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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump and US oil executives met at the White
House to discuss the next steps involving Venezuela's oil infrastructure.
Trump saying Venezuela has been working with the US.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I think they've been very smart in the way they've
dealt with US, frankly, because that whole place could have
been obliterated with one more strike, and we didn't want
to do that.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
He says a decision will be made soon on which
oil companies will take part in the project. The meeting
comes after the US military captured Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
Trump says getting drilling back under way in Venezuela will
benefit both countries and the ICE. Protests held again today
after two separate shootings involving federal agents this week. Protests

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have not stopped in Minneapolis since Wednesday's deadly shooting of
a thirty seven year old woman by an ICE agent
on the West Coast. Home Land Security says agents were
attempting a traffic stop on an alleged Venezuelan gang member
yesterday in Portland when the driver tried to run over
an age and shasra fire. The incident sent two people
to the hospital. President Trump, meantime, speaking in some of

(01:05):
his strongest terms yet, when it comes to a possible
takeover of Greenland.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they
like it or not, because if we don't do it,
Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not
going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Trump says he'd like to make a deal, but is
ready to do it the hard way quote unquote if necessary.
The President says something with Greenland must be done before
Russia or China move in. Matt Mattinson reports that Pope
Leo is saying war is back in vogue and the
zeal for war is spreading.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
The first American pontiff to cried the use of military
force in his annual foreign policy speech Friday. He told
the diplomatic corps gathered at the Vatican quote, a diplomacy
that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is
being replaced by a diplomacy based on force. Leo did
not mention President Trump by name in his remarks, but
did speak on Venezuela following the US operation to capture

(02:00):
President Nicholas Maduro.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
The Pope calling on nations to safeguard the human and
civil rights of Venezuelans. I'm Jim Roop. President Trump says
he will be meeting with Venezuela's opposition leader next week
and will accept her Nobel Peace Prize if she makes
the offer.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
President Trump telling Fox News he will meet Venezuela's Maria
Coarina Machado sometime next week. It will be Trump's first
meeting with Maschado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for
promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela. Mashado has
said she would love to share her Nobel prize with Trump.
The President said last weekend he doesn't think that Mashado

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has the respect of the Venezuelan people to lead that nation.
I'm Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
The irs. Will start accepting tax returns on January twenty sixth.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
Federal returns for twenty twenty five will need to be
filed by April fifteenth in order to avoid penalties and interest.
Most taxpayers will also be expected to pay their taxes
that they owe and eat by that date. Those expecting
a refund, though, could see a little more this year.
Tax experts say the IRS did not update with holding
tables for employers last year, which show how much to
take from workers' paychecks. That could mean bigger refunds for

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certain people. I'm Tammy trhio.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grock has turned off its image
editing function for most users.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
This comes after it faced backlash for allowing users to
create explicit images of children and women. The function is
now only available for paying subscribers. Some of the explicit
images were reportedly of fourteen year old Stranger Things actress
Nel Fisher. The UK has threatened a ban x if
Musk didn't take action. In a post last week, Groc
acknowledged that Xai could face possible Justice Department probes or

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lawsuits due to the images. I'm at Mattinson.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Most of us have those supercomputers in our pockets called smartphones. Well,
this technology was first introduced less than twenty years ago today.
It was on this date in two thousand and seven
Steve Jobs first unveiled the iPhone at the Macworld convention.
In our lives just haven't been the same since I'm

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Jim Rope,