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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest Use this Hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
The Secretary of State says Iran's ongoing blockade at the
straight of hour moves is desperate. With White House Press
Secretary Caroline Levitt on maternity leave, Marco Rubio stepped in
for the briefing with reporters. Has said Project Freedom is
not just about getting US ships through the Strait. It's
a favor for other countries.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Because it's their ships that are stranded. It's their fuel
supplies that are stranded. By the way, it's their humanitarian
there's humanitarian aid destined for different countries in the world
that's stranded in the Persian Gulf right now. It's the
fertilizer that they need for their food and crops that's
stranded in the person. Not our fertilizer, their fertilizer. So
we want to be helpful, and that's why the presidents
stepped forward, because we're the only ones that can. Frankly,

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we're the only ones that can.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
He says. The US will not let around hold a
global economy hostage. The suspect in the White House Correspondence
Association dinner shooting is being indicted on four charges. Cole
Thomas Allen facing charges for attempting to assassinate President Trump,
assaulting an officer or employee of the US with a
deadly weapon, and two other firearms related charges. There's been
another closed call at a New York airport, the second

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in two days.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
It happened Monday at JFK International Airport. As original Delta
flight operated by Endeavor Air was coming in for a landing,
an air traffic controller warned the pilot that a small
Serus plane was just five hundred feet above his flight,
flying way too close. Pilots on both planes were ordered
to maintain their positions. They did, avoiding a mid air

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collision less than twenty five hundred feet off the ground.
This near miss happened just one day after a United
Airlines jet hit a light pole and tractor trailer on
the New Jersey Turnpike Sunday as it was landing. The
FAA investigating. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Meantime, Delta Airlines no longer going to hand out snacks
on short distance flights. Starting May nineteenth, Economy passengers on
flights under three hundred and fifty miles will not get
snacks in flight meals drinks, but first class customers still will.
I'm Jim Roop. Rudy Giuliani has emerged from a previously
unreported coma during a life threatening health scare.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
We knew that Giuliani was hospitalized for pneumonia over the
weekend and had been on a ventilator for a time.
What we did not know was that the former New
York City mayor had been comatose and had received last rites.
Ted Goodman, his spokesman, revealed that on X Monday night,
saying Juliani is talking and alert POSTCOMA earlier, Goodman said
that Giuliani had been diagnosed with restrictive airway disease following

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his exposure to toxins at Ground Zero after the nine
to eleven terror attacks on America. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
One company's downsizing is upsizing its bottom line. Tammy Trhiro
reports shares of Pinterest jumped fifteen percent just weeks after
the company cut fifteen percent of its workforce.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Interest reported first quarter earnings on Monday, and it beat
Wall Street's estimates. The company says it's logging more active
monthly users as it replaces some human workers with artificial intelligence.
The social media company's global monthly active users for the
first quarter increased eleven percent year over year two six
hundred and thirty one million, in line with analyst estimates.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
New research is showing that banning cell phones and schools
has some upside for students, but as Roory O'Neal reports,
it's not a cure.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
All the good news. Banning cell phones in schools can
improve mental well being, but the nonprofit National Bureau of
Economic Research found no improvement in test scores or attendance.
Researchers looked at thousands of schools and found that grades
and attendance have not improved following cell phone bans. About
two thirds of the states have pass laws that limit

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cell phone use in school I'm Rory.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
O'Neil, Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio set to meet with
the Pope later this week. US Ambassador to the Holy See,
Brian Birch told reporters he thinks Rubio plans to have
a frank conversation with Pope leoil US policy. I'm Jim
Roope