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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, Senate Republicans work laid into the
night to approve the cutting of funding for public broadcasting,
global health programs, and some foreign aid. Lawmakers narrowly passed
a package that would claw back nine billion dollars in
spending that had already been approved. It's part of the
efforts of the DOGE Advisory Board that used to be

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run by billionaire Lawn Musk. Speculation on the future of
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at Wall Street experiencing whiplash
on Wednesday, President Trump says he's not planning to fire Powell. However,
as Nick Harper reports, comments made in the Oval Office
seemed to suggest it hasn't entirely been ruled out.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Officially, presidents cannot remove FED officials unless there's due cools.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump suggested without evidence, that Powell was
guilty of fraud.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Trump had been asked about reports he talked to Republicans
of about removing the FED chair. The President insisted its
highly unlikely he'll fire Palell. Trump has been highly critical
of Pal's refusal to cut interest rates saying he in
his words, he did it for Biden, but not him.
Trump also said arriable fed chair.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I was surprised he was appointed. I was surprised, frankly
that Biden put him in and extended him.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Trump appointed Powell, not Biden. There is new information about
the man accused of murdering an American Idol music supervisor
and her husband. Robin Kay and Tom de Luca were
found shot to death inside their upscale California home on
Monday Record Show. The suspect, Raymond Boudarian, was charged with
misdemeanor battery three times last year. The charges were eventually dropped.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh come to this Happy Please welcome.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
The Happiest place on Earth turned seventy today. Disneyland first
opened its gates to guests on this day in nineteen
fifty five. To mark the occasion, the theme park is
debuting Wealth Disney, a Magical Life, which features the first
ever audi animatronic figure of Walt Disney himself. I'm Michael Cassner.
Connie Francis, the iconic singer who was one of the

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top selling female artists of all time.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Has died The Flowers.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
She died Wednesday night, two weeks after being taken to
the hospital in extreme pain. Francis sold millions of records
throughout the nineteen fifties and sixties with hits like Who's
Sorry Now and Where the Boys Are. She was the
first woman to have a number one hit on the
Billboard Hot one hundred with the nineteen sixties song Everybody's
Somebody's Fool. Francis made it to the Spotify charts just

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this year thanks to a TikTok trend using her nineteen
sixty two song Pretty Little Baby. She was born in
New Jersey in nineteen thirty seven as Concetta Frankenaro. Connie
Francis was eighty seven. The FBI is releasing a photo
of a man accused of shooting at ICE agents in Camarillo, California,
Mark Mayfield with More.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Shooting happened last week during a protest following a large
scale immigration rate at a cannabis farm. No one was
injured in the shooting. The suspect has not been identified.
The FBI is offering a fifty thousand dollars reward for
information leading to his identification, arrest, and conviction.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
If you want to try your luck, today may be
your Day pre Tennis, with more on National Lottery Day,
which recognizes contributions lotteries make to local and state programs.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Since nineteen eighty five, the California lottery has generated over
forty six billion dollars for public schools and universities, supplementing
general funds, attracting teachers, and funding after school programs. That's
the positive of the game. By the odds of you
winning any lottery jackpot about one in three hundred million.
But as the lottery reminds us, you can't win if

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you don't play.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
And Shan Ditty Combs is taking steps toward rehabilitation ahead
of his October sentencing. TMZ reports the music Mogul has
entered two programs, one focused on drug abuse, the other
on domestic abuse and sexual assault. On Michael Kassner