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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. The Wall
Street Journal is reporting President Trump sent a letter to
Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein's fiftieth birthday in two thousand and three.
Sarah Lee Kessler has more.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The journal says it review the letter bearing Trump's name,
which is said to feature typewritten texts surrounded by a
drawing of a naked woman. The journal describes the letter
as body and it concludes with happy birthday and may
every day be another wonderful secret. Trump told the newspaper
he didn't write it and that it's fake, saying he

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doesn't draw pictures of women. He also said he'll sue
the newspaper if the story was published. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
The House is planning a vote sometime in the next
day or two on a package of nine billion dollars
in DOGE spending cuts. The cuts would be to public broadcasting,
global health programs, and some more foreign aim. Forecasters are
telling those along the Gulf Coast to be aware of
tropical flooding. Flood warnings are being posted from the Florida

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Panhandled to south central Louisiana, which could receive over a
foot of rain at a rate of up to three
inches per hour. Homeland Security Secretary Christinomes says the agency
is evaluating the size of liquids in carry on bags
now that travelers can leave their shoes on during airport screenings.
Travel editor Peter Greenberg says enhanced technology has already worked

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well in the United Kingdom and can differentiate between drinks
and chemical explosives. The technology allowing that or to be
able to allow that, has been in effect for quite
some time, and HEAs haven't employed it, but because the
TSA has not budgeted for the scanning technology or trained employees,
he doesn't anticipate the change until twenty twenty seven at

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the earliest. According to ESPN, President Trump is considering an
executive order that would require federal authorities to you clarify
whether college athletes can be considered employees of their schools.
I'm Brian Schuk Sean Diddy Combs is looking to rehabilitate
himself before he receives his sentence this fall. Tammy Trichillo explains.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
According to a report by TMZ, hip Hop Mogul has
entered two programs to combat his issues with drugs and
domestic violence. One of those programs is known as Stop,
which downs for Specialized Treatment for Optimized Programming DID He
is also participating in a drug abuse program in his
undergoing therapy. Did he was found guilty on two counts
of transportation to engage in prostitution. He's expected to remain

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behind bars in New York while awaiting sentencing. On October third,
I'm tammage RHEO.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
There's 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. Records show the suspect, Raymond Boudarian,
was charged with misdemeanor battery three times year. Connie Francis,

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the iconic singer who was one of the top selling
female artists of all time, has died. Michael Cassner reports Beginners.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
I said she died Wednesday night, two weeks after being
taken to the hospital and 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, and
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 into the

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Spotify charts just this year thanks to a TikTok trend
using her nineteen sixty two song Pretty Little Baby. Connie
Francis was eighty seven. I'm Michael Cassner.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
The Happiest Place on Earth turned seventy today. Disneyland first
opened its gates to guests on this day back in
nineteen fifty five. To mark the occasion, the theme park
is debuting Walt Disney a Magical Life, which features the
first ever audio animatronic figure of Walt Disney himself. I'm
Brian Shuck.