Hi, how's it going? Welcome to a brand new day. It starts now.

It's Thursday, May 4th, 2023. It's first thing with Kevin Mano. Thank you for being here, my friends.

A few celebrity birthdays today before we get to all the headlines. Lance Bass is a year older today.

Aaron Andrews, Will Arnett, a fellow podcaster, Anna Gasdire, and country singer Randy Travis.

He's 64 today. Happy birthday folks. And today...

May 4th, it's Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you. I've got some info on new Star Wars content dropping today.

Some deals out there on this most sacred of days for the Star Wars fans that's coming up.

May the 4th be with you.

Okay, okay, let's jump in here. We'll start with the top story today. We'll start with an update out of Russia.

Yesterday, Russia made the claim that Ukraine attempted to assassinate Vladimir Putin using drones.

They called it a terrorist act. There are videos out there of explosions and smoke around the

Kremlin. Nobody was hurt. Putin wasn't even in the building at the time. Those are the facts.

Beyond that, just a lot of speculation. Ukraine denies having any involvement.

Even the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he can't in any way validate Russia's claims.

He said, quote, we simply don't know. US officials are looking into the alleged attacks.

If this was Ukraine, it'd be a big escalation taking this war straight to the Kremlin.

That's a big move. Or did Russia just want us to think that's what happened. That's called false flag

operation sort of placing the blame on somebody that didn't do it. We don't know. We don't know.

But that's the latest on this war that's now been going on for more than 14 months.

Now let's throw it over to me in our sports department.

Okay, all right. Thank you, Kevin. Yeah, some sports headlines now. Yesterday, I mentioned that

Joel Mbied was crowned the NBA MVP this season. But I thought this was worth mentioning as well for

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