Pooh turns 100, Congo money dispute, AI dream girl

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWinnie the Pooh turns one hundred this month, and CBS says the bear was born in England but won over Americans almost at once.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA hundred years, and he still hasn't put on pants. That's the confidence I want in my second act.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNow to Washington, where investigators are examining a seventeen million dollar movement from a Congo government account into a Texas defense firm's bank records.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe New York Times says Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon give different accounts of it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo accounts of one transfer. I'd call that a diversity of recollection.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSeventeen million dollars, and nobody can agree on the story. Somebody check the couch cushions.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd a Brazilian bricklayer, Edmir Martins, sold everything he owned and traveled more than twelve hundred miles to meet the woman he hoped to marry.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe New York Post reports the woman existed only as an AI-generated image. Twelve hundred miles by bus for someone who was never real.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOh, Chip. He wasn't catfished, he was introduced to a very flexible partner who simply wasn't available in person.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwelve hundred miles on a bus for a woman made of pixels.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe still came out ahead of the Congo money, because he can say exactly where his went.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOnly one story today has been told the same way for a hundred years, and it's about a bear.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSkip, what are you standing next to tonight?