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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour at just four minutes. National
Guard troops in Washington, DC are set to begin carrying
firearms this evening. NBC News is reporting the Guard members
will carry service issue pistols, with some armed with M
four rifles. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday authorized two
thousand troops in DC to begin carrying weapons. Russian's foreign

(00:26):
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 (00:40):
Putin is ready to meet with Zelenski when the agenda
would be ready for s summit, and this agenda is
not Radieto.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
His comments come after President Trump said he had sort
of set up a meeting between the two leaders. Vice
President J. D. Van says FBI aids 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 former National Security Advisor, became a strong

(01:14):
critic of President Trump after he left the administration. In
twenty nineteen. SpaceX is once again scrubbing the launch of
its massive Starship rocket. The private space company stood down
from the launch of Flight ten Starship to allow time
to troubleshoot a ground system's issue. The uncrewed prototype was
set to follow a similar flight plan to the last
three Starship missions, which all failed. SpaceX was hoping the

(01:37):
Starship would continue flying through space so it could deploy
eight satellite simulators. The United States dominant run in Williamsport
is over. Chinese Type Pay beat Las Vegas, Nevada, seven
to nothing in the tournament final to become the first
international team since twenty seventeen to win the Little League
World Series title. It's the eighteenth championship for Chinese Type

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Pay in the first since nine eighteen ninety six. In
the third place game, Fairfield, Connecticut beat to Arubap four
to two. I'm rob Barartier. 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. President Trump signed

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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 twenty twenty five season.

(02:44):
We get more from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
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 2 (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,

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since tickets sold to 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 Martyr