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Hollywood Actors Strike, Arizona Heat, U.S. Deficit Jumps

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Daily News, News

4.552.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Hollywood actors' union votes to strike. Extreme heat chokes Phoenix, Arizona. And the federal government's budget deficit nearly tripled in the first nine months of the fiscal year.

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0:00.0

Sunny and 70, that's gonna be my disposition when I turn 70.

0:03.8

Well, I'm gonna be cloudy, I think.

0:06.6

I'll be dark and stormy.

0:08.6

But with a little bit of lightning and some thunder.

0:13.4

Hollywood actors walked out on the major studios

0:16.6

calling executives greedy.

0:18.4

It is disgusting.

0:20.5

Shame on them.

0:22.0

So what split of the profits will get Hollywood back up and running?

0:25.5

I'm Steve Innskipe with A. Martinez,

0:27.3

and this is up first from NPR News.

0:30.9

The heat wave is pounding much of the country,

0:34.6

and it's even worse in Phoenix,

0:36.7

where temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees every day

0:40.7

for two weeks.

0:41.9

How does the urban landscape make it worse?

0:44.4

The dark, hard surfaces in the city

0:47.4

tends to be really good at absorbing and retaining heat.

0:50.9

And the government deficit sounds pretty massive.

0:53.2

It now totals nearly 1.4 trillion dollars.

0:56.5

So just what exactly is the cost borrowing

0:58.6

and how lawmakers trying to figure things out?

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