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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.

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Speaker 2: President Trump says he launched Operation Epic Fury because he

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Speaker 2: suspected Iran would attack US forces first. He made the

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Speaker 2: comment while welcoming Germany's leader to the White House today.

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Speaker 3: You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and

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Speaker 3: it was my opinion that they were going to attack first.

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Speaker 3: They were going to attack if we didn't do it,

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Speaker 3: they were going to attack first.

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Speaker 1: I felt strongly about.

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Speaker 2: Trump added that everything has been knocked out in Iran

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Speaker 2: and said he doesn't know who the next group of

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Speaker 2: Iran leaders will be yet, because most of the leadership

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Speaker 2: apparatus is dead. Trump thanked Chancellor Friedrich Mayer for his

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Speaker 2: country support while the US carries out the operation. Trump

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Speaker 2: said some of the European nations have been helpful, some haven't,

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Speaker 2: singling out Spain saying we're going to cut off all

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Speaker 2: trade with Spain. Democrats have set up debate and votes

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Speaker 2: this week on the War Powers Act to halt President

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Speaker 2: Trump from using further military reaction against Iran without congressional approval.

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Speaker 2: The War Powers Act as a nineteen seventy three Vietnam

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Speaker 2: War era resolution meant to check the president's power to

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Speaker 2: enter armed conflict without consent from the legislative branch. A

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Speaker 2: vote could come by Thursday. Stocks are sharply lower on

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Speaker 2: Wall Street as the conflict in the Middle East rages on.

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Speaker 2: The Dow Jones has been down over twelve hundred points

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Speaker 2: at times today. Florida International University professor of Finance d

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Speaker 2: and Butschy says the market is reacting to uncertainty.

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Speaker 1: As a result, you don't know if there's going to

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Speaker 1: be extended periods of time, more loss of life. And

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Speaker 1: what's worse is the chance that it can hit multinational companies,

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Speaker 1: you know abroad.

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Speaker 2: So much of oil comes from the Middle East, so

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Speaker 2: this instability will also cause prices to spike. She says,

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Speaker 2: we saw a similar market reaction after nine to eleven,

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Speaker 2: and most investors who are in the market for the

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Speaker 2: long haul will choose to ride it out. Gas costs

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Speaker 2: are on the rise as well. TRIPAA reports the national

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Speaker 2: average price for a gallon of regular gas jumped eleven

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Speaker 2: cents today to three dollars and ten cents. That's also

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Speaker 2: a fifteen cent increase from this time a week ago.

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Speaker 2: I'm Chris Caragio. A federal appeals court is rejecting a

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Speaker 2: Trump administration request to delay issuing tariff refunds after the

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Speaker 2: Supreme Court rule last month that most of President Trump's

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Speaker 2: global tariffs are illegal. The administration had asked for ninety

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Speaker 2: days to try and find a political solution. The Supreme

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Speaker 2: Court decision ushered in numerous lawsuits seeking refunds from companies,

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Speaker 2: including FedEx and Costco. Monday's ruling lets the process begin now.

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Speaker 2: Severe weather is targeting millions across the South, with the

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Speaker 2: potential to bring thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes. The severe weather

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Speaker 2: season is beginning right on q as a calendar flips

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Speaker 2: to March, and NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has issued severe

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Speaker 2: weather threats beginning today. The storms will be primarily focused

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Speaker 2: across the Central and Southern Plains, as well as the

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Speaker 2: Arkansas Louisiana, Texas region. Conditions are expected to persist through

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Speaker 2: the weekend. The NFL franchise tag window closes today. It

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Speaker 2: opened on February seventeenth, allowing each team to pick one

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Speaker 2: play player who's set to become an unrestricted free agent

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Speaker 2: and keep them on the roster for next season. It

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Speaker 2: costs quite a bit, though, a number based on the

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Speaker 2: top five annual salaries at each position. Only two players

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Speaker 2: were tagged last year, Bengals Wide Receiver T Higgins and

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Speaker 2: Chiefs card Tray Smith. Paramount is set to release thirty

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Speaker 2: films a year in theaters once it merges with Warner

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Speaker 2: Brothers Discovery. Jim Roup has more when.

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Speaker 4: Hews comes after Warner Brothers Discovery has agreed to be

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Speaker 4: acquired by Paramount Skydance for one hundred and ten billion dollars.

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Speaker 4: Paramount CEO David Ellison tells Infestos that they are committed

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Speaker 4: to delivering a broad pipeline of high quality storytelling, including

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Speaker 4: fifteen theatrical films per year per studio. Ellison's also reassuring

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Speaker 4: that the studios will honor a forty five day theatrical

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Speaker 4: window before their film's debut on the streaming services. There

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Speaker 4: is skepticism surrounding the development of enough films, as there

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Speaker 4: is more than seventy eight billion dollars in combined debt

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Speaker 4: between both companies. I'm Jim roop.

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Speaker 2: Ani Music History News. On this date. In nineteen seventy five,

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Speaker 2: Led Zeppelin released their album Physical Graffiti I'm Chris Kiraggio.