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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.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The New York City Police Commissioner says the officer who
died in Monday's mass shooting was a hero.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
He was doing the job that we asked him to do.
He put himself in harm's way.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
He made the ultimate sacrifice.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Shot in cold blood.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Jessica Tish says. Officer Islam and four other people were
killed Monday evening when a man armed with an M
four rifle opened fire in a midtown Manhattan high rise
office building. Islam was a thirty six year old father
of two inexpecting a third child. The shooter died of
an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound. He's been identified as
twenty seven year old Shane Timura of Las Vegas. So far,

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no motive has been identified. Jeffrey Epstein associate Elaine Maxwell
is calling on the Supreme Court to overturn her sex
trafficking conviction. Mark Mayfield reports in.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
A new brief, Maxwell's lawyers argue an agreement may between
Epstein and the US government shields her from prosecution. The
Second US Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled the agreement
made by Epstein with Florida prosecutors to plead guilty did
not apply in New York. Maxwell is currently serving a
twenty year sentence in federal prison. She met with Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blancheford questioning last week. As the Trump

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administration faces pressure to release all files related to the
Epstein case, a Markneyfield.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Spirit Airlines is doing more belt tightening. The discount carrier
said Monday it will furlough two hundred and seventy pilots
this fall as it reduces its off season schedule to
cut costs. The airline will also downgrade more than one
hundred pilots from captain to first officer as of October,
First Spirit struggled to turn a profit since it emerged
from Chapter eleven bankruptcy in March. Industry analysts say overall

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travel demand has been softer than expected so far this year.
Representatives for singer Phil Collins are shutting down the online
rumor that he's in hospice care. According to a statement
provided to The Independent, His rep say he's currently in
the hospital recovering from knee surgery. It's not clear where
the rumor of hospice care sot Urfast on social media
that Collins has been candid about his health. I'm Tammy Trio.

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Records related to the deadly school shooting and Uvalde, Texas
are going to be released. Chris Caraggio has details.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Today's vote by the Valdi County Commissioners comes a little
more than three years after the attack at rob Elementary School,
which took the lives of nineteen students and two teachers.
An appeals court previously ruled that both the county and
the school district were improperly withholding public documents. It's expected
to shine a light on police is nearly one hour
delay in storming the classroom. No release date has been set.

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I'm Chris Crasio.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Thousands of NASA employees are taking advantage of an early retirement.
NASA recently announced three thousand employees have accepted offers of
early retirement are resigned. That amounts to about a fifth
of its workforce, leaving the Space agency with about fourteen
thousand civil servants. Twenty Democratic led states are suing the
Trump administration over an attempt to gather sensitive information about

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people on food stamps. Ryan Shuck has that story.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
The states allege that the Department of Agriculture is improperly
trying to get sensitive personal information after the department demanded
social Security numbers and home addresses of Snap recipients. Agriculture
Secretary Brook Rollins has previously said President Trump is rightfully
requiring the federal government to have access to all programs

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it funds. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
American and Chinese trade officials held talks in Sweden on Monday.
This comes as President Trump's tariff deadline of August first
looms large. A new study suggests eggs can help lower cholesterol.
That runs counter to decades old advice to limit egg
consumption because they can raise your risk of heart disease
and stroke. But now a paper published in the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition adds to the growing evidence that

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eggs are actually good for you. Researchers say, while the
popular breakfast food may be high in cholesterol, they're low
and saturated fat, and that's believed to be the real
driver of cholesterol elevation. The study suggests that eating eggs
as part of a low saturated fat dot it can
actually boost your health. I'm Tammy Trhio