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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. Russian's foreign
minister says there is no meeting plan between President Vladimir
Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. In an interview with
NBC's Meet the Press, Sergei Lavrov said, while Russia is
prepared to meet, a major obstacle remains. Putin is ready

(00:24):
to meet with Zelenski when the agenda would be ready
for a summit, and this agenda is not rady at all.
His comments come after President Trump said he had sort
of set up a meeting between the two leaders. Trump
recently met with Zolensky and European leaders at the White House.
The president has been pushing for a peace deal to
end the three and a half year old war, starting

(00:46):
when Russia launched a massive invasion of its neighbor. House
Democratic leader Hakim Jeffreys is hinting at the possibility of
mobilizing redistricting efforts in more blue states. In an interview
with CNN State of the Union, Jeffries criticizes congressional maps
in Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
This is a racial partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump.
As part of an effort to rig the midterm elections
and when not gonna let it happen.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Jeffrey's comments come after the Texas Senate approved a new
congressional map that will likely give the GOP five more
seats in the House. Postal services around the world are
halting some deliveries to the US over confusion about new
import duties on parcels. Global mail carriers based in Britain, France,
and Germany are among those temporarily suspending shipments to the

(01:35):
US starting this week. President Trump signed an executive order
last month abolishing the trade loophole, which had allowed goods
valued at less than eight hundred dollars to enter the
US duty free. Under the new rules, personal gifts worth
less than one hundred dollars will be exempt, but all
other packages will face the same tariffs as imports from
their country of origin. You got a play to win?

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The Powerball jackpot rolled over and is now a whopping
seven hundred and fifty million dollars for Monday night's drawing.
I'm Lisa Carton. Utility bills are on the rise across
the US. Federal data shows electricity costs are up by
more than five percent, and natural gas has risen by
nearly fourteen percent. An analysis from the Center for American

(02:19):
Progress shows nearly sixty utility companies will soon increase electricity
rates this year by more than thirty eight billion dollars,
and that's affecting over fifty seven million Americans. The US
Energy Information Administration expects residential electricity rates to increase by
a whopping eighteen percent in the near future. Sopranos actor

(02:40):
Jerry Adler is dead at the age of ninety six,
according to an obituary from the Riverside Memorial Chapel in
New York. He died on Saturday, but no other details
were given. Adler was best known for playing a mobster's
confidant on the HBO series The Sopranos. Adler was a
theater veteran who got a start working on some of
broadway biggest shows. His credits include work behind the scenes

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on shows including the original nineteen fifty six production of
My Fair Lady and Annie. Adler later went on to
appear on popular TV series such as Quantum Leap, the
popular series Law and Order, and Hudson Street. Monday's Powerball
Jackpot will be the tenth largest of all time. Nobody
matched all six numbers and Saturday's drawing of the nationwide lottery,

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including myself, so the seven hundred million dollar jackpot will
now roll over to Monday's drawing, when the grand prize
will be worth an estimated seven hundred and fifty million bucks.
Lottery players are still being urged to check their powerball tickets.
Someone in New York matched five numbers to win a
million dollars, two people in Maine won a million bucks,
and someone in South Dakota won two million dollars because

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they paid a dollar more for the power play option.
Just in case you were wondering about your chances of winning,
the odds of matching all five numbers and the powerball
number is one in two hundred and ninety two point
tint two million. Go grab a ticket and good luck.
I'm Lisa Carton.