内容摘要：In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a local resident cries standing amid the rubble of her house ruined after Russia’s air attack in Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a local resident cries standing amid the rubble of her house ruined after Russia’s air attack in Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

For example, a bedrock of American culture is the price tag ending in $.99, somehow trying to convince buyers that the 1-cent difference keeping the cost from the next dollar makes it a good deal, she points out. What happens to that price now?Also, while many people have switched over to digital forms of payments and couldn’t even tell you the last time they carried a coin around or had a bill in their wallets, there are many people who still use all kinds of physical currency — yes, even pennies.

“Cash is very important for a lot of people to budget, to keep control of costs. Even just donating a penny to someone asking for small change, it does add up,” she says. “I feel like we’re far too quick to only look at what is the cost of minting it or distributing it and we’re not really willing to look at the everyday experiences and interactions people have. So maybe if we don’t use small change, we don’t think about it. But other people do.”In a final irony, news of the penny’s fate came out on the eve of Lucky Penny Day, no less! (Yes, there is such a thing, on May 23rd.)“We don’t have a lucky nickel day. We don’t have a lucky dime day, lucky quarter day, we only have a Lucky Penny Day,” Holt says. “And why is that? It’s more than money. It is more than an economic tool. We’ve endowed the penny with almost mystical, magical powers to bring us luck, to change our fortunes.”

The popular video game Fortnite has returned to the iPhone app store in the U.S., ending a prolonged exile that was triggered by a legal showdown over the lucrative fees that Apple had been collecting for years through a payment system that it has been forced to change.Fortnite hailed its app’s long-awaited restoration to the iPhone and iPad

t, marking the first time it will be available on those devices since

for trying to avoid the 15% to 30% commissions that Apple collects on in-app transactions.“This is where Trump and MAGA excel –- if somebody who looks like me is your enemy, then you don’t care if the guy in the White House is peeing on your leg and telling you it’s rain,” he said, referring to Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement.

By definition, a “listening tour” is not meant to produce concrete action. Elridge and Nicholas Hazelett, the Johnson County Democratic chair who is a college student doubling as a Paintsville City Council member, acknowledged that the small crowd was Democrat-friendly. Despite a few recent converts, no one was there waiting to be convinced.Across the street, antiques shop owner Michelle Hackworth said she did not even know Democrats were holding a meeting. Calling herself a “hard-core Republican,” she smiled when asked if she had consider attending.

“They wouldn’t convince me of anything,” she said.Michelle Hackworth discusses U.S. politics standing in her Paintsville, Ky., antiques store, Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)