Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, President Trump took in m...
in crypto-currency earnings last year.
“He listed these on his latest financial disclosure form, and Pierre's Danielle Kurtz-Lavin”
reports this reveals the vast array of income streams that the President has.
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 disclosure document totals 927 pages. In comparison, President Biden's 2020 disclosure form was 11 pages long.
Danielle Kurtz-Lavin and Pierre News, the White House.
Speaking last hour, President Trump says he doesn't personally handle his income.
“Trump says he doesn't have any conflicts of interest because he doesn't talk to the people”
who handle his money. Colorado held its primary election yesterday and results are coming back. In one upset, a democratic socialist and political newcomer, Maylott Kiros, defeated longtime Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGead from Colorado Public Radio, Caitlyn Kim, has more on the Denver area contest.
Maylott Kiros is a 29-year-old Democratic socialist. She's a lawyer who got fired for a post-she-wrote that criticized Israel over its actions in Gaza and she hasn't apologized for that, you know, making several comments, ending pro-Palestinian activists. So after that experience, she decided to challenge Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGead
who has been her representative for her entire life.
Now, Denver is a deep, blue district and she's expected to have a smooth glypath to Congress. That's Caitlyn Kim reporting. Starting today, Medicare beneficiaries can get access to popular obesity drugs for $50 a month.
And Pierre Sidney Lupkin reports on the new option. The Medicare Bridge program gives beneficiaries access to Wugovie, Zepbound, and Fondale for $50 monthly co-pays, but not everyone is eligible. It's limited to patients with Medicare Part D coverage who have a body mass index of over 35, or who have a BMI of over 27, and other qualifying conditions.
Patients will also need their doctors to fill out prior authorization, warms, and get them approved before Medicare will cover the drugs. Dr. Dasi Trends is the president of the American Association of Clinical Integral Energy. There's hope that within the next upcoming year and a half, that we would have people being able to look at this, see how successful it is, and then hopefully continue it into
the future. The temporary test program will run through the end of 2027. Sidney Lupkin and Pierre News. This is NPR. New Jersey Republican Congressman Thomas Kane Jr. has returned to work on Capitol Hill.
He'd been away for four months without explanation. During a floor speech yesterday, Kane just closed. He had been treated for depression. Kane is running for reelection. He won his New Jersey Republican primary race this year.
A traditionalist Catholic society has defied orders from the Vatican. It consecrated new bishops without approval from the Pope. The Vatican and warned this step would be a "schismatic act" from religion, news, service, and room, Clarence and Grande-Vais reports. And he saw him ceremony at its seminary in Nicole, Switzerland.
The society of St.Pies' attempts consecrated for new bishops, triggering automatic excommunication under canon law. In an open letter sent before the consecrations, Pope Lear the 14th pleaded with the society to stop, writing, quote, "Turn back." He warned that the move would break the unity of the church.
“Found in 1970, the society celebrates the traditional Latin mass and rejects key modern”
church reforms. The group lasts consecrated bishops without rooms approval in 1988, prompting excommunications - the new consecrations may end decades of Vatican attempts at dialogue. For NPR News, I'm Claire Jangreve. Three more teams are advancing to the next round in the world cup, Mexico, which beat Ecuador
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