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The State Department is urging Americans to immediately leave fourteen
Middle East countries as the US military conflict with Iran continues.
President Trump says the US is a head of schedule
in the operation named destroying Iran's ballistic missile capabilities and
ensuring the nation can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Iran
has retaliated with the tax across the region, resulting in

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the deaths of six U S service members. Oil shipping
has nearly stopped through the Strait of Hormuz as Iran
threatens to attack any tanker that tries to pass through
the corridor. About one fifth of the world's oil typically
moves through the strait, movement that's ground to a halt.
After US and Israeli attacks on Iran, some one hundred
and fifty tankers have been less stranded, and the situation
is causing oil prices to surge. The first primaries of

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the midterm elections are being held today in Texas, North Carolina,
and Arkansas. The twenty twenty six mid terms could shift
the balance of power in both the House and Senate
the races in Texas are getting the most attention. On
the Democratic side, Congresswomen Jasmine Crockett and Texas State Representative
James Tallerico are in a heated race to become nominee
for the US Senate. Meanwhile, most pollsters save the three

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way Republican primary will end up with incumbent Senator John
Cornyan eventually facing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a
runoff when the dust settles. The search for Nancy Guthrie
has been underway now for over a month in southern Arizona.
The mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie was reported missing
on February first, and police believe she was abducted. Thousands

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of tips have been received in a million dollar reward
as being offered in connection with the eighty four year
old's disappearance. Savannah Guthrie was seen outside of her mother's
home on Monday with other family members as they laid
flowers at a memorial. Paramounts Guidance and Warner Brothers Discovery
will combine streaming services once their merger is complete. This
comes after Netflix pulled out of a deal to buy

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Warner Brothers Studio and streaming businesses on Friday, clearing the
way for Paramount one hundred and ten billion dollar merger
is expected to close in the third quarter of this year.
I'm Tammy Triheo. A rash scene on President Trump's neck
on Monday is being attributed to a skin cream, Sarah
Le Kessler reports.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
The White House says the President is using a very
common cream on the right side of his neck, which
it called a preventative skin treatment. It did not elaborate
the bright red rash was spotted on Trump's neck during
a Medal of Honor ceremony. This comes after bruising was
seen on his hands, which the White House set was
due to handshaking and a high daily dose of asprint.

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I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
The number of breast cancer cases worldwide could surge to
over three and a half million by twenty fifty. That's
according to a decade long analysis of breast cancer trends
across more than two hundred countries and territories that was
published this week in the journal The Land Set Oncology.
What it found was that high income countries were able
to reduce cases by thirty percent from nineteen ninety to

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twenty three because of access to preventative care. Low income
country saw cases double. During that same time period, an
estimated two point three million women were diagnosed with breast
cancer in twenty twenty three. There's been another incident of
a Waymo self driving taxi blocking emergency vehicles. That story
from Michael Cassner. They're the Active Reader.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
A Weimo robotaxi was seen blocking an EMS vehicle responding
to a mass shooting in Austin, Texas over the weekend.
It took a police officer about one minute to convince
the car to exit the scene. A few weeks ago,
in Los Angeles, Awaimo stopped in the road in the
middle of a police standoff before driving away. In Los Angeles.

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I'm Michael Casner.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Apple's unveiling some new hardware this week, the tech company
skipping the standard one day event and announcing new products
over three days. One of those offerings is the iPhone
seventeen E, expected to start at five hundred and ninety
nine dollars. Two new iPads, a new MacBook, and several
other computers are also being rolled out. I'm Tammy Truhio