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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour at just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump is now claiming the Jeffrey Epstein files are
a new scam created by Democrats. It's all been a
big hoax.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some stupid Republicans and
foolish Republicans fall into.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
The net, and so they try and do the Democrats work.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Trump lashed out Wednesday at Republicans clamoring for the release
of the documents and called them past supporters who have
bought into a hook line and sinker. Senate Republicans are
giving the green light to cut funding from public broadcasting GOP.
Lawmakers narrowly passed a package early this morning that would
take back nine billion dollars in spending that had already

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been approved. Funding cuts are also ending the National Suicide
and Crisis Lifeline for LGBTQ plus youth, which is set
to close today. One person is dead, more than a
dozen others, including children, are recovering from injuries suffered during
a lightning strike in New Jersey. More from Scott Pringle.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
This was at the Black knight Bowbenders Archery Club in
Jackson Township. Wednesday night, a group of people were on
the archery range when Jean says, out of nowhere, a
lightning struck.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
No rain, there was no thunder, and there was a
lightning strike and it hit this tree. I felt the electricity,
but when I turned around, I could see that there
was at least seven people down.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
The lightning strike killed a sixty one year old archery
instructor and left a number of others, including children, with burns.
They were sent to the hospital. Police say none of
the injuries or life threatening.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
A Tennessee federal judge won't rule this week on whether
to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia. More from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
The judge was also expected to design whether Abrego Garcia
will return to Maryland if he's released from prison while
he awaits human smuggling charges. During Wednesday's court proceedings, the
judge said he's delaying a ruling on Abrego Garcia's legal status,
saying he will rule via a filing next week. The
judge wants to know if ax Plastered to port him
once again upon release.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm Michael Cassner. There's new information about the man arrested
on suspicion of murdering an American Idol music supervisor and
her husband in their upscale California home. More from Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 5 (02:20):
Robin Kay and Tom de Luca were found shot to
death inside their home in Encino on Monday. Records show
the suspect, Raymond Boudarian, was charged with misdemeanor battery three
times last year. The charges were eventually dropped after several
hearings related to his mental competency and a conservatorship investigation.
Detectives say the couple's house was well fortified, but Bodarian

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got in through an unlocked door. Kay and De Luca
were found dead in separate rooms, both shot multiple times.
I'm Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Forecasters are warning a tropical flooding along the Gulf Coast.
Flood warnings are being posted from the Florida Panhandle to
south central Louisiana, which could receive over a foot of
rain at a rate of up to three inches per
hour both today and Friday. Real estate investors from China
are the largest group of foreign buyers of residential property
in the United States. More from Matt Mattinson.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
According to the National Association of Real Saurs, Chinese clients
purchased nearly fourteen billion dollars worth of homes in the
US between April twenty twenty four and March of this year.
That's an eighty three percent jump from the previous year.
California tops the list of states with thirty six percent
of all residential transactions completed by Chinese nationals. That's more
than any other foreign group. I'm at Mattinson.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
The first full trailer for Stranger Things five is out now.
The final season of the hit Netflix show will follow
the aftermath of the villainous Vekna bringing the upside down
to Hawkins. Netflix will release the show's final episodes in
three parts. The first batch will drop November twenty second,
which will be followed by the second part on Christmas Day.

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The series' finale will come out on New Year's Eve.
I'm Michael Cassner.