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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. Washington, DC's
police is being placed under federal control by President Trump
as part of his major crackdown on crime. Speaking at
the White House this morning, he said he will rescue Washington,
d C. Calling today Liberation Day. DC Mayor Muriel Bauser

(00:25):
is reacting and while this.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Action today is unsetdenly an unprecedented, I can't say that given.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Some of the rhetoric of the past that were totally surprised.
Trump is activating the National Guard to help local law
enforcement as part of his plan, and added he will
send in the military if needed. An explosion at a
Pennsylvania US steel plant has left at least one person dead,
with another unaccounted for. Ten others have also been injured.

(00:55):
Officials said they're working to find the cause of the explosion.
President Trump is a extending the deadline for tariffs on
China to go into effect. Chris Keragio reports.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Multiple reports say he signed an executive order just hours
before his pause on the higher tariffs was set to expire.
The executive order pushes back the deadline ninety days until
November ninth, The extension comes after US and Chinese officials
met last month. Had the pause not been extended, tariffs
on Chinese goods would have gone back up to the
high levels seen in April.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Flooding will threaten parts of the Midwest and plains through tomorrow.
Flood watches are in place for areas of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
and Wisconsin. Dollar stores are seeing more American families turned
to them to buy food items. A new study published
in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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found that calories obtained from dollar store items have nearly doubled.
At the closing bell, the DOW fell two hundred points
to forty three nine to seventy five, the S and
P dropped sixteen points to sixty three seventy three, and
the NASDAK lost sixty four points to twenty one three
eighty five. I'm Brian Schuck. Five journalists working for Al

(02:08):
Jazeera are dead, killed on Sunday by an Israeli airstrike.
Michael Kassner reports.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
The network claimed the strike was a targeted attack on
the media in Gaza City. They're calling it an assassination.
NBC News reports that without evidence. Israel is claiming one
of those killed as prominent journalist anas Al Sharif, who
they say was actually working with the Palestinian Militant Group
a MAAS. The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the bloodshed,

(02:35):
arguing that Israel has a long history of accusing journalists
of being terrorists without offering up any evidence. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Open AI CEO Sam Altman says the company is working
to fix the stumbling rollout of chat GPT five amid
user's request to bring back GPT four to zero. In
a Reddit Asked Me Anything session, Altman admitted to issues
with GPT five that made it seem dumber and they're
working to correct them. Love is overrated if you ask

(03:07):
gen Z. Rob Martyre explains.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
A new dating survey by matchmaking service Talkifie says forty
six percent of gen Zers wohich choose long term financial
stability over romance, and almost one in three said they'd
even take back an X if that X got rich.
The survey also found that one in ten gen Z
women say their ideal match should make two hundred thousand
dollars or more, and most won't settle for less than

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eighty thousand dollars. Millennials, on the other hand, have no
problem with a broke and magical relationship, with fifty nine
percent choosing love over financial security. I'm Rob Bartier.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Weapons is scaring up a huge opening weekend box office.
The horror film earned forty two and a half million
dollars in its first three days, more than ten million
above expectations. This weekend's other major new release, Disney's Freaky
or Friday, also had a nice opening with twenty nine
million dollars. I'm Brian Schuck