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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):
President Trump banned First Lady Milania Trump will be in
Texas tomorrow to tour the area where flash flooding has
claimed at least one hundred twenty lives, with another one
hundred and seventy people missing. Emma Guavara Cole, who managed
to escape her flooded Kerr County home, says the only
warning she got about the rising water was a call
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from her cousin in San Antonio told me that I'd
better go tell my neighbors. I'm like, what now, all
of a sudden efing just happened really fast. New Jersey
Senator Corey Booker and fellow Democratic Senator Alex Padia of
California are looking to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents
from concealing their identities when conducting arrests. They've introduced a
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bill that bans ICE agents from wearing masks and requires
them to display their agency name and either their name
or badge number. The CEO of X is stepping down
Ira Spitzer with the story.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Linda Yakarino announced her departure in a post on X
thanking Elon Musk and without giving a reason for the move.
The former NBC Universal executive oversaw a tumultuous period in
the company's history, which began with Musk's forty four billion
dollar purchase of Twitter in twenty twenty two, and that
saw the staff reduced by around seventy five percent and
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a loosening of speech restrictions on the platforms, all directives
from Musk himself. Jackarino then had the difficult task of
appeasing advertisers who were nervous about the uptick in divisive
and offensive content on the platform.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Members of the US Senative unanimously approved legislation authorizing Lulu's Bill.
The bill, sponsored by Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt, is
named after a teenager who suffered a serious shark attack
last year in the Florida Panhandle. It directs THEFC to
use wireless emergency alerts whenever sharks are spotted in coastal waterways.
I'm Michael Kassner. The Trump administration has pushed back the
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deadline for an agreement to be reached to August first,
when tariffs on European goods could jump to fifty percent.
The EU is expected to agree to a baseline tariff
of ten percent, but is seeking carve outs for certain
types of products. False reports of ice raids across southern
California are causing fear and confusion. Jim Roop with more.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
A social media alert of an ice raid at a
McDonald's in Riverside turned out to be a police investigation.
An alert of an ice raid at a tire shop
in Harupa Valley was actually just a park ranger getting
new tires on his work truck. There are many of
these every day, the Orange County Register reports. Officials with
the independent political organization Union del Barrios say while these
alerts are well intentioned, most of them are false. People
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are encouraged to gather more information before posting an alert.
I'm Jim Roup in New York or Rockland County high
school student has been really by ice, while another student
on Long Island is hoping for the same result after
being detained by ice.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Scott Pringle with more.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Alan Pierre of Spring Valley was taken into custody by
ice a month ago. During a hearing, a Congressman Mike
Lawler and Senator Chuck Schumer stepped in to help with
his release. He was back with family on Wednesday. Meanwhile,
on Long Island, suffer Community College student Sarah Lopez Garcia
is in ice custody. Her fiancee Santiago says she's seeking
legal status.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ihar's a lot because we really a dree with this.
We really been waiting a long time for this moment.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Santiago's now raising money on a go Fundme page to
pay for her legal battle to prevent deportation.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Superman is looking to fly to a big start at
the box office. That James Gunn directed film is hoping
to collect one hundred and twenty to one hundred and
thirty million dollars domestically in its debut weekend. It's expected
to make around one hundred million internationally as well. Superman
is the first film of the new DC Universe. I'm
Michael Cassner.