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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest US this hour. In just four minutes, House Republicans
have cleared a procedural hurdle to unlock consideration of three
cryptocurrency bills, a move that will unfreeze the floor after
two days. House voted two hundred and seventeen to two
hundred and twelve to advance the crypto legislation, with most
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GOP lawmakers who opposed flipping. With the rule adopted, the
House canw debate and hold final passage votes. President Trump's
the media and some Republicans are wasting time on what
he calls the Epstein hoax. Trump spoke to reporters Wednesday
in the Oval Office and was asked about the contentious
dog investigation into the late sex trafficker that even some
Republicans have questioned.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats,
and some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Trump added he was surprised some Republicans got duped and
followed the Democratic playbook of going after him with false stories.
Comparing Epstein to the Russia hoax, He President again stood
by Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying she only released what
she thought is credible from the Epstein files. Speculation on
the future of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had Wall
Street experiencing whiplash on Wednesday. Ryan Shook explains.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Initial reports that Trump's firing of Powell seemed imminent came
out during morning trading, sparking a mini selloff, But when
Trump clarified that he had no plans to fire Powell,
the markets quickly rebounded, proving the old axiom that investors
like certainty. The President has been highly critical of Powell's
refusal to cut interest rates. I'm Brian Shook, and the
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ring leader of.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
The Varsity Blues college admission scandal can keep running at
college admissions and life coaching business as long as he
tells his clients about his criminal past. William Rick Singer
was sentenced to forty two months in prison in twenty
twenty three for his role in a multi million dollar
scam that included bribing test proctors and administrators to help
get rich kids into elite schools. A federal judge in
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Massachusetts ruled Monday that cantinuing to offer his services shouldn't
be a problem as long as he prominently discloses his
crimes are Mark Mayfield. People in the US convicted of
fentanyl related crimes can now FeAs harsher penalties. This after
President Trump signed a bill Wednesday targeting fentanyl trafficking and.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Illicit drugs decimated American communities and left US with the
largest law enforcement challenge in our country's history.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Families impacted by the fentanyl crisis stood behind Trump at
the White House bill signing ceremony. Trump said his administration
has declared an all out war against dealers and traffickers.
The Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentyl act classifies all
fentanyl related substances as Schedule on drugs. That means harsher
penalties where people convicted of fentanyl related crimes. A new
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bill in Congress would prevent federal immigration nations from detaining
and possibly deporting American citizens unless they are breaking the law.
That's technically already the law, but several reports of citizens
of Latino dissent being detained or asked to prove citizenship
led Democratic Washington State Congressman from Jayapaul, who introduced the
legislation on Wednesday, called the Stop Ice From Kidnapping You
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as Citizens Act. The bill would penalize ICE agents who
unlawfully detained citizens. Fans are slamming a new wig that
was recently promoted by the late Tina Turner's estate. Tammy
Trujillo has details to do it.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
The official Tina Turner wig is made of one hundred
percent remy human hair and was created by her hairstylist,
Arthur Johns. While Johnson insists the one thousand dollars wig
as representative of the kind of hair piece as he
styled for Turner, fans say it looks more like little
orphan amy. The wig was removed from the Tina Turner
website and all social media channels within hours of its introduction.
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I'm Tammy Triheo.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And a new report out of Britain says dogs can
smell Parkinson's disease. The study, published this week' says two
specially trained dogs were given hundreds of skin swaps to
sniff and were able to correctly identify Parkinson's disease and
up to eighty percent of patients who had the neurological disorder.
Parkinson's is usually not detected until Symptoms appear a mark
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