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

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Speaker 1: in Kleggi. US Central Command says reports claiming that the

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Speaker 1: US conducted airstrikes in a rock Friday are not true.

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Speaker 1: According to a post on as quote, those reports are

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Speaker 1: not true. The United States has not conducted airstrikes in

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Speaker 1: a rock on Friday, unquote. A military base used by

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Speaker 1: Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces to the south of Baghdad was

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Speaker 1: rocked by a huge explosion late Friday. This according to Reuter's,

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Speaker 1: citing army sources, the blast was a result of an

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Speaker 1: unknown air strike, again Reuter's citing two security sources. A

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Speaker 1: highly anticipated bitcoin software update called the Halving has been completed,

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Speaker 1: dealing a potential blow to the companies that make money

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Speaker 1: by ensuring that the digital currency functions both smoothly and securely.

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Speaker 1: The once every four years event cut in half the

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Speaker 1: so called mining reward, which is the amount of bitcoin

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Speaker 1: released from the network two compensate companies known as miners

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Speaker 1: for validating transactions. The modification went into effect as of

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Speaker 1: eight ten pm Friday evening, New York time. According to

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Speaker 1: data from analytics website memepool, dot space and blockchain dot

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Speaker 1: com The price of bitcoin was little change near the

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Speaker 1: sixty four thousand dollars level following the helving. After most

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Speaker 1: Republicans voted, Democrats rushed to allow the House of Representatives

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Speaker 1: to take up the bills Saturday that will continue to

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Speaker 1: aid Ukraine, Israel, in Taiwan. Bloomberg's IRV Chapman reports from Washington.

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Speaker 2: Chaman Tom Cole of the Appropriations Committee, the United States

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Speaker 2: and our partners have been funding a tender box of

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Speaker 2: uninvited aggression on multiple front. Democrat Theresa Fernandez Conguis is

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Speaker 2: finally going to vote to fund the Fight for Democracy

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Speaker 2: and peace. Republican Chip Roy in opposition to.

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Speaker 1: Give another one hundred billion dollars to fund war unpaid

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Speaker 1: for with zero border security. The a's are three hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixteen the nays or ninety four the resolution.

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Speaker 2: As a di again, Speaker Mike Johnson has reluctantly to

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Speaker 2: accept bipartisan support. In Washington, nerv Chapmain Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio as long stalled Ukraine eight inches ahead on Capitol Hill.

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Speaker 1: NATO is pledging to help plug holes in Ukraine's air defenses.

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Speaker 1: The story from Bloomberg's Nathan Hagar in Washington, NATO Secretary

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Speaker 1: General Jan Stoltenberg met virtually today with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Afterward,

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Speaker 1: he said allies have identified additional air defenses for Ukraine,

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Speaker 1: including Patriot and Samptee systems. Stoltenberg didn't provide specifics on

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Speaker 1: which countries would provide the more how many systems would

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Speaker 1: be coming in, but he said allies that don't have

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Speaker 1: the weapons have promised funding and they're also working to

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Speaker 1: send spare parts for systems that are already in Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: In Washington, I'm Nathan Hager Bloomberg Radio. A man is

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Speaker 1: in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside a

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Speaker 1: courthouse in downtown Manhattan. The individual was transported to New

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Speaker 1: York Presbyterian Wild Cornell Medical Center after he's self immolated

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Speaker 1: at the collect pond, parked directly across the street from

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Speaker 1: the courthouse, where Donald Trump's criminal trial is underway. Video

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Speaker 1: captured by several news outlets showed the fire had been

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Speaker 1: extinguished by police officers. Flyers found that the scene referenced

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Speaker 1: a website with his manifesto it mentions his actions. Wore

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Speaker 1: an extreme active protest done to draw attention to the

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Speaker 1: discovery of a totalitarian con that encompasses everything from Crypto

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Speaker 1: to the Simpsons. Inside the court room. Late Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the former president lost his appeal to halt the trial

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Speaker 1: and move it out of New York City. Also, all

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Speaker 1: six alternate jurors have been selected. Opening statements are Monday.

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Speaker 1: The US Federal Aviation Administration is requiring air traffic controllers

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Speaker 1: to take more time off between shifts to address fatigue

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Speaker 1: risks flagged by a panel of experts. FAA Administrator Michael

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Speaker 1: Whitaker is directing controllers to take ten hours off between

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Speaker 1: shifts and a minimum of twelve consecutive hours off before

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Speaker 1: a midnight shift. He said this in a statement on Friday.

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Speaker 1: The changes will be effective in ninety days. The directive

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Speaker 1: comes after the FAA tapped a three person panel led

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Speaker 1: by Mark Rosekind, a former National Transportation Safety Board member

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Speaker 1: and a sleep expert, in December to review air traffic

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Speaker 1: controller fatigue and identify ways to address the issue. Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift fans got more than a bargained for Friday morning.

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Speaker 1: The pop megastars new album, The Tortured Poets album dropped

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Speaker 1: at midnight, Then two hours later, Taylor revealed it's a

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Speaker 1: double album.

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Speaker 2: Then she rereads the manuscript.

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Speaker 1: The manuscript is one of the fifteen surprise songs in

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Speaker 1: the Tortured Poets departments the anthology even more for Swifties

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Speaker 1: to pour over their licenses. And after two rounds of

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Speaker 1: the RBC Heritage at Hiltonhead, a four way tie at

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Speaker 1: the top JP post in Tom Hose, Sepstraca and Colin

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Speaker 1: Moore Kawa are roll eleven under and share a one

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Speaker 1: shot lead. After the round of golf, they went to

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Speaker 1: the clubhouse and listened to Taylor Swift and that's news

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

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