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

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Speaker 1: latest use this hour in just four minutes. Iran is

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Speaker 1: launching more attacks against Israel and Gulf states as the

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Speaker 1: war is now in its nineteenth day. The drone and

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Speaker 1: missile attacks come after Israel said it killed another key

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Speaker 1: official in the regime, Iran's intelligence minister. More from Richard Engel.

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Speaker 2: The latest barrage came after Iran promised revenge. Israel yesterday

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Speaker 2: announced it killed Ali Larijani, a powerful hardliner who helped

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Speaker 2: oversee a crackdown on anti government protesters in January.

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Speaker 1: Israel and Saudi officials say its air defenses have been

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Speaker 1: activated to intercept the threats, and there's no word yet

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Speaker 1: on casualties. Meantime, gas prices continue to arise, and there's

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Speaker 1: still no clear word on which nations, if any, will

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Speaker 1: help the US bring the situation in the Strait of

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Speaker 1: Hormuz under control. The Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates steady.

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Speaker 1: It's the second time in a row the Fed has

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Speaker 1: kept rates on shape changed It comes as the Central

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Speaker 1: Bank navigates through some economic uncertainty that's been created by

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Speaker 1: the Iran war. FED chair Jerome Powell warned there won't

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Speaker 1: be another rad cut until the board sees progress on inflation.

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Speaker 1: If we don't see that progress, then you won't see

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Speaker 1: the RAATE cut. Pal says inflation has ease but remains

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Speaker 1: somewhat elevated. The confirmation hearing for President Trump's pick to

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Speaker 1: replace Christy Nomes the Department of Homeland Security chief is over.

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Speaker 1: Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma didn't face a

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Speaker 1: lot of pushback before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, except

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Speaker 1: for one exchange with fellow Republican Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: You told the media that I was a freaking snake

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Speaker 2: and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted.

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Speaker 3: I cant understand why your neighbor by the neighbor did

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Speaker 3: what he did.

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Speaker 1: Mullin also didn't apologize for calling Paul a snake in

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Speaker 1: the grass, but pledged to work with him if confirmed

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Speaker 1: and earn his trust. Mullen is widely expected to get

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Speaker 1: the support of a simple majority in the full Senate vote.

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Speaker 1: And it's hot out there and historic heat wave is

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Speaker 1: taking shape as an extreme heat warning covers nearly twenty

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Speaker 1: million people across the southwest the US Postal Service is

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Speaker 1: warning that it may be unable to pay its workers

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Speaker 1: and vendors by February twenty twenty seven. Postmaster General David

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Speaker 1: Steiner appeared before a House Oversight subcommittee and shared that

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Speaker 1: at its current run rate, the Postal Service quote will

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Speaker 1: be out of cash in less than twelve months. Steiner

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Speaker 1: is pushing for Congress to act quickly to lift borrowing

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Speaker 1: limits and reform outdated regulations. However, lawmakers at the hearings

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Speaker 1: signaled a mix of urgency and caution. A federal judge

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Speaker 1: is blocking Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior from proceeding

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Speaker 1: with an overhaul of the nation's childhood vaccine schedule. Michael

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Speaker 1: Kasner reports.

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Speaker 4: The judge rule that Kennedy changes to vaccine recommendations as

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Speaker 4: well as an influential vaccine advisory committee, violated federal law.

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Speaker 4: Kennedy and the CDC reduced the number of recommended shots

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Speaker 4: from eighteen to eleven, and the new guidance dripped recommendations

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Speaker 4: that all the baby should be protected against hepatitis A,

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Speaker 4: hepatitis B RSV, dingday, and two types of bacterial meningitis.

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Speaker 4: The judges also put a hold on the new members.

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Speaker 4: Kennedy appointed to the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee last June.

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Speaker 4: I'm Michael Kassner.

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Speaker 1: Get ready to pay more at the gas pump again?

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Speaker 1: Tammy Truillo has the numbers.

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Speaker 3: The national average for a gallon of regular is climbed

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Speaker 3: to three dollars and eighty four cents, according to Triple A.

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Speaker 3: That's up from three seventy nine on Tuesday. A week ago.

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Speaker 3: The national average was right around three dollars and fifty

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Speaker 3: seven cents. In California, where prizes are the highest in

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Speaker 3: the country, drivers are paying five point fifty six a

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Speaker 3: gallon on average. Washington State and Hawaii now also have

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Speaker 3: statewide averages above five dollars.

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Speaker 1: Cos Niall Horan is releasing a new album. The former

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Speaker 1: member of One Direction announced his new album, Dinner Party

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Speaker 1: on his social media today. This will be Horn's newest

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Speaker 1: album since twenty twenty three. The lead single of the

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Speaker 1: same name comes out Friday. The project will be available

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Speaker 1: to fans and drops on June fifth. I'm Lisa Carton