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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. Several B
two stealth bombers are on their way to Guam as
President Trump weighs US military options in the Middle East.
Trump is set to return to the White House for
an evening meeting with his national security advisors. The long
range bombers are the only aircraft equipped to deliver the

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thirty thousand pound bunker buster bombs that could be used
against Iran's underground nuclear fuel enrichment plan. Meantime, the Israeli
military says its fighter jets struck dozens of targets in
the southwest of Iran today, including missile and radar sites.
A Columbia University graduate student and pro Palestinian activist released
from ICE detention says he will not be silenced. Machmud

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Khalil arrived at Newark International Airport today, one day after
he was released from a detention center in Louisiana following
a federal judge's order. Khalil spoke to reporters saying his
message will not be suppressed. He helped organize pro Palestinian
protests on the Columbia University campus and he was arrested
by ICE agents in March. In New York City, California,

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Senator Alex Padilla is slamming Vice President JD. Vance for
referring to him yesterday as Jose.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
He's the Vice president of the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Do you think he'd take the situation in Los Angeles
more seriously? Padilla drew attention last week when he was
put in handcuffs and forcibly removed from the Department of
Homeland Security Chair Christy Nomes press conference. During a press
conference in Los Angeles yesterday, Vance called the Senator Jose
Padia and accused him of trying to create theater at

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nomes presser. Padilla said today that Vance knows his name
and said it's just an indicator of how petty and
unserious this administration is. Jose Padia is the name of
a convicted American terrorist with ties to Al Qaeda. At
least ten people are in the hospital after a yacht
crashed into a peer in New York City today. Officials
say that yacht was carrying about four hundred people when

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it slammed into a dock on the Hudson River. The
cause of the accident is unclear. All of the passengers
have been unloaded off the ship. I'm Chris Kratio. Honolulu
is once again the most desirable city in the US
to live in, but it isn't among the top twenty
in the world. The rankings come from the Economist Intelligence
Unit's Global Liveability Index and are based on stability, healthcare, culture,

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and environment, plus education and infrastructure. Honolulu tops the country
ranking for the third straight year. Atlanta comes in second,
while Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Washington, d C. Round out the
US top five. Worldwide, Honolulu comes in at number twenty three.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
What Your Maga.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Bruce Springsteen is calling the Trump administration an American tragedy.
The rock star has long been a critic of Trump
and didn't mince words. In an interview published Wednesday in
The New York Times, Springsteen called Trump a demagogue and
said he came to power because of the de industrialization
of the country and what he called the incredible increase
in wealth disparity that's left so many people behind. On Wednesday,

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the first trailer was also released for the new Springsteen biopic,
Deliver Me from Nowhere, which comes out in October. The
Rock and Roll Hall of Famers currently on tour across
Europe with his E Street Band. A singer who made
waves last weekend when she sang the Star Spangled Banner
in Spanish before a Dodgers game is getting a new audience.
Columbian Dominican entertainer Neza attended Wednesday's La City Council meeting,

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where she sang the national anthem in Spanish once again.
She made headlines when she sang the song in Spanish
last weekend after being told by a Dodger representative to
sing it in English. She has said with all of
the immigration issues going on in Los Angeles currently, she
had to do what she felt was right. Nesa has
claimed that the Dodgers have told her representatives that she's

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not welcomed back, though the Dodgers claimed no such conversation
happened and they not mad Atnesza's decision to sing the
anthem in Spanish. I'm Chris Caragio.