The Latest: 12/02/2025 10:02pm ET

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Haigseth are defending
the strike allegedly targeting survivors on a suspective Venezuelan drug boats.
I want those boats take it out, and if we
have to, will attack on land also, just like we
attacked on seeing. The two are asked about a Washington
Post report that Navy Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley directed a
second strike to comply with Hageseth's order that no one

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be left alive. Haygeseth said he did not know the
second strike involved to survivors, but he backs Bradley's decision.
President Trump meantime, announcing his soul called Trump Accounts Savings
Initiative for Children. Trump says every American child born during
his second term will receive a one thousand dollars government
deposit to help start their account. NBC's Brian Chung reports

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there are some tax issues to understand for parents.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Contributions you would put into this account a post tax.
Not only that, but you would also take a tax
hit when you do withdraw this money. There's some kind
of confusion here over whether or not that would actually
provide any benefit over just opening up a brokerage account
where you would be paying capital gains tax.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell and his wife
Susan added six point two five billion dollars to that program.
Personal donation polls are closed. In a special House election
in Tennessee, Democrats are hoping to ride their blue wave
after a major wins in November's elections. The race between
Democrat Afton Bain and Republican Matt Van Epps has unexpectedly

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turned into a tight race, according to the latest polls.
A doctor who pleaded guilty for his role in actor
Matthew Perry's accidental overdose death and twenty twenty three faces
sentencing tomorrow. Doctor Salvador Placentia admitted supplying Perry with ketamine
in the weeks leading up to his death in Los Angeles.
Placentia already issued a statement quote unquote, accepting responsibility, and

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he said again, quote he is profoundly remorseful.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
End quote.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'm Jim Rook. The Supreme Court is considering a music
piracy case that could have a major impact on Internet users.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Attorney Joshua Rosencranz is representing Cox Communications, the largest private
broadband company in the country.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
The Fourth Circuit held that a provider of basic communications
infrastructure to millions of homes and businesses can be held
liable because it did not kick enough accused infringers off
the Internet.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Record companies accused Cox of not taking reasonable steps to
prevent illegal music distribution. The court is weighing how much
liability internet service providers have for piracy carried out over
their networks. I'm Tammy Trihio.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
We know that smartphones can have a negative impact on
young people, and now a new study shows just how
much of a mental health impact they can have on preteens.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
The American Academy of Pediatrics finds pre teens who own
a smartphone and use it regularly are at greater risk
of depression, obesity, and insufficient sleep. The preteens had a
thirty one percent greater chance of suffering from depression and
sixty two percent greater chance of struggling with their sleep.
The study looked at ten thousand children, comparing those who

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had a smartphone before age twelve and those who got
their first phone when they were older. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Another study says cats do one thing differently for men
than for women.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
When cats want attention, they meow. Big studies not necessary
to figure that one out, but researchers at a university
in Turkey found cats me out louder and longer for
men than they do for women, and the why shows
just how smart cats really are. Cats are louder for
men because men are worse at noticing subtle feline body
language than women. They figured out they need to be

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allowed to get the attention they crave and deserve. I'm
pre tennis.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
The powerball jackpot rolling over again. No grand prize winner
last night, so the estimated jackpot for Wednesday night tomorrow
night seven hundred seventy five million dollars. I'm Jim Roop