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This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour at just four minutes. Multiple reports
say Mike Waltz is out as National Security Advisor. Is
Deputy Alex Wong is also reported to be leaving his post.
This comes after Walt's face scrutiny for mistakenly adding Atlantic
editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat that discussed

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plans for a military strike. The White House is not
officially commenting yet on the report, but State Department spokesperson
Tammy Bruce says she expects clarifications soon. I'm not going
to get ahead of what the President may or may
not say later today. This is a White House framework.
But what I do know is that the talent bench
in this country and for this government is deep. President

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Trump is expected to speak on the matter today. Speaker
Mike Johnson and top House Republicans are meeting with President
Trump at the White House today. The lawmakers are expected
to huddle with Trump to discuss a bill full of
his legislative priorities. Johnson has a deadline in mind for
the bill. We're going to get it done by a
Memorial Day. Send it over there. They take a couple
few weeks to work through that. We merged this together,

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we get it to the President's desk quickly for signature.
The meeting comes as GOP leaders struggle to find consensus
on potential Medicaid cuts and the deduction cap for state
and local taxes. Ukraine and the US are agreeing to
a minerals deal. This comes almost two months after a
White House meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky
derailed talks on the deal. The deal will provide the

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US access to new investment projects meant to develop Ukraine's
natural resources, such as aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas.
People from Texas to Pennsylvania are bracing for severe weather today.
Forecasters are warning of a severe weather zone that could
produce hail, downpours, damaging wind gusts, and possible tornadoes from
Houston to Pittsburgh. The strongest possibility of storms will be

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in western Kentucky in the southern parts of Ohio. In Indiana,
former Vice President Kamala Harris is criticizing President Trump's tariff policies.
In her first major public remarks since leaving the White House,
Harris delivered the keynote address at a gala for Emerge
America in San Francisco Wednesday, where she said people are
describing the recent months as absolute chaos. I only said Taylor.

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The White House says if the policies of former President
Biden and Vice President Harris continued, it would have ended
the American Republic. That's what Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen
Miller said during a press briefing this morning. He criticized
the previous administration's border and economic policies. Thousands of baseball
fans in North Texas may have been exposed to the
measles virus. Health officials in Denton County, which is north

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of Dallas, reported their first case. The patient visited several
locations last month, including Globe Life Field for a Texas
Rangers game. The team says there were nearly forty thousand
people in attendance for the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Contact tracing found that the patient also visited several bars
around the ballpark on April nineteenth. It's unclear if this
case is linked to a West Texas measles outbreak that's

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grown to nearly seven hundred people since January. A baseball
fan is in critical condition after tumbling over an outfield
wall at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Sam Brock reports the
man fell more than twenty five. Officials say that Fann
taken to the hospital and is in critical condition after
he landed on the field during the seventh inning. Pittsburgh
Public Safety says the incident is being treated as accidental.

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In nature Subways footprint in the US is declining, though
it remains the largest restaurant chain in America. According to
franchise disclosure documents. The Sandwich chain closed six hundred thirty
one restaurants in twenty twenty four, leaving it with nineteen thousand,
five hundred two locations in the US. The chain has
struggled with growing competition and its restaurants generating lower average

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sales compared to its rivals. Almost half of Americans say
they believe the government hides UFO information. A News Nation
poll found forty four percent of those surveyed believed information
is being hidden, while twenty eight percent disagree. The poll
found that young Americans are particularly suspicious, with forty nine
percent of gen Z respondents and forty eight percent of

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millennials believing in government UFO secrecy. Compared to just thirty
four percent of baby boomers. The findings come after congressional
hearings and Pentagon reports acknowledged unexplained encounters by military personnel.
I'mly S Taylor.