🗞️Happiest country in the world

...plus ending the Education Department and the sale of the Boston Celtics

March 20, 2025

March 20th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

These are the top 10 happiest countries, according to the 2025 World Happiness Report. Did the United States make the cut?

Plus, the "happiest" household size, the state of the loneliness epidemic — and other findings from the annual report.

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/these-are-the-top-10-happiest-countries-according-to-the-2025-world-happiness-report-did-the-united-states-make-the-cut-005501547.html

  • The World Happiness Report’s rankings for the happiest countries in the world for 2025 have come out…Finland finished in 1st place, Denmark came in 2nd, Iceland in 3rd, and the U.S. fell to 24th…for more info on the happiest countries in the world click here

  • President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at closing the Department of Education though he needs Congress to fully shut it down

  • U.S. citizen, George Glezmann, was released by the Taliban after being held for more than two years in Afghanistan…he was detained by the Taliban in December 2022 when we was visiting there as a tourist

  • New York’s top court has struck down a law that would have let noncitizens vote in NYC elections

  • A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security Administration systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans, per AP

  • The Boston Celtics have been sold to a group led by private-equity director Bill Chisholm from Symphony Technology Group and PE firm Sixth Street for $6.1 billion…this is the largest deal for a North American professional sports team in history

  • DoorDash and Klarna (a lending company that offers “buy now, pay later” programs) have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries in interest-free installments instead of paying all at once upon delivery

  • Nvidia plans to spend several hundred billion dollars on U.S.-made chips and electronics over the next four years

  • Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose in February 4.2% from January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.26 million units

  • 67% of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, per PYMNTS

  • DOW down .03% / S&P down .22%

  • The European Union will delay implementing its first set of tariffs on goods from the U.S. until the middle of April, per CNBC

  • Hamas has launched it first attack back at Israel since the ceasefire ended by firing three rockets at Tel Aviv

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