump also took tens of millions of dollars from new properties and countries behold into the U.S. for military support or seeking terror for leave and he got tens of millions more suing media companies. The White House says the president has no financial conflicts and only acts in the public interest, Democratic Socialists have pulled off some high-profile wins in recent congressional
primaries. Now, some Democrats worry it could hurt the party's chances of regaining a majority in Congress next year and appear as a lane of more reports. Democratic Socialist candidates say their movement is gaining ground at a time when Americans are struggling economically and feel fed up with the political status quo.
But some within the Democratic Party are hesitant to broadly associate with that movement.
“Viewing it could alienate swing voters in key toss-up districts that Democrats want to win”
in November. Matt Bennett is a co-founder of the centrist think tank third way. Of course, it's possible to run as a left-meaning populace without adopting the maximum lesson of the extremes, but it is very hard for Democrats now to distinguish themselves. Because he says Republicans will try to paint Democrats and Democratic Socialists as one
in the same arena more and peer news. Today, the U.S. men's national soccer team has its biggest test yet of the FIFA World Cup. They'll face Bosnia Herzegovina in the first round of the knockout stage and piers Becky Sullivan has this preview.
The World Cup is now in the winner-go home phase of the tournament and some good teams have already gone home. U.S. defender Chris Richard says his team won't underestimate their opponent. They're a good team, they're also deserve to be here.
“Ultimately, we know that how we played so far through the tournament has been very successful,”
so we're going to try to stick to that in again, hopefully when they're going to. Bosnia and Herzegovina came into the World Cup ranked number 64. They are the underdogs, but they have talented players and an effective defense. The U.S. men haven't beaten a European team in any games since they last beat Bosnia back in 2021.
Both teams were much different than the stakes are far higher now. The winner will move on to the round of 16. The loser will pack their bags. Becky Sullivan and Pyrnus Santa Clara, California. The World Cup's group stage ranks as the most watched ever on English-language television
according to Sports Media Watch.
It averaged 5.05 million viewers on Fox Sports and 4.6 million on Telemundo and P-Cock
up 92% and 122% respectively from 2022. It's NPR. Lines are growing at Russian gas stations at several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies. Fuel rationing has been introduced in many regions. The fuel crisis is brought in Moscow's invasion of Ukraine home to ordinary Russians.
President Putin acknowledged the problems for motorists and businesses. The grocery chain Croger says it plans to buy a rival retailer called Giant Eagle, a regional chain based in Pennsylvania. It's Croger's first major deal since the meltdown of its mega merger with Albert Sensi. Croger is once again trying to grow by buying a competing grocery chain.
The Stime Giant Eagle, which is not to be confused with Giant Food and the Giant Company. Giant Eagle is a family-run supermarket chain with about 200 stores and pharmacies in Northern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Croger is offering $1.7 billion for Giant Eagle.
It's a much smaller deal than Croger's failed bid to buy its biggest rival Albert Sensi. That $25 billion mega deal fell apart in 2024, blocked by courts over concerns that it would limit competition. Croger and Albert Sensi are still in a legal dispute over the fiasco. Alina Sidduch and Pierre News.
Marshall Arts icon in San Francisco native Bruce Lee will become the first Chinese American and California history with an annual namesake day. Credit Governor Gavin News signed a law officially designating May 17th as Bruce Lee Day, the day in 1959 that an 18-year-old Lee returned to San Francisco after spending his childhood in Hong Kong.
It's NPR. Hi, it's Terry Gross, the host of Fresh Air. Catch my interview about the birth of the culture wars. Even breakfast cereals have become part of the culture wars. Author Isaac Butler takes us back to when the Christian right mobilized against provocative
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