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With World Radio News, I'm Kent Covington.
In Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the next round of peace talks with Russia
will likely be held in Abu Dhabi early next month.
Special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, an unofficial envoy, Jared Kushner,
met with Ukrainian officials on Thursday.
Those talks focused on post-war reconstruction for Ukraine.
Whitkoff says he's hoping for good news in the coming weeks.
A federal judge has rejected a request to block
construction of a new White House ballroom. World's Kristen Flavin has that story.
U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that a preservation group was unlikely to succeed on the
merits of its bid to halt President Trump's construction project. The new ballroom is being built
where the now demolished east wing of the White House once stood. The group wanted the court to put
a hold on the project until it undergoes multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.
Trump proceeded with the project before seeking input from a pair of
Federal Review panels. One has approved the project. The second is holding a meeting in March.
The White House says the $400 million project is being funded by private donations rather than
taxpayer dollars. For World, I'm Kristen Flavin.
Former President Bill Clinton will testify behind closed doors to lawmakers today about ties
to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified
before the House Oversight Committee on Thursday. Neither are accused of wrong.
doing. Hillary Clinton testified that she has no information about Epstein's crimes and does not
recall meeting him. That was in keeping with her prior public remarks. But oversight committee
chairman James Comer says he's not convinced. If you saw Hillary Clinton's interview a few days
ago, she acted like they barely knew Epstein and Maxwell. Well, that's funny because Epstein
was in the White House 16 times while Bill Clinton was president. And then Bill Clinton flew on his
plane 27 times post-presidency as well.
as Jelaine Maxwell was at a front row seat at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
The testimony was videotaped, but it remains unclear if that footage will be made public.
In a major turnaround, it looks like Paramount may have won the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery.
Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy the studio and streaming business after Paramount raised its offer.
Warner's board announced that the Skydance-owned Paramount's offer was superior to the agreement it had previously struck with Netflix.
Unlike Netflix's bid, Paramount wants all of Warner's operations, including legacy cable networks like CNN and Discovery.
That would put CNN under the same roof as Paramount's CBS and combine two major Hollywood studios.
For World Radio, I'm Kent Covington.
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