🗞️Google Maps Makes Changes

January 28th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸 ,

• Google said it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” and change Denali to “Mount McKinley” in Google maps once the government updates its “official government sources”

• White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said today that the mystery drones flown across the East Coast in 2024 were authorized to be flown by the Federal Aviation Administration

• The Trump Administration has ordered the pause on federal grants and loans, since then a federal judge has temporarily blocked part of the administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid

• X today announced a deal with Visa and their new digital wallet, Visa will enable X users to move funds between traditional bank accounts and their digital wallet and make instant peer-to-peer payments, like with Zelle or Venmo

• The White House will now be giving press passes to podcast hosts, independent journalists, and news related social media creators so they can get a a seat in briefing room

• OpenAI announced a new product called ChatGPT Gov, it is built specifically for U.S. government use

• U.S. businesses are hiring at the lowest rate since 2013, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Trump has said Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok

• DOW up .31%/ S&P up .92%

• China has said it is willing to take back citizens living illegally in the U.S., as Trump threatened tariffs and sanctions on countries who don't accept deportees, per Reuters

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