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

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Goods imported into the US from India are now subject
to a fifty percent tariff. Ishan Gerg reports the US
is looking to penalise India for buying oil from Russia.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
In terms of India's overall economy and the impact on it,
India isn't really an export led economy. It's a domestic
consumption economy, so the overall impact isn't likely to be huge,
but it's still going to be intens of billions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
The US and India have yet to reach a trade agreement,
and President Trump has been insisting that India's stop buying
Russian oil while negotiations are underway to end the war
in Ukraine. Vice President JD Vance told me the Press
on Sunday that the US was applying aggressive economic leverage
on India to try to make it harder for the
Russians to get rich from their oil economy. Open Ai

(00:57):
is being sued by a California couple who accused chet
GPT of helping their teenage son to commit suicide. Laura
Jarrett reports the pseudo ledges that chet Bought helped sixteen
year old Adam Rain to explore suicide methods and helped
him write the first draft of his suicide note.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Their lawsuit goes on to allege that by March of
this year, Adam told chat GPT he was considering approaching
his mom about his struggles, saying I want to leave
my noose in my room, so someone finds it and
tries to stop me. Chat GPT responding, please don't leave
the noose out.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Instead, the pseudo ledges it advised the team to make
this the first place where someone actually sees you. President
Trump says he wants a death penalty for any murders
committed in Washington, DC. Anybody murders something into capital capital punishment,
capital capital punishment. He made the comment while touting the

(01:53):
National Guard intervention in DC during his cabinet meeting yesterday.
Trump then called it a very strong preventative measure, and
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey are making it official. The
Superstar Singer Songwriter announce their engagement on Instagram. I'm Michael Kasner.
Some of New York's top politicians, including Governor Kathy Hokeel

(02:14):
and New York City Mayor Eric Adams are reacting to
President Trump's cashless bail order. More from Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
Trump is threatening to withhold federal funding to cities and
states that don't end cashless bail. That would apply to
New York, which passed bill reform laws back in twenty nineteen.
Yolks must be safe and those who are repeated offenders
need to be held accountable, but Governor Kathy Hochel says
she since changed the law allowing judges more discretion to

(02:43):
keep dangerous suspects locked up.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
You know, he's just trying to throw gasolene on a fire.
We don't need that. We got our own fires under
control here. We do not need the federal government Health
and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, is set
to announce what he says are the causes of autism
by September. Brian Shook with more.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Kennedy has previously vowed to find the cause of growing
rates of autism, calling it an epidemic that dwarfs the
covid epidemic. The HHS secretary discussed his intentions to reveal
the causes of autism during a Cabinet meeting held by
President Trump on Tuesday. Kennedy has long claimed that environmental
factors or vaccines are likely culprits behind the rising rate

(03:26):
of autism diagnoses.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Today we are celebrating the definitive and oldest dispute settling
game three tennis with more on the world Rock Paper
Scissors Day.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
The handgame dates back to about two hundred and six
BC in China. What we play today is very different
from the original, which used a slog, a snake, and
a frog. The rock is thrown the most, followed by paper,
then scissors. Women throw scissors, most men rock. There are
books on strategy and psychology as to what to play,
but it is just a simple game with three components.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Rock, paper, scissors, lizard spock five.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
If you watch The Big Bang Theory, I'm Michael Kassner.