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📈Market Mayhem: YOUR 401K Sinks As Trumps Sells Teslas & Worries About Annexing Greenland
💸Canada, Europe & China Hit Back Against Trump Tariffs
🍾Sacre Bleu: Trump 200% Champagne Tariff
🏛️Democrats Likely To Shutdown U.S. Government
🚨Musk Calls For Social Security & Medicare Cuts
🇺🇦Russia Questions Ukraine Ceasefire
💻AI Chips Made In The USA
🚘Trump Promotes Tesla & Greenland Annexation While YOUR 401(k) Sinks!
Trump chose to promote Elon Musk’s Teslas and his crazy plan to annex Greenland while YOUR 401(k) sinks! 56% disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy, according to a CNN/SSRS poll, a figure worse than any recorded during his first term.
The Trump Bump, is now the Trump Slump:
STOCKS sinking again :
*Dow: 🔻500 points
*S&P500: 🔻 1.50%
*Nasdaq: 🔻 1.50%
*Bitcoin also hit, down to $81K
-Trump: declined to rule out a recession this year as the economy stutters from his tariffs
-Musk: called ‘entitlement spending’ — including Social Security and Medicare — a key target for cuts, arguing the federal programs are plagued by fraud
💸Canada, Europe & China Hit Back Against Trump Tariffs
Canada and the European Union announced retaliatory tariffs against U.S. products after Trump’s 25% tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum went into effect this week.
🍾Sacre Bleu: President Trump now threatens to put 200% tariffs on champagne and other EU liquors. It come after the EU imposed 50% Tariff on American Whisky.
The President has also set in motion a plan for the U.S. to impose ‘reciprocal tariffs’. “They charge us tariff and we charge them,” Trump said.
Supply Chain Expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation the move is aimed at countries like India that try to limit U.S. imports.
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🥃Whiskey Tariffs: A Shot At USA
GisermanGroup.com Client Brandon Daniels, CEO of Exiger, tells CNBC the retaliatory EU tariffs place American whiskey producers at a substantial competitive disadvantage:
How the world is reacting to tariffs: Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels earlier from Davos on BloombergTV
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🇨🇳China Calls Trump Tariffs Act Of War
China says it’s prepared to fight economic or “any type of war” with the U.S., as President Trump ratchets up economic and political pressure on Beijing. China is now being charged a 20% duty on goods sent to the U.S.
Exiger’s Kit Conklin tells NewsNation the Chinese economy is in worse shape than ours:
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🏛️Government Shutdown Likely
The federal government is edging closer to a shutdown after Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said that most Democrats will not support a House Republican-passed bill to fund the federal government.
“Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort, but Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their continuing resolution without any input — any input — from congressional Democrats,” Schumer (D-NY) said.
A funding bill needs to be passed by Friday to avoid the government running out of money.
The Republican measure needs at least seven Democrats to back it in order to clear the chamber's 60-vote threshold and reach the President’s desk for a signature.
🛑Jobs: No Help Wanted, Layoffs Soar
The latest disappointment: 151-thousand Jobs created in February with the unemployment rate rising to 4.1%. Experts expected more job growth.
The employment report also found the number of people stuck working part-time due to economic circumstances jumped by 460,000.
It comes as employers announced 172,017 layoffs for February, up 245% from January and the highest monthly count since July 2020,.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas reports more than one-third of the total came from Elon Musk’s efforts to reduce the federal headcount. Challenger put the total of announced federal job cuts at 62,242.
🇺🇦Russia Questions Ukraine Ceasefire
Russia has reportedly questioned Ukraine’s acceptance ofan immediate 30-day ceasefire.
It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his Oval Office blowup with President Donald Trump was “regrettable,” adding that he stands ready to work under Trump’s “strong leadership” to get a lasting peace.
The shouting match blew up plans to sign a minerals deal.
Exiger’s Kit Conklin tell’s NewsNation the US really needs those minerals.
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💻AI Chips Made In The USA
The world’s most sophisticated computer-chip maker invests in the US.
Exiger’s Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation it’s just part of a changing global supply chain.
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🚘Anger At Musk Turns Violent
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, more than a dozen violent or destructive acts have been directed at Tesla facilities. The incidents come as Elon Musk has rocketed to prominence as Trump’s best-known backer and as a conservative provocateur in his own right.
Musk claimed Monday that X suffered a "massive cyberattack," which caused the site and app to crash throughout the day.
Several Tesla superchargers at a shopping center in Littleton, Massachusetts, were set ablaze. Vandals in Maryland spray-painted “No Musk” onto a Tesla building, alongside a swastika-like symbol. Hundreds of New Yorkers shutdown the Tesla showroom in Manhattan. Six were arrested.
A federal judge has at least temporarily barred the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, adding that the firings were “illegal, should be stopped and rescinded.”
More than 20 employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
Millions of federal employees are caught between differing factions of the Trump administration, with Elon Musk originally giving them a Monday night deadline to explain their productivity or risk losing their jobs while some senior officials told workers to ignore the directive. It came after the Office of Personnel Management says responses to the Email are voluntary.
Federal Workers were told numerous times to respond with email to HR@OPM.Gov. Americans have flooded that email account with complaints.
All this as Musk’s DOGE proposes a $5000 check for every American household.
Some DOGE staffers are said to make six-figure paychecks. Members of the Elon Musk-led group, including Silicon Valley coders, are drawing high government salaries, according to Wired. One worker the magazine identified makes as much as $195,200; Musk previously said no one would be paid.
🎬Why Were Gene Hackman & His Wife Found Dead?
Gene Hackman was dead at least 9 days before maintenance workers found the bodies of the two-time Oscar winner, his wife and one of their dogs inside their sprawling New Mexico home, police said.
The last “event” recorded on “The French Connection” star’s pacemaker was Feb. 17, Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza said.
The deaths have been ruled “suspicious,” according to a search warrant affidavit released Thursday morning. Scattered Pills have been Found Near the Body of Hackman’s Wife . The actor was found dead in a mud room in his New Mexico home and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, was found dead on the floor of a bathroom, according to a search warrant affidavit.
Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Denise Womack-Avila said in a statement that officers were dispatched to an address where they found Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 64, and a dog deceased.
She said foul play isn’t suspected but didn’t elaborate and that an investigation is underway.
Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner was featured in more than 80 films including “The French Connection,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Mississippi Burning” and “Birdcage”.
A tribute to Hackman is in the works for Sunday’s Oscar ceremony.
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🏆OscarsTV Ratings🔻: Did Politics Upend?
Politics has always been part of the Academy Awards, with actors often refusing to accept statues due to their political views. But this year politics could cut be the reason ABC’s TV ratings and Hulu streaming combined for a 7% loss in audience.
‘Anora’ won best picture and four other Oscars including Mikey Madison for best actress. ‘Anora’ is a controversial choice in a divided America. It’s a nonchalant take on sex work, filled with shouted profanities. In his opening monologue, Conan O’Brien said that “Anora,” uses “the f-word 479 times.
Adrien Brody won best actor for “The Brutalist” Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin won for best supporting actress and actor.
🚨White House Takes Control of Press Pool
What’s next?
The White House has seized control of the press pool covering President Trump, becoming the first administration in decades to insist that it will decide which news organizations are allowed to be close enough to question the president in places like the Oval Office and Air Force One.
The decision by President Trump’s team to handpick which news organizations can participate in the White House press pool is a step in a direction that no modern American president of either party has ever taken.
On Wednesday neither the A.P. or Reuters, two mainstays of the White House press corps for decades, were included in the pool. Newsmax and The Blaze, two conservative outlets, were invited to take their places.
Fox News along with most other organizations has protested the decision.
💳Trump Gold Card-$5Million For U.S. Residency
Get This:
President Trump says he will allow wealthy individuals to pay $5 million for a “gold card” that would grant them permanent U.S. residency, ending an existing program that offers green cards to people who invest in the country.
The president estimated that the U.S. could sell one million or more “gold cards.”
🍏Apple Hiring 20K U.S. Workers
Apple announcing plans to invest more than $500 billion in the U.S. and hire 20,000 people over the next four years, with expansion and construction planned from coast to coast.
The new jobs will focus on research and development, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.
Apple plans to greatly expand chip and server manufacturing in the U.S., plus skills development for students and workers across the country.
Why it matters: Apple's announcement — which the company calls its "largest-ever spend commitment" — is precisely the kind of win President Trump has been looking for with his push to move manufacturing back to the U.S.
Apple's new investment — much of it in red states — lets Trump say to other companies: Apple can do it. Why can't (or won't) you?
🏠Home Sales Sink As Trump Makes It Harder For YOU To Get A Mortgage
Trump’s cuts at the Department of Housing and Urban Development are likely to upend housing markets even more, making homes less affordable and complicate mortgage transactions, according to current and former employees, contractors and housing experts.
Sales of previously-owned homes fell a whopping 4.9% in January from the prior month with Mortgages at 6.7%.
➡️Housing Expert Rick Sharga says the American Dream is turning into the American Nightmare
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📺Anchors Away: Holt Leaving NBC Nightly
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt is stepping down after a decade.
Holt, 65, will remain with NBC in a full-time role at “Dateline,” where he has been the principal anchor for nearly 15 years, according to a memo shared with staffers.
Holt said he would continue anchoring the evening news until “the start of summer.”
“As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco, I could never have imagined my career path would unfold in the way it has,” Holt wrote in a note to staffers. “What an amazing ride.”
No successor has been named.
🎶‘Killing Me Softly’, Roberta Flack Dies
Roberta Flack is dead.
With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
Roberta Flack was 88.
🧑🏭Trump Fires Top Generals
President Trump has fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking officer in the country, as part of a major shake-up of top military leadership.
CQ Brown was the second black officer to hold the post, the holder of which advises both the president and the secretary of defense on national security.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously said that Brown should be fired because of his "woke" focus on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military.
Later on Friday, Hegseth announced the firings of two additional senior officers: Chief of Naval Operations Adm Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen Jim Slifel.
All three top officers removed on Friday were appointed by President Joe Biden.
📪Trump Goes Postal
President Trump is making plans to disband the governing board that oversees the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the agency into his administration, throwing the future of the mail provider’s quasi-governmental status into doubt.
Trump is preparing to issue an executive order to fire the members of the Postal Service’s governing board and put the agency under the direct control of the Commerce Department, according to two government officials. The plan was earlier reported by the Washington Post late Thursday.
🇮🇱Israel Won’t Release Prisoners After Hamas Humiliates Hostages
Israel said it is temporarily withholding the release of any Palestinian prisoners until Hamas stops staging “ceremonies that humiliate our hostages,” throwing into question the future of the Gaza cease-fire.
The family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says a body handed over by Hamas on Friday is hers.
"Our Shiri was murdered in captivity and has now returned home," the family said in a statement. Israel's forensic officials who have been examining the body are yet to confirm the identification.
The Israeli military said that the bodies of her boys, Ariel and Kfir, had been identified.
Remains handed over by Hamas on Thursday which it said were those of Shiri Bibas turned out to be an unidentified woman, Israel said.
It comes as six living hostages are being handed over by Hamas todayas part of a ceasefire deal. More than 600 Palestinian prisoners will be freed by Israel in exchange.
Get this: It’s one of the craziest ideas from Donald Trump ever — Sounding like the real estate developer he once was, President Trump vowed to turn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said at a news conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. “
🚨Vance Blasted For Supporting Pro-Nazi Party
Vice President JD Vance told Germans to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right, Nazi-denying, AfD party into their federal government.
German chancellor Scholz accused the Vice President of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could repeat the horrors of the Holocaust.
Scholz said the AfD had trivialized Nazi atrocities like the concentration camp at Dachau.
Elon Musk has endorsed the AfD as well, telling party members that Germans have “too much of a focus on past guilt.”
The chancellor said Germany “would not accept” directives from outsiders about how to run its democracy — and certainly not to work with such a party.
📱TikTok Is Back
Apple and Google have restored TikTok to their app stores, several weeks after they removed the Chinese-owned video platform to comply with a law that banned it in the U.S. Some 170 million American use TikTok.
Pres. Trump still wants TikTok’s Chinese owners to divest it, and has put Vice President Vance in charge of selling it. Tump signed an executive action he said would direct officials to create a sovereign wealth fund and suggested it could be used to facilitate the sale of TikTok..
GisermanGroup client, Exiger’s JC Herz says TikTok is now dangerous.
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🩺RFK Confirmed As Health Secretary
The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has repeatedly expressed skepticism of vaccines, as the health and human services secretary.
He overcame deep opposition from much of the medical community and Democrats who implored Republicans to reject him, calling him a danger to public health.
Every Democrat voted against Kennedy, while Sen. Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor who had criticized the nominee’s questioning of vaccines, was the lone Republican no vote.
📈Trump Inc: Hotels, Bibles, NOW STOCK SALES!
Donald Trump, who has put his brand on everything from real estate, to TV shows, to bibles to cryptocurrencies, now wants to sell you investment funds.
The President’s media company has applied for trademarks on a series of exchange-traded funds even as Trump is in the White House with control over monetary policy.
BTW: The price of the $Trump cryptocurrency hovered around $17 this week, less than a quarter of its $75 peak value. Trump promoted the coin on his own social media platform, as well as Elon Musk’s X, saying: “Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW.”
Trump’s company’s stock plans have already raised eyebrows. Typically, money managers don’t promote their new funds until they have sought approval from securities regulators to launch them. And, perhaps needless to say, no sitting president has ever asked a federal agency in his administration to sign off on investment products sold by a company he controls.
And in case you missed it: President Trump says he will make himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well.
🤧Flu Epidemic
SICK of what’s been happening?
Well, you are not be alone. This flu season is already the worst in seven years and could soon overtake the 2017-2018 flu season in badness.
CDC data shows that during the week that ended February 1, nearly a third of the reported flu testing results came back positive. That was the highest in at least a decade. 40 states are reporting high numbers of flu cases.
🥚EGGflation: Restaurant Surcharge On Eggs
Restaurants are falling victim to a national egg shortage that has already plagued grocery stores sending prices to $7 a dozen.
The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place due to scrambling egg prices.
Someone has even stolen about 100,000 eggs from a distribution trailer in south-central Pennsylvania. The eggs were taken from the trailer at Pete & Gerry's Organics in the Antrim Township borough of Greencastle, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Police estimate their value at $40,000.
Egg prices are rising because of inflation as well as the bird flu, which made its way to the United States in 2022 after it was detected in Canada. To date, the disease has infected or killed almost 150 million birds.
🏈Eagles, Fox TV Win Super Bowl
Super Bowl LIX belonged to the Eagles and to Fox.
Jalen Hurts' Eagles dominated from the start, their 40-22 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX gave them two Super Bowl titles in the last eight seasons — a run that no NFL team other than the Chiefs and Patriots can match over the last 13 years. They've been to three Super Bowls in that span, too, and been to the postseason seven times.
Fox also was a winner A record 126 million people watched the Philadelphia defeat Kansas City on Fox and various streaming platforms, according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen and the network. Fox’s broadcast network averaged 111.5 million viewers while its free streaming service Tubi drew 13.6 million viewers and another 800,000 watched on NFL digital properties. It was the third Super Bowl in a row to set a new viewership record.
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💻U.S. Government Prohibited From Using Chinese AI
Congressional and other government offices have been warned not to use the Chinese AI app DeepSeek, due to worries about security.
Lawmakers plan to introduce a bil that would ban DeepSeek’s chatbot application from government-owned devices, over new security concerns that the app could provide user information to the Chinese government.
Meta and Microsoft are talking up their AI strategies and saying they are sticking with ambitious investments despite the investor panic this week over the rise of the cheaper to develop Chinese AI model.
SupplyChain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels and a panel of experts with the DeepSeek fallout on NewsNation
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🛬 67 Bodies Recovered , Trump Blames DEI!
Salvage crews have recovered the wreckage of the American Airlines Jet and Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided in midair near Washington Reagan National Airport.
67 people are dead and there are no survivors. The jet, which was coming from Wichita, Kansas, was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members on landing approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport around 9pm . Three crewmen were on the helicopter. At a briefing authorities say they believe the crash was avoidable.
President Trump of course politicized it; blaming diversity requirements at the Federal Aviation Administration and Pres. Biden, Trump saying that standards for air traffic controllers had been too lax under DEI programs.
Turns out the helicopter on a training mission reportedly flew outside its approved flight path. The American Airlines pilots most likely did not see the helicopter close by as they made a turn toward the runway. And the air traffic controller, who was juggling two jobs at the same time, was unable to keep the helicopter and the plane separated.
🚨Trump ‘Floods The Zone’ Hopes YOU’re Overwhelmed and Tune Out -DON’T
President Trump is spending his first weeks back in office ‘flooding the zone’ in hopes YOU Will be overwhelmed and tune out. His mantra:If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one.
Trump Offered Buyouts to Federal Employees in a Bid to Cut Workforce-The White House gave federal workers a choice: return to the office full time or resign and get paid for the next eight months.
He pardoned hundreds of supporters who assaulted police on Jan. 6, 2021, threatened immigrants, signed tons of executive orders, revoked security clearances for critics and floated dozens of dramatic proposals.
💣Jewish Leaders Condemn Musk
More than 160 Jewish leaders, including dozens of rabbis and mostly left-leaning activists, are making a fresh push for advertisers and app stores to drop Elon Musk’s X over concerns of antisemitism.
In a letter shared with the Tech Brief ahead of its publication Tuesday, the authors — under the banner of a campaign called X Out Hate — write that Musk “presents an urgent danger to Jews” via his leadership of X and “sweeping power” in the Trump administration. They call him “one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in the world,” citing his recent Nazi-esque salute and Holocaust jokes, his support of Germany’s largest far-right party and the proliferation of antisemitic hate on X.
The Anti-Defamation League condemned Musk for making a series of Nazi-related jokes on X, calling it "inappropriate and offensive to make light" of the "singularly evil" Holocaust.
"This is a delicate moment. It's a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety," the ADL, an organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism, wrote on X.
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📺Massive Job Cuts At CNN
CNN plans to lay off hundreds of employees TODAY. The network reportedly eliminating about 200 jobs focused on CNN’s traditional TV operations, and adding about says it will add the same number for new digital roles like data scientists and product engineers.
The layoffs come as CNN is rearranging its linear TV lineup and building out digital subscription products.
Some shows that are produced in New York or Washington are expected to move to Atlanta, where production can be done more cheaply.
For the most part, the job cuts won’t affect CNN’s most recognizable names, who are under contract.
CNN has been stuck in last place behind MSNBC and Fox News, the longtime leader. Its prime time ratings have plummeted since the election, and its digital audience has also shrunk.
CNN has about 3,500 employees worldwide.
💻Trump’s Musk Problem
Elon Musk threw a wrench into President Donald Trump’s AI infrastructure plans, insisting that billionaire investors in the project called Stargate — who stood next to Trump in an announcement this week — “don’t actually have the money.”
In the first sign of a crack in their relationship, the White House says listen to Trump not Musk.
Trump was joined by Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, Sam Altman of OpenAI, and Larry Ellison of Oracle to announce the $500 Billion project. The chief executives all gave credit to the president for making the project possible, even though the project began under former President Joe Biden in 2024, and construction of the massive building in Texas set to house it has already started.
The partnership “will start building out data centers and the electricity generation needed for the further development of the fast-evolving AI in Texas, according to the White House.
🚨Facebook Caves To Trump
Facebook parent Meta has eliminated its third-party fact checking, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest attempt to smooth over relations with Republican President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office.
“We’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes, and too much censorship,” Zuckerberg said in a video announcement. “The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech, so we’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our polices and restoring free expression on our platforms.”
Meta said it will simplify its content policies by removing restrictions on subjects like immigration and gender and implement a new approach to policy enforcement that will focus on illegal and high severity violations. The company is moving its trust and safety and content moderation teams from California, a historically Democratic state, to Texas, a historically Republican state.
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🛫Airplane Safety Worries For Your Next Trip
Two people were found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane from New York City after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns over airline security.
A Jeju Airlines plane burst into a deadly fireball during a failed belly landing in South Korea, killing 179 people.
If your fear of flying has ramped up in recent months you’re not alone. More than half of travelers say recent news of aircraft and airline incidents has affected the way they book travel.
The latest problem: turns out new Boeing and Airbus jets have parts made from titanium, sold using fake documentation.
Exiger President Carrie Wibben tells NewsNation it raises concerns about the structural integrity of those planes.
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💻Hackers Take Advantage Of Airline Computer Glitch
It keeps getting worse!
Regulators are investigating how Delta Air Lines is treating passengers affected by canceled flights after the airline’s global tech outage, which forced Delta to cancel more than 5000 flights.
CrowdStrike now warning its customers: hackers are trying to exploit the computer outage.
➡️Exiger’s Katie Arrington with the fallout:
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💴US Steel Sues Over Blocking Merger
U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel have sued the U.S. government for blocking their merger.
Rejection of the deal is a sign of the government’s tilt toward protectionist policies for businesses, with threatened Tariffs on imports and more expected from President-elect Trump further pushing the country in that direction.
GisermanGroup Client - SupplyChain Expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels will have analysis of what this means for you, your business and your pocketbook.
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💻China Hacks U.S. Treasury
China hacked the U.S. Treasury, gaining access to computers and what the government says were unclassified documents.
The Biden administration charges come after reports in recent months that China had penetrated deep into U.S. telecommunications systems, gaining access to phone conversations and text messages of U.S. officials and businesses.p
🏛️Mike Johnson Reelected House Speaker
Mike Johnson held onto his House Speaker post by a razor-thin margin after two last-minute vote changes by Republican holdouts. Word is Donald Trump intervened to get them on board.
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🚌Childcare Economic Crisis
The Cost of Childcare Is Out Of Control. What Will President Trump Do?
Debbie Bermudezof IMAGINE EARLY LEARNING with the problems on NewsNation
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🎯 Chinese Slave Labor Making Your iPhone
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says that shiny-new iPhone you want to buy may be made by Chinese slave labor. Vance named China the biggest threat to the U.S. & Democratic VP Candidate Tim Walz agrees.
While Apple denies it uses slave labor, China and Supply Chain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation many US companies unknowingly use Chinese slave labor, and that needs to stop now.
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📰Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Washington Post, said on Friday evening that she was resigning after the newspaper’s opinions section rejected a cartoon depicting The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, genuflecting toward a statue of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
In a statement posted to Substack, Ann Telnaes, called the newspaper’s decision to kill her cartoon a “game changer" that was “dangerous for a free press.”
“In all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at,” she wrote. “Until now.”
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💰Wall St Kisses Trump’s Ring
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all dining with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Meta. Amazon, OpenAI each donating $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund.
“In the first term, everyone was fighting me,” Trump said at a news conference, ‘In this term, everyone wants to be my friend.”
Trump basked in Wall Street applause and money as he rang the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange.
Trump and Bezos, have clashed in recent years. Trump has criticized the Amazon founder over reporting in The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos. But more recently, Bezos has praised Trump on social media and says he is “very optimistic” about the incoming administration.
Trump has long been critical of Meta’s social media platforms, saying they censor conservative viewpoints. But in recent weeks, its chief executive, Zuckerberg, cozied up to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Gathered at the NYSE watching Trump ring the opening bell were senior executives at Visa, Meta, Goldman Sachs, Charles Schwab and more...
…All kissing his ring while hoping the Trump administration is favorable to them.
🏈Streaming Owns Holiday Football
NFL's Christmas Day double-header games were the most-streamed NFL games in .history, according to preliminary Nielsen figures that don't include international viewership. Once international figures and additional U.S. data is calculated, the league expects both games will have averaged around 30 million viewers each, representing a massive win for Netflix's live sports ambitions.
Last year's Christmas Day match on traditional television between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders drew 29 million viewers, the second-highest Christmas Day game since 1989.
The first Christmas Day game between the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers, had an average minute audience of 24.1 million, per Nielsen figures provided by the NFL.
Nearly one-third of Netflix's global concurrent viewers on Christmas Day were watching the game at one point, making it the most-watched concurrent stream of any Christmas Day for Netflix in the past four years.
The second Christmas Day game between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens had an average minute audience of 24.3 million.
It was the most-watched Christmas Day game on record among 18-34 year-olds, per the NFL, with 5.1 million U.S. viewers. (That figure is based on Nielsen records dating back to 2001).
U.S. viewership for Ravens-Texans game peaked at Beyonce's halftime performance, with over 27 million viewers tuning in.
Leaving traditional TV out in the cold.
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🚨Gaetz Paid 17 YearOld for Sex—Ethics Report
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, also purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office. The House Ethics Committee concluded the former Florida Republican congressman, who Donald Trump originally picked to be his Attorney General, violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office.
Gaetz is joining Conservative, One America News as a talk show anchor after withdrawing his nomination for AG.
"The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress," the 37-page report concludes.
Gaetz filed a lawsuit in federal court to block release of the report, saying that he is now a private citizen and not subject to the jurisdiction of the House committee.
💊Trump Administration Push To Ban TV Drug Ads
The TV Drug advertising business could soon need a shot in the arm.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for health secretary, is a longtime critic of pharmaceutical advertising on TV, arguing that it leads broadcasters to more favorable coverage of the industry and does not improve Americans’ health. He has repeatedly called for a ban on such ads.
Elon Musk, who is spearheading a government cost-cutting effort, last month wrote on X, his social-media site, “No advertising for pharma.”
And Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick to lead the FCC said that his agency could enforce any ban that is enacted. “I think we’re way, way too overmedicated as a country,” he said.
The push against TV drug ads threatens to dent the revenues of pharmaceutical companies and broadcasters.
🚨Hegseth Hangs in For Defense Secretary
More Republican Senators are opposing Hegseth, for secretary of defense. NBC News now reports at least six Republican have concerns about supporting Hegseth. Hegseth drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.
Hegseth,’s mother wrote her son an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character.
“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him, in a letter obtained by the New York Times.
A police report has revealed sexual assault allegations against Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, Here’s what we know so far:
Turns out Hegseth paid an undisclosed amount to a woman who accused him of rape because “he feared the allegation getting out 'would result in his immediate termination from Fox'.
The President-elect has always worshipped TV personalities, and this nomination comes as little surprise to Trump watchers.
The news was met with bewilderment and wide-eyed worry among many in Washington, as Trump passed on a number of established national security heavy-hitters and chose an Army National Guard captain who is well-known in conservative circles as a co-host of Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
Among other policies, Hegseth does not believe women should serve in combat roles.
The Pentagon has been described as the largest bureaucracy in the world and will be tough for a neophyte to negotiate.
📺NBC: Streaming Killed The Cable Star
Cable networks used to be incredibly valuable. But in the streaming and cord-cutting era, they're in decline. That's why Comcast is ditching almost all its cable networks into a new stand-alone company.
Into the spinco goes every almost every cable network Comcast owns. It includes networks like CNBC, MSNBC, USA, along with a few digital assets, including its Fandango movie-ticket service.
Comcast plans to hang on to the rest of its media business, including its NBC broadcast network, NBC TV stations, Peacock streaming service, Universal film and TV studio, and Universal theme-parks business. And Bravo, can’t let those Real Housewives go!
🇮🇱Antisemitic Attacks
Israeli and French fans got into a brief altercation during Thursday’s Nations League soccer game, which had heavy security presence following the antisemitic violence in Amsterdam.
Just after the game kicked off, officials reported a small brawl between Israeli and French soccer fans at a top section of the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis.
Some of those involved in the scuffle were wearing Israeli flags draped over their backs as they wrestled with other people in the stands.
Israel earlier evacuated its citizens from the Netherlands after street violence following a soccer game in Amsterdam. Israeli fans were chased down and beaten by Palestinian-supporters in what leaders of both countries called antisemitic attacks.
At least five people were hospitalized, according to Amsterdam police, who made 62 arrests.
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on X he was in touch with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was “horrified by the antisemitic attacks on Israeli citizens.”
💧Your Drinking Water Target of CyberAttacks
A recent string of cyberattacks on water utilities included systems in Kansas, Texas, and Pennsylvania…
…GDIT’s Matt Hayden, Former Dept of Homeland Security Cyber Czar, tells NewsNation the threat is all too real
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🤖AI—Latest Battleground For US & China
Artificial Intelligence—the latest battleground for the U.S. and China.
Exiger’s JC Herz tells NewsNation China already knows how to hack American Water Systems and Electrical Grids.
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