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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, a phone call between President Trump
and Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war with Ukraine
is over. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said Trump will call
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski after the call. Tromp has urged
the two sides to reach a ceasefire deal.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
He has made it clear to both sides that he
wants to see a peaceful resolution in a ceasefire as
soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Leaders from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy spoke with Trump yesterday.
Former President Joe Biden is dealing with an aggressive form
of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. In
a post today on ex Biden noted that cancer touches
us all. It's been ten years since Biden lost his
son Bo to brain cancer. More for Malice Barr.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Former Vice President Kamala Harris sing Joe is a fighter
who will face this challenge with strength, resilience, and optimism.
President Trump writing that he and the First Lady are
saddened to hear about the diagnosis and wish Joe a
fast and successful recovery.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
The former president, thanking well wishers for lifting up his family.
A spokesman for Biden says the diagnosis came after doctors
found a nodule on his prostate Friday that required further evaluation.
New Yorkers are honoring the two cadets killed in Saturday's
crash of a Mexican Navy ship into the Brooklyn Bridge.
Maria Mejia was among those who attended a huge gathering
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Sunday night at Peer thirty six, where the ship is docked.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
We feel it for the parents, We feel it for
the month, We feel it for everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
People brought items like flowers, candles, and notes. More than
twenty others were injured. Officials think the ship lost power
and then drifted backward into the bridge. The WNBA's opening
week action resumes tonight. Number one draft pick Paige Becker's
and the Dallas Wings will host the Seattle Storm at
eight pm Eastern. Both teams are coming off losses in
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their season openers. Meanwhile, the reigning chain Camia New York
Liberty will travel to Chicago on Thursday to take on
Angel Reese and The Sky I'm Lisa Carton. The US
military will be conducting a test launch of an unarmed
nuclear missile from northern Santa Barbara County, California. Daniel Martindale
has a preview.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
The launch from Vandenburgh Space Force Base is scheduled for
sometime early Wednesday morning, between twelve oh one am and
five oh one am local time. The weapon being tested
as a Minutemen three intercontinental ballistic missile. Military officials say
the launch's routine and was scheduled years in advance.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
SpaceX as the go ahead from the Federal Aviation Administration
to launch up to twenty five rockets a year from
its South Texas base. Michael Kassner reports.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
The company was previously licensed to complete only five launches annually.
IFAA announced late last week that it had approved some
modifications to the Starship Flight nine, the company's next rocket,
though the agency stopped short of full approval for a
launch just yet. Elon Musk's Space company has been testing
its rockets on the Rio Grande Valley Beach since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
A Fairfax County, Virginia teen is preparing for the script's
National Spelling Bee. Rossio Rivera has details.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Eighth Greater Nikita Rama Krishnan is headed to Maryland to
compete in the one hundred edition of this spelling Bee.
She says she's studied several hours a day by herself
and with family to prepare for the competition. Nikita won
the twenty twenty five Fairfax County Spelling Bee this March
and says she's hopeful to do well at Scripts. She'll
be competing against more than two hundred and forty students
from around the country. The spelling Bee will take place
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May twenty seventh through the twenty ninth at the Gaylord
National Resort and Convention Center at National Harbor, Maryland.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
The viewers have spoken and American Idol has crowned a
new winner. The fan vote, the majority of all twenty
six million of them, revealed twenty seven year old Mississippi
pe teacher Jamal Roberts as the latest winner. John Foster
and Brianna Nix were the runners up. With his win,
Roberts became the first black man to earn the title
since He's and two's Reuben Studdard in two thousand and three.
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I'm Lisa Carton