January 1, 2026 • 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump says he sometimes has gone against the advice
of his doctors in the past, and he's relied on
his good genetics instead. NBC's gave Gutierra's reports. The President
spoke on his health in an interview with a Wall
Street Journal published today.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
President takes more aspirin than his doctors have recommended, three
hundred and twenty five milligrams a day, and he says
he's done it because he's used to it. He's done
it for twenty five years, he says, and that he's superstitious,
and also adding quote, they'd rather have me take the
smaller one. I take the larger one. But I've been
doing for years, and what it does is causes bruising.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Many have commented that the President appears to have sometimes
bruises on his hands. His doctor said the President's in
good health. A new era has begun in New York City,
with Zooren Mom Donnie sworn in publicly this afternoon as
the city's one hundred and twelfth mayor.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Eyes Ron klame Momdani do solemnly swim ver month Senator
Bernie Sanders, a fellow Democratic Socialist, administered the oaths on
the steps of City Hall with four thousand guests.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
At the city's first Muslim mayor, thirty four years old,
emphasized inclusiveness, saying that New York City is for everyone,
not just for the privileged.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
View where government looks and lives like the people it represents,
never flinches in the fight against corporate greed.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Mamdani doubling down on an agenda that includes rent Freeze's
free bus service and universal daycare. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
America's two hundred and fiftieth Birthday celebrations be gone. After
the New Year's ball drop in New York City's Times Square,
the ball rose again in Red, white, and Blue and Washington, DC.
A seventeen minute American history video was projected onto the
Washington Monument. Forty people are feared dead one hundred at
least injured in a fire that broke out in a
bar at a Swiss Alps resort early this morning. Investigators
(01:57):
say the extent of the burned bodies will make identifiction difficult.
A cause of the fire has not yet been expressed.
I'm Jim roop. The first full moon of the year
shows up this Saturday. It's called the wolf moon, and
it's also the last of four consecutive super moons, when
Luna is closest to the Earth in its orbit and
appears a little bigger and brighter than usual. After that,
(02:19):
there's another twelve fool moons in twenty twenty six, from
February's snow Moon to December's cold Moon. This is the
month that is popular for folks to give up alcohol.
It's known as dry January. Health expert is highlighting the
many benefits of stepping away from alcohol. Jessica Benovic, a
nurse practitioner at the Cleveland Clinic, says a dry January
(02:39):
can improve your health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Avoiding alcohol can also help with weight loss and boosting
the immune system. Diana Ross is trending after the pop
icon gave what many are calling a show stopping performance
in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve. One
(03:00):
year old Queen of Motown appeared on Dick Clark's Rock
in New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest and sang some
of her biggest hits just as the year was ending.
Followers on social media were commenting on how great she
looked and sang at the age of eighty one, and
we're saying she still is the Queen. Ross gave her
performance following a star studying lineup that included Mariah Carey,
(03:20):
Post Malone, and singers from K pop demon Hunters. More
classic cartoon and comic book characters are set to enter
the public domain in twenty twenty six Blondie and Boop
Boop Betty Boop. They're just two of the intellectual properties
whose ninety five year US copyright maximum has been reached,
(03:40):
meaning as of today, creators can use and repurpose them
without permission or payment. Other works entering the public domain
include All Quiet on the Western Front, William Faulkner's As
I Lay Dying Georgia on My Mind, first published in
nineteen thirty and made Famme missed by Ray Charles in
(04:01):
nineteen sixty. I'm Jim Roop
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump says he sometimes has gone against the advice
of his doctors in the past, and he's relied on
his good genetics instead. NBC's gave Gutierra's reports. The President
spoke on his health in an interview with a Wall
Street Journal published today.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
President takes more aspirin than his doctors have recommended, three
hundred and twenty five milligrams a day, and he says
he's done it because he's used to it. He's done
it for twenty five years, he says, and that he's superstitious,
and also adding quote, they'd rather have me take the
smaller one. I take the larger one. But I've been
doing for years, and what it does is causes bruising.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Many have commented that the President appears to have sometimes
bruises on his hands. His doctor said the President's in
good health. A new era has begun in New York City,
with Zooren Mom Donnie sworn in publicly this afternoon as
the city's one hundred and twelfth mayor.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Eyes Ron klame Momdani do solemnly swim ver month Senator
Bernie Sanders, a fellow Democratic Socialist, administered the oaths on
the steps of City Hall with four thousand guests.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
At the city's first Muslim mayor, thirty four years old,
emphasized inclusiveness, saying that New York City is for everyone,
not just for the privileged.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
View where government looks and lives like the people it represents,
never flinches in the fight against corporate greed.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Mamdani doubling down on an agenda that includes rent Freeze's
free bus service and universal daycare. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
America's two hundred and fiftieth Birthday celebrations be gone. After
the New Year's ball drop in New York City's Times Square,
the ball rose again in Red, white, and Blue and Washington, DC.
A seventeen minute American history video was projected onto the
Washington Monument. Forty people are feared dead one hundred at
least injured in a fire that broke out in a
bar at a Swiss Alps resort early this morning. Investigators
(01:57):
say the extent of the burned bodies will make identifiction difficult.
A cause of the fire has not yet been expressed.
I'm Jim roop. The first full moon of the year
shows up this Saturday. It's called the wolf moon, and
it's also the last of four consecutive super moons, when
Luna is closest to the Earth in its orbit and
appears a little bigger and brighter than usual. After that,
(02:19):
there's another twelve fool moons in twenty twenty six, from
February's snow Moon to December's cold Moon. This is the
month that is popular for folks to give up alcohol.
It's known as dry January. Health expert is highlighting the
many benefits of stepping away from alcohol. Jessica Benovic, a
nurse practitioner at the Cleveland Clinic, says a dry January
(02:39):
can improve your health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
Avoiding alcohol can also help with weight loss and boosting
the immune system. Diana Ross is trending after the pop
icon gave what many are calling a show stopping performance
in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve. One
(03:00):
year old Queen of Motown appeared on Dick Clark's Rock
in New Year's Eve with Ryan Seacrest and sang some
of her biggest hits just as the year was ending.
Followers on social media were commenting on how great she
looked and sang at the age of eighty one, and
we're saying she still is the Queen. Ross gave her
performance following a star studying lineup that included Mariah Carey,
(03:20):
Post Malone, and singers from K pop demon Hunters. More
classic cartoon and comic book characters are set to enter
the public domain in twenty twenty six Blondie and Boop
Boop Betty Boop. They're just two of the intellectual properties
whose ninety five year US copyright maximum has been reached,
(03:40):
meaning as of today, creators can use and repurpose them
without permission or payment. Other works entering the public domain
include All Quiet on the Western Front, William Faulkner's As
I Lay Dying Georgia on My Mind, first published in
nineteen thirty and made Famme missed by Ray Charles in
(04:01):
nineteen sixty. I'm Jim Roop
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