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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. Vice President JD.
Van says FBI raids targeting former Trump national security advisor
John Bolton were not conducted because of Bolton's criticism of
the president. Vance said while classified records are part of
the investigation, there was a broad concern about Bolton. The

(00:24):
former national security advisor became a strong critic of President
Trump after he left the administration in twenty nineteen. The
Kremlin is dashing hopes the war in Ukraine will end
anytime soon. Russian's foreign minister says there is no meeting
planned between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Sergei Lavrov

(00:44):
says a potential meeting would need to be useful.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
That he is ready to meet with President Zelenski, provided
this meeting is really going to decide something.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
His comments come after President Trump said he had sort
of set up a meeting between the two leaders. Lavrov
said key issues, including security guarantees and territorial disputes have
yet to be resolved. President Trump, however, is growing frustrated
with the war and Russia's latest offensive.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, I'm not happy about anything about that war. Nothing,
not happy at all.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
We'll see what happens. President Trump also said Friday he'll
know in two weeks if he made any progress in
bringing peace to Ukraine. Over fifty million Americans across the
West are under alert for extreme heat. Forecasters are warning
of dangerous heat today from Phoenix, Arizona, to Seattle, Washington.
Unseasonably warm temperatures are expected in Seattle through Monday, and

(01:35):
his in Portland could reach the upper nineties. Spokane and
Boise will also hit the mid nineties today, and the
extreme heat will continue to raise wildfire concerns in the Southwest,
which is also being hit with warm winds and low humidity.
The weight continues for Nevada to win a Little League
World Series title, as the Summerland South Little League team
lost to Chinese Taipey seven nothing. Chinese Typey jumped on

(01:57):
Nevada pitching in the fifth inning to jump out to
the seven run lead. It's Chinese Taipei's first Little League
World Series title since nineteen ninety six. I'm rob Martyr.
Postal services around the world are halting some deliveries to
the United States 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 US starting this week.

(02:20):
President Trump signed an executive order last month abolishing the
trade loophole, which 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. The
National Park Service says the North Rim of Grand Canyon
National Park will remain closed for the rest of the

(02:42):
twenty twenty five season. We get more from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The closure follows the Dragon Bravo wildfire, which damaged or
destroyed about seventy structures in July. The historic Grand Canyon Lodge,
the North Rim visitor Center, and many guest cabins burned
to the ground. Visitor services along the nun North Rim
are closed, but the South Rim remains open. Planning is
now underway to rebuild visitor facilities, including the Grand Canyon Lodge.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
The hit horror movie Weapons has topped the one hundred
million dollar mark at the domestic box office. The Warner
Brothers thriller has been the number one movie at US
theaters for the past two weeks and has already made
over one hundred and seventy million dollars in total global
ticket sales. It's a major win for Warner Brothers since
it cost just thirty eight million dollars to make. It
also continues a string of hits for the studio, which

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is still making money off the film Superman and f One,
both of which have made nearly six hundred million dollars.
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 numbers

(03:51):
since tickets sold in New York, Maine, in South Dakota
matched five numbers to win at least a million dollars
each week. One of the twenty twenty five college football
season kicks off on Thursday, when number twenty five Boise state,
will visit South Florida. I'm Rob Martyre,