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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump has many US cities in his sites and
is now threatening to send troops to Baltimore as part
of his national crackdown on crime. In a post on
Truth's Social Trump said that Maryland Governor Wes Moore's record
on crime is very bad and said he'll send troops
to the city if he thinks it needs help. More
responded during an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, saying

(00:29):
while the President is spending his time from the Oval
office making jabs and attacks at us, there are people
on the ground already doing the work to actually bring
down crime. Vice President jd Vance is defending the new
congressional map recently approved by the Texas Senate. Appearing on
NBC's Meet the Press, Vance claim that democratic jerrymandering has
made these redistricting efforts necessary.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
All we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation
a little bit more fair on a national scale. The
Democrats have jerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there
are opportunities to push back against that, and that's really
all we're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
The Texas Tribune says the map was adopted early Saturday
on a party line vote over fierce democratic opposition. Russian's
foreign minister says there is no meeting planned between President
Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski. In an interview
with NBC's Meet the Press, Sergei Lavrov said while Russia
is prepared to meet, a major obstacle remains.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Putin is ready to meet with Zilynski when the agenda
would be ready, and this agenda is not radi at all.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
His comments come after President Trump said he had sort
of set up a meeting between the two leaders. Trump
recently met with Zelensky and European leaders at the White House.
SpaceX is preparing to launch its super heavy Starship rocket
this evening from the Texas Gulf Coast. Test flight number
ten is expected to get underway at seven thirty pm
Eastern weather permitting. The latest launch attempt comes after three

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catastrophic inflight failures in a row. This time, SpaceX will
not attempt to recover the rocket booster at the star
Base facility, and instead is planning on a splashdown off
the Gulf coast. I'm rob martyr. The Menendez brothers, both
Lyle and Eric, will remain behind bars after being denied
parole in California. A San Diego parole board turned down
Lyle Menendez's request for parole on Friday night, a day

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after his brother Eric was also denied. Three months ago,
Eric and Lyle were sentenced to fifty years to life
for the nineteen eighty nine shotgun murders of their parents.
The brothers had maintained the killings were in self defense,
claiming they were sexually abused by their father. Postal services
around the world are halting some deliveries to the United
States over confusion about new import duties on parcels. Global

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mail carriers based in Britain, France, and Germany are among
those temporarily suspending shipments to the 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

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the same tariffs as imports from their country of origin.
The hit horror movie Weapons has reached the one hundred
million dollar mark at the domestic box office. Scott Carr
has that.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
The thriller from Warner Brothers has been the number one
movie in US theaters for the past two weeks, already
earning more than one hundred million dollars in the US
over seventy two million internationally. I don't understand at all,
why just her classroom white, only her stream for chi.
Warner Brothers officials say they're thrilled since the picture only
cost about thirty eight million dollars to make. It continues

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a string of hits for the studio, which is still
making money off the film Superman and f One, both
of which have made nearly six hundred million dollars. I'm
Scott Carr.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
The Powerball jackpot is now a whopping seven hundred and
fifty million dollars for Monday nights drawing. The grand prize
will be the tenth largest of all time after no
one matched all six numbers in last night's drawing. Lottery
players are still being urged to check their Powerball tickets
since tickets sold an New York, Maine, and South Dakota
matched five numbers to win at least a million dollars each.

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I'm rob Martyr