Month: January 2025

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - COINDESK DAILY: Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht Pardoned by President Trump

Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is pardoned by President Trump.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump. Plus, Trump comments on his meme token after announcing investment in AI infrastructure and an Ethereum core developer quits after Vitalik Buterin shuts down calls for leadership change.

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Time To Say Goodbye - Biden’s Pardons, Trump’s Speech, Elon’s Upstaging, and Why the Libs Have Been So Quiet

Hello!

We talk today about the Biden Crime Family, Trump’s sleepy and then not-sleepy speech, the Panama Canal, Mars, and whether Trump actually had prepared for his big (second) moment. Then we go into Elon’s salute and the eerie silence that has fallen over the “resistance” and what that might mean for the next few years.

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CBS News Roundup - 01/22/2025 | World News Roundup

Historic winter storm along the Gulf Coast. The Trump Administration takes action on diversity. Fallout from those January 6th pardons. CBS's Steve Kathan has these stories and much more in today's World News Roundup.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - What Trump’s Immigration Moves Could Mean For Chicago

On his first day of his second term, President Trump signed 10 executive orders in an attempt to crack down on immigration. Reset sits down with executive director of the National Immigrant Justice Center Mary Meg McCarthy and executive director of Refugee One Melineh Kano to hear how these orders could affect immigrants and refugees in the Chicago area. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
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Up First from NPR - New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks

Immigration enforcement will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches ; new misconduct allegations emerge against Pentagon chief nominee Pete Hegseth; and Israel launches a military operation on the occupied West Bank.

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60 Songs That Explain the '90s - “Umbrella”—Rihanna

Rob celebrates pop icon Rihanna while looking back at her smash hit “Umbrella.” While combing through Rihanna’s expansive career, Rob also discusses whether Jay-Z’s guest verse on “Umbrella” is the worst of his career. Later, Brittany Spano joins the show to answer the difficult question of what song is Rihanna’s best, and much more.


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The Intelligence from The Economist - A tax or attacks: how the Houthis fund themselves

The procedure is simple—genial, even. Contact Houthi rebels in Yemen and pay up, and your freight can pass into the Red Sea unmolested. We examine how this extortion affects world trade. China is fast closing its gap with America on AI innovation, and doing so far more cheaply (7:22). And a trip to a Ghanaian rum distillery reveals a regional trend (15:44). 


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 1.22.25

Prattville Pride, an LGBTQ+ organization, is set to participate in the city's February 1 Mardi Gras parade after securing a federal court order to join last December's Christmas parade.

James Cauthen, a 54-year-old battalion chief with Coweta County Fire Rescue died in Chambers County after being fatally shot while assisting a couple whose car hit a deer.

The fate of the girls at Pathway of Madison County in Owens Cross Roads is uncertain if city leaders revoke the facility's business license at a hearing on February 21. 

On his first day as the 47th U.S. president, Donald Trump signed over 100 executive orders aimed at reshaping American policies and institutions. These orders spanned a wide range of priorities, including border security, energy policy, immigration laws, and cultural issues.