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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Minutes, stocks her up on Wall Street this morning. That
comes after President Trump's surprised tariff exemptions gave markets a boost.
Trump announced exemptions on smartphones and computers, as well as semiconductors.
The private spaceflight company Blue Origin is making history with
its first ever all female crew for a suborbital flight.
One of the passengers was pop star Katie Perry, who

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gave the ride a ten out of ten. It is
the highest high and it is surrender to the unknown.
She was joined by Jeff Bezos's fiancee Lauren Sanchez, and
talk show host Gail King. The launch is the eleventh
human flight for New Shepherd, which launches from a spaceport
in West Texas. A man is in custody and will
face attempted murder and arson charges following a fire at

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the Pennsylvania governor's mansion, Mark Mayfield has more.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Governor Josh Shapiro says the violence needs to stop.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
This kind of violence is becoming far too common in
our society. I don't give a damn if it's coming
from one particular side or the other.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
According to the Pennsylvania State Police. Firefighters responded to the
Herrisburg residents of Shapiro at about two am. Shapiro says
his family was home at the time but were able
to escape unharmed. He went on to say the attack
was targeted, but a specific motive was not known. Pennsylvania
State Police said, while it's an ongoing investigation, they do
believe it was an act of arson. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
President Trump is welcoming El Salvador and President Naive Bukelli
to the White House. El Salvador has been working with
the US to imprison deportees in that country. Migrants the
usas are affiliated with dangerous foreign gangs. The Supreme Court
recently gave the Trump administration the green light to continue
deporting suspected Venezuelan gang members under the seventeen ninety eight
Alien Enemies Act. Authorities are releasing the names of the

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six people killed in a plane crash in New York
State on Saturday. The victims include former MIT soccer player
and twenty twenty two NCAA Woman of the Year Corona Grof.
Her boyfriend and recent MIT graduate James Santorro, also died
in the crash, along with Groff's father, mother, brother, and
her brother's partner, ainley Se Taylor. The Menindez brother's aunt
is in a New Jersey hospital and critical condition after

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graphic photos were shown in court last week. Relatives of
eighty five year old Terry Barralt said she was found
unresponsive over the weekend. She's among those who have been
calling for Eric and Lylemanndez to be released from prison
after serving more than thirty years for killing their parents,
Jose and Kitty Menendez in nineteen eighty nine. The family
blames prosecutors for showing gruesome photos without warning of Jose

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Menendez's body in Fair Baralt, who has colon cancer, may
not recover. Eric and Lylemanandez is resentencing hearing a schedule
for this Thursday and Friday. The President of Mexico will
start sending Texas farmers a water delivery. It's music to
the years of those who have been struggling to grow crops.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Mexico is supposed to deliver one point seventy five million
acre feet every five years, and they haven't been doing that.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Dago County farmer Brian Jones says without the water, they
can't function while water is too salty to grow crops.
Mexico did not say how much water they're sending. President
Shinbaum said she expected an agreement as soon as this week.
Uber is settling a lawsuit that blames one of its
drivers for the sexual assault of a teenage girl. Jim
Rupe has details.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
The driver did not sexually assault the then thirteen year
old after he dropped her off, she was allegedly assaulted
by another man. The lawsuit claims the driver should have
known he was putting the girl in danger by dropping
her off in the middle of the night. Court Paper Save.
Four years ago, the driver picked up a teen at
one thirty am in Ventura, dropped her off an hour
away in Harvard Heights, where she says she was then

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sexually assaulted by another man. Terms of the settlement not disclosed.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
If we want to.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Save this world and creativity.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
As Keta survival, the Minecraft movie continues at number one
at the box office for the second weekend in a row.
Last weekend, it brought in a little over one hundred
sixty million dollars eighty million dollars for the second weekend
and grossing five hundred and fifty million dollars internationally. In
second place is a faith based movie called The King
of Kings, which brought in nineteen million dollars. A Disney
movie called The Amateur with Rommy Mallick's settled in third,

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grossing fifteen million dollars. I'm Lisa Taylor.