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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.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
President Trump says he's considering sending you as citizens who've
committed violent crimes to prisons in El Salvador. Mark Mayfield reports.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Trump told Fox News, we are looking into it, and
we want to do it, referring to them as homegrown criminals. Welle,
as they.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Grew up and something went wrong, and they hit people
over the head with a baseball bat. We have and
pushed people into subways.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
His comrades came as the fate of a man from
Maryland wrongly deported to El Salvador is still up in
the air. A judge said the White House must do
more to facilitate the return of that man.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm Mark mayfewd Former President Biden says the current administration
has done so much damage and so much destruction since
Trump took office. Again, speaking at the National Conference of Advocates,
Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago on Tuesday,
by an advocated for Social Security and that Trump has
taken a hatchet to the Social Security administration. It marked

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the first time Biden has given major remarks since his
term ended. In January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent Tuesday
being grilled by the Federal Trade Commission. Lisa Taylor has details.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Zuckerberg took the stand again to testify and Meta's antitrust trial,
where the company is accused of buying Instagram and WhatsApp
in an effort to protect its alleged monopoly in the
social networking industry. Federal officials attempted to show Meta made
the acquisitions with the express goal of eliminating its competitors.
Zuckerberg characterized the decision to purchase Instagram as a way
to avoid building a new app from scratch and instead

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by an app that was already successful. Meta's lawyers have
denied the FTC's allegations, saying Meta faces plenty of competition
from other social media platforms like TikTok Ainley Se Taylor.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Former game show host Wink Martindale is dead at the
age of ninety one. He was involved in more than
twenty shows either as a producer or host, including Gambit
and Tictac Doe in the seventies and eighties and Debt
in the nineties. He received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame in two thousand and six, and was
one of the first inductees into the American TV Game
Show Hall of Fame in two thousand and seven. I'm

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Tammy Trihiello. A jury in Massachusetts has been seated in
Karen Reid's murder trial. Brian Shook reports.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Reed is accused of striking and killing her Boston cop
boyfriend John O'Keefe with her SUV in twenty twenty two.
Reid claims she's being framed for O'Keeffe's killing, and her
first trial last year ended with a hung jury. Opening
statements will start next week. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Her reports as one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top
advisors was escorted out of the Pentagon after an investigation
into leaks writers as senior advisor Dan Caldwell was placed
on administrative leave Tuesday foreign unauthorized disclosure. Caldwell is a
veteran Marine and served in the Iraq War. Stocks closed
lower Tuesday after a relatively quiet day on Wall Street.

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Kristen Marks has that update.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Financial shares provided some early lift, with Bank of America
gaining four percent on better than expected first quard order
of results. Boeing shares were among the decliners after a
Bloomberg reported that Chinese airlines would halt deliveries of US
made planes and aircraft parts. At the closing bell, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell one hundred and fifty five points,

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the S and P five hundred lost nine points, the
Nasdaq fell eight points. I'm kristin marks.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
There are now five hundred and sixty one measles cases
in Texas, linked to an outbreak among members of a
Mennonite church that opposes vaccinations. The new numbers out on
Tuesday show about two dozen new cases since Friday, bringing
the national total to well over seven hundred. The director
of Home Alone, two Lost in New York, says he
wishes he could remove President Trump's cameo from the film.

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In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Chris Columbus
says Trump's short role has become a curse and an
albatross for him. Columbus says he can't cut the scene,
and if he did, he'd be sent out of the country.
The director said he'd be seen as not fit to
live in the US and would be sent to Italy
or something. Trump appears in the film when Kevin McCallister
played My Macaulay Culkin runs into him at the Plaza

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Hotel and asks four directions, I'm Tammy Trhio