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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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President Trump says pertinent grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey
Epstein case needs to be released. He said in a
truth social post Thursday night that he had directed Attorney
General Pam Bondi to produce the testimony's subject to court approval. Meanwhile,
The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump set a letter
to Epstein back in two thousand and three for his
fiftieth birthday that allegedly featured typewritten text surrounded by a

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drawing of a naked woman. Trump said it was a
fake thing. Three sheriff's deputies are dead after an explosion
at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department compound. Sheriff Robert
Luna says the deputies were elite senior members of the force.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Tragically, they were three sworn members who were fatally killed
that were assigned to our arson explosives detail.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
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. He signed the
bill into law today at the White House. It's Congress's
first major cryptocurrency bill in the US, and it creates

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regulations 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. He said, the
crypto community was mocked for years, but the signing of
this bill is a validation of the digital currency. Tech
company Astronomer is launching an investigation after its CEO was
caught on camera snuggling up with the head of human resources.

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Andy Byron, and Kristen Cabot. Were shown on the JumboTron
at a cold Play concert in Boston, and they immediately
tried to hide their faces from the camera. The company
said it's looking into the batter and we'll share details
very shortly. A clip of the embrace went viral on TikTok,
getting more than twenty million views. Byron's wife removed moved
her husband's last name from her Facebook profile, and then

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deleted her account. I'm Chris Caracio. The twenty twenty five
World Eskimo Indian Olympics are underway in Fairbanks, Alaska. The
annual games kicked off on Wednesday. The event features traditional
Alaska Native sports, as well as arts and crafts and
activities that celebrate indigenous culture. A new world record was
set when Colton Paul broke his own record in the
scissor broad jump at thirty nine feet four point five inches.

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The game's last through tomorrow. Think of Paul Simon as
your own live, personal jukebox. Mark Mayfield explains, quote, give
us the give us there.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
During a show this week at the Walt Disney Concert
Hall in Los Angeles, a fan shouted play Coda chrome.
Simon replied, he doesn't two requests unless you've got twenty bucks.
Whether Simon was kidding or not, the fan gave him
a twenty dollars bill, and the multi Grammy winner played
the fans request. Simon's a Quiet Celebrat tour is his
first full tour since revealing his severe hearing loss in

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twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
The iconic sled from the nineteen forty one film Citizen
Kane has been sold at auction for nearly fifteen million dollars.
Several Rosebud sleds were made for the classic Horsenwells film.
The last known sled was just sold by Heritage Auctions
in Texas for fourteen point seven million. That makes it
the second most valuable piece of film history ever sold,
following a pair of ruby slippers from The Wizard of

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Oz that went for over thirty million last December. Other
pieces of film history sold at this week's auction include
a bowl whip used by Harrison Ford in his portrayal
of Indiana Jones and a velvet suit worn by Austin Powers.
Lelo and Stitch has become the first Hollywood movie of
the year to cross the one billion dollar mark. Disney
announced yesterday that the live action remake of the popular

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animated film has made over four hundred million dollars at
the domestic box office in nearly six hundred million overseas,
for a worldwide total of over one billion. I'm Chris Carancio.