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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. President Trump
is ordering the release of pertinent grand jury testimony as
the fallout continues over the Jeffrey Epstein case. Trump said
he had directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce the
testimony's subject to court approval. Bondy responding by saying the

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DOJ was ready to move the court today to unseal
the grand jury transcripts. Three sheriff's deputies are dead after
an explosion in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department compound.
Sheriff Robert Luna says the deputies were elite senior members
of an arson investigation unit. Between all three seorn members,
they had served our community proudly for seventy four years.

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Luna said he will not release the names of the
deceased until he's confident every family member has been notified.
He said they still don't know the cause of the
explosion at the training facility, and a full investigation is
underway that also involves the FBI. President Trump says the
Genius Act is great for all Americans. It's Congress's first
major Cryptocurrency Bill in the US, and it creates regulations

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for a type of cryptocurrency known as stable coins. Trump
said this is a giant step towards American dominance around
the world in the cryptocurrency field. Millions are under flood
alerts along the Gulf Coast and in the mid Atlantic
after parts of the central US were hit overnight with
heavy rains. Today, rain from tropical moisture will impact parts
of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama. Meantime, nineteen million are

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under heat alerts in parts of the mid Atlantic, Southern Florida,
and Mississippi Valley. Paragrammy Winners are joining forces for a
benefit concert in Texas, raising money to help those impacted
by the deadly Hill Country flooding. The show in Austin

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on August seventeenth is headlined by Kelly Clarkson and Miranda Lambert.
The event will include special appearances by Matthew McConaughey, Dennis Quaid,
and Colt mc. Tickets go on sale Wednesday. All the
cash raised will go to the Kerr County Flood Relief Fund.
I'm Chris Caragio. More Americans are delaying retirement over concerns
about the economy and their own finances. A new survey

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from F and G Annuities and Life found twenty three
percent of people over fifty are planning to hold off.
That's up from fourteen percent two years ago. Another study
found that the median savings of fifty five year olds
is roughly fifty thousand dollars. There's also social Security. The
longer a person waits to retire, the more benefits they'll receive.
It might not be everybody's idea of a meal, but

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you could consume all three of today's observances in one sitting.
Tammi Trihilo has details.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's National Caviar Days, celebrating the delicacy that is sturgeon
fish eggs. It's also National Sour Candy Day and National
Tropical Fruit Day. And if you're planning ahead for the weekend,
Saturday is National Play Day. It's simple, doesn't have to
cost much, if anything at all, and could put a
smile on anybody's face, regardless of it for those who
are above a certain age. Tomorrow also happens to be

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National Dacury Day. I'm Tammy.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Trheo squid game is now the most popular non English
show in the history of Netflix. The streaming service I

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said yesterday that season three of the Korean drama brought
in over one hundred and twenty two million views and
drove Netflix to another better than expected quarter. Season three
was the final season of Squid Game. Netflix is now
hoping for another profit boost when the final season of
its sci fi thriller Stranger Things premieres in November. Any

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music history news on this date. Back in nineteen fifty three,
Elvis Presley, a truck driver at the time, made his
first ever musical recording when he paid three dollars and
ninety eight cents at the Memphis Recording Service to sing
two songs, My Happiness and That's when Your Heartaches Begin.
I'm Chris Kragio.