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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates
by a quarter percentage point. That marks the third straight
interest rate cut. Fetch Air Jerome pal says the cut
comes as key government data is not available, still lagging
from the shutdown.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
However, available public and private sector data suggests that the
outlook for employment and inflation has not changed as much
since our meeting in October. Conditions in the labor market
appear to be gradually cooling, and inflation remains somewhat elevated.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Stock market like it, though the Dow Jones industrial leverage
closed nearly five hundred points higher at the closing bill.
The House has passed the National Defense Authorization Act. The
NDAA would increase pay for service members, provide some military
aid to Ukraine, restrict US investment in China, fully repeal
sanctions on Syria, and more. President Trump urged the bill

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to be passed and now headed to the Senate. President
Trump announcing the launch of a gold card foreign visa program.
The program aims to attract educated and well off immigrants
who would pay a million dollars to the US government
for front of the line. Immigration Status and Commerce Secretary
Howard Letnix says companies can pay two million dollars to

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hire a non citizen, then the company can keep them
in and they have a path to citizenship.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Obviously they have to be perfect people in America, and
having passed.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
The betting, after five years they'll be available to become citizens.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And then the corporation you put someone else.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
On the card.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
The president says. It's like a green card with extra perks.
Ukraine has responded to a plan proposed by the US
aimed at ending the war with Russia. Axios reports Ukrainian
officials have provided a point by point response to the
Trump Administration's twenty point proposal and opposed on x Today,
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski said his team has made additions

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to the document. It comes amid reports that President Trump
today spoke with European leaders about the war between Russia
and Ukraine. I'm Jim Roup. The judge is postponing the
high profile trial stemming from Blake Lively's sexual harassment lawsuit
against her former co star Justin Baldoni.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
The judge informed lawyers present during a discovery hearing in
New York City Tuesday that the civil trial date is
being delayed until May eighteenth because criminal trials take president
in the jam packed court system. The judge is also
urging both parties to strike a deal in the matter,
although Lively has made it clear she isn't interested in settling.
Baldoni has filed a four hundred million dollar countersuit and

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Lively is seeking nearly five hundred million dollars in damages.
I'm Natalie Migliori.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
A Detroit man's being praised online after he spotted a
six year old girl walking alone and personally escorted her
over ten blocks to school. Joshua Threat capture the moment
on Facebook Live, becoming emotional as he made sure the
child reached the school safely.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Heart this little precious little girl. This uncle warwie soon.

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This happened on Monday morning when it was ten degrees outside.
Thereat said he didn't want to put the girl in
his truck, so he got out and walked with her.
Please say the child is safe and they are investigating.
An investigation is underway after a drone attempted to bring
food and drugs to inmates and a prison in South Carolina.

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The Apartment of Corrections says that on Monday morning, a
drone dropped Old Bay seasoned crab legs, steak, marijuana, and
cigarettes in the prison's outdoor area. The items and the
drone were confiscated. No charges have been filed. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
It ran in Egypt DAR objecting to the Pride Association
with their World Cup soccer match set for next year.
The game in Seattle on June twenty sixth has been
designated as the Pride Match. It'll showcase the LGBTQ communities
in Washington State. However, the football associations for the two
nations sent letters to FIFA demanding all such events and
displays coinciding with the game be canceled and insist that

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the match be designated strictly as a sports event. I
ran in Egypt, our two country that criminalize homosexuality and
impose severe punishments for it. I'm Jim Roop