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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update. The
latest use this hour. In just four minutes, President Trump's
special envoys to the Middle East is telling the families
of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza the US plans
to bring them home. Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff didn't say
when he was in Tel Aviv's Saturday and told the

(00:21):
families an end to the war in Gaza was near
and that the US has a plan to bring home
all the remaining captives held by Hamas. The Trump administrations
launched a probe now against former Special counsel at the
Department of Justice, Jack Smith. President Trump has accused Smith
of violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits government officials from
engaging in certain political activities. Smith prosecuted two cases against Trump,

(00:47):
once centering around the allegations Trump tried to subvert the
twenty twenty election, and another accusing Trump of mishandling classified documents.
President Trump's expressed anger after the US Senate began their
August recess last night without confirming some of his government nominees.
Republican Majority leader John Thune was unable to reach a
bipartisan deal with Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on a

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package that would have allowed about two dozen of Trump's
nominees to be confirmed. Several Democratic led states are suing
the Trump administrations over its efforts to limit gender affirming
health care. We get more from Lisa Taylor.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
The lawsuit targets and executive order that aims to undermine
support for what the federal government refers to as gender ideology.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
There is no federal law in our country prohibiting gender
affirming care.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Attorney General Rob bontis as California recognizes gender affirming care
as medically necessary health care. He says the state prohibits
health care providers from discriminating against patients on the basis
of gender identity. Bought to says. The USDOJ has oppoena
doctors and clinics, threatening civil and criminal prosecution for providing
such care.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Over a million young Catholics attended a Mass by Pope
Leo this morning, marking the end of the Jubilee of Youth.
The final Mass at Rome marked the end of a
week long event attended by young Catholics from over one
hundred and forty countries. I'm Scott Carr. Police in Montana
say they've found his abandoned vehicle, but a man hunt
continues for a suspect who shot four people to death

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inside a bar. Police say forty five year old Michael
Brown is considered armed and dangerous and is still on
the loose near the small mountain town of Anaconda. Police
Saint Brown fled the scene in a white pickup truck
after the shooting at the Owl Bar early Friday. This
as a man hunt continues in Tennessee for a man
accused of killing four family members and abandoning a baby

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inside a car. Authorities say Austin Drummond should be considered
armed and dangerous. They say Drummond killed thirty eight year
old Courtney Rose and her two children, twenty year old
Adrianna Williams and fifteen year old Braden Williams, as well
as Adrianna Williams's boyfriend, twenty one year old James Michael Wilson.
Officials in New York City say it wasn't a subway

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train making the ground shake last night. The US Geological
Survey says a three point zero magnitude tremor was centered
in northern New Jersey, just west of Manhattan, and was
felt by many across the region. There's no reports of
injuries or damage. Former judge and longtime Fox News personality
Janine Piro has been confirmed now as the next US
Attorney for the District of Columbia.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
On Saturday, the Senate voted fifty to forty five to
confirm Piero to the position. Piero was previously serving on
an acting basis since May after President Trump withdrew his
first nominee, Ed Martin, whose nomination faltered amid bipartisan backlash.
She has previously served as both a judge and a
district attorney in New York before co hosting The Five

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on Fox News. I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Ford is recalling more than three hundred twelve thousand vehicles
over a problem with their power break Assist the electronic
break booster module that can lose power while driving that
can increase the stopping distance and raises the risk of
a crash. The recall includes new models of Lincoln Navigators,
F one, fifties, Expeditions, Broncos and Rangers vehicles. I'm Scott

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Carr