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April 30, 2025

 
IN THE SPOTLIGHT

By embracing digital currency, the White House is clearing a path for a new era in dubious self-enrichment

 
 

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TALKING POINTS

Slate Auto's no-frills approach is a 'potential Tesla killer'

 
 
quote of the day

'For a small country like Finland living next to a bigger place like Russia, quite often it's about survival. So for us, foreign policy is real. It's existential.' 

Finnish President Alexander Stubb speaking to The New York Times about the weight of operating in deference to a nearby superpower in foreign affairs — an arrangement political scientists call Finlandization. He hopes to spare Ukraine from this fate by participating in peace talks with Trump. 

 
 
TODAY'S BIG QUESTION

Catholic priests participate in a memorial service for Pope Francis in Dakar, Senegal, on April 25, 2025

 
 
 
 
Picture of the day

Venezuelan immigrants at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, arrange their bodies to form an SOS signal. The detainees risk being sent to maximum security prison CENOT in El Salvador after receiving notices from immigration officers accusing them of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. 
Paul Ratje / Reuters

 
 
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