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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump is defending Secretary of War Pete Haigkseeth over
a reporter about a US strike a second strike on
a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean back in September.
NBCs gave Gutierra's report. Trump said Haykseth denies giving the
order and that he believes in one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
On Friday, the Washington Post reporting, citing two sources, that
after the first strike left survivors, a second strike was
conducted to comply with the Hank Seth order to kill
all on board.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Venezuela is now accusing US of murder after acknowledging for
the first time that its citizens were among those killed
in those US boat strikes. Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumber
says three of his New York officers were targets of
bomb threats. The Senate top Democrats says his offices in Rochester, Binghamton,
and Long Island got bomb threats today. They came in
an email entitled MEGA and claimed that the twenty twenty

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presidential election have been rigged. Bux is agreeing to pay
more than thirty eight million dollars in a landmark settlement
in New York City. Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
The city sued the Seattle Coffeehouse Company for violating labor laws.
More than three hundred locations in the Big Apple workers'
schedules and hours were repeatedly cut without notice. Fifteen thousand
Starbucks employees are impacted, most who are paid hourly. We'll
get fifty bucks for each week worked between twenty twenty
one to twenty twenty four. Mayor Eric Adams says the

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settlement is the largest in New York City labor history
and shows that if you violate our workers' rights, you'll
pay the price. Starbucks claims the city's law is notoriously challenging.
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
The World Health Organization is now recommending GLP one drugs
as a tool for managing obesity, a who publishing his
new guidelines today in the medical journal JAMMA. They say
the drugs, which include Eli, Lilly's zep bound and Novo
Nordisks with GOVIY, represents a new medical after, at least
in the shift in how society approaches obesity. I'm Jim

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Roop Britain will now pay more for medicines after agreeing
to a high level trade deal with the US. The
Office of the US Trade Representative says under the new agreement,
the UK's National Health Service will increase the net price
it pays for new medicines by twenty five percent and
change the tax that drug makers have to pay to
the government when the drug spending increases. In exchange, medicines

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made in the UK, as well as drug ingredients and
medical technology, will be exempt from Section two thirty two
sectoral tariffs in any future Section three ZHO one country tariffs.
The deal follows complaints from President Trump over US carrying
more of the price burden while other wealthy nations don't
pay enough for prescription drugs. Airbus officials say flights are

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back on track after a software glitch was fixed.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
The European manufacturer announced Friday it was grounding six thousand
of its A three to twenty jets because of a
warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers.
Francis Transport Minister said that thousands of software updates went
very smoothly.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm tammy Trhio scientists believe they have detected lightning on Mars,
but it's not like the lightning found here on Earth.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
In research published in the journal Nature, scientists subscribe the
Mars lightning as mini lightning that's more like the senate
electricity shocks you feel when you touch something metal. Dozens
of instances of the mini lightning were captured by a
microphone on NASA's Perseverance rover. They mostly occurred during dust
devils and dust storms. In an article accompanying the study,
one scientist noted that new instruments will need to be

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sent to Mars to verify the findings. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
The powerball jackpot now up to seven hundred and forty
million bucks. Nobody matched all six numbers and Saturday night's
lottery drawing for seven hundred and nineteen mils, so the
grand prize will grow by at least twenty million dollars
for tonight's drawing. A lottery officials say there was one
big winner in Saturday's drawing. A ticket sold in Florida
mash five of the six numbers and is worth a

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million dollars. I'm Jim Rup