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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 (00:08):
More informations coming out of the White House about the
oil tanker seized by the US off the coast of Venezuela.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the tanker was being used
to transport sanctioned oil to Iran. The move comes as
tensions have escalated between President Trump and Venezuela and President Maduro.
The US already has a large military presence in the
Caribbean and has launched deadly strikes against suspected drug boats

(00:31):
exiting Venezuela. FED Chair Jerome Powell isn't giving any clues
about another interest rate cut after today's quarter percentage point reduction.
After the cut was announced, Paltol reporters President Trump's tariffs
and his words as elevated inflation.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
If there are no new tariff announcements, and we don't
know that, but let's assume there are no major new
tariff announcements, Inflation from goods should peak in the first
quarter or so. Writer, roughly, you know, we haven't been
able to predict this with any precision known. Is what
call it the first quarter or so of next year
should be.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
The peak any expects. Give a no tariff announcements, inflation
should come down to the back half of twenty twenty six.
Billions of drivers are being warned about messy conditions with
a storm system poised to dump snow and rain from
North Dakota to Maine through Friday. Up to five inches
may be seen from northern Minnesota to parts of New England.
Higher totals of snow may fall around Lake Michigan and

(01:26):
Lake Ontario. Americans are keeping the faith. That's according to
a new religion report from the Pew Research Center, which
finds about seventy percent of Americans say they identify with
a religion since twenty twenty. Pew also says young Americans
remain less religious than their parents or grandparents, with fifty
five percent claiming a religion. The Americans claiming no faith

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nearly doubled in size from twenty seven to twenty twenty two,
from sixteen to thirty one percent. Watercress is the healthiest
vegetable in the world. The CDC released a list ranking
forty one powerhouse fruits and vegetables, and members of the
cabbage family topped it. I'm jim Roup. Instacart's use of
artificial intelligence pricing has apparently led to shoppers paying higher

(02:13):
or lower prices for the same items from the same store.
New study by the Progressive Agency Group, Groundwork Collaborative Consumer
Reports and the news organization more Perfect Union finds the
grocery delivery app had fluctuations in price of around seven percent.
Instacart blames the price differences on a small subset of
retail partners running online pricing tests. Amazon plans to invest

(02:36):
more than thirty five billion dollars to increase its artificial
intelligence capabilities and expand its presence in India by the
year twenty thirty.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Amazon is injecting more funds into the country as it
competes with its main rivals in the market Walmarts, backs,
flip Carts, and mcasha and Barney's Reliance Industries. Amazon has
invested forty billion dollars in its Indian operations over the
past fifteen years. A wave of fresh investments from Amazon,
Microsoft and Google underscores the country's emergence as a hub

(03:05):
for AI, deep tech and cloud infrastructure. Rebecca Bunds in Mumbai.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Gene Simmons says musicians are treated worse than slaves because
they don't get paid by radio stations for playing their music.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
The Kiss Rocker testified before lawmakers on Capitol Hill yesterday.
It supported the American Music Fairness Act, a measure aimed
at getting radio stations to pay for music broadcasts. Simmons
told the Senate Judiciary Committee's Intellectual Property Subcommittee that American

(03:39):
music artists have been robbed over the years, citing Elvis
Presley and Bing Crosby. Simmons said the artists were treated
worse than slaves because, in his words, slaves get food
and water. I'm work Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is unfailing plans to invest more
than six billion dollars in a new manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Alabama.
Is the largest capital investment in Alabama's history. I'm Jim Roop.