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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, a suspect
is dead too. Others, including a police officer, are critical
after a man holding an assault rifle walked into a
Manhattan Skyrise office building and started shooting. Chilling images of
the gunmen holding the weapon under his right arm as

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he walked into the lobby have been released. President Trump
is distancing himself from the Jeffrey Epstein files. While in
Scotland today, Trump again called the issue a hoax and
said the people in charge before him would have released
the files if they had anything on him. Trump also
said that he refused an invitation to visit Epstein's hideaway.

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I never had the privilege of going to his island,
and I did turn it down.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
But a lot of people in Palm Beach were invited
to his island.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
In one of my very good moments, I turned it down.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I didn't want to go to his island.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Top American and Chinese officials are meeting for trade talks
in Sweden. This comes as President Trump's tariff deadline of
August first looms large. Trump just announced a trade deal
with the European Union the White House hopes that closing
a deal with China would prompt more countries to follow suit.
Wall Street is closing with stocks mixed. Sarah Lee Kessler

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reports the S and.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
P five hundred and the NASDAK edged higher to new
records Monday, as a trade deal with the European Union
failed to spark a rally. Investors well, they're looking ahead
to key earnings, the Federal Reserve decision on interest rates,
and fresh inflation data. At the closing bell, the Dell
lost sixty four points to forty four thousand, eight hundred

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and thirty seven. The S and P five hundred added
a point to six three hundred and eighty nine, but
the Nasdaq rose seventy points, closing a twenty one thousand,
one hundred seventy eight.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
A man hunt is underway for a suspect in connection
with the murder of a married couple killed at a
state park in Arkansas. According to police, Clinton and Kristen
Brink were killed while hiking with their two daughters in
a remote area of Devil's Den State Park over the weekend.
I'm Brian Shook. Over the weekend, more than one hundred

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seventy passengers and crew members a board and American Airline's
flight were all able to evacuate safely after a landing
gear malfunction caused fire and smoke at Denver International Airport.
Videos shows several travelers sliding down emergency shoots with carry
on bags, despite airline instructions to leave belongings behind. Police

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are investigating a possible shooting during a house party with
hundreds of people in California, right near the home of
a recent murder. Daniel Martindale reports.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Shooting was reported on Saturday night, next door to the
home where American Idol executive Robin Kay and her husband
Tom de Luca were shot to death earlier this month.
Police broke up the party after being called about a disturbance,
but did not find any evidence of a shooting. Neighbors
say the homeowner has been cited several times in the
past for hosting loud and unruly party. They believe he

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has been illegally renting his property out for parties. I'm
Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Songwriter and satirist Tom Lahr, who rose to fame in
the nineteen fifties and sixties, is dead at age ninety seven.
Mark Mayfield reports all the.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
World seems in tune on a spring afternoon when we're
pisoning pigeons in the bar. 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 tamboo
subjects like drug addiction, religion, and sexuality were unlike what

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most Americans were hearing at the time. Larr was found
dead Saturday in his Cambridge, Massachusetts home.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
A very large lizard that escaped from the home in Webster, Massachusetts,
where it was being kept illegally, has apparently left the state.
The reptile, known as a water monitor, was spotted on
Friday near a pond in the Connecticut border town of Thompson.
Are named goose escaped from its owner on July eighteenth.

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I'm Brian Shook.