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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. President Trump
says the first year of his return to office has
been the most consequential in US history. During his final
Cabinet meeting of twenty twenty five at the White House,
Trump listed the work he says he's done for the
American people. It's a tremendous thingness. Second place, we have

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companies moving in from all over the world, from Mexico,
from Canada, from Europe, from China. The President focused on
economic achievements and once again said he's made things more affordable,
listing the higher price of eggs and gas before he
got back into office. Trump said more Americans are working
now that he's back. Intense winter weather is impacting the

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Midwest and Northeast, causing heavy snow and icy roads. As
Aaron McLoughlin reports, travel disruptions are expected to be widespread
due to the poor conditions.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
We also expecting more chaos in the skies with more
fly cancelations some more delays as the storm system is
making its way through the Northeast, also impacting schools, with
school out or delayed in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Millions are under some sort of weather alert as the
northeaster will last through at least Wednesday. Ohio, West Virginia,
and parts of Pennsylvania could also see more than an
inch per hour of snow. Northeast states could get six
inches or more, while coastal cities will get mostly rain.
Pennsylvania police are defending their arrest and search of Luigi
Mangoni inside of McDonald's today at a pre trial hearing

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in New York. Mangioni's attorneys are trying to suppress key
evidence in his case that was obtained during that arrest.
Natalie Migliori is in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Mangioni's lawyers are trying to get certain evidence tossed in
the state's case against him.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
He's accused of.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Assassinating United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December outside Manhattan hotel.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
The hearings are expected to take up much of the week.
Voters are headed to the polls in Tennessee for a
high stake special House selection. Krats are hoping to ride
their blue wave after major wins in November's elections. I'm
Lisa Carton Meghan d. Stallion civil defamation suit against a
blogger has ended with a federal jury in Florida finding
that the blogger, Maulagro Cooper, defamed and harassed her. Cooper

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spoke with reporters, I just want to thank ausagers and
raratical participation in Cowpappy help. The rapper born Megan Pete,
accused Cooper of being a mouthpiece, puppet and paid surrogate
for Tory Linez, who was sentenced to up to ten
years in prison for shooting Meghan in Los Angeles in
twenty twenty. Jurors found that Cooper wilfully encouraged her thousands

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of followers on social media to view a sexually explicit
deep fake video of the rapper that had been circulating
on social media. The federal panel of five men and
four women came down in favor of the artist, and
she was awarded fifty nine thousand dollars. Charlie Kirk's Wikipedia
page as topping the site's most viewed articles list for
twenty twenty five. The Wikimedia found Out, which operates the

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Free Encyclopedia, released its list of most popular articles on
the side for the eleventh year and found that an
estimated two point four billion hours were spent reading English
language content. This year, Kirk's page garnered almost forty five
million views, with almost fifteen million of those coming in
the days after his assassination. There's a loaded slate of
college basketball on Tap tonight. Number four Duke will take

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on number fourteen Florida and Durham, while number eighteen Kentucky
will face off against number seventeen North Carolina and Lexington.
Number five Yukon will play number twenty one Kansas and Lawrence,
as Syracuse will host number thirteen Tennessee. Full House star
Dave Coolier has revealed a new cancer diagnosis just months
after beating stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma. Appearing on The

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Today Show Tuesday, Coolier said the prognosis for his tongue
cancer diagnosis is much better than his last fight with cancer.
Coolier said he'll undergo nearly three dozen rounds of radiation
and will finish his treatment on New Year's Eve. He
added early detection helped save his life. I'm Lisa Carton