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This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
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The Foreign Minister of Denmark is accusing the United States
of running an influence campaign in Greenland. More from Rory O'Neill.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
In a statement, Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen said they are
aware of foreign actors who continued to show an interest
in Greenland and its position in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Rasmussen said any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs
of the kingdom will of course be quote unacceptable. He
also said he has summoned the top US diplomat in
Denmark for a meeting. President Trump believes the US needs

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to take control of Greenland for strategic purposes.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
India is being hit with fifty percent terrorists from the
US as punishment for buying oil from Russia. Tammi Trahiel
reports the.

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Tax on imports from India went into effect on Wednesday.
The US and India have yet to reach a trade agreement,
and President Trump has been in that India stopped buying
Russian oil while negotiations are under way to end the
war in Ukraine. Vice President JD. Vans told Meet the
Press on Sunday that the US was applying aggressive economic
leverage on India to try to make it harder for

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the Russians to get rich from their oil economy.

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A federal whistleblower says that Trump administration's DOGE team uploaded
the social security numbers of over three hundred million Americans
into the cloud. New York Times says the whistleblower did
not allege that the cloud had been hacked, but warned
that Americans' personal data could be used to steal their identities.
OpenAI is being sued by a California couple who accused

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chat GPT of helping their teenage son to commit suicide.
More from Mark Mayfield.

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The lawsuit file on Tuesday and claims that the chatbot
helped sixteen year old Adam Rain to explore suicide methods
and helped him write the first draft of his suicide note.
The forty page lawsuit names OpenAI and its CEO Sam
Altman as defendants and accuses them of wrongful death design
defects and failure to one of the risks associated with GPT.

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I'm Michael Kassner. A number of universities across the nation
are being targeted by shooting hoaxes. Liz Kreutz reports this
type of incident, referred to as swatting, is not new.

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The Anti Defamation League estimates there were at least one
thousand swatting incidents in twenty nineteen, a number that has
only grown, prompting the FBI to start keeping a swatting
database to help track and catch offenders.

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This week, active shooter alerts were sent to students at
several schools, including the University of Arkansas, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Iowa State, Northern Arizona University, and Kansas State Police say
many were hoaxes in which someone used a temporary phone
number and apps to mask their voice and cause panic.
President Trump is commenting on the engagement of Taylor Swift

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and Travis Kelcey.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well I wish him Allett alone.

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He was asked about it at the White House and
the laughter in the room from his cabinet. Trump has
been a sharp critic of Swift after she endorsed Kamala
Harris for President. Trump added Kelsey as a great player
and Swift is a terrific person. Woody Allen is earning
a rebuke from Kiev after appearing remotely at a Russian

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film festival. More from Andrew Whipman.

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The eighty nine year old director of Annie Hall, Hannah
and her sisters in Blue Jasmine participated in the Moscow
International Film Week events Sunday. On Monday. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry
called Alan's appearance a quote disgrace and insult to Ukrainian
actors and filmmakers who have died in the war with Russia.
Alan responded, saying he thinks Vladimir Putin is wrong in

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calling the war appalling. Buddy added quote, I don't feel
cutting off artistic conversations is ever a good way to help.

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Ky pop. Demon Hunters is now Netflix's most watch movie ever.
The animated film is racked up two hundred thirty six
million in view since it premiered in June on the
streaming service. I'm Michael Cassner.