2024-12-06
13 分钟On today’s show: Marianna Sotomayor of the Washington Post explains how the GOP’s razor-thin House majority could complicate Trump’s policy plans. Bitcoin hit $100,000, lifted by hopes of a crypto-friendly new administration. The Wall Street Journal’s Alexander Osipovich explains what that means for you, even if you don’t invest in digital currency. Rob Sheffield, contributing editor at Rolling Stone, joins Apple News In Conversation to talk about how Taylor Swift changed the music industry forever. Plus, the LA Galaxy are back in the MLS Cup, a decade on from the team’s glory days. Five years after a blaze nearly destroyed Notre-Dame, the cathedral reopens this weekend. And sake — Japan’s “divine gift” — receives a special honor.
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On today's show, why Bitcoin's wild surge in price Price might not be good for the greater economy
Notre Dame reopens five years after a devastating fire
and Taylor Swift's record breaking ERAS tour winds down this weekend.
But first, House Republicans will have their smallest majority in history when the next Congress gets sworn in in January.
That's 220 Republican seats to Democrats.
215.
But because President elect Trump has tapped some House members for cabinet rolls and Congressman Matt Gaetz has resigned,
there'll be a few vacant seats.
So the margin will be even smaller for some period of time.