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It was disclosed this week that President Trump made over $1 billion from crypto businesses
last year.
“Those investments have worked out well for the President, but his NPR's Raphael Nom reports”
many investors and those ventures have lost a lot of money. When he comes to cryptocurrency, Trump has followed a plan similar to the ones he has used during most of his business career. He earns a lot of money, but is careful to protect himself and his family from any downsides. Take a meme coin he launched, or essentially a cryptocurrency based on things like memes
or even cartoons. Trump doesn't own the meme coin, he just licenses his name. That earned him over $600 million. The coin is up, though, it has crashed. From over $70, at its peak, to about $1 a dollar today, leading to big losses for investors,
Raphael Nom, NPR News. Senator Mitch McConnell remains hospitalized according to a statement from his office, "The
cause is not specified that Kentucky Senator and former Republican majority leader was first
admitted more than two weeks ago, and P.R.'s Eric McDaniel has more."
“The statement says, "The Senator continues to improve and is working closely with his staff”
on Kentucky and Senate matters while the Senate is out of session," and, quote, "It ate form. McConnell regularly moves about the capital in a wheelchair. In 2023, McConnell froze and appeared unable to speak for nearly 30 seconds during his weekly press conference as majority leader.
He's also suffered a series of falls, including one that resulted in a concussion in nearly six-week absence." The Senator announced in 2024 he's stepped down from leadership in in 2025 that he'd not seek another six-year term in office, after more than four decades McConnell's time and Congress is set to conclude at the end of this year, Eric McDaniel and P.R. News,
Washington. "Tell a cast of the World Cup or drawing record numbers of U.S. viewers for Fox Sports, and NPR's Montelietal Barco reports that 48% are watching telemundo, Spanish language coverage." DC Universal says no matter what language they speak, fans are tuning in to telemundo's telecast,
streaming it on peacock and viewing its social media coverage of the Copa Mundial as it's known in Spanish. Miguel Lorenzo is a Senior Vice President at Delimundo Report this. Half of the country of the United States is watching the World Cup in Spanish on telemundo, but we also know that only 20% of the U.S. population is his Spanish.
This night as the U.S.man's national soccer team knocked out Bosnia Herzegulina's team, too, Nill, just El Rojas and her mother Graciela Reyes cheered along with Delimundo's famous announcer Andres Cantor.
"Yeah, that's always hard for everybody to go."
“"I think it's more fun to watch in Spanish."”
"I'm nearly in percent, we like the excitement." Mandalietal Barco and P.R. News, Los Angeles. "Most U.S. stocks rose today and the Dow said another record, but more drops for chip stocks and other AI winners kept indexes mixed, the S&P 500 added only a fraction." "You're listening to NPR News from Washington."
The Supreme Court has declined to intervene in an after-a-judged ordered former Fox News reporter Katherine Herge to be fined $800 a day. It comes after she refused to reveal her source for stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged. The story is relied on leaked items from an FBI probe. Spotify says it has removed more than half a million streams that sent a song surging
on music charts, as NPR's Bobby Allen reports the music platform suspects the streams are purchased as part of a prediction market scheme. The song "Earings" by Malcolm Todd shot to the top of charts over a 24-hour period on Spotify. Meanwhile, on the prediction market site Cowcheat, better as replacing wages over what song would be number one, and those who bet on Todd received a payout.
But after Spotify looked into the streams, it determined that automated bots which can be purchased appear to have contributed to hundreds of thousands of streams. Spotify has deleted the streams and adjusted its rankings. It's the latest instance of suspected market manipulation on fast-growing prediction markets where people can bet on elections, war, and White House policy.
Critics have called for a tighter regulation, but the Trump administration has embraced the industry. Bobby Allen and PR news. Humpback whale sightings near Rio de Janeiro are increasing as their population recovers from commercial whaling between June and November the Whales migrate through Brazilian
waters in 1982, the International Whaling Commission issued a pause according to the Humpback whale project the population has grown from about 2,000 to 35,000 whales in 40 years. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. This message comes from lies. The smart way to manage your money around the world.
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