Plus: The U.S. deficit collapsed in April. The European Central Bank reduces its key interest rate. Circle makes its stock market debut. And Procter & Gamble plans to cut 7,000 jobs. Alex Ossola hosts.
Host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the latest news in the crypto industry as Elon Musk bashed President Donald Trump’s proposed spending package.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk bashed President Donald Trump’s proposed spending package, calling the One Big Beautiful Bill Act a "Debt Slavery Bill." CoinDesk’s Jennifer Sanasie hosts “CoinDesk Daily.”
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Mothers in Lesotho are campaigning against a needle sharing method which exposes drug users to the risks of HIV and other diseases, taking root in the country. What is 'bluetoothing' or 'hotspotting'?
Also, the wider impact of the rising Islamist attacks in West Africa
And why do people choose Hunger strikes as a form of protest, and are they effective?
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Israeli minister says the retrieval of two Israeli hostages' bodies in Gaza shows only force will bring back those who are still alive. Also: Nintendo's newest console, and are the Dead Sea Scrolls older than thought?
Today we examine Donald Trump's busy Wednesday—a new immigration ban from countries hostile to the United States, announcing an investigation into Biden's infirmities, denying student visas to Harvard, seeking to remove the accreditation of Columbia University, and more. Give a listen.
The trade deficit — the difference between what the U.S. imports and what it exports — shrank by the most ever recorded in a single month in April. That news follows the largest widening of the trade deficit on record in the first quarter. We'll unpack what to make of it all. Also, service sector activity falls as tariffs take a bite, and predictive contracts raise questions around gambling regulation.
Those banned include people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Haiti and Sudan. Citizens from another seven countries face travel restrictions. President Trump said the new rules were designed to protect Americans from dangerous foreign actors and to stop people overstaying their visas. We hear from Republican Congressman Clay Higgins, who supports the move, and ask American law professor Barbara McQuade about its rationale and legality.
Also in the programme: as the bodies of two more hostages are recovered by the Israeli military in Gaza, we speak to the father of one hostage whose whereabouts are still unknown. And some new research that offers a glimmer of hope for an eventual cure for HIV.
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Craig Mokhiber, international human rights law specialist who stepped down from his post as director of the New York office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights after October 7th, returns to Bad Faith to discuss the Rafah massacre in which dozens of Palestinians were killed by the IDF while waiting for aid, the Gaza Tribunal's Sarajevo Conference in which legal scholars, human rights experts, journalists, and survivors pushed a civil society-led initiative for accountability for Israel; and the potential for U.N. reform now that the U.S. is withdrawing funding, and perhaps influence, from the United Nations.
On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Oversight Project, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss President Donald Trump's orders demanding an investigation into Joe Biden's cognitive decline and his alleged use of an autopen.
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President Trump says he’s implementing a full travel ban on nationals from a dozen countries, while also directing an investigation into former Biden administration officials. The Congressional Budget Office says a Republican “mega-bill” would spend $2.4 trillion more than it saves. And federal agents arrest a man suspected of aiding an attack on an IVF center.