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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, the House
is set to vote on a package of billions in
doged spending cuts. The cuts would be to public broadcasting,
global health programs, and some more foreign aid. Republican senators
narrowly passed a package earlier Today. Speaker Mike Johnson said

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the plan was to vote today, but it may have
to be pushed back until tomorrow. The Trump administration is
ready to move past the Jeffrey Epstein case. Today, Press
Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked about what part of the
DOJ investigation into the late sex trafficker President Trump referred
to as a hoax. Levitt said the President was talking
about Democrats demanding more info on the investigation when they

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were in control for the past four years and did nothing.
Former Vice President Mike Pence says that any files related
to Epstein need to be released to the public, saying
that the time has come for the facts to be
given to the American people. House Speaker Mike Johnson is
also among other prominent Republicans on records saying that the
files should indeed be released. Search efforts for missing flood

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victims in Central Texas remains ongoing for the first time
since deadly fourth of July flooding devastated the region. There's
no flood advisories or rain in the current forecast. Officials
in Kirk County had to put a hold on search
efforts after three days recently of heavy rain. Wall Street
is closing with stocks higher. It comes as quarterly earnings
reports released this week have come in above expectations. Meantime,

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the latest unemployment numbers came in lower than the previous week,
giving the averages a boost. At the closing bell, the
Dow gained two hundred and twenty nine points. Former House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't mincing words when it comes to
President Trump's push to reopen Alcatraz.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Do not consider changing Alcatraz into a prison is being
tough on crime, being tough on crime, so it's just
a waste. It's silly, it's foolish.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Pelosi went on to say that Trump's plan is nothing
but a distraction from the hurt his administration is doing
to people in the country, from taking health care from
citizens to immigration raids disrupting the lives of migrants. I'm
Chris Caragio. State police videos contradict statements made by a
Connecticut trooper in the case of a teen who was
accused of going one hundred and thirty miles an hour

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on I ninety one. The videos show the team never
told the trooper that he was speeding to get to
a job interview, and that he claimed to be sleeping
at the time of the incident. Dash Cam video also
shows the trooper did not pursue the speeding vehicle as
he wrote in the charging documents. All charges were later
dismissed and state police have apologized to the team. Last

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night was the thirty third annual sp Awards, honoring athletes
from around the world. Comedian Shane Gillis was the host.
The award for the Best Male Athlete went to Oklahoma
City thunder guard Shay Gildas Alexander, while Olympic champion Simone
Biles was named Best Female Athlete. Two Los Angeles area firefighters,
one an Olympic gold medalist, the other a former wake
forest soccer player, received the Pat Tillman Award for Service

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for their response to the devastating Palisades and Eating wildfires
earlier in the year. The award honors the legacy of
former NFL and US Army ranger Pat Tillman. Also in
the spotlight Penn State volleyball coach Katie Schumacher Cawley, who
was given the Jimmy V Perseverance Award after she beat
breast cancer and led the Niitney Lions to the national championship.

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Raha Romarroma Magaga, la la de Brama, Lady Gaga has
kicked off her world tour in Las Vegas. Team Mobile
Arena was packed last night for the opening show of
the Mayhem Ball. The thirty nine year old superstar put
on a theatrical performance featuring hits from her latest album, Mayhem,

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as well as classics from Bad Romance and Poker Face.
The Lady Gaga World Tour will be stopping in New York, Miami,
and Chicago before heading to Europe, Asia and Australia. And
In music history news on this date, back in nineteen
seventy one, John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared on a
BBC late night talk show, where John chastised the British
media for calling Yoko ugly and for saying that she

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broke up the Beetles I'm Chris Krazy,