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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
The president of l Salvador says he won't return a
mistakenly deported man back to the US. While sitting next
to President Trump in the Ovalops on Monday, Naib Bu
Kelly told reporters he would not return the man the
Justice Department says was mistakenly deported to his country. He
said they're not very fond of releasing terrorists and added
he's not going to smuggle someone back into the US.

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The doj has admitted the man from Maryland should not
have been sent to El Salvador because an Immigration Judges
twenty nineteen order bars him from being sent there. The
trial of the so called Doomsday Mom is entering it
second week in an Arizona courtroom. Lori Valoda Bell is
accused of conspiring to kill her fourth husband in twenty
nineteen with the help of her brother. Valoda Bell is

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representing herself in the case. She was found guilty in
Idaho in twenty twenty three of murdering her two young
children and conspiring to murder her husband, chev Davell's first wife.
Illegal immigration across the southern border is taking a nosedive.
That story from Brian Shook.

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The Feds are out with new numbers for the month
of March, agents made about two hundred and sixty four
arrests a day. That's a twenty percent decline compared to February.
It's also a drop in the bucket compared to last year,
when federal agents were making more than four thousand arrests
each day. But the drugs keep coming. March seizures of

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fentanyl increased month over month. I'm Brian Schuk.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Cases of whooping cofer skyrocketing across the country, rising an
astronomical fifteen hundred percent since twenty twenty one. So far,
there have been ten deaths this year due to the infection.
Researchers say a decrease in children being vaccinated is to
blame for the increase, With fear of children getting the
standard vaccine since the COVID nineteen pandemic, Pro Publica says

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this is putting young children at a higher risk than
ever of contracting the potentially deadly disease. Whooping cough is
spread through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes,
I'm Tammy TRHILLO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday as
a major antitrust trial involving Facebook parent company Meta got
under way in Washington, d C. The Federal Trade Commission

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accuses the social media giant of creating a monopoly by
buying up rivals Instagram and What's App to keep a
lid on competition. Iras Spitzer reports.

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The trial, which is expected to last about two months,
could ultimately lead to Meta being forced to sell off
those assets. However, Meta's attorneys pointed to development such as
the rise of TikTok to show that competition has been
alive and well. After the opening statements, the FTC then
called Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to the stand as its

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first witness. The trial is also expected to feature other
high profile witnesses, including Meta's former chief operating officer Cheryl
Sandberg and Instagram head Adam Mussei Iras Spitzer, San Francisco.

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A new study there could be a link between CT
scans and a slightly elevated cancer risk. The scans, which
expose patients to radiation, could account for about five percent
of cancers diagnosed each year. The scans most often linked
to increased risk where abdomen and pelvis scans, Lung cancer
and colon cancer are thought to be the most common
types associated with the scans. The study was led by

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researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. Tech giant
in Videas out with plans to build manufacturing plants in Texas.
Lisa Taylor has more.

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That will for the first time allow for a company
to produce domestically made artificial intelligence supercomputers. They'll be in
Houston and Dallas. Production at both plants, they say, is
expected to ramp up in the next year, and they
say it will create hundreds of thousands of jobs and
drive jillions of dollars in economic security over the coming decades.
I'm Lisa Taylor.

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A Brooklyn neighborhood is the most in demand in the country.
Redfin puts the Prospect Heights Clinton Hillary on top of
its twenty twenty five list of hot neighborhoods, following on
one hundred and five percent spike in home sales from
a year ago. I'm Tammy Truheo