USA Radio News 012023 Hour 05

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The USA News. I'm lance Prime. The Treasury Department began
taking special measures to keep paying the government's bills on Thursday.
As the United States is against its borrowing limit.

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The debt selling needs to be lifted.

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But wouldn't it be a normal thing if we're thirty
one trillion dollars in debt?

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Not to just give a blank check.

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Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. With the federal government
maxed out with thirty one point four trillion dollar debt limit,
the Treasury Department began their so called extraordinary measures. These
accounting maneuvers include suspending investments for certain government accounts that
will allow the Treasury Department to keep paying obligations to bondholders,
social Security recipients, and others until early June. Cryptocurrency lender

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Genesis Global and two of its leading subsidiaries filed for
bankruptcy protection late Thursday night in New York, the latest
domino to falls since the failure of Crypto Exchange FTX.
Crypto leader Celsius Networks Out and Voyager Digital Limited filed
for bankruptcy back in July. US drug regulator FDA rejected

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Eli Lilly's new Alzheimer's disease treatment, saying they needed more
data from clinical testing. Lily executives said the setback could
delay a potential commercial introduction of the highly anticipated drug
by at least several months. Rock and Roll Heaven just
got a little bigger. Eighty one year old David Crosby,
the legendary singer, songwriter and founding member of The Birds

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and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, died on Wednesday. Cell
phone provider T Mobile is investigating a data breach that
could affect roughly thirty seven million people. Executives reported Thursday

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that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late
November and stole data on thirty seven million customers. This
is USA News.

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for his religion.

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At both NHL Shop and Phonetics Online. There are no
longer any men's jerseys with his name and number available.
Pravarov was blasted by legacy media outlets for refusing to
wear an LGBT themed warm up jersey during his team's
Tuesday night game against the Anaheim Ducks. Following the match,

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the hockey player said, I respect everybody. I respect everybody's choices,
Pravarov explained to reporters, he is Russian Orthodox and did
not wear the jersey for religious reasons. I'm Victoria Idoni.

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The Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, said Thursday that last
week's computer system outage that temporarily grounded all US airline
departures was caused by the accidental removal of files. The
FAA reported contract personnel unintentionally deleted files while working to
correct synchronization between the live primary database and a backup

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data Alec Baldwin response to manslaughter charges.

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Ali Baldwin's lawyer says the actor had no reason to
believe there was a live bullet in the prop gun
that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchinson on the set of the
film Rust. Baldwin was charged yesterday in New Mexico with
two counts of involuntary manslaughter for Hutchinson's death. Attorney Luke
Nikes said his client had no reason to think live

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