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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour at just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Kremlins dashing hopes the war in Ukraine will end
anytime soon. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said no meeting is planned between President
Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenski. Lavrov said while Russia's prepared
to meet, a major obstacle remains.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Putin is ready to meet with Zilensky when the agenda
would be ready for a summit, and this agenda is
not Treddieto.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
His comments come after President Trump said he had sort
of set up a meeting between the two leaders. Trump
said Friday he'll know in two weeks if he made
any progress in bringing peace to Ukraine. The President's threatening
to send troops to Baltimore as part of his national
crackdown on crime. In a post on truth Social Trump
said that Maryland Governor Wes Moore's record on crime is
a very bad one, and said he'll send troops to

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the sea, but if he thinks it needs help. Moore
responded during an appearance on CBS Has Faced the Nation,
saying that 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. Extreme heat alerts are in effect
four millions in the western US. Health officials are urging

(01:20):
people to stay hydrated and avoid strenuous outdoor activity. As
the Mercury source from Phoenix, Arizona to Seattle, Washington, the
Pacific Northwest is expecting hotter than usual temperatures through Monday,
with highs in the mid to upper nineties in Portland, Spokane,
and to Poise. Chinese Taipei is this year's Little League
World Series champ after defeating Summerland's South Little League seven

(01:42):
nothing in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Chinese Taipei jumped out to a
seven run lead against the team from Las Vegas in
the fifth inning and never looked back, becoming the first
international team since twenty seventeen to win the title. It's
the eighteenth championship for Chinese Taipei in the first since
nineteen ninety six. In the third place game in Fairfield, Connecticut,
beat out Aruba four to two, I'm Tammy Truheo kil

(02:06):
maar Abrego Garcia could be deported. After he was released
from a Tennessee jail on Friday, Jim Forbes House details.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
His legal team was notified that he could be deported
to Uganda as soon as next week, a move criticized
by his attorney.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
It is preposterous that they would send him to Africa,
to a country where he doesn't even speak the language,
a country with documented human.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Rights violations, when there are so many other options.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
The l Salvadorian native, who faces human trafficking charges related
to a twenty twenty two traffic stop in Tennessee is
now back in Maryland while he awaits trial. Abrego Garcia
was originally deported in what the White House said was
an administrative mistake, but later said he was a member
of the MS thirteen gang.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I'm Jim Forbes FACEX 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
of time to troubleshoe a ground system's issue. The company
has yet to successfully complete a mission with the stainless
steel spacecraft, which is being engineered to be fully reusable
and would be able to carry up to one hundred
people to deep space destinations. The hit horror movie Weapons

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has hit the one hundred million dollar market the domestic
box office. A story from Scott Carr.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
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 hurts for children. Warner
Brothers officials say they're thrilled since the picture only cost
about thirty eight million dollars to make. It continues a

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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 (03:50):
The Powerball jackpod is now a whopping seven hundred and
fifty million dollars for Monday nights drawing. It's the tenth
largest of all time after nobody matched all six numbers
in saturn a Night straw. I'm Tammy Truhio