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NEWS IN BRIEF

$500 MILLION
New Mexico has reached a $500 million settlement with Walgreens over the pharmacy’s role in fueling opioid addiction in the state.

$10 BILLION
Saudi Arbaia and China have signed 30 investment agreements totaling about $10 billion to deepen their bilateral relations, according to the Saudi Arabian Investment Ministry

WERE YOU AWARE?
More than 50 million adults (20.5% of the adult population) in the United States suffer from chronic pain.

Electric air vehicle manufacturer Eve Air Mobility announced that it is extending the existing partnership with Blade to expand ”flying cars” in Europe.

4,000 JOBS
Almost 4,000 U.S. jobs were lost last month as companies adopted the use of artificial intelligence, according to outplacement firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

41 DEAD
A riot at a Honduran women’s prison that has left at least 41 inmates dead, officicals say.

US Birth Rate Falls Below Replacement Level per CDC
In 2022, there were 3,661, 220 births; just a few thousand fewer than the year before. Overall, the fertility rate was 1.665 births per woman. A rate of 2.1 births per woman is considered “replaement level.”

1,000 MILLIONAIRES
Hong Kong is expected to lose 1,000 millionaires in 2023 due to migration, accoreding to a report by Henley & Partneres, a British investment migration consultant company.

Christian Church Buys Disney’s Last Radio Station
The Walt Disney Co. has sold its last radio station, KRDC, to religious broadcaster Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa for $5 million, reported by The Desk.

247,000 VEHICLES
produced by Toyota, Kia, and Land Rover from 2022 through 2023 have been recalled over a range of issues, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

QUOTES – Misc.

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time with a tremendous whack.”
~~~ Winston Church

WISDOM:
“Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.”
~~~ Aristotle

CHANGE:
”Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.”
~~~ Jim Rohn

ATTITUDE:
”Attitude and personality are as important as experience and ability. Choose wisely.”
~~~ Brian Tracy

WORTHWHILE:
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
~~~ Albert Einstein

COURAGE:
”Courage is always the surest wisdom.”
~~~ Wilfred Grenfell

CORRUPTION:
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country… corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
~~~ Abraham Lincoln

MUSIC:
“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
~~~ Johann Sebastian Bach

LIBERTY:
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness.”
~~~ Louis D. Brandeis

QUOTES – Religious

“In Christ, our nature is raised to possess dignity and glory, power and dominion, riches and intense happiness, incomparably greater than was conferred on man at his creation.”
~~~ Joseph Benson (1749-1821)

“A devil cannot speak words of hope, love, or grace. Neither can a godly man curse the God that gave him life.”
~~~ Anonymous

“And the LORD will be King over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be the only one, and His name the only one.”
~~~ Zechariah 14:9