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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, President Trump
will be placing a one hundred percent tariff on Russia
if there's no peace deal soon. In Ukraine, We're going
to be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have
a deal in fifty days. While meeting with the NATO

(00:22):
Secretary General Mark Ruda, Trump also announced a new deal
to sell top of the line weaponry to NATO, including
defensive Patriot missiles meant for distribution in Ukraine. Former President
Biden says he made every decision on his own when
defending his use of an auto pen while in office.

(00:42):
Biden made the comments in an interview with The New
York Times. During his final weeks as president, Biden granted
clemency and pardoned over fifteen hundred people. The man charged
in the June first fire attack against a pro Israeli
group has a hearing Tuesday. Mohammed Solomon is accused of
killing one person and injuring more than a dozen after

(01:04):
throwing molotov cocktails at a crowd marching in support of
Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. A Virginia military installation
is returning to its original name after several years as
Fort Greg Adams. Chris Kearragio reports.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Officials unveiled a new sign on Friday that renames the
facility as Fort Lee. The change was ordered by President
Trump earlier this year. The Fort is no longer named
for former Confederate General Robert E. Lee, but instead honors
Private Fitzley, a Black soldier from Dinwittie County.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Chris Kearagio reporting. The value of bitcoin is surging as
the House prepares to take up crypto legislation this week.
The price of one bitcoin rose to one hundred twenty
two thousand dollars Monday morning and later fell to around
one hundred nineteen thousand. Bitcoin has been setting new records
over the past week, with the House poise to move

(01:58):
the Genius Act, the Digital Lasset Market Clarity Act, and
the Anti CBDC Surveillance State Act. I'm Brian Schuck. More
information on this month's fireworks warehouse explosion in Yolo County,
California is being released. According to reports, a loophole in
California state law allowed devis Stating Pyrotechnics to obtain a

(02:20):
permit to house explosives at that warehouse. Seven people were
killed in the July first explosion. Hall of Fame quarterback
John Elway will not face criminal charges in connection with
the death of his business partner, Daniel Martindale, reports.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco says investigators found nothing criminal
and he considers the death of tragic accident. Elway's longtime
friend and business partner, Jeffrey Spurbeck, died in April after
falling out of a golf cart that Elway was driving.
Spurbek hit his head on the asphalt and died a
few days later. It happened while Elway and Spurbeck were
in the Coachella Valley for the Stagecoach Country music Festival.

(02:58):
I'm Daniel Martinde.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
American's opinions of immigration are changing, according to a new
Gallup poll. Tammy Trehillo has more.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
The poll, carried out last month, found thirty percent feel
immigration should decrease. That's down substantially from fifty five percent
in twenty twenty four. At the same time, positive views
of immigration are near eighty percent, and that's a record high.
The effect even carries over across party lines. Sixty four
percent of Republicans believing immigration to the US is a
positive thing, a twenty five percent increase from last year.

(03:28):
The number of Republicans who think there should be less
immigration has dropped from eighty eight percent to forty eight percent.
I'm Tammy Trio.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
George Lucas will make his first ever San Diego Comic
Con appearance this year. He'll help close out the convention
with a panel in the famous Hall h to preview
the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that's expected to open
next year in Los Angeles. Although Lucas has never appeared
at one of the world's largest fan gathering, Star Wars

(03:57):
made one of its earliest public promotional appeappearances at the
event in nineteen seventy six. I'm Brian Shuck.