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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Democrat and Republican senators are speaking after an INTEL briefing
on the Iran strikes. Tom Cotton of Arkansas says, between
the Israeli and US strikes, Iranians nuclear ambitions were dealt
a serious blow.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You look at the whole span of what happened over
twelve days. That's why we're confident that we have had
an extraordinary success.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Cotton added, the vital components within the chain for Iran
to build a nuke were destroyed. Meanwhile, Connecticut's Chris Murphy
said Iran's nuclear program has been damaged, but not obliterated,
as President Trump maintains. The President says his Big Beautiful
Bill is the most important piece of legislation in US history.

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At an event meant to drum up support for the bill,
Trump was flanked by working Americans wearing the uniforms of
their employers. Trump said the spending bill would benefit the
middle class Americans joining him. Planned Parenthood has suffered a
major setback after the Supreme Court blocked it from suing
South Carolina over medicaid funding cuts. The organization was looking

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to challenge this state from banning it from taking part
in the Medicaid program because of the abortion care it provides.
The wife of the man accused of shooting two Minnesota
leaders and their spouses is speaking out for the first time.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Chris Carragio reports Jenny Belter released a statement today through
her lawyer, offering her sympathies to the victims and their families.
She added that she is cooperating with authorities as they
investigate her husband, Vance Belter, he allegedly posed as a
police officer and gunned Downhouse speaker Melissa Hortman and her
husband on June fourteenth. Belter is also accused of shooting

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and wounding State Senator John Huffman and his wife. I'm
Chris Krajio.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
At the closing bell, the DOW gained four hundred four
points to forty three three eighty six, the S and
P rows forty eight points to sixty one one, and
the NASTAK gained one hundred and ninety four points to
twenty one sixty seven. I'm Brian Shook. The FAA is
investigating after an American Airlines flight was forced to return
to Las Vegas with flames and smoke coming out of

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its engine. Flight sixteen sixty five was headed for Charlotte
Wednesday morning with one hundred and fifty three passengers on board,
but had to turn around after the engine caught fire
minutes after takeoff. All the passengers got off safely. Krispy
Kreme and McDonald's are ending their partnership. Tammy Treheo reports.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
McDonald's locations we'll stop offering Krispy Kreme donuts on July second.
The decision comes after the two companies put their partnership
on hold in May. The deal was first announced in
late twenty twenty three, with the idea of making Krispy
Kreme donuts available at McDonald's locations nationwide. By twenty twenty six,
Krispy Creme CEO Josh Charlesworth said the partnership became unstable

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due to costs. I'm Tammy Tricheo.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
The New York City Parks Department is celebrating the start
of the pool season. Jennifer POULSONI has.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
More The New York City Parks Department kicking things off
at a new huge pool located at the northern end
of Central Park. After years of work It's one of
the largest public pools in the city, part of the
new one hundred and sixty million dollars Davis Center at
the Harlem Mere, accommodating more than one thousand swimmers. With
New York City public schools letting out Thursday for summer,

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lifeguards will be available to man their posts for outdoor
public pools to open citywide Friday through September seventh. Pool
hours eleven am through seven pm daily. I'm Jennifer PULSONI.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
A famous piece of eighties movie clothing is bringing in
big bucks on the auction block. The brown patterned vest
worn by actor Matthew Brodrick as the title character in
nineteen eighty six. Ferris Bueller's Day Off went for nearly
two hundred eighty thousand dollars Tuesday. That's still less than
what Southeby's New York predicted, with earlier estimates expecting between

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t three hundred thousand and six hundred thousand dollars. I'm
Brian Shuck.