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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This since your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour in just four minutes. Donald Trump
issuing the owner of the Wall Street Journal for publishing
a letter that Trump allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in
two thousand and three. After the story was published Thursday,
Trump claimed it was fake and immediately threatened to sue
owner Rupert Murdoch. On Friday, he filed a lawsuit alleging

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libel against Murdoch, the journal's publisher, and the reporters who
wrote the story. The owners of the Wall Street Journal
are not budging, however, and said Friday they have full
confidence in the rigor and accuracy of its reporting and
will vigorously defend against any lawsuit. Ten Americans are being
set free as part of a prisoner's swap with Venezuela
and El Salvador. The deal includes more than two hundred

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Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration had sent to a prison
in El Salvador. El Salvador's president says of Venezuelan government
has agreed to free a considerable number of Venezuelan political prisoners,
as well as all American citizens it was holding hostage.
The deals includes l Salvador returning detained. Venezuelan's Secretary of
State Marco Rubio set on social media the ten Americans

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attained in Venezuela are currently on their way home. The
White House is confirming it's looking to reopen Alcatraze as
a federal prison. Attorney General Pambondi and Interior Secretary Doug
Berghram toured the facility. Alcatraz could hold the worst of
the worst. It could hold middle class, violent prisoners, it
could hold it could hold illegal aliens, It could hold anything.

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Bondi says. The facility needs a lot of work, but
no one has been known to escape the island and survive.
In nineteen sixty two, though three inmates were able to
escape but were never found. Estimates to shift it back
to a prison range from the hundreds of millions to
four billion dollars. The Writers Guild of America is calling
on New York Attorney General Letitia James to launch an
investigation into the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

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Network owner paramounts as the cancelation is due to financial reasons,
but the Writers Guilled, however, is accusing the company of
offering a bribe to the Trump administration following their recently
reached settlements with Trump on his lawsuit against CBS News
only stailor. Minnesota lawmaker Nicole Mitchell has been convicted of
first degree burglary. The Democratic state senator was accused of

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breaking into her stepmother's Detroit Lake's home last year. Defense
attorneys argue their client went to the residence only to
check on her stepmother because of concerns about her Alzheimer's.
Mitchell faces up to twenty years in prison. It's unclear
if she will continue to serve in the state Senate,
where her party holds a one seat majority. More Americans
are delaying retirement over concerns about the economy and their

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own finances. A new survey from f ANDNG Annuities in
Life found twenty three per cent of people over fifty
or planning to hold off. That's up from fourteen percent
two years ago. Another study found that the median savings
of fifty five year old is roughly fifty thousand dollars.
There's also Social Security. A longer person waits to retire,
the more benefits they'll receive. More people are leaving California

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than moving in u HAUL reports, California is the lowest
rank state for growth for the fifth consecutive year. If
they don't need to be here anymore for jobs, then
they choose to leave based on cost of housing, taxes,
all the other factors that go into our very high
cost of living here. That's realtor Lindsay Gridley. Over fifty
one percent of you haul's one way trips where people

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moving out, while just forty nine percent we're moving in.
Cities most popular for Californians leaving the state are Portland,
Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Austin.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
It doesnays play Sophie brookin mass Texas celebrities Miranda Lambert
and Kelly Clarkson will be headlining a benefit concert to
help those impacted by the recent deadly floods.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
The show will be held August seventeenth in Austin and
will include special appearances by fellow Texans Matthew McConaughey and
Dennis Quaid. Pre sale for the Band Together benefit concert
begins July twenty third at ten am. All the money
raised will go to the Kirk County Flood Relief Fund.
I'm Lisa Taylor