The episode covers a series of breaking news developments including new U.S.-Canada trade tensions, a South Korean Arctic shipping initiative, a legal reduction in Alex Jones’ Sandy Hook defamation penalty, rising Bitcoin and gold prices, a deadly airstrike on a Buddhist meditation retrea
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