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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour at just four minutes. Pope
Francis's death at the age of eighty eight is setting
off a series of events at the Vatican that starts
with a nine day morning period. Corresponding Claudio Lavagna reports in.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Two days, the Pope will lie in state in Saint
Peter's Basilica, allowing the Catholics and Pilgrims and everyone else
who appreciated and loved the Pope to pay their last respects.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
There will be a funeral within the next four to
six days, followed by a conclave fifteen to twenty days
from now, at which cardinals from around the world will
elect a new pope. Harvard University is suing the Trump
administration in an effort to block the government from freezing
funding to the school. The lawsuit, which was filed in

(00:52):
a US district court in Massachusetts against multiple federal agencies,
is looking to block the administration from and withholding funding
for what it calls leverage to gain control of academic
decision making at Harvard. The wife of former New Jersey
Senator Bob Menendez has been found guilty in her federal

(01:12):
bribery trial. Sara Lee Kessler reports a.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Manhattan jerry found Nadine Menendez guilty on Monday on all
fifteen charges, including conspiracy to commit bribery and extortion. Several
of those charges carry up to twenty years behind bars,
Prosecutors saying Nadine Menendez was a partner in crime with
her husband a go between demanding and collecting bribery payments

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in the form of goldbar's cash and a Mercedes. Bob
Menendez was found guilty last year and will report to
prison to serve an eleven year sentence.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
In June, Justice Samuel Alito is speaking out against his
Supreme Court colleagues for a ruling that temporarily halts deportation
flights under the Alien Enemies Act. Alito sent out his
dissent after the High Court agreed to block any additional
flights that would deport migrants to a prison in El Salvador.

(02:05):
I'm Brian Shook. A number of trees in downtown Los
Angeles were cut down this weekend, apparently by chainsaw wielding vandals.
Tammy Triheo reports.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
The attacks appear to have happened overnight on Friday. Photos
of the downtrees appeared on social media and in the
Los Angeles Times, which reported Sunday they were located along
South Grand Avenue between First Tree and Wilshire Boulevard. Mayor
Karen Bass's city public workscrews are assessing the damage. They'll
be making plans to quickly replace the damaged trees. She
says the lped has opened an investigation into what happened

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and that those responsible will be held accountable. According to
Channel seven, security guards at a pair of area buildings
said surveillance video showed an unidentified vandal riding a bicycle
and in possession of a chainsaw. I'm tammy Triheo.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Congestion pricing is still in place in New York City
despite the federal government's Easter deadline to end the controversial toll.
Governor Kathy Hockel has made it clear she's not about
to turn off the traffic cameras despite federal demands, so
drivers who enter Manhattan below sixtieth Street are still paying
the nine dollars average toll that hokel and the MTA

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claim is needed to upgrade mass transit. A motorcyclist who
was shot to death by Newport Beach California police last week.
Was the brother of a former reality TV star, Daniel
Martindale reports.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Forty five year old Jeffrey Sterling was shot during a
traffic stop last Thursday night. He was the brother of
former Real Housewives of Orange County star Lydia McLoughlin. Police
say Sterling was shot after becoming uncooperative during the traffic
stop and assaulting an officer. He allegedly took an officer's
taser and tried to use it on him before he
was shot. The California Department of Justice is independently investigating

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the shooting.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Sweden's hit reality show is live and offers viewers great
nature shots. The Great Moose Migration began airing Tuesday on
Sweeteme This Public Service Television SVT. I'm Brian Shuck.