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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven US update. The

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Speaker 1: latest use this hour in just four minutes. The US

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Speaker 1: and Israel's military operation against Iran remains ongoing. Today is

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Speaker 1: day twelve, and it comes as the UK's Maritime Agency

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Speaker 1: confirmed three ships were hit by projectiles near the Strait

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Speaker 1: of Hormuz, just south of Iran earlier today. Meantime, Iran

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Speaker 1: says it launched the most intense operation since the fighting began.

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Speaker 1: President Trump says he's unaware of a preliminary report that

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Speaker 1: says the US is at fault for a strike on

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Speaker 1: an Iranian elementary school that killed nearly one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy five people. Most of those killed were children. The

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Speaker 1: New York Times story cites US officials and others familiar

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Speaker 1: with the report. Trump was asked about the New York

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Speaker 1: Times story and said he didn't know about that. President

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Speaker 1: Trump is stopping in Ohio and Kentucky today. He visited

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Speaker 1: a pharmaceutical and biotechnology company in Reading, Ohio to discuss

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Speaker 1: his new drug prescription website, Trump bar X. He'll be

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Speaker 1: in Hebron, Kentucky soon to discuss the economy. The security

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Speaker 1: agency in US Cyber Command has a new leader. Senators

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Speaker 1: confirmed General Joshua Rudd with a seventy one to twenty

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Speaker 1: nine vote on Tuesday, after sidestepping Senator Ron Wyden's procedural

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Speaker 1: hold intended to block the confirmation. Widen said Rudd was

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Speaker 1: not qualified for this job, as his predecessor had more

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Speaker 1: than thirty years of experience in the US Air Force

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Speaker 1: and led numerous cyber operations. Iran's soccer team will not

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Speaker 1: participate in this summer's FIFA World Cup. That's according to

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Speaker 1: the country's sports minister, saying conditions are not suitable for

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Speaker 1: Iran to participate. He told Iranian state media what has

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Speaker 1: happened over the past few months have shown the conditions

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Speaker 1: do not exist for their national team to play in

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Speaker 1: the tournament. Taylor Swift is officially doubling her billionaire benchmark.

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Speaker 1: Forbes reports that the Opelight singer's net worth is and

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Speaker 1: estimated two billion dollars. Her fortune includes nearly eight million

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Speaker 1: generated from royalties and touring, a music catalog estimated to

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Speaker 1: be worth about six hundred million, and roughly one hundred

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Speaker 1: and ten million dollars in real estate holdings. I'm Chris Kragio.

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Speaker 1: Home sales are picking up as mortgage rates declined. The

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Speaker 1: National Association of Realtors says existing home sales increased by

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Speaker 1: one point seven percent in February. The group's chief economists

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Speaker 1: decided improving affordability is the key factor. Month over month,

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Speaker 1: sales of previously owned homes rose in the midwest, South,

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Speaker 1: and West, but fell in the Northeast. A blood test

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Speaker 1: could predict a woman's chances of dementia as early as

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Speaker 1: twenty five years before symptoms appear. Scientists with the University

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Speaker 1: of California, San Diego found that higher levels of one

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Speaker 1: particular protein one link to Alzheimer's disease, were linked with

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Speaker 1: future cognitive impairment and dementia compared to those who had

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Speaker 1: no issues at the start of the study. The study

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Speaker 1: was published in the JAMAN Network Open BAM out of

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Speaker 1: Bio is entering the NBA History books. The Heat Center

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Speaker 1: scored eighty three points last night in a one to

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Speaker 1: fifty one to twenty nine win over the Wizards. It's

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Speaker 1: the second most points scored ever in a single game,

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Speaker 1: behind Wilt Chamberlain's one hundred points back in nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: two at a Bio won twenty three of forty three

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Speaker 1: from the floor in thirty six of forty three from

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Speaker 1: the free throw line. Laker's legend Kobe Bryant is the

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Speaker 1: only player ever to reach eighty points or more in

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Speaker 1: a game. He tallied eighty one points against the Raptors

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Speaker 1: back in two thousand and six. I'm just a long

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Speaker 1: side of a senate surgeon for news ways I can

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Speaker 1: give go, Jelly Rowl is giving thanks to God after

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Speaker 1: his induction into the Grand Old Opry in Nashville last night.

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Speaker 1: The multi Grammy Award winner was welcomed into the coveted

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Speaker 1: circle by friend and fellow country musician Landy Wilson. Jelly

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Speaker 1: Roll performed some of his big hits before talking about

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Speaker 1: the grace of God that allowed a kid who spent

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Speaker 1: time in juvenile detention to now stand on such an

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Speaker 1: iconic stage and in music history. News on this date.

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Speaker 1: Back in nineteen ninety seven, Paul McCartney became Sir Paul

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Speaker 1: McCartney when he received his knighthood from Britain's Queen Elizabeth

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Speaker 1: for his songwriting and his overall effort it's in revolutionizing

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Speaker 1: pop music. I'm Chris Caraccio