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If theres one thing that could make national parks even better, its the soothing voice of former President Barack Obama.

Last week, Netflix released a trailer for Our Great National Parks, a five-part docuseries narrated by none other than the 44th POTUS himself. The series will premiere on April 13, with each episode focusing on national parks around the world.

A fish that can walk. Surfing hippos that want to catch the waves. Species found nowhere else on earth, says Obama in the opening lines of the trailer. Join me in a celebration of our planets greatest national parks and wilderness.

The show is produced by James Honeyborne, who also served as executive producer of Blue Planet IIand this series looks like it will be as visually stunning as its watery predecessor. The two-minute trailer alone is packed with striking shots of landscapes and animals, ranging from whales swimming in the ocean to monarch butterflies gathered on a branch.

The show will highlight international parks, such as Indonesias Gunung Leuser National Park (a rich tropical rain forest) and Kenyas Tsavo National Park (known for its lava flows and red elephants), plus biodiverse spots like Chilean Patagonia and Monterey Bay in California. Aside from showcasing the natural beauty of these sites, the show will focus on meaningful change and preservation.

When humanity started to protect these wild places, we did not realize how important they would become, Obama further narrates in the trailer, over clips of icebergs and sloths. Theyre a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

This venture is very much on brand for the former U.S. President. During his administration, Obama protected more than 550 million acres of public land and water, more than any other president in history. He also added 22 new parks to the National Park Service, created a marine reserve in Antarctica, and launched a still-active initiative to grant all fourth-graders free admission to national parks.

This is a journey through the natural wonders of our shared birthright, Obama concludes in the trailer.

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The Obama girls were spotted showing off their toned assets during a hike about the Hollywood Hills on Mar. 16.

In pictures obtained by the Daily Mail, Sasha and Malia, who both relocated to the West Coast earlier this year, were spotted walking uphill in all black fitness attire as they worked up a sweat in the Los Angeles heat.

Sasha, 20, sported a pair of black workout shorts along with a graphic black T-shirt she fastened into a crop top, showing off her shiny belly piercing. 23-year-old Malia opted for a black sports bra and leggings. Days before the sisters were photographed enjoying their fun scenic trail, the siblings were captured out dining with their mother and former first lady Michelle Obama at a posh LA eatery.

The internet broke out with all sorts of commentary after the photos went trending.

I love how Malia look like Obama if he was a babe and Sasha look like 87% Michelle, 13% Obama. Gorgeous girls them East African genes strong asf, wrote one user on Twitter.

The Obama girls are all grown up, commented another social media goer.

While one Twitter stan praised the girls and their mother for their sheer elegance and poise.

Its nice to see that the Obama girls are doing well since leaving the White House in 2017. Last year, Malia reportedly landed a huge Hollywood gig becoming one of the writers behind Donald Glovers forthcoming series with Amazon Studios. While a name for the show hasnt been revealed, Watchmen writer Janine Nabers is behind the developing project. The new series will reportedly center around a Beyonc-type public figure, ET noted. Malias big job opportunity came following her graduation from Harvard University in 2021.

Sasha was previously enrolled at the University of Michigan in 2019, but now she has reportedly transferred to a school in California. Some social media goers believe that the former presidents youngest daughter now attends the University of Southern California, but the rumor was never confirmed. Either way, Sasha appears to be loving the laid-back LA lifestyle, often reflecting the West Coasts chill atmosphere in her fashion. Earlier this month, Sasha was photographed walking about LA in baggy denim overalls paired with a tie-dye long sleeve shirt and chunky sneakers.

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Wind and solar combine for about 5% of Americas electrical output or energy supply. The rest, 95% of our supply, comes from fossil fuels and gas, and about 50% of the stuff thats made in America is made because of petroleum products. That would be oil and gas. So, the bad news is that all the leftists President Obama, President Biden and all their acolytes want to run the gas people out of business. These high prices for gas? This is just another perfect storm for the Democrats. They used COVID to keep us in our houses, put us under lock and key and take away our freedoms, and now theyre using every avenue possible to make gas prices go up. Biden and Obama and his acolytes, they have everything under control. This is exactly what they want. Theyre hoping to get everyone back into the cities where they can control you.

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A former top Obama economist doesn't see the US sliding into a recession this year.

"I'm not much higher than 20%," Jason Furman said of his estimate of the probability of a recession.

He usually puts the odds at 15% in any given year and argues the US can ride out any energy shocks.

A former top economist in the Obama administration doesn't think that the US faces a major risk of a recession this year in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"I'm higher, but I'm not much higher than 20%," Jason Furman, now a Harvard University professor, said in a recent interview regarding his estimate of the probability of a US recession, adding that he usually puts the odds at 15% in any given year.

"There's still room for the US economy," he said, noting that oil prices are unlikely to cut more than a half percent off economic growth. "That's a wide margin between where we are now and a recession."

The US has already imposed a bevy of sanctions to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Those punitive measures included barring all Russian oil and gas imports, along with cutting off Russian government officials and business leaders with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin from their assets. Congress is inching closer to revoking normal trade relations with Russia, opening the door for tariffs on its products.

Russia hasn't been a major US trade partner in recent years. The country was the US's 26th-largest trading partner in 2019, according to the Office of the US Trade Representative. Two-way trade totaled $35 billion in 2019.

Furman argues the US is well-equipped to ride out any potential economic shocks. "There's no question that we are taking risks with the American economy by trying to punish Putin," Furman said. "I also think that those risks are very likely to be manageable and are very small compared to the much bigger issues at stake."

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Other forecasters are sizing up the risks of a recession differently with high energy prices and other uncertainty stemming from war in Ukraine. Goldman Sachs analysts recently put the odds of a recession at 35%, in part because of rising oil prices.

The US economy rebounded strongly from the pandemic, adding jobs at the fastest pace in decades. Wages have skyrocketed for the bottom half of the income distribution. But inflation has reached its highest level in 40 years, the result of supply-chain bottlenecks and ongoing labor shortages. It has prompted price hikes for food, gas, housing, and used cars, and other goods.

The Federal Reserve moved on Wednesday to hike interest rates for the first time since 2018. The step increases the cost of borrowing money for everything from credit cards to mortgages, modestly increasing the price of lending to cool economic growth and tamp down inflation.

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