Rachel Abrams

Cecilia, if this does end up being social media's big tobacco moment and they lose these cases in court and a jury decides that this is, in fact, an addictive product, that means that we have an entire generation of kids who are now addicted.

And so I wonder, we've been talking this whole conversation a lot about what happens to the social media companies, but what happens to these children that have essentially been the guinea pigs for this massive social experiment?

Cecilia Kong, thank you so much for your time.

Thanks for having me, Rachel.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve voted to keep interest rates at their current levels, despite enormous pressure from President Trump to cut rates.

Two Fed governors, both appointed by President Trump, cast dissenting votes.

But Fed Chairman Jerome Powell continues to reject Trump's demands for a rate cut, even after the administration opened an unusual criminal investigation this month into Powell's conduct.

And...

In a series of pointed exchanges on Wednesday, senators of both parties, including Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky, pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to explain why neither he nor President Trump consulted with Congress before sending U.S.

troops into Venezuela to arrest and remove the country's president.

During the hearing, Rubio refused to rule out future U.S.

military action in Venezuela, but said that President Trump has no desire to send American troops back to the country.

Today's episode was produced by Rochelle Banja and Shannon Lin.

It was edited by Lexi Diao and Michael Benoit.

Contains music by Rowan DeMisto and Dan Powell.

And was engineered by Chris Wood.

That's it for The Daily.

I'm Rachel Abrams.

See you tomorrow.

From The New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.