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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. The Wall
Street Journal's parent company is standing behind the Jeffrey Epstein
birthday letter story. Dow Jones said Friday it has full
confidence in the rigor and accuracy of its reporting, adding
it will vigorously defend against any lawsuit. President Trump is

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suing the Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones,
alleging defamation and seeking at least twenty billion dollars. Meantime,
the Justice Department is asking a federal judge to unseal
grand jury testimony in the Epstein case. There are reports
it was military style ordinance that killed three La County
Sheriff's deputies Friday morning. The explosion happened at a training

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facility and rocked the surrounding East La neighborhood. Sheriff Robert
Luna says the deputies were elite senior members of an
arson investigation unit.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Between all three sworn members, they had served for seventy
four years.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
The Writer's Guild of America East and West is calling
on New York Attorney General Letitia James to launch an
investigation into the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Kristin Marx reports.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
CBS says the final show will be in May. CBS
owner Paramount says the cancelation is due to financial reasons. However,
the Guild is accusing Paramount of offering a bribe to
the Trump administration, citing their recently reached settlement with the
President on his lawsuit filed against CBS News. The Guild
ads at cancelations are part of the business, but a

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corporation terminating a show and bad faith due to explicit
or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a
democratic society.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Kristin Marx reporting, tech company Astronomer is launching an investigation
after its CEO was caught on camera snuggling up with
the head of human resources. Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot
were shown on the jumbo truck at a Cold Plate
concert in Boston, and they immediately tried to hide their
faces from the camera. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
The Corn Refiners' Association says thousands of jobs are at
risk as Coca Cola may plan to switch to cane
sugar from high fructose corn syrup. The Association claims the
change in sweetener is likely to devastate American farmers, primarily
in the Midwest. Although Coca Cola has not officially confirmed
the change, it has reignited a decades long food fight

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between the two sweeteners and resulted in dramatic drops and
share prices for some major corn syrup companies. New York
is agreeing to a nearly half million dollar settlement with
a woman who accused former Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.
Kristen Marx has More.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Former executive assistant Brittany Comisso, filed the lawsuit in twenty
twenty three, accusing Cuomo of groping her and subjecting her
to continuous sexual harassment. The state will now pay four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to Commisso. Lawyers call the
settlement complete vindication of her allegations, while Cuomo's lawyers slamm
it because it does not include any admission of liability

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at Cuomo, who's now running for New York City mayor,
resigned as governor in twenty twenty one as he faced
sexual misconduct allegations from a slew of women.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
A man is dead after he was pulled into an
MRI machine on Long Island, New York. Police say the
sixty one year old went into the MRI room at
Nasau Open MRI in Westbury Wednesday afternoon without permission. He
had a large metal chain around his neck, causing him
to be sucked into the machine while a scan was underway.

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He then suffered a medical episode, was taken to the
hospital in critical condition, and died the next day. Police
said the man wasn't being treated at the hospital and
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 Orsonwales film.

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The last known sled was sold in Austin, Texas for
fourteen point seven million dollars. I'm Jim Forbes.