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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This since your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Last month's jobs report is coming in better than expected.
The Labor Department says one hundred seventy seven thousand new
jobs were added last month. The forecast had been for
somewhere in the neighborhood of just over one hundred thirty thousand.
As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial average has been
up over five hundred points in trading today. Mike Waltz's
President Trump's pick to become the US ambassador to the

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United Nations. Trump announced the nomination on the same day
reports surface that walt would resign as his national security advisor.
Walt's face scrutiny for mistakenly adding a reporter to a
signal group chat that discussed plans for a military strike.
President Trump is renewing his call for lower interest rates.
Minutes after the better than expected April jobs report, Trump
wrote on Truth Social no inflation, the Fed should lower

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its rate. The Post urged the Central Bank to cut
rates without mentioning Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell by name
Jerry Select is said to start Monday. In Shaun Dittycombe's
sex trafficking trial. Jennifer PAULSONI reports.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
The fifty five year old hip hop mogul has pleaded
non keilty to federal charges of sex trafficking, transportation to
engage in prostitution, and racketeering conspiracy, all connected to allegations
of abuse that span almost twenty years. Did He also
rejecting a last minute plea deal that would have avoided
a trial set to detail allegations of coercing victims to

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take part in drug fueled sex encounters called freak offs.
Did He has been held for the past several months
in the notorious Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. If convicted, he
faces life in prison. The trial is expected to last
eight to ten weeks. I'm Jennifer PULSONI.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
South Texans will vote in an election on Saturday to
decide whether to convert a small coastal stretch at the
southern tip of the state into a city named Starbase.
The town is home to Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX,
where it designs, builds and launches at Starship Rockets. Voters
will also be choosing the first mayor of the town
and two city commissioners. I'm li Sa Taylor. A second

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teenager is being charged for allegedly setting that massive Jones
Road wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey. Authority say an
unnamed seventeen year old was taken into custody, charged with
aggravated arson and hindering apprehension. Meantime, nineteen year old Joseph Kling,
who was the first person arrested in connection with the blaze,
as a hearing this afternoon to determine if he should
stay in jail. The fires burned more than fifteen thousand

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acres in Barnegut, Ocean and Lacy townships. Creators of the
musical inspired by Luigi Mangioni, are getting some pushback from
New Yorkers. Natalie Migliori has more. I think it's awful.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I feel like they're using the situation as a heco
publicity stn taking seriously at all.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
It comes as creators planned to bring a sixty minute
musical comedy to a small theater in San Francisco with Mangioni,
who's accused of fatally shooting United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
in midtown Manhattan last year at the Center.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, this is good of bad You gonna have fans
for it, and if I guess, some people can make
money off of it. That's how it works a capitalist society.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Meantime, Manngioni's legal team filed a motion to get New
York state charges dismissed against their client, who is set
to go on federal trial in December.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
N FBI whistleblowers running for congress in Arizona, Matt Mattinson
has details.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Jonathan Buoma has filed as a Democrat in the state's
sixth congressional district, where Republican Wan Siscamani is the incumbent.
Buma was charged and marched with illegally disclosing confidential records,
accused of stealing and releasing over one hundred protected FBI files.
The Arizona Republic reports Buma's campaign filings list of Prescott address,

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which is far north of the southern Arizona district he's
aiming to represent. He also claims to be an Arizona
native in those documents.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
The release of the highly anticipated video game Grand Theft
Auto six is being pushed back. Rockstar Games made the
announcement Friday and shared it's now set to release May
twenty six. Twenty twenty six. The action adventure game was
previously on track for a full launch this year. GTA
six is the first major installment in the series in
more than a Dekas Gaide, i'mly S Taylor.