Unlike the cowardly Republican senators who are rolling over in the face of Kash Patel's bald-faced lies, the men and women of the Justice Department are taking their oaths of office seriously by refusing to comply with a blatantly political order to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams. Meanwhile, Trump is just over the moon with Vladimir Putin—even though his army is performing quite poorly on the battlefield against Ukraine. Plus, the makeup heir advising Trump on foreign policy, Emil Bove is this moment's cartoon villain, and Pizzagate's Jack Posobiec is somehow inside the administration's inner circle.
Host Christine Lee breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as XRP and Dogecoin surged after the SEC acknowledged Graycale's ETF applications.
XRP and Dogecoin surge after the U.S. SEC acknowledged Graycale's applications for XRP and DOGE spot ETFs. Plus, GameStop considers buying bitcoin and South Korea lifts a ban on crypto trading in a sign of greater global acceptance of digital assets. CoinDesk’s Christine Lee hosts “CoinDesk Daily."
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This episode was hosted by Christine Lee. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Christine Lee and edited by Victor Chen.
Divided Argument is live from the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, hosted by the Northwestern Federalist Society! We discuss whether we are in the middle of a constitutional crisis, the coming demise of Humphrey's Executor, and various shadow docket developments. Then we preview the issues at stake in next month's oral argument about firearms liability, Smith & Wesson v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos.
Eli Lake joins the podcast to discuss the resignation of the interim U.S. attorney in New York and her argument that she could not in good conscience carry out the order to ask a court to drop charges against Mayor Eric Adams. Give a listen.
A month-long fishing ban in Sierra Leone leaves families struggling to cope.
Who are AfriForum- the white Afrikaner minority group that's behind Donald Trump's intimidation of South Africa?
And we meet Nada Hafez -The Egyptian fencer whose Olympic pregnancy stunned the world.
Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Producers: Patricia Whitehorne, Nyasha Michelle, Frenny Jowi and Paul Bakibinga.
Technical Producer: Jack Graysmark
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi.
Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s news roundup, Colin and Matt talk about the big story Blockspace broke this week: the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing Antminer ASICs at ports of entry, and it’s also started to detain MicroBT and Canaan units. Plus, the $500 billion Chinese tech giant Tencent ups its stake in newly-christened public bitcoin miner Cango to 15.6%. They also touch on Bit Digital’s WhiteFiber AI rebrand, and why Riot’s newest board member signals that it’s getting increasingly serious about an AI pivot. The duo also welcomes Luxor Director of Energy Trading Haley Thomson to discuss what the AI boom means for Texas power prices. And for this week’s cry corner: bitcoin obituaries are dead – all hail number go up.
Notes:
• CBP Seizes Mining Equipment
• Texas Energy Market Changes
• Tencent Invests in Kango
• Data Center Power Demands
• Mining Hardware Challenges
• Energy Market Evolution
Timestamps
00:00 Start
01:20 Difficulty report
04:33 CBP crackdown on ASICs
12:08 Tencent owns 15% of Cango
18:05 Haley Thomson, Dir of Energy Trading @ Luxor
30:52 Bit Digital rebrands AI/HPC as WhiteFiber
32:24 Riot appoints Jamie Leverton to board among AI/HPC
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More federal job cuts as amid court efforts to curtail the Trump agenda. Determining Ukraine's future. California mudslides. CBS News Correspondent Deborah Rodriguez has today's World News Roundup.
’Tis the season of love. Whether you’re dating, single, newly wed or married for years, everybody could use a little advice on love and relationships.
Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Reset checks in with love guru and psychologist Alexandra Solomon, who is also the host of the podcast “Reimagining Love.”
For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.
Multiple prosecutors have resigned from the Justice Department after refusing to drop a corruption case against the New York City mayor and legal aid groups are demanding attorneys for migrants being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Also, results from an NPR/Ipsos poll show growing support for some restrictions on immigration.
Today's episode of Up First was edited by Krishnadev Calamur, Barrie Hardimon, Eric Westervelt, Janaya Williams and Alice Woelfle. It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis and our technical director is Carleigh Strange. Our Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens.
The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the White House yesterday, they had many thorny issues to discuss, including trade and immigration. Why the skies are getting smaller–and more crowded (10:40). And “Saturday Night Live” at 50 (17:57).
