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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. The White
House says President Trump has a time frame for when
he will make his decision about possible US intervention in
the Iran Israel conflict.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I have a message directly from the President, and I quote,
based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of
negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran
in the near future. I will make my decision whether
or not to go within the next two weeks.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said if there is a chance
for a diplomacy, the President will grab it. Levitt said
correspondence between Iran and the US is ongoing. There has
been wide speculation whether Trump will authorize the use of
US bunker busting bombs to take out Iranian nuke facilities.
The President has long maintained Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
A federal appeals court is ruling in favor of the

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Trump administration regarding the deployment of the California National Guard.
Tammy true Hero reports.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says the President is within
his rights to deploy troops amid protests in southern California
over immigration raids. The ruling by the three judge panel
allows nearly four thousand National Guard troops to remain deployed
in Los Angeles. Governor Newsom sued the President over his
decision to deploy the California Guard. Last week, a federal
judge agreed with Newsom and ruled that Trump's actions were illegal.

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I'm tammy trhio.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
THEFDA has approved a powerful drug that's been shown to
nearly eliminate the spread of HIV in clinical trials. It's
a twice yearly injectable from Gilead Sciences called YES two Go.
Despite the decline of new diagnoses, one point one million
Americans are living with HIV. The S two GO shot
was first approved in twenty twenty two to be used
in connection with other medications to treat HIV strains that

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are highly drug resistant. With the FDA's approval, Gilead's chairman
says it could end the HIV epidemic once and for all.
And a heat dome is bringing extreme heat and humidity
to more than two hundred million Americans. Extreme heat watches, warnings,
and advisories are already in effect where parts of the Southwest,
Rockies Plains, Upper Midwest, and Northeast. I'm Mark Mayfield. A

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federal judge is blocking President Trump from tying states transportation
funding to immigration enforcement. Chris Garagio explains.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
The judge in Providence, Rhode Island granted a request from
twenty Democratic led states to bar the administration from implementing
the policy. The plan would force the states to cooperate
with immigration authorities in order to get billions in transportation
grant funding. The states argued the plan is unlawful and
the US Transportation Secretary lacks the authority to impose such
conditions on funding. In the injunction, the judge said the

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states were likely to succeed on the merits of their claims.
I'm Chris Krajio.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
The last American hostage should be freed by Hamas returned
to his home of Tennifly, New Jersey yesterday. Lisa Taylor reports.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
E Don Alexander was set free last month after being
in captivity for nearly six hundred days. Hundreds of people
gathered for an afternoon celebration in downtown Tenafly for the
twenty one year old. The Tenafly High School grad signed
up to join the Israeli Defence Forces when he was eighteen.
He was captured during the Hamas October seven, twenty twenty
three attack on Israel.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Ainley Se Taylor, a Texas Christian school, finds itself in
the spot line on account of its connection to the
alleged Minnesota political assassin. He suspected shooter, Vance Luther Bolter,
graduated from Christ From the Nation's School in Dallas in
nineteen ninety. In a statement, the school said it was
shocked by the accusations against Bolter, who graduated with a
diploma in practical theology and Leadership and pastoral He's charged

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with murder and attempted murder in a series of shootings
that happened last Saturday morning. Lou Christi, who had a
number one hit in nineteen sixty six with The Lightning Strikes,
has died at the age of eighty two. He died
earlier this week at his Pittsburgh home, and two new
releases this weekend will likely be in the running for
second place at the box office. Twenty eight years later,
is expected to make between twenty eight and thirty million
dollars in his debut. Meanwhile, Pixar's Elio is looking to

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collect between twenty five and thirty million dollars in its
first outing in theaters. That will probably not be enough
to dethrone the live action adaptation of Out A Train
Your Dragon, which is expected to make between forty and
forty three million dollars in its second week of release.
I Mark Mefield