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These Are The 50 Richest Countries By GDP Per Capita GDP per capita is a rough proxy for a country’s average living standards. A higher GDP per capita usually reflects more economic resources available per person, a signal for prosperity.However, like all statistical measures there are caveats: it doesn’t account for income distribution, quality of life metrics, or how sustainable the economy is.Nevertheless, it is a standard that can be applied to make useful comparisons, while keeping these caveats in mind.So, what are the “richest” countries in the world? Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao ranks the top 50 countries by GDP per capita in 2025 using figures from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).All values are in current USD, which means: it is not adjusted for currency rates, cost of living metrics, or inflation.Ranked: The Richest Countries in the World in 2025Luxembourg is the richest country in the world by GDP per capita, $140,941 in 2025.The U.S. is the richest country ($89,105) with a population of more than 10 million.RankCountry/ RegionISO CodeGDP Per Capita1🇱🇺 LuxembourgLUX$140,9412🇮🇪 IrelandIRL$108,9193🇨🇭 SwitzerlandCHE$104,8964🇸🇬 SingaporeSGP$92,9325🇮🇸 IcelandISL$90,2846🇳🇴 NorwayNOR$89,6947🇺🇸 U.S.USA$89,1058🇲🇴 Macao SARMAC$76,3149🇩🇰 DenmarkDNK$74,96910🇶🇦 QatarQAT$71,65311🇳🇱 NetherlandsNLD$70,48012🇦🇺 AustraliaAUS$64,54713🇸🇲 San MarinoSMR$59,60314🇦🇹 AustriaAUT$58,19215🇸🇪 SwedenSWE$58,10016🇧🇪 BelgiumBEL$57,77217🇮🇱 IsraelISR$57,76018🇭🇰 Hong Kong SARHKG$56,03119🇩🇪 GermanyDEU$55,91120🇬🇧 United KingdomGBR$54,94921🇫🇮 FinlandFIN$54,16322🇨🇦 CanadaCAN$53,55823🇦🇪 UAEARE$49,49824🇫🇷 FranceFRA$46,79225🇳🇿 New ZealandNZL$46,12626🇲🇹 MaltaMLT$45,73527🇦🇩 AndorraAND$45,26328🇨🇾 CyprusCYP$41,13229🇮🇹 ItalyITA$41,09130🇵🇷 Puerto RicoPRI$38,60531🇦🇼 ArubaABW$37,77532🇧🇸 BahamasBHS$36,78433🇪🇸 SpainESP$36,19234🇸🇮 SloveniaSVN$35,33235🇧🇳 Brunei DarussalamBRN$34,97036🇰🇷 South KoreaKOR$34,64237🇹🇼 TaiwanTWN$34,42638🇯🇵 JapanJPN$33,95639🇨🇿 Czech RepublicCZE$33,03940🇪🇪 EstoniaEST$32,76041🇬🇾 GuyanaGUY$32,32642🇱🇹 LithuaniaLTU$30,83543🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaSAU$30,09944🇵🇹 PortugalPRT$30,00245🇰🇼 KuwaitKWT$29,95146🇧🇭 BahrainBHR$28,85747🇸🇰 Slovak RepublicSVK$27,13048🇵🇱 PolandPOL$26,80549🇧🇧 BarbadosBRB$25,90150🇬🇷 GreeceGRC$25,75651🇭🇷 CroatiaHRV$25,67452🇭🇺 HungaryHUN$24,80953🇱🇻 LatviaLVA$24,37454🇺🇾 UruguayURY$22,69355🇦🇬 Antigua& BarbudaATG$22,63056🇰🇳 Saint Kitts& NevisKNA$21,91157🇸🇨 SeychellesSYC$21,63358🇷🇴 RomaniaROU$21,42159🇵🇦 PanamaPAN$20,08060🇨🇷 Costa RicaCRI$19,09561🇵🇼 PalauPLW$18,99362🇴🇲 OmanOMN$18,96663🇧🇬 BulgariaBGR$18,52264🇹🇹 Trinidad& TobagoTTO$18,44565🇲🇻 MaldivesMDV$18,20766🇨🇱 ChileCHL$17,01567🇹🇷 TürkiyeTUR$16,70968🇰🇿 KazakhstanKAZ$14,76869🇱🇨 Saint LuciaLCA$14,49970🇦🇷 ArgentinaARG$14,36271🇷🇺 RussiaRUS$14,25872🇷🇸 SerbiaSRB$14,17473🇨🇳 ChinaCHN$13,68774🇲🇪 MontenegroMNE$13,50875🇹🇲 TurkmenistanTKM$13,33776🇲🇾 MalaysiaMYS$13,14577🇳🇷 NauruNRU$12,72778🇲🇽 MexicoMEX$12,69279🇬🇩 GrenadaGRD$12,59180🇲🇺 MauritiusMUS$12,33281🇩🇴 Dominican RepublicDOM$11,74382🇻🇨 Saint Vincent& the GrenadinesVCT$11,16283🇦🇱 AlbaniaALB$10,52784🇧🇷 BrazilBRA$9,96485🇲🇰 North MacedoniaMKD$9,88286🇩🇲 DominicaDMA$9,86987🇬🇪 GeorgiaGEO$9,57188🇦🇲 ArmeniaARM$8,85789🇬🇦 GabonGAB$8,84290🇵🇪 PeruPER$8,81491🇧🇿 BelizeBLZ$8,64892🇧🇦 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH$8,36293🇲🇩 MoldovaMDA$8,26094🇲🇭 Marshall IslandsMHL$8,13395🇨🇴 ColombiaCOL$8,05496🇧🇾 BelarusBLR$7,87597🇯🇲 JamaicaJAM$7,77898🇹🇭 ThailandTHA$7,76799🇬🇶 Equatorial GuineaGNQ$7,750100🇦🇿 AzerbaijanAZE$7,604101🇲🇳 MongoliaMNG$7,201102🇽🇰 KosovoXKX$7,147103🇧🇼 BotswanaBWA$7,021104🇪🇨 EcuadorECU$6,942105🇸🇷 SurinameSUR$6,858106🇱🇾 LibyaLBY$6,801107🇫🇯 FijiFJI$6,740108🇬🇹 GuatemalaGTM$6,698109🇹🇻 TuvaluTUV$6,543110🇵🇾 ParaguayPRY$6,522111🇿🇦 South AfricaZAF$6,397112🇺🇦 UkraineUKR$6,261113🇸🇻 El SalvadorSLV$5,722114🇹🇴 TongaTON$5,721115🇩🇿 AlgeriaDZA$5,691116🇮🇶 IraqIRQ$5,668117🇼🇸 SamoaWSM$5,471118🇨🇻 Cabo VerdeCPV$5,421119🇫🇲 MicronesiaFSM$5,291120🇮🇩 IndonesiaIDN$5,027121🇯🇴 JordanJOR$4,903122🇻🇳 VietnamVNM$4,806123🇳🇦 NamibiaNAM$4,661124🇸🇿 EswatiniSWZ$4,613125🇹🇳 TunisiaTUN$4,528126🇧🇴 BoliviaBOL$4,525127🇲🇦 MoroccoMAR$4,397128🇵🇭 PhilippinesPHL$4,350129🇩🇯 DjiboutiDJI$4,343130🇧🇹 BhutanBTN$4,302131🇻🇪 VenezuelaVEN$4,068132🇮🇷 IranIRN$3,897133🇸🇹 São Tomé & PríncipeSTP$3,569134🇻🇺 VanuatuVUT$3,548135🇭🇳 HondurasHND$3,519136🇺🇿 UzbekistanUZB$3,514137🇪🇬 EgyptEGY$3,174138🇳🇮 NicaraguaNIC$3,019139🇦🇴 AngolaAGO$2,884140🇮🇳 IndiaIND$2,878141🇨🇮 Côte d'IvoireCIV$2,872142🇰🇭 CambodiaKHM$2,870143🇰🇬 Kyrgyz RepublicKGZ$2,747144🇧🇩 BangladeshBGD$2,689145🇭🇹 HaitiHTI$2,672146🇵🇬 Papua NewGuineaPNG$2,565147🇬🇭 GhanaGHA$2,519148🇲🇷 MauritaniaMRT$2,478149🇰🇪 KenyaKEN$2,468150🇰🇮 KiribatiKIR$2,414151🇸🇧 Solomon IslandsSLB$2,379152🇨🇬 CongoCOG$2,356153🇿🇼 ZimbabweZWE$2,199154🇱🇦 LaosLAO$2,096155🇬🇳 GuineaGIN$1,904156🇨🇲 CameroonCMR$1,865157🇸🇳 SenegalSEN$1,811158🇰🇲 ComorosCOM$1,702159🇧🇯 BeninBEN$1,532160🇹🇱 Timor-LesteTLS$1,491161🇳🇵 NepalNPL$1,458162🇹🇯 TajikistanTJK$1,432163🇺🇬 UgandaUGA$1,338164🇿🇲 ZambiaZMB$1,332165🇹🇿 TanzaniaTZA$1,280166🇲🇲 MyanmarMMR$1,177167🇬🇼 Guinea-BissauGNB$1,126168🇧🇫 Burkina FasoBFA$1,107169🇱🇸 LesothoLSO$1,098170🇪🇹 EthiopiaETH$1,066171🇹🇬 TogoTGO$1,053172🇷🇼 RwandaRWA$1,043173🇹🇩 ChadTCD$991174🇬🇲 GambiaGMB$988175🇲🇱 MaliMLI$936176🇸🇱 Sierra LeoneSLE$916177🇱🇷 LiberiaLBR$908178🇳🇬 NigeriaNGA$807179🇸🇴 SomaliaSOM$766180🇳🇪 NigerNER$751181🇨🇩 DRCCOD$743182🇲🇿 MozambiqueMOZ$663183🇸🇩 SudanSDN$625184🇲🇬 MadagascarMDG$595185🇲🇼 MalawiMWI$580186🇨🇫 CentralAfrican RepublicCAF$532187🇧🇮 BurundiBDI$490188🇾🇪 YemenYEM$417189🇸🇸 South SudanSSD$251N/A🇦🇫 AfghanistanAFGNo DataN/A🇪🇷 EritreaERINo DataN/A🇱🇧 LebanonLBNNo DataN/A🇵🇰 PakistanPAKNo DataN/A🇱🇰 Sri LankaLKANo DataN/A🇸🇾 SyriaSYRNo DataN/A🇵🇸 PalestinePSENo DataN/A🌍 WorldN/A$14,213Note: Data is missing for: Afghanistan, Eritrea, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Palestine. Figures for several overseas territories are also not included.Noticeably, many of the top spots are held by small countries with specialized financial services sectors, also known offshore financial centers.Luxembourg (#1), Ireland (#2), Switzerland (#3), Singapore (#4), Netherlands (#11) and Hong Kong (#18) are all considered tax havens as their friendly tax laws, strict privacy rules, and strong financial sectors encourage multinational corporations to route earnings through them.As a result, this improves their GDP a significant amount, but doesn’t reflect the resident populations productivity.In Ireland’s case, these flows distorted GDP values so much that the government discontinued its use as a reliable statistic, preferring to measure and compare gross national income (GNI) instead.Oil Wealth a Major FactorEnergy-rich countries also dominate the rankings. Qatar (#10), UAE (#23), and Saudi Arabia (#43) rank high due to oil exports fueling government spending and infrastructure.Norway (#6), with a large sovereign wealth fund, is Europe’s prime example of oil wealth being reinvested.Guyana, a newcomer at #41, has rapidly climbed the ranks following major offshore oil discoveries and production growth.America’s Scale and WealthFinally, while the U.S. ranks #7 in GDP per capita, it stands out for its scale. It’s the richest country in the world by GDP per capita with a population over 10 million, highlighting its economic might.Other populous countries, like Germany, Japan, the UK, and France all fall lower in per capita terms, despite large total economies.High-tech industries, consumer spending, and capital markets contribute to America’s wealth profile.Want a closer look at the American economy? Check out: America’s $19 Trillion Consumption Sector in one chart, to see where Americans spend their dollars. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/13/2025 - 22:40
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Netanyahu Survives Coalition Collapse, Strikes Deal With Ultra-Orthodox Partners Via The Cradle,Israel’s parliament narrowly rejected a preliminary bill to dissolve itself early on 12 June, avoiding the possibility of snap elections and preserving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile governing coalition. The motion, backed by opposition lawmakers, was defeated by a vote of 61 to 53 – just meeting the 61-seat threshold needed for passage in the 120-member Knesset.The failed vote followed a last-minute deal between coalition leaders and ultra-Orthodox parties regarding one of Israel’s most divisive issues, which is mandatory military service for the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredim. While military service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, the ultra-Orthodox community – roughly 13 percent of the population – has long been granted exemptions if men are enrolled in full-time religious study.Ultra-orthodox parties have been pressuring the Netanyahu government to codify the exemptions by passing a new law.In a key development, Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein announced that his committee and ultra-Orthodox parties had reached a preliminary understanding to draft new legislation addressing the conscription issue. This agreement persuaded most ultra-Orthodox lawmakers to vote against dissolving the Knesset.However, the arrangement sparked backlash from both opposition leaders and within the coalition itself. Yair Golan, leader of the opposition Democrats party, condemned the agreement, saying, “Netanyahu entered a room with the heads of the Haredi factions and left with a disgraceful agreement ... There is no love for the country here. Only cynicism. Only selfish survival.” Golan accused Netanyahu of betraying both military service members and ultra-Orthodox citizens who wished to contribute to the state.Netanyahu narrowly averts government collapse over ultra-Orthodox conscription dispute——A motion to dissolve Israel’s parliament because of friction over the conscription of Haredi men failed to pass on 11 June. The opposition reached a compromise, and only 53 voted in favor of... pic.twitter.com/NxrhoDnWgr— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) June 12, 2025Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, resigned from Netanyahu’s cabinet in protest over the compromise deal. Goldknopf, whose Hasidic Agudat Yisrael faction supported the Knesset’s dissolution, said the new understandings fell short of promises made in coalition agreements. “I can no longer take part as a member of this government,” he wrote in his resignation letter to Netanyahu.Goldknopf’s resignation follows a previous symbolic resignation in March over the same issue. Despite his departure, UTJ remains part of the ruling coalition, which has been under pressure due to widespread discontent over the military burden placed on young Israelis tasked with executing the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. With the war now lasting more than 18 months, the Israeli army is facing growing manpower shortages, intensifying the debate over draft exemptions.Roughly 13,000 ultra-Orthodox men reach conscription age each year, but fewer than 10 percent enlist, according to the State Control Committee. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/13/2025 - 22:15
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Meta’s new stand-alone AI app is sharing prompts publicly, sparking some privacy concerns.AI-generated images of women kissing while mud wrestling and President Donald Trump eating poop are some of the conversations users are unknowingly sharing publicly through the Meta AI app.Users can easily turn searches private from Facebook and Instagram through the data and privacy section in settings.Artificial intelligence-generated images of women kissing while mud wrestling and President Donald Trump eating poop are some of the conversations users are unknowingly sharing publicly through Meta’s newly launched AI app. The company rolled out the Meta AI app in April, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But the tool has recently garnered some negative publicity and sparked privacy concerns over some of the wacky — and personal — prompts being shared publicly from user accounts.Besides the mud wrestlers and Trump eating poop, some of the examples CNBC found include a user prompting Meta’s AI tool to generate photos of the character Hello Kitty “tying a rope in a loop hanging from a barn rafter, standing on a stool.” Another user whose prompt was posted publicly asked Meta AI to send what appears to be a veterinarian bill to another person.“Sir, your home address is listed on there,” a user commented on the photo of the veterinarian bill.Meta AI chats are private by default and can only be shared publicly through a four-step process that includes a pre-post preview, a company spokesperson said. This includes a feature to hide posts. The spokesperson also said the Discover feed is meant to offer “inspiration and AI hacks” to users.Users can adjust settings on the app to protect their privacy and keep the app from sharing their queries on Meta’s other apps.Here’s how to do itTo start, click on your profile photo on the top right corner of the screen and scroll down to data and privacy. Then head to the “suggesting your prompts on other apps” tab. This should include Facebook and Instagram. Once there, click the toggle feature for the apps that you want to keep your prompts from being shared on.After, go back to the main data and privacy page and click “manage your information.” Select “make all your public prompts visible only to you” and click the “apply to all” function. You can also delete your prompt history there.Meta has beefed up its recent bets on AI to improve its offerings to compete against megacap peers and leading AI contenders, such as Google and OpenAI. This week, the company invested $14 billion in startup Scale AI and tapped its CEO Alexandr Wang to help lead the company’s AI strategy.WATCH: Meta’s one of AI’s leaders not a laggard, says Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman
Meta’s new stand-alone AI app is sharing prompts publicly, sparking some privacy concerns.AI-generated images of women kissing while mud wrestling and President Donald Trump eating poop are some of the conversations users are unknowingly sharing publicly through the Meta AI app.Users can easily turn searches private from Facebook and Instagram through the data and privacy section in settings.Artificial intelligence-generated images of women kissing while mud wrestling and President Donald Trump eating poop are some of the conversations users are unknowingly sharing publicly through Meta’s newly launched AI app. The company rolled out the Meta AI app in April, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But the tool has recently garnered some negative publicity and sparked privacy concerns over some of the wacky — and personal — prompts being shared publicly from user accounts.Besides the mud wrestlers and Trump eating poop, some of the examples CNBC found include a user prompting Meta’s AI tool to generate photos of the character Hello Kitty “tying a rope in a loop hanging from a barn rafter, standing on a stool.” Another user whose prompt was posted publicly asked Meta AI to send what appears to be a veterinarian bill to another person.“Sir, your home address is listed on there,” a user commented on the photo of the veterinarian bill.Meta AI chats are private by default and can only be shared publicly through a four-step process that includes a pre-post preview, a company spokesperson said. This includes a feature to hide posts. The spokesperson also said the Discover feed is meant to offer “inspiration and AI hacks” to users.Users can adjust settings on the app to protect their privacy and keep the app from sharing their queries on Meta’s other apps.Here’s how to do itTo start, click on your profile photo on the top right corner of the screen and scroll down to data and privacy. Then head to the “suggesting your prompts on other apps” tab. This should include Facebook and Instagram. Once there, click the toggle feature for the apps that you want to keep your prompts from being shared on.After, go back to the main data and privacy page and click “manage your information.” Select “make all your public prompts visible only to you” and click the “apply to all” function. You can also delete your prompt history there.Meta has beefed up its recent bets on AI to improve its offerings to compete against megacap peers and leading AI contenders, such as Google and OpenAI. This week, the company invested $14 billion in startup Scale AI and tapped its CEO Alexandr Wang to help lead the company’s AI strategy.WATCH: Meta’s one of AI’s leaders not a laggard, says Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman
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Early COVID-19 Vaccine Patent In China Raises New Questions For U.S. Investigators A Chinese patent for a COVID-19 vaccine filed just weeks after the virus emerged in the United States is drawing fresh scrutiny from U.S. investigators examining the origins of the pandemic and potential efforts to conceal early information about the virus.The February 24, 2020, patent application - submitted by three Chinese entities affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army - outlines a process for developing a "COVID-19 protein vaccine." The document, which predates the World Health Organization’s declaration of a global pandemic, lists 11 inventors. Among them are two scientists affiliated with a neuroscience institute within the Chinese military - a detail that has puzzled U.S. officials, given that neurological symptoms of COVID-19 were not widely known or studied at the time.The participation of researchers from the Institute of Military Cognition and Brain Sciences - a division of the Academy of Military Sciences in Beijing - has raised particular concern among federal investigators. The institute, which has drawn attention from U.S. defense analysts in recent years, plays a role in the Chinese military’s emerging focus on cognitive warfare - the strategic use of neuroscience in national defense, Just the News reports."Significantly, their published research provided limited, or no data of neuropathology observed in the experimental animals, or the neuroprotection afforded by the vaccine," wrote Dr. Robert Kadlec, a former senior Health and Human Services official, in a 2023 report examining the origins of the pandemic. "Institute of Military Cognition researchers’ involvement in such studies suggest an interest in the vaccine’s protection against SARS-CoV-2 early in the outbreak before evidence of its neurological effects were widely known."Dr. Kadlec, who served in the Trump administration and played a central role in Operation Warp Speed, was among the first U.S. officials to question why neuroscientists were included in early Chinese vaccine development. His report, titled A Critical Review of COVID-19 Origins: Hidden in Plain Sight, was published last September.Other figures on Capitol Hill have voiced similar concerns. Representative Darin LaHood, Republican of Illinois and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, recently stated that the cover-up of COVID-19’s early emergence in China should be understood in the context of Beijing’s broader strategic ambitions."China has a plan to replace the United States, and they're working at it every single day," Mr. LaHood said in a podcast interview this week. "They want to beat us technologically, militarily, economically and diplomatically. And the sooner we wake up to that, the better.""... And we've seen evidence of this through Huawei and what China... has done with Huawei, what they've done with TikTok, what they've done now with Deep Seek, what they did... in terms of lying and being deceitful with the Wuhan virus," he continued.Possibly part of that effort: Chinese military strategists are actively developing new methods for using neurology to gain advantages on the battlefield, according to Elsa Kania, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security. “On the battlefield, attempts to undermine an adversary could include interfering with the adversary’s capacity for cognition, whether through manipulation or out-right destruction, from disrupting the flow of data to exploiting ideology or emotion,” she wrote in January 2020 for U.S. National Defense University magazine, Prism, which focuses on “emerging disruptive technologies.” -Just the NewsAt the center of the February 2020 vaccine patent is Zhou Yusen, a senior military scientist at the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity. Zhou, who previously collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on SARS and MERS vaccines, is among the 11 listed inventors. According to Senate researchers, Zhou died under unclear circumstances in the months following the outbreak.The presence of neuroscientists on the patent application - including Yan Li and Gencheng Han - has intensified questions about what Chinese scientists may have known about COVID-19’s broader physiological effects in the earliest days of the outbreak. A separate scientific paper identifies both researchers as members of the Institute of Military Cognition and Brain Sciences. At the time the patent was filed, neurological symptoms of COVID-19 were not widely reported or understood by Western scientists.Subsequent studies have shown that COVID-19 can have long-lasting neurological effects. A 2022 study published in Nature found that survivors of COVID-19 faced elevated risks of conditions including strokes, memory disorders, migraines, and seizures in the months following infection. Researchers at Duke University reported neurocognitive impairments and sleep disturbances lasting up to three months in some patients.The earliest Chinese study documenting COVID-19’s neurological symptoms was published in April 2020. According to the study, which was based on clinical data from Wuhan, patient monitoring was still underway five days before the vaccine patent was filed.The new questions about the early vaccine patent follow revelations this week that a Defense Intelligence Agency unit concluded in mid-2020 that COVID-19 was likely genetically engineered and leaked from a laboratory. That internal study, which described the virus’s spike protein as a "chimera," was not included in official U.S. intelligence assessments. It was only released following Freedom of Information Act requests and is now part of the ongoing congressional investigation.The Defense Intelligence Agency analysis traced elements of the COVID-19 virus back to a decade-old scientific manuscript published by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has worked closely with the Chinese military on coronavirus research, according to the U.S. intelligence community.Taken together, these findings are intensifying scrutiny of early Chinese responses to the virus, as well as raising new questions about what information may have been known - and withheld - in the earliest stages of the global pandemic. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/13/2025 - 21:50
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What was it like to work inside Elon Musk's DOGE? The cost-cutting initiative promised transparency, but most of its actions have been shrouded in secrecy.For months, there were reports of software engineers and Trump loyalists entering agencies and accessing sensitive data. DOGE also helped the Trump administration lay off thousands of government workers. NPR reporters have been trying for months to get anyone from DOGE to talk on the record. Now, Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE staffer assigned to the Department of Veteran Affairs, is speaking. Today, what drew Sahil to DOGE and what he learned about the inner workings, in a way we've never heard before.For more on DOGE and the federal workforce: - The last time we shrank the federal workforce - Can... we still trust the monthly jobs report? - Can the Federal Reserve stay independent?This episode was hosted by Kenny Malone and Bobby Allyn. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and Emma Peaslee. It was edited by Jess Jiang and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. It was engineered by Neal Rauch. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's executive producer.Find more Planet Money: Facebook / Instagram / TikTok / Our weekly Newsletter.Listen free at these links: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the NPR app or anywhere you get podcasts.Help support Planet Money and hear our bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/planetmoney.
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(Un)Deported Democrat Darling Abrego Garcia Pleads Not Guilty To Human Trafficking Charges Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national returned to the United States after being deported to his home country, pled not guilty to federal human trafficking charges on June 13.A Homeland Security vehicle stands in front of the Fred D. Thompson Federal Building, housing the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported from Maryland, U.S., to El Salvador by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, faces criminal charges, in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., June 6, 2025. REUTERS/Seth HeraldAbrego Garcia entered the United States illegally more than a decade ago. Upon his arrest and deportation to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March, he was accused of being a member of MS-13, a gang that has been designated a terrorist organization.However, legal battles ensued to force the U.S. government to return Abrego Garcia to the United States due to a 2019 immigration judge ruling that he could not be deported due to the threat of gang persecution. A judge ruled that the government had to make sure “his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.”I’m at the Kilmar Abrego Garcia hearing now in Nashville. Prosecution has a cooperator who says Garcia was making $100,000 a year smuggling guns and people including minors across the border for years.— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) June 13, 2025Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States from El Salvador’s CECOT mega prison last week. A federal grand jury indicted him on May 21 on charges of smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States and conspiring with others to do so.“The grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia has played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said on June 6. “They found this was his full-time job, not a contractor. He was a smuggler of humans and children and women. He made over 100 trips, the grand jury found, smuggling people throughout our country.”Among the illegal immigrants smuggled into the nation were MS-13 members, Bondi said, noting that the smuggling ring Abrego Garcia is accused of being part of was responsible for a 2021 tractor-trailer accident in Mexico that resulted in the deaths of more than 50 migrants.Holy shit, Kilmar Gracia is also a pedo. pic.twitter.com/mSEgMBhdUK— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) June 6, 2025The trafficking charges cite an incident in 2022 involving a traffic stop in Tennessee, where Abrego Garcia is being charged.In November of 2022, Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol. While he was not charged with any traffic violations at that time, body camera footage of the encounter reportedly captured a discussion among officers about their suspicions of human smuggling.One officer said, “he’s hauling these people for money.” Another said Abrego Garcia had $1,400 in an envelope.Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have called the allegations “preposterous.”The hearing on June 13 will also focus on whether Abrego Garcia should be allowed to stay out of jail while awaiting trial on his smuggling charges. A federal judge in Nashville was set to hear arguments from both Abrego Garcia’s lawyers and government attorneys.Bill Pan and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Tyler DurdenFri, 06/13/2025 - 21:25
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Capcom is currently holding an exhibition that provides a deep dive into the celebrated Japanese publisher's history that isn't just for Capcom fans but anyone interested in the art of game creation.Held at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in the company's home city of Osaka, running from March 20 until June 22, 2025, Capcom Creation: Movings Hearts across the globe features a treasure trove of exhibits, including original artwork and legendary design documents, showcasing both the creation and evolution of its most beloved franchises, including Street Fighter, Resident Evil (known as Biohazard in Japan), Monster Hunter, Mega Man, Ace Attorney, and more.Here are some of our highlights from this extraordinary exhibition, which not only covers the timeline of Capcom but breaks down different elements of the art of game creation, such as pixel art, motion capture, and VFX, while also offering some fun interactive exhibits. Character paradeVisitors begin the exhibition walking alongside iconic Capcom characters, whose animated likenesses are projected against a 52-foot-long screen covering the wall from top to bottom. Stay awhile to them all walking in single-file, grouped in their respective series. You might even catch one of them giving a wave to the crowd! The Capcom timelineA hugely comprehensive wall display chronicles Capcom from its founding in 1983 to the present day. What's most interesting is that while it naturally includes highlights from the company--such as its first game, arcade shooter Vulgus--it's done within the context of the wider history of video games, such as the launch of new platforms. Game logosThe exhibition includes plenty of Capcom art but its graphic design for its title logos for arcade and home releases it developed and published are just as iconic, and incidentally the first that you'll see displayed, albeit just for the Japanese versions. How many of these are you familiar with? Evolution of Capcom charactersWith so many iconic characters to choose from, this exhibit can only pluck one representative from each franchise, such as Ryu from Street Fighter. Nonetheless, it offers an interesting way to explore how each character was originally conceived and how their design has evolved over the years, by comparing concept sketches to figurines and final promotional key art. Character costumesOf course, such iconic characters also allow for interpretation from fans, such as cosplay. But an interesting bonus to this exhibit are the original costumes made for stage adaptations of Capcom games produced by the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater troupe, which include The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and Sengoku Basara (the latter a PS2 Japanese exclusive as its localization, Devil Kings, replaces all the Japanese and Sengoku references for a more generic fantasy setting). Original key art paintingsYou may be familiar with key on game packaging and posters, but it's extra special when you can admire the original artwork, like acrylic paintings of the different editions of Street Fighter 2. It even makes you appreciate the art for the Western release of Mega Man, which had a very different aesthetic compared to the anime-inspired artwork in Japan, done using animation cells. Being transparent about creating pixel artIts first exhibit showing a look behind the scenes of game creation focuses on pixel art, with particular attention paid to Mega Man's iconic 8-bit look. But the most interesting display is a case study on how developers can use pixel art's limitations to create the illusion of transparency, showing Dhalsim's Yoga Fire in Street Fighter 2 as an example. Interactive exhibit: draw your own pixel artThis also has the first of the interactive exhibits, as you pick from a selection of classic Capcom characters rendered in 8-bit pixel art to see if you can recreate them pixel by pixel using the correct colors within a time limit. After you're finished, you'll be given a rank based on your performance and can even download your handiwork to share. Evolution of game animationUsing Ryu's Hadouken as an example, this display compares how game animation has evolved from the 2D pixel art to the modern 3D era. There's naturally a huge gulf in how things are done, especially when you consider that sprites designers essentially wore the hats of multiple specialties, including animation, modeling, facial modeling and visual effects. Interactive exhibit: making facial expressions as a game characterThis fun exhibit has mirrors that use a type of digitization technology that turns your facial movements and expressions into data. Then just pick from a handful of Capcom characters, from Street Fighter 6's Juri to Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimetrescu, and do your best gurning while the time allows! Interactive exhibit: see how sound effects are madeWhile mostly focusing on visuals, a part of the exhibition does give credit to the Capcom sound. It includes this interactive exhibit where you can pick from a selection of games and watch a short clip of a game alongside the ways the sound effects are created, from the Somnacanth's Song in Monster Hunter Rise to Jack Baker's terrifying chainsaw in Resident Evil 7. Using 3D scanning to capture realismThe pursuit of photorealistic graphics usually requires referencing real data, which Capcom has been able to achieve since moving to its incredible RE Engine. This exhibit provides a sample of what a 3D scanning rig looks like. What's interesting is that the team behind Devil May Cry 5 didn't just capture real models' faces but also made custom physical clothing that were then digitally scanned. Life-size 3D character modelsOne of the exhibition's highlights is showing the creation of 3D character models with life-sized replicas of Street Fighter 6's Chun-Li and Devil May Cry 5's Dante. You'll find just their blank 3D figures before projection mapping recreates each layer of a 3D model, from its geometry to the detailed textures. The Capcom manual of sketchy anatomical drawingsFormer Capcom artist Akira Yasuda (AKA Akiman) has character design credits including Final Fight, Street Fighter 2 and Power Stone. In the mid-90s, he also created this manual, translated as Sketchy Anatomical Drawings, which has been foundational to many Capcom designers creating characters with iconic Capcom-like anatomy, with meticulous attention paid to muscles and bone structure. Short film: Saori Yoshida vs RyuIn a section dedicated to fighting games, this short film made especially for the exhibition, puts legendary Olympic freestyle wrestler Saori Yoshida inside Street Fighter 6 in a match against Ryu. It's pretty short and amusing but also includes a behind-the-scenes look at how her movements and reactions were shot to match her virtual opponent. Perspectives, impact, and impressions with Resident Evil's cameraWhile a small Resident Evil-themed exhibit includes an interactive experience we couldn't photograph, it also features a display showing the three different camera perspectives the series has used in its history, including the fixed perspective (referred here as 'objective camera'), and their intended impact on the player experience. Interactive exhibit: motion capturing iconic posesThe last of the exhibition's interactive exhibits uses motion capture technology to let you recreate some iconic poses as your favorite Capcom characters. For instance, you attempt to point out your arm as Phoenix Wright when he makes an objection, or perform a Hadouken as Ryu. Legendary design documentsSaving perhaps the best until last, the real treasure of this exhibition is Capcom sharing some of its original design documents for a selection of its games, including arcade platformer SonSon, Monster Hunter, and Street Fighter 2. The latter includes not just the original sketches for stages compared to the final version but also sketches of each world warrior's move-sets in accordance with the inputs.
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