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This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. Prosecutors will
seek about four to five years in prison for Sean
Diddy Combs. A New York jury found Combs guilty of
transporting people for prostitution, but not guilty of sex trafficking
and racketeering, so he could be released on bond until sentencing.

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The bail hearing is scheduled for this afternoon. In court today,
prosecutors told the judge the sentencing guidelines range from fifty
one to sixty three months. They added they still don't
want bond given to the hip hop rap mogul. There's
a lot of gop arm twisting going on in the
House as it works to advance President Trump's massive spending bill.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is trying to wrangle Republicans angry

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about the spending increase the Senate put into the measure.
We can't make everyone one hundred percent happy. It's impossible.
This is a deliberated body. It's a legislative process. President
Trump is also meeting with holdouts at the White House.
The bill squeaked through the Senate yesterday with Vice President JD.
Vance forced to cast the tie breaking vote. Family of
Brian Coberger's victims are reacting to today's plea deal connected

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to the murder of four University of Idaho students in
twenty twenty two. A lawyer for the family of twenty
one year old Madison Mogan read a statement, thank you
for all your dedicated, diligent, and tireless commitment to justice
and the successful outcome reach today, But some of the
families are not happy with Coburger's plea deal that takes

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the death penalty off the table in exchange for life
without parole. The father of victim Mckaylee Gonclaves said, we
are beyond furious at the State of Idaho. They have
failed us. Wall Street is closing with stocks mixed. The
S and P five hundred and the Nasdaq both closed
at record highs. It comes after President Trump announced a

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trade deal with Vietnam. Meanwhile, the latest private payrolls report
showed an unexpected decrease last month. At the closing bell,
the Dow Jones Industrial average fell by ten points, the
SSP five hundred rowse by twenty nine points, and the
NASDAK gained one hundred and ninety points. I'm Chris Krajio.

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Some new details are coming out about that dramatic rescue
at sea. The Broward County, Florida Sheriff's Office is investigating
what happened on a Disney cruise ship Sunday. A five
year old girl on the Disney Dream fell overboard from
deck four and her father jumped into SAVR. Crewmembers wound
up rescuing. Both deputies said yesterday that the girl was
not being held when she fell, and she was not

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sitting on the ledge. So far, auth already say there
doesn't appear to be anything suspicious, but they're still investigating
the circumstances. Instagram is adding sound to its sharing of
music from Spotify. Until now, if an Instagram user wanted
to share music from Spotify to Stories, it could only
be done through a link. This causes curious music lovers
to leave Instagram to listen. Now, Instagram is adding sound

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to the Spotify music share to Stories. Instagram says this
could position the app as a hub for music discovery.
Major League stars shohey Otani has reached the thirty home
run mark faster than any other Dodger in history. He
at his thirtieth home run of the season last night,
and the Dodger six to one victory over the Chicago
White Sox in Los Angeles at marks the fifth straight
thirty home run. Season four. Otani nine typop superstars BTS

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are plotting the return. The group announced during a live
stream yesterday that they will be releasing new music next spring,
as well as going out on a world tour. BTS
has been on hiatus since twenty twenty two while members
completed mandatory military service in South Korea. Members also used
the break to work on solo projects. BTS's last album
was released in twenty twenty two, and a music history

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news on this date. Back in nineteen eighty one, Bruce
Springsteen played the first shows ever at the twenty one
thousand seat Brendan Byrn Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey. Tickets
for the sixth show run sold out in about an hour.
Springsteen said he and the EA Street Band felt like
the Beatles because they couldn't hear themselves over the screams
of the fans. I'm Chris Karaji