Party unity as former rivals line up behind former President Trump. Iranian threat against Trump. NJ Senator convicted. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.
A majority of young voters are worried that Biden is too old to effectively serve a second term in the White House. Yet, some of Illinois’ youngest delegates are sticking by his side.
Reset hears why these delegates are concerned by Trump’s campaign, and why they think Biden should stay in the race.
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
The Australian rapper tells the origin story of the $MOTHER token, explains the “beef” between her and Vitalik Buterin, and reveals that, so far, she has made no money from her celeb coin.
Iggy Azalea joins Unchained to share the story of how the $MOTHER token got started (spoiler: there was a brush with a potential scammer), her stresses during the launch, and what she plans to do about the price slumping over 60% since the all-time high. A master of memes and OnlyFans, she talks about how she is using her experience in both realms to make MOTHER a success, even though she has yet to make any money from the token.
She also discusses her beef with Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, the allegations that there was insider trading of MOTHER, and how she plans to avoid regulatory action.
Show highlights:
How Iggy got “onchain” and interested in crypto
How Iggy's understanding of memes and the attention economy influenced her approach to music and now MOTHER
How a brush with “scammer” Sahil Arora sparked the MOTHER launch
How Iggy plans to integrate her token into her business ventures and what strategies she's using to achieve this
Why she chose two market makers – DWF Labs and Wintermute – and why she decided to name the coin "Mother"
The lessons she learned from her OnlyFans that she is applying to MOTHER
Iggy’s response to Vitalik Buterin's criticisms of her coin
What strategies Iggy believes will bring $MOTHER out of its current slump
How Iggy responds to allegations of insider activity and dumping $2 million worth of her token
Whether she is concerned about regulators coming after her and what she's doing to prevent that
What Iggy thinks about the criticism regarding celebrities launching memecoins
Whether Iggy has a preference between Solana and Ethereum
How she’s trying to onboard other celebs into crypto, and her plans for integrating $MOTHER into mainstream culture and fan interactions
Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com
Republicans vow to "make America safe again," but the statistics contradict their claims of growing crime. And Democrats who want to keep President Joe Biden off the ballot are opposing an obscure party rule.
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the CEO and co-founder of Klarna. Siemiatkowski joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the company's aggressive efforts to implement AI across its operation, including in customer service where it says the technology is now doing the work of 700 people. We also discuss how Klarna is using generative AI in marketing, and whether it can do the work of strategists or simply discreet tasks. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss how Klarna is using ChatGPT enterprise, the company's roller coaster ride amid big market swings, and whether the company plans to continue to grow its workforce in the age of AI.
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If you don’t have enough food in the first 1,000 days of your life, your brain may never reach its full potential. Our correspondent discusses what better nutrition would mean for the world. Undersea cables are the arteries of our telecommunications system, but that also makes them vulnerable (9:13). And a new powder may help make periods less of a bloody nuisance (17:42).
Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad, has an interesting legacy, one that is often shaped by sectarian differences and tensions. The sermon of Fatima, which is the focus of Mahjabeen Dhala's Feminist Theology and Sociology of Islam: A Study of the Sermon of Fatima (Cambridge University Press, 2024), though itself riddled with questions of authenticity, is a compelling incident which brings to light various possibilities of analysis and insights. The issue of fadak or inheritance, which prompts Fatima to take a public stance against the male leaders of the community, such as Abu Bakr, after the passing of her father, results in a rich sermon that has theological and social justice implications, as Dhala highlights. In Dhala's reading of the sermon by Fatima and her response to an injustice experienced by her and her family, Fatima is seen as a theologian and a social activist. Moreover, this study also sheds on light of an example of pre-modern history of Muslim woman’s resistance. This book will be of interest to those who think about gender and Islam, social justice, theology, feminism and much more.