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Speaker 1: News when you want it with Bloomberg News Now, I

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Speaker 1: made Kalengi. The US stopped and bordered a Chinese owned

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Speaker 1: oil tanker in the Caribbean Saturday, after President Trump ordered

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Speaker 1: a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.

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Speaker 1: The Centuries supertanker, laden with up to two million barrels

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Speaker 1: of Venezuelan crued, was flying a Panamanian flag. A Chinese

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Speaker 1: company holds title to the oil. The boarding was reported

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Speaker 1: by outlets including Reuters and Axios. This marks the second

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Speaker 1: tanker intercepted this month by US personnel, but unlike the

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Speaker 1: first vessel, which was intercepted on December tenth, Centuries did

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Speaker 1: not previously appear on US sanctions lists or notices. The

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Speaker 1: Justice Department released thousands of pages of pictures, phone records,

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Speaker 1: and notes from investigations into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,

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Speaker 1: revealing new details about the late financiers' relationships with prominent

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Speaker 1: business leaders and politicians. As with previous disclosures, the documents

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Speaker 1: included images of celebrities and polo titians in Epstein's orbit.

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Speaker 1: Former President Bill Clinton featured prominently in some and Trump

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Speaker 1: administration officials took to social media to highlight pictures of

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Speaker 1: own allegations of sexual abuse. Another photo shows Clinton swimming

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Speaker 1: with Epstein associate Gallaine Maxwell. A Clinton spokesperson, accused the

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Speaker 1: administration of releasing photos of the acts presidents as a

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Speaker 1: diversionary tactic. President Trump has endorsed Nassau County executive Bruce

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Speaker 1: Blakeman for New York governor, a day after Republican representative

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Speaker 1: Atleastfhanic and other longtime ally of the president dropped out

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Speaker 1: with me from the very beginning, adding that Blakeman will

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Speaker 1: work to grow the state's economy and cut taxes. Stephanic

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Speaker 1: was widely expected to be the Republican nominee until Blakeman

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Speaker 1: The lawmaker trailed Hogel by nineteen percentage points, and a

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Speaker 1: Siana Research Institute poll released earlier this week. Blue Origin

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Speaker 1: made history Saturday in West Texas. Bloomberg's Monica Rix has details.

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Speaker 2: Blue Origin launched a six person crew into space Saturday,

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Speaker 2: including the first astronaut in a wheelchair thirty seconds in

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Speaker 2: a flight. Mikaelab Beentos is an aerospace engineer who injured

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Speaker 2: her spinal cord at a mountain biking accident in twenty

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Speaker 2: I think you said never give fampling the dams. The

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Speaker 2: crew flew sixty two miles above Earth in a new

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Speaker 2: Shepherd rocket, which the company says requires less maintenance between flights,

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Speaker 2: saves money, and reduces waste. It was supposed to launch

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Speaker 2: earlier this week, but was scrubbed due to a technical

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Speaker 2: problem with terminal count checks. Monica Rix Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski says the US has offered to

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Speaker 1: hold talks together with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Florida

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Speaker 1: as President Trump's administration pushes for a peace steal. Whether

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Speaker 1: the trilateral talks will take place depends on the US

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Speaker 1: Ukrainian negotiations that started Friday. If they happen, a European

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Speaker 1: delegation that is also now in Florida may join the meeting.

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Speaker 1: Republicans must advance more of President Trump's agenda if they

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Speaker 1: want to avoid a quote disastrous twenty twenty six mid

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Speaker 1: term election. Bloomberg's Amy Morris explains.

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Speaker 3: From Washington, South Carolina Republican Representative Nancy Mays told Bloomberg

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Speaker 3: Government that Republicans need to make a Congressional stock trading ban,

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Speaker 3: term limits, and national voter ID law top priorities. She

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Speaker 3: also advocated for other measures like deporting violent undocumented immigrants

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Speaker 3: and infrastructure improvements. Mace is leaving Congress to run for

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Speaker 3: governor of South Carolina, and she warned that Republicans could

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Speaker 3: lose the House in a quote bloodbath if they don't

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Speaker 3: implement President Trump's agenda. In Washington, Amy Moore as Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Federal government workers may be getting an extra long Christmas

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Speaker 1: weekend this year, but it looks like it might not

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Speaker 1: apply to all of the federal government. Bloomberg's Nathan Hager explains.

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Speaker 4: The Treasury Department says sales of tea bills and coupons

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Speaker 4: after Christmas. That's after President Trump signed an executive order

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Speaker 4: declaring those days federal holidays this year, essentially giving the

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Speaker 4: a little more clarity to financial markets heading into the

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Speaker 4: holiday week. The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq

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Speaker 4: have already said their trading schedules won't change due to

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Speaker 4: the President's order. In Washington, I'm Nathan Hager Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Rolling Stone has confirmed that Nick Reiner had been diagnosed

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Speaker 1: with schizophrenia before he allegedly stabbed his parents to death

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Speaker 1: at a shocking double homicide inside the family's Los Angeles home.

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Speaker 1: Legendary actor and director Rob Reiner and his photographer and

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Speaker 1: producer wife, Michelle Singer Reiner died from multiple sharp force

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Speaker 1: injuries at their Brentwood residence on December fourteenth. Reiner, who

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Speaker 1: was thirty two, has been charged with two counts of

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Speaker 1: first degree murder, with prosecutors identifying the alleged murder weapon

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Speaker 1: as a knife. In the first round of the college

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Speaker 1: football playoffs, Miami defeated Texas A and M ten three

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Speaker 1: Ole miss defeated Tulane, forty one to ten. That's news

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