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Daniel Caldwell, he pleaded guilty to spraying officers who were guarding the Capitol with pepper spray. The two longest sentences were handed to former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. He was sentenced to 22 years and Oath Keepers founder Stuart Rhodes, who was serving 18 years. Both are currently free.
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Tarrio was not actually in Washington on January 6th, but he was convicted of directing the attack remotely. Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for assembling $20,000 worth of assault weaponry that was intended to be used at the Capitol. Again, both of those men currently out of prison.
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That's right. Ohio State, the national champions, as we reported on Tuesday. And my husband soaking it all in and enjoying it.
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All right. Time for the speed read from CNN. Historic snowfalls burying parts of the Gulf Coast amid dangerous cold as a once in a generation winter storm wreaks havoc on travel in a region wholly unaccustomed to winter weather. On Tuesday, snow fell from southeast Texas to Louisiana and into parts of Mississippi and Alabama, creating treacherous conditions.
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Yeah. And it comes after the big loss to Michigan in the regular season. So the lesson, I guess, to take away from it is never give up because who would have thought that the Ohio State Buckeyes would wind up winning it all?
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An area stretching from Houston into southern Louisiana hit. Has already recorded widespread one to three inches of snow. A few areas topped six inches. A record amount of snow also hit New Orleans and other cities along the Gulf Coast. Most incredible pictures of people cross-country skiing on Bourbon Street.
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From Fox Business, President Trump unveiled a massive artificial intelligence infrastructure project from the private sector on his first full day of a second term in office Tuesday. During a speech at the White House, he announced that SoftBank, OpenAI, and Oracle have joined forces for a project called Stargate to build data centers in the United States for powering AI.
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The CEO of all three tech firms, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Oracle's Larry Ellison, and SoftBank's Masa San, joined Trump from the Roosevelt Room at the White House for the announcement. The initial investment for the project will be $100 billion with plans to expand to $500 billion over the next four years.
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The first data center built under the initiative will be in Texas and it will eventually expand to other states. Other investors are expected to join the venture, but it was not immediately clear which ones.
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So most of my dad actually called me on Tuesday afternoon and he was like, are you watching this? You got to put on the TV. And I didn't know what he was talking about. And he was talking about the AI announcement because Larry Ellison, who's the Oracle CEO, he was going into all of the potential health benefits of the project.
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And he was talking about all of the diseases that would potentially be able to get cured through AI. He said, we'll be amazed at how quickly we're curing this cancer and that one and heart disease. He said little fragments of those cancer tumors float around in your blood so you can do early cancer detection.
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And if you could do it using AI, you could do it with a blood test and have the AI look at the blood test, basically then gene sequence the cancer tumor and vaccinate the person. And so basically design a vaccine for every individual person which would vaccinate them against the cancer. This is what Larry Ellison was trying to explain.
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And obviously we're still years away from that, but the potential here is really incredible.
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Yes. And it was not what I was expecting when my dad was like, turn on the TV. I thought I was going to see like a giraffe standing on its head.
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All right, from ABC News, the Senate unanimously confirmed Marco Rubio as Secretary of State with a decisive 99 to 0 vote, marking the first cabinet appointment in the president's administration. Rubio is the first Latino and the first Cuban American to hold the position. He is known for strong stances on China and his support for U.S.-India relations.
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His confirmation was praised across party lines with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer acknowledging Rubio's qualifications despite some policy disagreements.
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All right, Motion, I think you and I need to start getting used to a different news cycle because we're busy.
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I am curious to see what the impact is, because it seemed like after he had his hearing in front of the committee that potentially the hard part here was over. Jody Ernst backed him. She was seen as a major roadblock potentially. So we'll see if this does it. But I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen.
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From CBS News to Americans, Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty have been released by the Taliban in Afghanistan as part of a prisoner exchange for Khan Mohammed, who was imprisoned in the U.S. on drug trafficking and terrorism charges. The exchange was the result of extensive negotiations over two years and occurred just before President Biden's term ended and Donald Trump took office.
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Corbett had been detained by the Taliban since 2022 during a business trip to Afghanistan.
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Okay, and here's something that we could have used last week from USA Today. Progresso unveiled a new innovative way for soup lovers to satisfy their taste buds. And the response was overwhelmingly positive. So last Thursday, the soup company announced the launch of Soup Drops, a chicken noodle soup flavored hard candy drop that resembles a cough drop. The first batch...
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Right. Whatever your thoughts are on Donald Trump, he is accessible.
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Sold out in under an hour, but Progresso posted on Instagram saying, don't worry, there's a fresh batch of soup you could suck on coming your way next Thursday. So that is tomorrow at 9 a.m. Eastern time at progressosoupdrop.com. Progresso saying there will be additional drops every week on Thursday for the rest of the month.
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I do feel that the whole point of soup when you're not feeling well is that it kind of like warms you up and loosens up anything you've got going on. But I get it. Either they'll flavor it like the menthol or or maybe a citrus flavor. Why not just go for the soup?
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Moj, at this rate, one of us will be sick like next week. Yeah, exactly. So we need to send them over.
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All right, and let's get to those headlines, starting with politics and the first full day of the second Trump term. His plans to crack down on illegal immigration, specifically in Chicago, and push back on his order to end birthright citizenship. 22 states have already filed suit. Also, some pushback on Trump's sweeping pardons of everyone charged in the January 6th storming of the Capitol.
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Moshe, I think I have mentioned this on the podcast before, but there is a great cover of Rich Girl from Lake Street Dive. Highly recommend for anyone who likes that song.
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Did I say she's a rich girl?
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And now we need goodbye. Yes. Which doesn't have quite the same power.
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We did have the Beatles. All right, guys. Thank you for listening to the Mo News Podcast. If you like what you hear, please share this with your friends. It'll help us grow. Follow us and subscribe so you don't miss an episode and review us in the app store.
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In other Trump news, a massive investment in AI and his first cabinet pick, Marco Rubio, for secretary of state now confirmed. To the weather, where there's historic snow in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, most it's being called a once in a generation storm.
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In a prisoner swap, the Taliban has released two American citizens. And in much lighter news, chicken noodle soup, but make it a sucking candy. We'll explain.
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And Mosh has on this day in history.
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OK, starting with all the news related to illegal immigration, Trump's incoming border czar, Tom Homan, has been telling Chicagoans that the largest deportation operation in history was set to start on Tuesday. However, as of Tuesday night, it was uncertain whether the Chicago raids will actually begin as planned, given the extremely cold temperatures and leaks about the operation.
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Areas in Chicago with big Latino populations were pretty empty during most of the day Tuesday. Federal authorities are planning to go after several hundred people in this country illegally with criminal records.
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It comes as Trump signed a number of executive orders related to the issue in just his first 24 hours in office. That includes him calling for the State Department to start the process of designating certain cartels as global terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations.
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So the reason for this is because it would give his administration more power to impose economic penalties, travel restrictions, and potentially even take military action inside of foreign nations. In the executive order he issued on Monday, Trump named two gangs in particular that operate inside of the United States, the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua.
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and the El Salvadoran MS-13, which is very active here on Long Island. Using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the government could take additional steps to disrupt the financial networks of the gangs. Trump was asked about whether this means the U.S. military will move inside of Mexico and other countries.
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Take a listen to this exchange from inside of the Oval Office as journalists asked him questions on Monday night.
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One of the immigration moves getting the most attention and now the most lawsuits. Monday, President Trump signed an executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship. Now a group of 18 Democratic state attorneys general joined the legal fight to block the move, describing it as unconstitutional.
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Democratic state attorneys general from New Jersey to California signed on to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Massachusetts. The city of San Francisco and Washington, D.C. are also suing. The case could end up becoming the first major Supreme Court showdown for Trump's second term agenda. In short, Trump is trying to end the fact that any baby born in America is automatically a citizen.
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The 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868 after the Civil War, says that all persons, quote, born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are automatically citizens. So this language was crafted and added to the Constitution to establish full citizenship rights for black Americans.
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But since then, it has been interpreted for more than a century by courts as also granting rights to all children born on U.S. soil. And this is regardless of their parents' immigration status. In his executive order, however, Trump interpreted the amendment's language as excruciating.
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excluding babies born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully present or who have lawful but temporary status. Trump called birthright citizenship ridiculous, claiming that we are the only country that does it. However, dozens of other nations, including Canada, Brazil and Mexico, also have forms of birthright citizenship that are comparable to the United States.
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On Monday, there was a second legal action against this. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit aimed at blocking Trump's order. The executive director there saying denying citizenship to U.S. born children is not only unconstitutional, it is also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values.
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Yeah, they thought this was the easy part, right? You just got to show up. You're not going to really have to deal with politics at all.
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OK, now let's talk about presidential pardons, both President Trump and President Biden coming under fire for broadly using their unique power to make comprehensive pardons. So we reported on this yesterday, but we want to talk about some of the reaction here on Monday.
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Then President Biden preemptively pardoned people that he thought would be targeted by the incoming Justice Department, including five of his family members. The concern even from some Democrats is that this was a massive overreach and sends a very bad precedent for future presidents going forward.
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Hours later, President Trump entered the Oval Office and pardoned approximately 1500 individuals convicted for their involvement in the January 6th, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack. So he commuted the sentences of 14 others and directed the Justice Department to dismiss all pending cases related to January 6th. The bottom line, all January 6th defendants had their slate wiped clean by Trump.
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Trump said that he was going to pardon the January 6th rioters. So that wasn't a huge surprise. But it wasn't clear if he would pardon all of them. The thinking was that maybe he would pardon the ones that were charged with nonviolent crimes. But no, this was a blanket pardon for everyone charged with their actions that day, including those who committed violence.
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So looking here at who got pardoned, more than 100 were convicted of assaulting officers, including Patrick McKay, who was found guilty during a bench trial of assaulting a metropolitan police officer with a dangerous weapon. Robert Scott Palmer, a Florida man who admitted to assaulting officers with a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher.
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Internationally, a quick update on the ceasefire hostage deal in the Middle East from the Times of Israel. Top officials from the U.S., Israel and Egypt were reportedly already moving on the second stage of the Gaza hostage ceasefire deal on Wednesday, about two weeks ahead of the scheduled date for the discussions to begin.
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Remember, the discussions were supposed to start 16 days after phase one began. The report comes as the prime minister of Qatar said that he was ready to start mediating talks on the second stage of the three phase deal as soon as possible. The U.S. Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, has said he is committed to reaching the second phase.
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As we've talked about here on this podcast, there's been a lot of concern that the first phase was actually the easy part and that this deal wouldn't make it past that initial six week ceasefire. which would see the release of 33 hostages, but would leave more than 60 others still in Gaza.
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According to the latest numbers, 91 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7th are still in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
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From Reuters, Prince Harry reached a last-minute deal on Wednesday with Rupert Murdoch's UK-based News Group newspapers after suing them for alleged illegal activities by journalists and private investigators working for the newspapers. NGN, the publisher of The Sun, offered a full and unequivocal apology for the serious intrusion into Harry's private life from 1996 to 2011.
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Harry's attorney read a statement in court emphasizing the tabloid's profound impact on Harry and his family. It is the first time that NGN admitted to any wrongdoing by the son. The statement also acknowledged the son's intrusion on the life of Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana, including for phone hacking, surveillance and misuse of private information that impacted his family.
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Harry, along with co-defendant and former Labor Party member Tom Watson, accused NGN of perjury and cover ups, including deleting 30 million emails and relevant other records.
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Okay, now to some media business news from CNBC. CNN planning to lay off hundreds of employees as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience. The layoff comes as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digital subscription products today. The cuts are said to help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams.
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Certain shows that are produced in New York or Washington may move to Atlanta, where production can be done more cheaply, according to sources. For the most part, the job cuts won't affect CNN's most recognizable names who are under contract.
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I don't think you're at that risk on Long Island as much, but be careful what you throw out, right?
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And finally, from MarketSnacks, Netflix added nearly 19 million new customers at the end of last year. That's more than double expectations, and it's also its biggest quarterly growth ever. So it topped 300 million global subscribers for the first time. Fans are tuning in for Squid Game 2. carry on and also live sports like WWE.
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Netflix also hiked its sales forecast for the year as it preps for the return of hits like Wednesday and the final season of Stranger Things. And with that, Netflix hiking prices for both its standard ad free tier and its cheaper ad plan, which has fueled subscriptions and profit growth since it launched in 2022. So the standard account with ads now costs $7.99 a month.
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Yeah, it's kind of lame.
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But the ad-free subscription is $18, and the premium plan is $25 a month. So those prices include the hikes of $1, $2.50, and $2 per month, respectively.
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It adds up.
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And studies have actually found that women surgeons get better results than men.
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My mom loves to throw things out. Okay. So she's like the opposite of a hoarder and she still lives in my childhood home. And so I was there over the summer and I'm looking at the street where all the garbage is and just like plain, not even wrapped in anything. Were my favorite cups, like in the shape of an ice cream cone. And I'm like, what are you doing? How can you throw those out?
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I highly recommend for anyone who is interested and has not read yet Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. It's an alternative history where FDR loses the presidential election in 1940 to Charles Lindbergh and how that just alters life for one Jewish boy in New Jersey in particular.
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And would you believe that my daughter actually knows every word to it because it was one of the songs that was in her Barbie show a couple of weeks ago.
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I'm like, oh, no, we are in trouble.
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And I grabbed them. I brought them back into the house and now they're my daughter's favorite cups because
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I was like, please consult me before you clean out the house. All right, to the news here. Let's start, as we have all week, with politics. We're getting an idea of how Donald Trump plans to end the war in Ukraine, but will it work? Plus, the White House orders government DEI employees to be placed on leave as a major shift in the federal workplace takes effect.
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Another day and tragically another school shooting in America, this time in Nashville, the site of a different school shooting last year. Overseas, the ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding. Negotiations are starting on phase two of the deal ahead of schedule. Prince Harry has settled a lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch's news group newspapers.
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CNN reportedly laying off hundreds of employees as its post-inauguration transformation begins.
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And Netflix hiking prices as it adds subscribers and sees wins with its live sports strategy.
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Okay, let's start with politics. President Trump said during the campaign that he could stop the Russia-Ukraine war in just 24 hours. Well, no one really believed that deadline. Even his own officials said they'd probably needed 100 days to get talks in motion. Nonetheless, on Wednesday, he may have taken the first step toward that goal to end the war.
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So he called out Vladimir Putin by name, writing on his true social platform that he would impose high levels of sanctions on Russia and tariffs on imports from there if the country did not reach a settlement to end its nearly three year old war against Ukraine. He wrote, quote, If we don't make a deal and soon.
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I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States and various other participating countries. Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were president over with. We can do it the easy way or the hard way. And the easy way is always better. He then wrote, it is time to in all caps, make a deal.
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No more lives should be lost. Most Trump up until now hadn't said how he would end the war, which started in February of 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. It is now, though, looking like he'll be trying to use economic pressure. But the question is whether this will actually be effective.
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And now to a major change when it comes to the federal workplace. As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, all federal officials overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion, DEI efforts were placed on paid administrative leave. Department and agency heads were given the instructions on Tuesday evening. saying that they should prepare for workforce reductions by the end of January.
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Agencies were also ordered to remove DEI related language and advertisements, shut down DEI offices and question employees about any remaining DEI efforts in disguise through coded language. They went so far as to tell federal employees to report on colleagues who defy orders to a special email account.
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So Trump's broader stance on ZEI initiatives is that they restrict and divide people by race and actually discriminate against white people rather than promote opportunities, which is different from former President Biden's policies, where he was looking to expand representation, trying to lift up groups that have faced systemic barriers.
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Biden expanded DEI protections to include broader groups such as pregnant women, military spouses, rural communities and caregivers. Tuesday's memo from the White House Office of Personnel Management claimed that DEI policies undermine our national unity by discrediting traditional American values like hard work and individual achievement.
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And it goes beyond just federal agencies and directs the attorney general within 120 days to submit recommendations for enforcing federal civil rights laws and taking other appropriate measures to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI.
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And quickly, another change coming to the federal workplace. Donald Trump requiring millions of federal employees to return to the office. He issued an order on Monday instructing all U.S. government departments and agencies in the executive branch to end remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work on a full time basis.
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Department heads can give some workers exemptions, but there is likely to be a lot of pushback from federal unions, some of which have remote work written into their contract.
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Time for the speed read. Let's start with a school shooting in Nashville from CNN. A female student has died and another student was wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning at Antioch High School in Nashville. The male shooter then killed himself after killing that female student and wounding the two students.
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A police spokesperson says a 17-year-old that was armed with a pistol fired multiple shots in a school cafeteria at around 11.09 a.m. Vanderbilt University Medical Center confirms that one of the females had died in the shooting. Another female is in stable condition with what's being described as a grazed wound to the arm. And then a male with a facial injury was also wounded but not shot.
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Each day we'll be sharing the latest episode of Mo News right here in the Money Rehab feed. So you get the news you need to know. Here is today's episode.
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Yeah, as for more on the entertainment today, Carrie Underwood said to sing America the Beautiful. Opera singer Christopher Macchio will perform the national anthem at the inauguration. Tonight, the inaugural ball will see performances by Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, Parker McCollum, Gavin DeGraw and the Village People.
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And I'm Jill Wagner. This is the place where we bring you just the facts.
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In case you're not familiar, the Village People, the band behind Trump favorite YMCA.
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And from entertainment to policy, Trump has promised to sign a record setting number of executive orders on day one. We don't know exactly how many or what they'll be, but we do know he said he's going to delay the TikTok ban by 90 days. He'll pardon some of the January 6th rioters and he'll begin what his team is calling the largest mass deportation in U.S. history.
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And on Tuesday, his team's expected to initiate a large scale deportation operation targeting illegal immigrants in Chicago.
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Okay, now to the story we were just talking about, the TikTok ban. We all know where we were Saturday night when TikTok went away, Moshe.
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Maybe I'm the only person who doesn't know where I was on Saturday night when TikTok went dark. I mean, I know where I was. I was home, but I'm not on TikTok. And I wasn't really on my phone.
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Yeah, I'm sorry. I, you know, I'm part of that group of elder millennials, I think, that never got into TikTok. And for a few fleeting hours, I felt very lucky and happy about that.
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Yeah, it's a holiday weekend. So if you were surprised to see us pop up in your feed, because normally we do take these federal holidays off. We had to make an exception because it is a big news day.
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But it's back. OK, so TikTok went dark on its one hundred and seventy million U.S. users at 1030 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday night. Oh, that's why I didn't know because I was sleeping. By Sunday afternoon, the company announced that it would begin restoring service after soon to be President Donald Trump promised to activate a 90 day provision to temporarily lift the ban.
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In a statement, the company said, quote, In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they'll face no penalties. So let's rewind a bit.
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On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the law passed by Congress that said the Chinese-owned TikTok owner ByteDance would need to sell TikTok or face a ban in the U.S. The deadline to sell was January 19th. ByteDance, if you remember, tried to challenge that law, making the First Amendment argument, but they failed and announced that they would go dark on the deadline.
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And Saturday night and Sunday morning, if you logged into the app, it gave a pop up message saying, quote, a law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. But hours after the app went dark, Trump promised to enact a provision in the ban that would allow it to come back for 90 days.
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He said he was going to do that just after he's sworn in today at 12 p.m. Eastern. So that means watch out for the executive order as soon as this afternoon. It is just a temporary solution. He also did propose some long term options. On Sunday, he floated the idea on Truth Social for the U.S.
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to have a 50 percent ownership in TikTok, a joint venture between the current owners or new owners that the U.S. chooses.
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Other sources say he's not ruling out letting ByteDance continue to own TikTok with extra safety provisions in place, although that goes directly against the bipartisan bill that was passed by Congress that cites major national security issues with the Chinese-owned company that could spy on U.S. citizens, harvest their data, and spread disinformation.
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You know, I thought it was a bold move of TikTok to kind of unilaterally and proactively go dark, because depending on how long it lasted, you never know what the impact would have been. It's possible that had they been dark for longer, that people may have actually been like, wow, I got a lot of things done. I went outside. I went for a walk. I wrote the great American novel. Yeah, exactly.
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But it was, I think, too short for there to be a real impact.
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All right, time for the speed read from CNN on Sunday afternoon, local time, about 10 a.m. on the East Coast. Three Israeli hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th were handed over to the Red Cross after 471 days in captivity in the Gaza Strip. The three women are 24-year-old Romi Gonen. She was shot in her hand and kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival.
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28-year-old Emily Damari, a British-Israeli dual citizen who was taken from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza border. And 31-year-old Daron Steinbrecher, a nurse also from that same kibbutz, they were released to Israeli officials and brought to an Israeli military outpost near the border where their moms were waiting alongside medics for an initial exam.
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And then they were later transferred to a hospital in Israel where they met the rest of their families. The hospitals reported that they are in good physical condition, so they were able to focus on on reunifying them with their families, but they are going to stay at the hospital for a few days to get more comprehensive medical checks.
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During the release and the start of the ceasefire, thousands of people in both Gaza and Israel were celebrating in the streets, which was quite a sight to see on both sides. Now, in exchange for those three female hostages, Israeli officials released 90 Palestinian prisoners. Now, the IDF will remain in Gaza, but gradually withdraw to areas closer to the border.
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In addition, hundreds of aid trucks will be permitted to enter the Gaza Strip each day. There were images of displaced Palestinian families moving back on foot toward their homes in the north. This signaled the beginning of the first phase of a six-week ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas after 15 months of war.
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Now in this initial phase, 33 hostages are set to be released, about 25 of whom are believed to be alive. On date 16 of this initial phase, talks will resume to negotiate the second phase of the deal.
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All right, so that gets us to our top story. Let's get to the headlines here. The big story today, Donald Trump will officially become the 47th president of the United States this afternoon. His inauguration was moved, as most just mentioned, indoors because of freezing temperatures expected in Washington, D.C. We're going to have a look at what to expect from his first day in office.
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For Maxios, three days ahead of his inauguration, President-elect Trump launched a new cryptocurrency token called Trump coin. It was announced Friday at the first ever crypto ball in Washington, D.C., celebrating Trump's pro crypto policies ahead of the inauguration.
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By Sunday, Trump's crypto holdings had reached up to 58 billion dollars, 85 percent of his total net worth, making him one of the 25 richest people in the world.
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The tokens are marketed with a picture of Trump holding a fist up, superimposed over the words fight, fight, fight, a reference to his response to the assassination attempt back in July of 2024. There are concerns, though, over the ethics of the scheme, including whether it's illegal for him to benefit financially off of the presidency in this way.
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Plus, TikTok went dark and then it came back. The company restored service after less than a day, giving thanks to Donald Trump in a message to all of its users.
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From The Wall Street Journal, food and grocery prices might be on the rise again. The cost of groceries in the U.S. increased nearly two percentage points from December 2023 to December of 2024. And that marks the fastest increase in more than a year, according to the Labor Department data released last week.
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It said grocery prices in December were nearly 30% higher than the same time five years ago. Experts say there are a lot of reasons why the prices could be climbing. For one, bird flu is affecting chickens and cutting egg supplies, creating record high wholesale prices. The average price for a carton of a dozen eggs is up to $4.15.
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Plus, you've got extreme heat and dry weather in coffee-growing regions of the world, so that has meant coffee prices are higher these days. Other price increases you might see meat, candy and chocolate.
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From the Associated Press, CNN will have to pay at least $5 million to a U.S. Navy veteran after it lost a defamation trial in Florida on Friday. A jury in Panama City found that the network defamed a security contractor named Zachary Young. It came after CNN showed an image of that security contractor on screen during a story that aired in 2021.
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The story claimed that Young was part of a black market of smuggling desperate Afghans trying to flee the Taliban for exorbitant, often impossible amounts of money. Young was reportedly asking for seventy five thousand dollars to transport a vehicle of passengers to Pakistan or fourteen thousand five hundred per person to end up in the United Arab Emirates.
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The CNN story included a response from Young saying that his services were for Afghans who have sponsors that can bear the costs. No other companies or people were named in the story offering different prices. So Young sued CNN, saying that the network painted him as a criminal profiteer.
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In siding with Young, the jury concluded that CNN recklessly pursued the story and disparaged Young with false assertions.
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And one item as we are celebrating MLK Day and we're heading into on this day in history, a little background here. In addition to Inauguration Day, many of you might be off from work as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., a pastor and civil rights leader who dedicated his life to service and justice. MLK Day is always celebrated on the third Monday in January.
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Over the weekend, the long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza began with Hamas releasing three female hostages. Now back with their families after 15 months in exchange, Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners. Back here in the U.S. and back to politics, Donald Trump debuted a new crypto meme coin on Friday ahead of the inauguration, raking in billions of dollars and signaling his pro-crypto agenda.
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The federal holiday was established to honor Dr. King near his January 15th birthday. He was the first modern private citizen to be recognized with the federal holiday. U.S. Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan proposed legislation to recognize King four days after his assassination outside of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4th, 1968.
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But that did not happen until 1983 when Congress passed a law declaring it a national holiday and President Reagan signed it.
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I've seen it. I liked it, but I wasn't like a crazy Breaking Bad fan. Some Breaking Bad people have something to say about that. Clearly you were.
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No, I did love it, but I wasn't like obsessed with it. All right. As I do get over certain shows.
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OK, Mosh, you stay warm over there in D.C. As for everybody else, thanks for listening to the Mo News podcast. If you like what you hear, share this with your friends, please. It will help us grow. Follow us and subscribe so you don't miss an episode and review us in the app store.
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All right. Bye, everyone.
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But there are some concerns.
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Plus, why are food and grocery prices rising again?
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And CNN ordered to pay millions of dollars after losing a defamation trial related to a 2021 story about evacuations in Afghanistan. Finally, a look at the history of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And Moshe is on this day in history.
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All right. With that, let's get to the news. President-elect Donald Trump set to be inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States today at 12 p.m. Eastern time. He will be the first president to return to office after losing reelection since Grover Cleveland in 1893. Cleveland was our 22nd and 24th president. Trump is our 45th and 47th.
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Notably, the inauguration will be held indoors at the Capitol Rotunda because of the expected freezing temperatures. That is a first since 1985 when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated for the second time. It is set to be the coldest inauguration day in 40 years. The temperature at noon is expected to be in the low 20s, but feel like the single digits.
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Reagan's was seven degrees with a wind chill of below zero yesterday. Moshe, I remember it was also a bitter cold when President Obama was inaugurated for the first time. You're in D.C. How does it feel?
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Right. All week, Trump supporters have been vying for a spot. But as you're mentioning, there's just not a lot of room. So consider who we know will be there. Melania Trump.
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OK, check. The president elects five children, their spouses, his grandchildren. They're all expected to attend.
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Right. Then there are the nine Supreme Court justices. You've got military leaders, former presidents and their spouses, cabinet nominees, visiting dignitaries and 535 members of Congress. They're not all getting in. Although some Democrats are set to skip and we know Michelle Obama not going to be there. So that's right. That leaves room for another.
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Tesla and ex-owner Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok CEO Shouze Chu, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were originally invited to sit on the dais when the ceremony was outside. Unclear, though, if they'll get the rotunda invite.
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I think they're all getting in.
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How do you go from an invite to sit on the dais to not even get into the room?
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Yeah, my only prediction is that they're going to be in the room.
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And I'm Jill Wagner, a longtime journalist and TV anchor. And we are the hosts of Mo News, a daily nonpartisan podcast where we break down the news headlines and bring you just the facts.
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Meanwhile, Capital One Arena will be open for a live viewing of the event and to host the presidential parade. Trump is set to join there after he is sworn in. By the way, some extra imagery to look for prior to the ceremony. At 9.40 a.m. Eastern Time, Donald and Melania Trump set to arrive at the White House for a tea and coffee reception hosted by the Bidens.
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It will be a moment that was not afforded to Biden when he took the oath of office four years ago as Trump decided to break with tradition and not stick around. At 10.25 a.m. Eastern, the Bidens and Trumps will travel together to the Capitol for the inauguration ceremony inside of the Capitol Rotunda.
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So, Moshe, you're there. Give us a little behind the scenes. Like, what's the vibe check in D.C.
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And Moshe, you also had a chance to see Speaker Johnson during a visit to the Capitol. What did he have to say?
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As we've talked about here on this podcast, there's been a lot of concern that the first phase was actually the easy part. And that this deal wouldn't make it past that initial six week ceasefire, which would see the release of 33 hostages, but would leave more than 60 others still in Gaza.
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According to the latest numbers, 91 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7th are still in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
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From Reuters, Prince Harry reached a last minute deal on Wednesday with Rupert Murdoch's UK based news group newspapers after suing them for alleged illegal activities by journalists and private investigators working for the newspapers. NGN, the publisher of The Sun, offered a full and unequivocal apology for the serious intrusion into Harry's private life from 1996 to 2011.
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Harry's attorney read a statement in court emphasizing the tabloids profound impact on Harry and his family. It is the first time that NGN admitted to any wrongdoing by the son. The statement also acknowledged the son's intrusion on the life of Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana. including for phone hacking, surveillance, and misuse of private information that impacted his family.
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I don't think you're at that risk on Long Island as much, but be careful what you throw out, right?
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Harry, along with co-defendant and former Labor Party member Tom Watson, accused NGN of perjury and cover-ups, including deleting 30 million emails and relevant other records.
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Okay, now to some media business news from CNBC. CNN planning to lay off hundreds of employees as it refocuses the business around a global digital audience. The layoff comes as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digitalization. The cuts are said to help CNN lower production costs and consolidate teams.
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Certain shows that are produced in New York or Washington may move to Atlanta, where production can be done more cheaply, according to sources. For the most part, the job cuts won't affect CNN's most recognizable names who are under contract.
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my mom loves to throw things out okay so she's like the opposite of a hoarder and she still lives in my childhood home and so i was there over the summer and i'm looking at the street where all the garbage is and just like plain not even wrapped in anything were my favorite cups like in the shape of an ice cream cone and i'm like what are you doing how can you throw those out and i grabbed them i brought them back into the house and now they're my daughter's favorite cups
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And finally, from MarketSnacks, Netflix added nearly 19 million new customers at the end of last year. That's more than double expectations, and it's also its biggest quarterly growth ever. So it topped 300 million global subscribers for the first time. Fans are tuning in for Squid Game 2, Carry On, and also live sports like WWE.
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Netflix also hiked its sales forecast for the year as it preps for the return of hits like Wednesday and the final season of Stranger Things. And with that, Netflix hiking prices for both its standard ad free tier and its cheaper ad plan, which has fueled subscriptions and profit growth since it launched in 2022. So the standard account with ads now costs $7.99 a month.
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Yeah, it's kind of lame.
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But the ad-free subscription is $18, and the premium plan is $25 a month. So those prices include the hikes of $1, $2.50, and $2 per month, respectively.
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It adds up.
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And studies have actually found that women surgeons get better results than men.
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I highly recommend for anyone who is interested and has not read yet Philip Roth's The Plot Against America. It's an alternative history where FDR loses the presidential election in 1940 to Charles Lindbergh and how that just alters life for one Jewish boy in New Jersey in particular.
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I was like, please consult me before you clean out the house. All right, to the news here. Let's start, as we have all week, with politics. We're getting an idea of how Donald Trump plans to end the war in Ukraine. But will it work? Plus, the White House orders government DEI employees to be placed on leave as a major shift in the federal workplace takes effect.
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And would you believe that my daughter actually knows every word to it because it was one of the songs that was in her Barbie show a couple of weeks ago.
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I'm like, oh, no, we are in trouble.
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Another day and tragically another school shooting in America, this time in Nashville, the site of a different school shooting last year. Overseas, the ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding. Negotiations are starting on phase two of the deal ahead of schedule. Prince Harry has settled a lawsuit with Rupert Murdoch's News Group newspapers.
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CNN reportedly laying off hundreds of employees as its post-inauguration transformation begins.
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And Netflix hiking prices as it adds subscribers and sees wins with its live sports strategy.
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And Moshe's on the stay in history.
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Okay, let's start with politics. President Trump said during the campaign that he could stop the Russia-Ukraine war in just 24 hours. Well, no one really believed that deadline. Even his own officials said they probably needed 100 days to get talks in motion. Nonetheless, on Wednesday, he may have taken the first step toward that goal to end the war.
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So he called out Vladimir Putin by name, writing on his true social platform that he would impose high levels of sanctions on Russia and tariffs on imports from there if the country did not reach a settlement to end its nearly three-year-old war against Ukraine.
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He wrote, quote, If we don't make a deal and soon I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States and various other participating countries. Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were president, over with. We can do it the easy way or the hard way. And the easy way is always better.
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He then wrote, It is time to, in all caps, make a deal. No more lives should be lost. Most Trump up until now hadn't said how he would end the war, which started in February of 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. It is now, though, looking like he'll be trying to use economic pressure. But the question is whether this will actually be effective.
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And now to a major change when it comes to the federal workplace. As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, all federal officials overseeing diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, efforts were placed on paid administrative leave. Department and agency heads were given the instructions on Tuesday evening, saying that they should prepare for workforce reductions by the end of January.
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Agencies were also ordered to remove DEI-related language and advertisements, shut down DEI offices. and question employees about any remaining DEI efforts in disguise through coded language. They went so far as to tell federal employees to report on colleagues who defy orders to a special email account. So Trump's broader stance on DEI initiatives is that they restrict and divide people by race
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and actually discriminate against white people rather than promote opportunities, which is different from former President Biden's policies, where he was looking to expand representation, trying to lift up groups that have faced systemic barriers. Biden expanded DEI protections to include broader groups such as pregnant women, military spouses, rural communities and caregivers.
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Tuesday's memo from the White House Office of Personnel Management claimed that DEI policies undermine our national unity by discrediting traditional American values like hard work and individual achievement.
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And it goes beyond just federal agencies and directs the attorney general within 120 days to submit recommendations for enforcing federal civil rights laws and taking other appropriate measures to encourage the private sector to end illegal discrimination and preferences, including DEI.
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And quickly, another change coming to the federal workplace. Donald Trump requiring millions of federal employees to return to the office. He issued an order on Monday instructing all U.S. government departments and agencies in the executive branch to end remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work on a full time basis.
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Department heads can give some workers exemptions, but there is likely to be a lot of pushback from federal unions, some of which have remote work written into their contract.
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Time for the speed read. Let's start with a school shooting in Nashville. From CNN, a female student has died and another student was wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning at Antioch High School in Nashville. The male shooter then killed himself after killing that female student and wounding the two students.
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A police spokesperson says a 17-year-old that was armed with a pistol fired multiple shots in a school cafeteria at around 11.09 a.m. Vanderbilt University Medical Center confirms that one of the females had died in the shooting. Another female is in stable condition with what's being described as a grazed wound to the arm. And then a male with a facial injury was also wounded but not shot.
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Internationally, a quick update on the ceasefire hostage deal in the Middle East from the Times of Israel. Top officials from the U.S., Israel and Egypt were reportedly already moving on the second stage of the Gaza hostage ceasefire deal on Wednesday, about two weeks ahead of the scheduled date for the discussions to begin. Remember, the discussions were supposed to start Saturday.
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16 days after phase one began. The report comes as the prime minister of Qatar said that he was ready to start mediating talks on the second stage of the three phase deal as soon as possible. The U.S. Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, has said he is committed to reaching the second phase.