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Good morning! Today is Thursday, the 30th of April, 2026 and this is the Thursday Morning Edition of GEORGE. Contentious high-level meetings dominated the news cycle as meetings of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee and the Federal Open Market Committee of the U.S. Federal Reserve System both met. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified over the course ...