The Update (Valentine's Day 2025)- February 14th
Manage episode 470571526 series 3115680
Sometimes, the “value menu” is anything but. Anyone who’s walked in hoping for a sub-$10 check knows the drill — half the time, you’re walking out having spent nearly $20, if not more. All your fault? Yes and no, according to the combo meal connoisseurs at The Takeout, who say it’s something called “charm pricing” that’s often to blame.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials resigned after she refused an order to drop corruption charges against Mayor Adams — a stunning escalation in a dayslong standoff over the Trump administration prioritizing political aims over criminal culpability.
References to transgender people were removed Thursday from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument, a park and visitor center in New York that commemorates a 1969 riot that became a pivotal moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
And in Washington, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as President Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.
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