State of the World from NPR - China Increasing Its Regional Power

We go to two places where China has been exerting control. In Hong Kong, the government finally passed national security laws that are seen by critics as eroding civil liberties. In the Philippines, China's attempts to expand its territorial waters are being met with increasingly fiery rhetoric from senior officials.

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Federalist Radio Hour - How America Turned ‘Family Unfriendly’

Tim Carney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior columnist at the Washington Examiner, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to diagnose the pitfalls modern parents tend to fall into and to discuss the key to building successful families. 

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Motley Fool Money - Nvidia Sells Chips Like Pancakes

The chip designer unveiled a bigger and faster graphics processing unit, but the market isn’t cheering the announcement.


(00:21) Asit Sharma and Ricky Mulvey discuss:

- The advancements in Nvidia’s new Blackwell GPU.

- If any competitors are closing in on the tech giant.

- Nvidia’s plays in humanoid robots, self-driving cars, and weather forecasting.


Plus, (16:14) Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp answer listener questions about lending out shares, activist investors, and Social Security.


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Companies discussed: NVDA, INTC, AMD, GOOG, GOOG, AMZN


Host: Ricky Mulvey

Guests: Asit Sharma, Robert Brokamp, Alison Southwick

Producer: Mary Long

Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Upcoming Halving Will Be ‘Most Symbolic’ One Bitcoin Will Ever Have: Kraken Head of Strategy

The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie and Kraken Head of Strategy Thomas Perfumo.

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On "Markets Daily," Kraken Head of Strategy Thomas Perfumo joins CoinDesk with insights on recent movements in the crypto markets as bitcoin (BTC) slipped to as low as the $62,000 level on Tuesday. Plus, what the next halving means for bitcoin and the potential for spot ether ETF approval in the U.S.

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “Markets Daily” is executive produced by Jared Schwartz and produced and edited by Victor Chen, alongside Senior Booking Producer Melissa Montañez. All original music by Doc Blust and Colin Mealey.

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Focus on Africa - Kidnapped in Nigeria: A personal testimony

Yet another kidnapping in Nigeria's Kaduna State, where gunmen abducted around 100 people including women and children, that's according to local authorities. We hear a very brave and harrowing interview from a young woman who was taken by Boko Haram back in 2013, but had a lucky escape.

Also Niger's military junta asks remaining US troops to leave the country. Why were they there in the first place and what would their absence mean for an already unstable region?

And how did customers at a bank in Ethiopia, withdraw millions of dollars they didn't actually have in their accounts?