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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes. The
ceasefire in Israel is apparently over. Israeli warplanes are carrying
out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip right now. A statement
from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who said the latest
military action is a response to Hamas's repeated refusal to

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release hostages and reject peace offers made by the mediators.
At least forty two people have been killed in severe
storms that struck parts of the South and Midwest over
the weekend. Reports say the majority of deaths occurred in Missouri,
where at least twelve were killed. The National Weather Service
says at least thirty four of the storm seen on
Saturday were tornadoes, with states like Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, Alabama,

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and Louisiana all being impacted. President Trump is not a
fan of the Broadway hit Hamilton. Speaking before a board
meeting at the Kennedy Center Monday, Trump said he never
liked Hamilton very much. We've got to get some very
good shows. The thing that does well a Broadway Hits.
Hamilton canceled it's Kennedy Center run after Trump ousted the

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center's leadership and made himself chairman. New evidence in the
death of Gene Hackman is changing the timeline of the
actor and his wife's final days. The pair died of
natural causes and were discovered February twenty sixth. Santa Fe
police originally said Hackman's wife, Betsy, likely died first on
February eleventh, and Hackman probably died around February eighteenth. Lady

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Gaga is being honored at the iHeartRadio Music Awards.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
I don't know totally how to think about this, because
winning an award honoring my entire career at thirty eight
years old is a hard thing to get my head around.
On the one hand, I feel like I've been doing
this forever, and on the other hand, I know I'm
just getting started.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
The singer accepted the Innovator of the Year award during
the ceremony Monday. The Innovator award recognized her long success
and willingness to take creative risks throughout her career. I'm
Brian Shook. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns more arrests
like Columbia grad and pro Palestinian activist m Mood Khalil R.

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Cumming as he faces possible deportation. Natalie Migliori reports.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Khalil's attorney, Brad Parker, says his client would only be
removed solely by a determination of the Secretary of State,
since the government has not pressed charges at this point.
Heading his client does not have any affiliation with Hamas.
It comes as a doctoral student from India self deported
last week after her visa was revoked, and another Columbia
student was arrested in Newark on Friday for her part

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in the Hamilton Hall takeover last April. Students have been
holding demonstrations and walkouts demanding to free them all, but
Rubio says that's not likely.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
A Natalie mcgliori another hot beverage payout. In nineteen ninety two,
a woman in Texas spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee
in her lap and suffered third degree burns. She was
awarded nearly three million dollars, and now Starbucks has been
ordered to pay up in another hot beverage incident, pre
Tennis says.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
More this latest hot beverage scalding happened in Los Angeles
at a Starbucks. A delivery driver says he was scalded
and suffered permanent disfigurement to his lap area, including his
groin and thighs, when a tray of hot teas he
bought at the dry through collapsed in his lap. Michael
Garcia sued, saying he suffered permanent catastrophic harm. His attorney

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says st or surveillance showed the employee failed to properly
secure the drink in the cardboard carrier. It then fell
directly into Garcia's lap, and la jury awarded him fifty
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
People who are bitten by venomous snakes often make two
dangerous mistakes. They wait too long to seek treatment, or
they use outdated methods to treat the bite themselves. More
than ten percent of bite victims were found to have
first tried methods that are no longer considered a effective,
like using tourniquets or sucking out the venom. I'm Brian Shook.