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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump is back in Washington, d C. After a
nearly week long trip to Asia. He returns without the
White House calls a number of wins for the US,
including trade agreements with South Korea and Japan, a deal
with China to temporarily reduce US tariffs while a broader
trade dills negotiated, and the signing of a peace accord
between Thailand and Cambodia. Trump did not get Chinese leader

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Jishinping to promise to stop buying Russian oil, which he
says only furthers the war in Ukraine. Millions of lower
income Americans could soon feel the pain of the government
shut down, as the standoff will continue now until at
least Monday. If it's not resolved. The food stamps benefit
known as SNAP, will expire on Saturday for roughly forty
two million people in the US unless a federal judge

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steps in before then. Democrats say the Trump administration could
use contingency funds to continue the benefits, but the Usday
says the move isn't allowed by law. The Senate has
adjourned for the weekend, the presidents ordering the Department of
War to begin testing nuclear weapons. In a truth social post,
he said due to the testing programs of other countries,

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He's instructed the Department to start testing US weapons on
an equal basis. In the post, he specifically cited the
nuclear programs of Russia and China. It comes as Russian
President Vladimir Putin says they successfully tested a nuclear powered
drone called the Poseidon and said there was quote nothing
like this in the world in terms of the speed
and the depth of movement. Trump said Putin should focus

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on ending the war with Ukraine after a nuclear test
on Sunday, and appeared to defy Trump with another test
on Wednesday. The last time the US tested a nuclear
weapon was in nineteen ninety two. Five more suspects are
in custody in Paris in connection with the recent theft
of the French Crown Jewels from the Leuver Museum. They
were reportedly caught in coordinated raids around the French capital

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on Wednesday night.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
One of those.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Arrested is allegedly one of the fore Man team that
actually carried out the heist. The jewels are still missing.
I'm Tammy Trahio. The US and China are finalizing an
agreement on a TikTok deal to keep the app available
at Matinson Reports.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen, officials finalized the deal
while meeting in Malaysia, and Besson expects to finally see
the resolution in the coming weeks and months. The deal
seeks to limit the role of TikTok's China based parent
company by Dance to comply with a twenty twenty four
law requiring the firm to divest from the platform or
face a ban in the US. Under the agreement, President

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Trump and Chinese President ci Jane Ping approved of TikTok
spinning off into a separate US entity, with the majority
stake owned by American investors such as Oracle and silver Lake.
I'm at Mattinson.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Harvard Medical School. Study shows that COVID during pregnancy is
linked to a higher risk of autism. Researchers study more
than eighteen thousand births in Massachusetts during the early days
of the COVID nineteen pandemic before vaccines were available. The
study was published in the journal Obstetrics and Guynecology. It
showed that of the eight hundred and sixty one pregnant
women who contracted COVID one hundred and forty gave birth

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to children diagnosed with autism, spectrum disorders or other neurodevelopmental
issues by the age of three. South Park's releasing a
new episode on Halloween. As Michael Casner reports, just like
others this year, it will likely not be popular with
the White House.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
It takes on President Trump's demolition of part of the
White House to build a massive ballroom titled The Woman
in the Hat. The show as the second episode of
the new season twenty eight of the long running animated hit.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
South Far.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
It'll hit Comedy Central at ten pm Friday, instead of
the show's usual Wednesday night time slot. I'm Michael Cassner.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
iHeartMedia has been named the exclusive audio partner for next
year's Winter Olympics by NBC Universal. The coverage will include
play by play audio channels, as well as the original
iHeart podcast Two Guys, Five Rings with Bowen Yang and
Matt Rogers. The Winter Games will see the return of
NHL players in the hockey tournament for the first time
since twenty fourteen. I'm Tammy Truhuillo