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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's one hundred and four percent tariffs on China
have officially taken effect, along with tariff's impacting dozens of
other countries. The average tariff is twenty nine percent, with
some as high as forty China faces the steep number
due to new tariffs imposed by Trump on top of
levies from his first term. The acting IRS commissioner is resigning.
Mark Mayfield has details multiple reports.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Saint Milanie Kraus is stepping down after the agency agreed
to share illegal immigrants tax information with federal immigration agents.
Kraus is the third person to leave the agency since January.
Doug O'Donnell was acting commissioner until announcing his retirement last month.
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Elon Musk is calling a key trade advisor to the
Trump administration of Moron after his comments on Tesla, Peter
Navarro claimed Tesla is not a car manufacturer and instead
is a car assembler that puts vehicles together with parts
from other countries. Musk said what Navarro claimed is demonstrably false.
He said his company is the most vertically integrated auto

(01:07):
manufacturer in the US and added that Tesla has the
most American made cars. The rain may be easing, but
the risk of dangerous flooding continues for many communities in
the South and Midwest. Four days of heavy rain have
sent floodwaters across a large portion of the US, and
rivers continue to swell. The concern is greatest in Kentucky,
where floods have shut down highways and left at least

(01:27):
four people dead. More than a foot of rain has
fallen in some places since the middle of last week.
Hollywood studios are becoming optimistic about the slate of summer movies.
This comes after Warner Brothers, a Minecraft movie, made one
hundred and sixty three million dollars at the domestic box
office during its debut last week. ROTH analyst Eric Handler
says Minecraft looks like a positive start to a summer

(01:49):
pact with more blockbusters. Thunderbolts gets things going on May TWI,
followed by Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning, Disney's live action
Lilo and Stitch, Jurassic World, Rebus Earth, Superman, and The
Fantastic Four First Steps. I'm Tammy, Trihello. President Trump is
inviting the President of El Salvador to the White House.

(02:09):
Lisa Taylor has details.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
That's according to Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who says President
naeb Buchle will visit DC next week. The two parties
will tap cooperation between their countries as the US deport's
alleged gang member migrants to an El Salvadoran prison. Levitt
says a supermax prison is on the table for the
deported migrants, and added El Salvador's cooperation with the US
has become a model for others to work with the administration.

(02:33):
I'mly S Taylor.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
The Supreme Court is backing President Trump over the firings
of thousands of federal workers. The High Court ruled tuesday
the Trump administration can proceed with a termination of sixteen
thousand probationary employees. The workers were let go across six
agencies and departments. A lower court had ruled the workers
be reinstated as legal challenges proceeded. The Supreme Court's ruling
rescinds that order. Metta is aiming to make Instagram safer

(02:58):
for teens with new safeguards. At Mattinson has details.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
The tech company announced Tuesday that teens under sixteen will
not be able to use the live feature without their parents' permission.
Instagram will also require parental permission to turn off the
feature that blur suspected nudity in dms. Meanwhile, Meta will
offer teen accounts for Facebook and Messenger that provide similar protections.
The company said there are now fifty four million teens

(03:22):
around the world with Instagram teen accounts since launching last year.
I'm at Mattinson, Whatever haven't you new Man?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
The Capable TV.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
The iconic Victorian house from the show Full House in
San Francisco was sold for six million dollars. Located on
Postcard Road, the four bedroom home was originally listed at
six and a half million last June. Fans will recognize
its famous front door and bay window, though interior scenes
on the show were filmed on a Hollywood set. The
house was built in nineteen hundred, renovated in twenty nineteen,

(03:56):
and previously owned by creator Jeff Franklin, who sold it
for just over five five million in twenty twenty. I'm
Tammy Trhio