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This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Well Street Journal reports President Trump was informed in May
by the Justice Department that his name appears multiple times
in that Jeffrey Epstein files Chris Karraggio with details.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
The outlets that officials told Trump during a routine briefing
that the files contained what they believed was unverified hearsay
about many people, including Trump. One administration official told the
journal that hundreds of other names are contained in the documents.
Trump was also reportedly told the DOJ did not plan
to release more documents because they contained child pornography. The

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new report comes days after the journal published a story
about an alleged birthday letter sent by Trump to Epstein,
which led Trump to sue the outlet and its owners
for twenty billion dollars. I'm Chris Gragio.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Columbia University will pay a nine digit fine to subtle
Trump administration claims it did not do enough to stop
up the harassment of Jewish students during last year's student protests.
Andrew Whitman reports.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
The city's Ivy League school, agreeing Wednesday to a two
hundred million dollar fine, does not more than a half
dozen federal civil rights investigations. The school will also codify
other changes like not using race as a condition in admissions,
in hiring, and other changes Columbia agreed to in March.
In return, the federal government will resume about four hundred

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million dollars in grant payments to the university.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Millions of Americans are dealing with what forecasters call a
ring of fire. It's a heat dome that's striking from
Chicago to New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Today.

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The Great Lakes region will see areas have a heat
index of the mid nineties, with the high temperature shifting
more to the east. On Friday, Tesla came up short
on earnings and revenue in the second quarter. The company
reported twenty two point five billion dollars, just under the
twenty two point sixty five billion expected in down twelve

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percent from last year. Before the opening belt, US futures
are mixed. I'm Michael Cassner. New York City Mayor Eric
Adams is looking into what appears to be poor conditions
at an ice holding center in Lower Manhattan. Scott Pringle reports.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Video shows migrants sleeping on the floor in poor bathroom conditions.
And the New York Immigration Coalition says immigrants are detained
that twenty six federal plaza for without showers or a
change of clothing. Mayor Eric Adams says he's looking into it.
We are going to codinate with our local elected to
look at what is happening there, including on federal elected.

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A coalition says the video appears to show the facilities
being used as a detention center as opposed to a
holding center. Department of Homeland Security officials dispute that, saying
immigrants are processed there and then transferred.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
French President Emmanuel mccron is suing right wing podcaster Candice
Owens for claiming his wife is a man. More from
Mark Mayfield. The lawsuit wild Wednesday allegis Owens has waged
a relentless, year long campaign of defamation against the Macrons.
It also alleges that she sold merchandise promoting the claim,

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and that they repeatedly asked her to stop, only filing
a lawsuit as a last resort. I Ma Crohnes are
seeking punitive damages against Owens and her businesses for twenty
two counts of defamation. Owens responded on YouTube by calling
today desperate public relations strategy. A Long Island man in
New York is facing federal charges for allegedly placing homemade

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bombs on a Manhattan rooftop and on subway tracks. Kristen
marks with Moore.

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Fifty five year old Michael Gann of Enwood is accused
of building the IEDs with materials he bought online and
then storing them on a residential rooftop in Soho were
Christine Aricchi o lips.

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The course of six months, I saw him like ten
times on the roof.

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Residents called police because they thought someone was living on
the rooftop. Another bomb was dropped onto the tracks of
the Williamsburg Bridge. None of the bombs went off. Authorities
say they had six hundred times the force of commercial fireworks.

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I'm Michael Kastner.