Jill Wagner
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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For Maxios, three days ahead of his inauguration, President-elect Trump launched a new cryptocurrency token called Trump coin. It was announced Friday at the first ever crypto ball in Washington, D.C., celebrating Trump's pro crypto policies ahead of the inauguration.
By Sunday, Trump's crypto holdings had reached up to 58 billion dollars, 85 percent of his total net worth, making him one of the 25 richest people in the world.
The tokens are marketed with a picture of Trump holding a fist up, superimposed over the words fight, fight, fight, a reference to his response to the assassination attempt back in July of 2024. There are concerns, though, over the ethics of the scheme, including whether it's illegal for him to benefit financially off of the presidency in this way.
From The Wall Street Journal, food and grocery prices might be on the rise again. The cost of groceries in the U.S. increased nearly two percentage points from December 2023 to December of 2024. And that marks the fastest increase in more than a year, according to the Labor Department data released last week.
It said grocery prices in December were nearly 30% higher than the same time five years ago. Experts say there are a lot of reasons why the prices could be climbing. For one, bird flu is affecting chickens and cutting egg supplies, creating record high wholesale prices. The average price for a carton of a dozen eggs is up to $4.15.
Plus, you've got extreme heat and dry weather in coffee-growing regions of the world, so that has meant coffee prices are higher these days. Other price increases you might see meat, candy and chocolate.
From the Associated Press, CNN will have to pay at least $5 million to a U.S. Navy veteran after it lost a defamation trial in Florida on Friday. A jury in Panama City found that the network defamed a security contractor named Zachary Young. It came after CNN showed an image of that security contractor on screen during a story that aired in 2021.
The story claimed that Young was part of a black market of smuggling desperate Afghans trying to flee the Taliban for exorbitant, often impossible amounts of money. Young was reportedly asking for seventy five thousand dollars to transport a vehicle of passengers to Pakistan or fourteen thousand five hundred per person to end up in the United Arab Emirates.
The CNN story included a response from Young saying that his services were for Afghans who have sponsors that can bear the costs. No other companies or people were named in the story offering different prices. So Young sued CNN, saying that the network painted him as a criminal profiteer.
In siding with Young, the jury concluded that CNN recklessly pursued the story and disparaged Young with false assertions.
And one item as we are celebrating MLK Day and we're heading into on this day in history, a little background here. In addition to Inauguration Day, many of you might be off from work as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., a pastor and civil rights leader who dedicated his life to service and justice. MLK Day is always celebrated on the third Monday in January.
The federal holiday was established to honor Dr. King near his January 15th birthday. He was the first modern private citizen to be recognized with the federal holiday. U.S. Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan proposed legislation to recognize King four days after his assassination outside of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4th, 1968.
But that did not happen until 1983 when Congress passed a law declaring it a national holiday and President Reagan signed it.
I've seen it. I liked it, but I wasn't like a crazy Breaking Bad fan. Some Breaking Bad people have something to say about that. Clearly you were.
No, I did love it, but I wasn't like obsessed with it. All right. As I do get over certain shows.
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All right. Bye, everyone.
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