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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. The New
York City Police Commissioner says the officer who died in
Monday's mask shooting was a hero. Jessica Tinsch says the
officer was doing the job he was asked to do
and put himself in harm's way. He and three other
people were killed Monday evening when a man armed with

(00:21):
a rifle opened fire in a midtown Manhattan high rise
office building. He later took his own life. The officer
was a thirty six year old father of two and
was expecting a third child. President Trump says he's giving
Russia less time to reach a ceasefire with Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm gonna make a new deadline of about ten, ten
or twelve days from today.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
While in Scotland to meet with UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer,
Trump said I'm disappointed in President Putin, very disappointed. Trump
had given Russia a fifty day deadline to reach a
deal with Ukraine or face consequences. The president added he
has had discussions with Putin, but that too many people
are dying in the war and Putin has got to
make a deal. Twenty Democratic led states are suing the

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Trump administration over an attempt to gather sensitive information of
people who receive food stamps. Brian Shuk reports.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
The States alleged 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

(01:30):
at funds. I'm Brian Schuk.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Top American and Chinese officials meant for trade talks in
Sweden Monday. 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 hoaps that closing
a deal with China would prompt more countries to follow suit.
And Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Ryan Sandberg died
Monday at the age of sixty five. Sandberg played fifteen

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of his sixteen Big league seasons for the Chicago Cubs,
for whom he made ten All starring games. Announced in
January of twenty twenty four that he was being treated
for metastatic prostate cancer. I'm Mark Neefield. The Trump administration
says it's okay for federal workers to promote their religious
beliefs to colleagues, display religious items in the workplace, and

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to pray. Tammy Trujillo has details.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's according to a Monday memo from the Office of
Personnel Management. It calls for freedom of personal religious expression
unless that expression imposes an undue hardship on operations. It
also says that a worker can try to convince another
person of why their religious beliefs are wrong, but must
stop if asked. The Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty
four already protects religious expression in the workplace. I'm Tammy trheo.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
ICE agents in southern California are in a holding pattern.
The ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco
heard arguments over a judge's order restricting immigration enforcement in
southern California, but hasn't issued a ruling. The judge recently
found the immigration patrols in and around LA were being
done without reasonable suspicion that the government had been denying
detainees at says to legal assistance. The Trump Administration says

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the aids are targeted, not random, and are done with
probable cause to make arrests. Tesla and Samsung have agreed
to a sixteen and a half billion dollar deal to
manufacture AI chips in Texas. Aras Spitzer has the story.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, confirmed the news on X, calling
it a deal with strategic importance hard to overstate. The
A sixteen chips will anchor Tesla's push into autonomous driving
and robotics, including its fledgling robotaxi service for Samsung. The
deal offers a potential boost to its underperforming US chip

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making operations, which are expanding with support from the Federal
Chips Act. Still, questions remain about how quickly Tesla can
deliver on its long promised goal of fully autonomous driving
iras Spitzer San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
And Spirit Airlines is doing more built tightening. The discount
carrier said Monday it's going to furlough two hundred and
seventy pilots this fall. Spirit has struggled a turn of
profit since it emerged from Chapter eleven bankruptcy in March.
By Mark Mayfield