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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update. The
latest use this hour in just four minutes. President Trump
is promising action with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying
that the US will set up food centers in the
Gaza strip. During a meeting with the UK and Scotland today,
the President expressed some uncertainty about Israeli Prime Minister of

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Benjamin Netyaho's claim that there is no starvation in Gaza.
Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, wants the Supreme Court to overturn her
sex trafficking conviction. In a new brief file today, Glay
Maxwell's lawyers argue an agreement made between Epstein and the
US government shields her from prosecution. Maxwell is currently serving
a twenty year sentence in federal prison. She met with

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the DOJ for questioning last week, as the Trump administration
faces pressure to release all files related to the Epstein case.
There's a massive police presidence at a casino and reno,
Nevada after a gunman opened fire and several people. Police
say it happened outside the Grand Sierra Resort in Casino
this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
In the vallet, officers located several victims of gunshot wounds
and other injured parties that.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
They began providing first state of medical treatment. To That's
Renal Police Department Chief Katherine Nance, the suspect has been
captured after a gun battle with police and is in
the hospital. The number of victims is currently not known.
The Bottom Governor Joe Lombardo says his office is monitoring
the situation. The murder of a married couple at a
state park in Arkansas prompting a massive manhunt. According to police,

(01:29):
Clinton David Brink and Christian Amanda Brink were killed while
hiking with their two daughters in a remote area of
Devil's Den State Park over the weekend. Police say the
Brinks's daughters were not injured and we're safe with family members,
but additional details regarding the incident haven't yet been released.
Life threatening heat is blanketing the Midwest and South today.
About one hundred and eighty five million people are under

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a massive heat dome that's causing temperatures to skyrocket. Memphis
could have a heat index today of one hundred and
twenty degrees. Forecasts say danger conditions are likely to persist
until a cold front slowly moves in Friday. I'm Chris Krajio.
Thousands of NASA employees are taking advantage of early retirement.
NASA recently announced three thousand employees have accepted offers of

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early retirement or resigned. That amounts to about a fifth
of its workforce, leaving the Space agency with about fourteen
thousand civil servants. Legendary filmmaker George Lucas made his first
ever San Diego Comic Con appearance as the event wrapped
up yesterday. Michael Kashner reports.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
He helped close out the convention with a panel in
the famous Hall h where he gave fans a preview
of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art that's expected to
open next year in Los Angeles. Lucas told those in
attendance the museum is going to be a temple to
the people. I'm Michael Kassner. All the world seems in

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tune on a spring afternoon when we're bygeons in the bar.
Every Sunday, you'll see my sweetheart enemy as way byes
on the Pigeons in the Bar.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Songwriter and satirist Tom Lair, who rose to fame in
the nineteen fifties and sixties, has died at the age
of ninety seven. While he worked most of his life
as a teacher, with jobs at Harvard, MIT and the
University of California, Santa Cruz. It was Larr's dark humor
that made him popular. His takes on taboo subjects like
drug addiction, religion, and sexuality were unlike what most Americans

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were hearing at the time. His work went on to
influence singers like Randy Newman, Weird Al Yankovic, and Harry Sheer.
Lara was found dead Saturday in his Cambridge, Massachusetts home,
and in music history news on this date back in
two thousand and six, the guitar in which Sir Paul McCartney,
as a young teenager in Liverpool learned his first chords
on sold at an auction at London's Abbey Road Studios

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for over three hundred thousand dollars. The Rex acoustic guitar
is the one that McCartney played for John Lennon in
somewhat of an audition, which led to Lenin agreeing to
let him join his band, The Quarrymen in nineteen fifty seven.
I'm Chris Carragio