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🗓️ 24 March 2025
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U.S. officials are meeting with Russian officials Monday for talks in Saudi Arabia.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes explains that experts warn federal spending cuts will make the country sicker and poorer as healthcare costs rise without new treatments.
An independent government watchdog agency will review the health and safety effects of President Donald Trump's mass firings.
USA TODAY Investigative Reporter Kenny Jacoby discusses how an NHL team's executives milked youth hockey families for profit.
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0:00.0 | Thanks to Dana Farber's foundational work, protein degradation can target and destroy cancer-causing |
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0:19.4 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. And today is Monday, March 24th, 2025. This is the exit. |
0:29.3 | Today, the latest on Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks and what the U.S. role is. Plus, some experts |
0:34.7 | warn that federal spending cuts jeopardize medical advances, and how executives |
0:39.0 | at an NHL team milk youth hockey families for profit. U.S. and Russian officials began talks in Saudi |
0:47.2 | Arabia earlier today aimed at making progress toward a ceasefire in Ukraine. The U.S. is currently |
0:52.6 | looking at a separate Black C ceasefire deal before a |
0:55.5 | potential wider agreement. Today's talks come after negotiations with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia yesterday. |
1:01.6 | President Donald Trump has pushed to end the conflict speaking with both Ukrainian President |
1:05.9 | Vladimir Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. But talks come amid skepticism from some in Europe |
1:12.5 | about whether Putin is ready to make concessions. Trump said over the weekend that efforts to stop |
1:17.4 | further escalation in the Ukraine-Russia conflict were somewhat under control. |
1:26.4 | Experts are warning that federal spending cuts jeopardized decades of medical advances. |
1:31.5 | I spoke with USA Today, national correspondent Trevor Hughes, for more. |
1:35.5 | Taddy, Trevor. Hey, how's it going? |
1:37.4 | Good kid. Thanks for wrapping on on this another important story from you, Trevor. |
1:40.4 | So I just want to start by hearing a little bit about Ann Morgan Giroux. |
1:44.1 | This is |
1:44.3 | who you mentioned at the top of this story. What can you tell us about her and her family's |
1:48.1 | background on this? They had a daughter who was born with epilepsy. And epilepsy affects a surprising |
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