"America's Musical Journey" is a documentary that takes viewers across America by exploring the music that makes the country great. The new film is produced by Brand USA, the tourism group that promotes travel to the U.S.
Tom Garzilli is the chief marketing officer of Brand USA. Garzilli joins Cheddar to explain why they chose music as the lens for their new documentary.
Morgan Freeman narrates the film.
Garzilli also explains that Brand USA has launched GoUSA TV as a VOD platform to offer Brand USA content all day, every day.
An independent watchdog within the IRS reports that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases. And National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says those delays are “unconscionable.” Erin M. Collins said in the report released Wednesday that overall the 2024 filing season went smoothly, though IRS delays in resolving identity theft victim assistance cases are worsening. It took nearly 19 months to resolve self-reported identity theft cases as of January, and Wednesday's report states that now it takes 22 months to resolve these cases.
Amazon.com Inc. surpassed $2 trillion in market value for the first time in afternoon trading on Wednesday. The push higher for Amazon’s stock market valuation comes a little more than a week after Nvidia hit $3 trillion and briefly became the most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia’s chips are used to power many AI application and its valuation has soared as a result. Amazon has also been making big investments in AI as global interest has grown in the technology. Most of the company’s focus has been on business-focused products.
