Controversial Weapons, 'Forever Chemicals' in Water & Twitter Threatens Threads- Friday, July 7, 2023
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 7 July 2023
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The news to know for Friday, July 7, 2023!
We're talking about the weapons the U.S. plans to send Ukraine and why they're so controversial.
Also, we'll tell you what a new federal study found about chemicals in America's drinking water and what you can do about it.
Plus, a big step toward getting more Americans a breakthrough Alzheimer's treatment, how Twitter is responding to a new Meta app that's become the most rapidly-downloaded app in history, and which one of the world's most popular bands just announced its final tour.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, July 7th. |
| 0:02.7 | What to know about the weapons, the U.S. now plans to send to Ukraine and why they're |
| 0:06.6 | so controversial. |
| 0:07.9 | Also, we'll tell you what a new federal study found about chemicals in America's drinking |
| 0:12.6 | water and what you can do about it. |
| 0:15.1 | Plus a big step toward getting more Americans a breakthrough Alzheimer's treatment. |
| 0:19.2 | How Twitter is responding to Meta's new app Threads as it becomes the most rapidly |
| 0:23.3 | downloaded app ever. |
| 0:25.3 | And which one of the world's most popular bands just announced its final tour? |
| 0:29.7 | Those stories and more news to know coming up. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy, all the day's news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:38.9 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Air Commandy, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:44.1 | You ready? |
| 0:45.1 | Let's do this. |
| 0:49.0 | Ukraine is getting another big boost from the United States, but this one is pretty controversial. |
| 0:54.4 | Reports say the Biden administration is set to make an announcement today that it will |
| 0:58.0 | send cluster munitions, or cluster bombs, as some people call them. |
| 1:02.4 | There are a type of rocket, bomb, or missile that release tens or hundreds of smaller explosive |
| 1:07.0 | munitions when fired, but here's why they're especially controversial. |
| 1:11.0 | The International Committee of the Red Cross says between 10 and 40 percent of cluster bombs |
| 1:16.2 | fail to explode on impact, like they're supposed to. |
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