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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.

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Speaker 2: Japan's first female Prime Minister is meeting with President Trump

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Speaker 2: today at the White House. It comes as the President

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Speaker 2: calls on allies, including Japan, to help secure the Strait

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Speaker 2: of Hormuz. Iran has repeatedly attacked tankers in the vital waterway,

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Speaker 2: whereabout one fifth of the world's oil passes through, which

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Speaker 2: has led to a surge in gas prices in the US.

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Speaker 2: It is now day twenty of Operation Epic Fury, and

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Speaker 2: the warren Iran is showing no signs of winding down.

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Speaker 2: NBC's Richard Engel reports that, according to a social media

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Speaker 2: post by the President, Israel attacked a major Iranian gas

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Speaker 2: field yesterday out of anger without giving the US the

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Speaker 2: heads up.

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Speaker 3: In his post, President Trump continued that if Iran attacks

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Speaker 3: Cuttler again, the US will massively blow up the entirety

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Speaker 3: of the South Pars gas field at an amount of

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Speaker 3: strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed.

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Speaker 2: Before that has sent oil prices up further. In retaliation, overnight,

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Speaker 2: Iran struck more oil and gas sights in Saudi Arabia,

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Speaker 2: Cutter the UAE and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia's foreign minister

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Speaker 2: says they are losing patients with Iran and its attacks

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Speaker 2: on its neighbors in the Middle East. The Senate Homeland

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Speaker 2: Committee advanced Senator Mark Wayne Mullen's nomination to lead the DHS.

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Speaker 2: Kentucky Senator Ran Paul was the only Republican to vote no,

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Speaker 2: while Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman voted yes. Yesterday, Paul

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Speaker 2: accused Mullen of having anger issues. First time jobless benefits

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Speaker 2: saw a dip last week. The Labor Department says it

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Speaker 2: received two hundred and five thousand initial requests in the

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Speaker 2: week ending March fourteenth. That's down eight thousand from the

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Speaker 2: previous week's revised total and less than the two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifteen thousand most analysts were expecting. The NCAA Men's

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Speaker 2: basketball Tournament tips off today. There are sixteen first round

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Speaker 2: games on the schedule overall. Number one see Duke will

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Speaker 2: take on Siena at two fifty pm Eastern meantime. South

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Speaker 2: Region Number one on Michigan will play Howard at seven

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Speaker 2: to ten pm Eastern. I'm Chris Krajio, actor Sean penn

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Speaker 2: is being hailed as a great friend of Ukraine for

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Speaker 2: his decision to skip the twenty twenty six Oscars Award

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Speaker 2: ceremony and proceed with his trip to the war torn country.

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Speaker 2: More from Mark Mayfield.

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Speaker 1: Pen Is third Oscar for his supporting role as Colonel

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Speaker 1: Lockshaw in the film One Battle after Another. The actor

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Speaker 1: was not present to collect his trophy, but the CEO

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Speaker 1: of Ukrainian Railways resented Ben with an iron Oscar crafted

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Speaker 1: from railcar medal that survived a Russian missile attack, and

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Speaker 1: also gathered praise from Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky for his

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Speaker 1: activism efforts.

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Speaker 2: The US Postal Service is warning that it may be

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Speaker 2: unable to pay its workers and vendors by February of

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Speaker 2: next year. Postmaster General David Steiner appeared before a House

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Speaker 2: Oversight subcommittee and shared that at its current run rate,

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Speaker 2: the Postal Service will be out of cash in less

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Speaker 2: than twelve months. Steiner is pushing for Congress to act

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Speaker 2: quickly to lift borrowing limits and reform outdated regulations. However,

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Speaker 2: lawmakers at the hearings signaled a mix of urgency and caution.

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Speaker 2: California is recording the hottest winter day in US history.

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Speaker 2: A weather station in the Coachella Valley yesterday recorded a

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Speaker 2: temperature of one hundred and eight degrees that ties a

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Speaker 2: record set in Texas in nineteen oh two for the

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Speaker 2: hottest winter day ever. The National Weather Service says the

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Speaker 2: measurement is still preliminary. Heat records were also set in

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Speaker 2: other parts of the Southwest. Las Vegas recorded an all

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Speaker 2: time March high of ninety four degrees. Phoenix hit one

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Speaker 2: hundred and two degrees yesterday, which was the earliest day

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Speaker 2: in the year that the famously hot city has ever

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Speaker 2: reached one hundred. Finland is still the world's happiest country.

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Speaker 2: The World Happiness Report is out with its annual list

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Speaker 2: of the happiest countries on Earth, and for the ninth

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Speaker 2: year in a row of Finland is ranked number one.

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Speaker 2: Iceland claimed second place, followed by Denmark and third. The

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Speaker 2: US once again failed to crack the top ten, coming

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Speaker 2: in twenty third this year. Animusic History News on this date.

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Speaker 2: Back in two thousand and one, aerosmith Steely, Dan Queen

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Speaker 2: and Paul Simon were among the inductees into the Rock

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Speaker 2: and Roll Hall of Fame. I'm Chris Kragio,