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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest dukes this hour in just four minutes. An intense
man hunt is under way for nearly a dozen inmates
who escaped a New Orleans jail. Several of them are
accused murderers. Orleans Parish Jail Sheriff Susan Hunton says the

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inmates must have gotten help to escape. The Supreme Court
is extending its block on President Trump using the Alien
Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in
parts of North Texas. The ruling stops the Trump administration
from deporting the migrants under the Act as legal proceedings
take place. Sean Diddy Comb's ex girlfriend's testimony is over

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in his sex crimes trial in New York. Cassie Ventura
testified for four days and said Combs raped her and
forced her to have sex with male prostitutes, and her lawyer,
Doug Wigdor, is glad her ordeal is over.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
He has shown great courage bravery for stepping forward, and
she has now testified throughout this satire week.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Ventura also detailed being assaulted by Combs. President Trump is
on his way home after ending a four day trip
to the Middle East. Before leaving the region, Trump announced
a deal with the United Arab Emirates to operate a
massive data center complex in partnership with US companies. The
New jerseyman convicted in the stabbing of prize winning authors

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Salmon Rushty is headed to prison. Scott Pringle has the story.

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A judge sentence Heidi Matar the max twenty five years
behind bars. Prosecutors say he stabbed Solomon Rushti multiple times
as Rushdie was about to give a speech in Western
New York in twenty twenty two. His attack caused serious
injuries to Rushdie. In February, Matar was found guilty of
attempted murder and assault. He also got seven years in
prison for wounding another man on stage with Rushdie at

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the time of the attack. Rushdie spent years in hiding
after the leader of Iran put a bounty on his head.
In nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
At the closing bell, the Dow gained three hundred thirty
one points, the S and p Ad at forty one points,
and the Nasdaq ROS ninety eight points. I'm Brian Schuck.
A serial killer is dead. Executed Thursday in Florida. Glenn Rogers,
the so called Casanova Killer, was put to death by
lethal injection. He was convicted of a string of murders

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of single mothers stretching from California to Florida starting in
nineteen ninety five. A union representing Starbucks says more than
one thousand baristas at seventy five stores across America are
protesting a new company dress code. Monica Nelson reports the new.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Dress code requires employees to wear a solid black shirt
and khaki, black or blue denim bottoms under their green apron.
Before the new code went into play, they could wear
a broader range of dark colors and patterned shirts. The
union that represents workers at five hundred and seventy of
starbucks ten thousand company owned US stores, Starbucks Workers United,

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said the dress code should be subject to collective bargaining.
Starbucks has said the strikes having a limited impact on
its stores.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
A copy of the Magna Carta that's been sitting in
a Harvard library for eighty years turns out to be
one of the originals from thirteen hundred. Michael Casner has more.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
The New York Times says the fitted parchment was purchased
by Harvard for about twenty seven dollars in nineteen forty six,
and it received little attention until about two years ago.
That's when two British professors stumbled upon it by accident
while looking through the school's digital archives. After some high
tech authenticating, they discovered it was one of the seven
original copies of the Magna Carta from over seven hundred

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years ago, and could be worth millions of dollars. I'm
Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
The popular video game Fortnite is unavailable on iOS platforms.
Epic Games made the announcement this morning after Apple blocked
an effort to get the game back on the app Store.
The game was pulled from the App Store in twenty
twenty after Epic Games updated its software in an effort
to get around Apple's thirty percent commissions. I'm Brian Shuck.