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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. Republicans in
the Texas House once again could not vote on their
congressional redistricting plan for the second day in a row.
The House reconvened but failed to reach a quorum after
more than fifty Democrats fled. The state chair of the DNC,

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Ken Martin, said they won't back down.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is not the Democratic Party of your grandfather, which
would bring a pencil to the knife fight.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
This is a new Democratic party. We're bringing a knife
to a knife fight, and we are going to fight
fighting with fire.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
The Texas House Speaker signed civil arrest warrants for the
absent Democrats, but legal experts say they're probably not enforceable
outside state lines. Canadian wildfires are creating poor air quality
for millions of Americans. Those in the Midwest to the
northeast may see hazy skies as the smoke gets pushed south.

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People in the region are being told to limit outdoor activities.
Luigi Mangioni will be able to use a laptop in
jail as he awaits trial. Mangioni is accused of killing
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel last year,
and he faces the death penalty if convicted. Attorneys for
the twenty seven year old say their client will only

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be able to access case related documents and video provided
by the government. President Trump is signing an executive order
creating a twenty twenty eight Olympics Task Force. Today.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I will sign an executive order establishing the White House
Task Force on the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics. Mobilizing
the entire federal government to ensure the games are safe, seamless,
and historically successful is going to be amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
It will oversee the Summer Olympics being held in Los Angeles.
The task Force will handle some security, transportation, visa processing,
and other duties. Trump said the world will see what
the US does best in twenty twenty eight, adding Los
Angeles is a great venue. I'm Brian Shook. California's minimum

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wage will go up forty cents to sixteen dollars and
ninety cents per hour on January first. Tammy Trichio reports.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Increases part of an annual inflation adjustment and cannot decrease
with a maximum manual rise of three and a half percent.
The minimum wage now is sixteen dollars and fifty cents,
and with sixteen dollars in twenty twenty four. Large fast
food chains will continue paying their workers at least twenty
dollars an hour, as mandated by a law and acted
of April of last year. I'm Tammy Tricho.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Amazon is laying off more than one hundred people as
it restructures its audio business. The cuts are in the
company's Wondery podcast division. Amazon also announced on Monday Wandery
CEO Jen Sargent is stepping down. Amazon bought Wondery in
December of twenty twenty as it looked to grow its
catalog of original audio content. It was not a sonic

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boom that made the ground shaken North Jersey Saturday night.
It was an earthquake felt across the region. Sarah Lee
Kessler reports.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
It was small, according to the US Geological Survey agius
three point zero on the Richter scale and centered in
Bergen County hasber Kites. Still, a number of people reported
feeling unnerved by it.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
This was an explosion sound that sounded like something hit
the house.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm seeing my living room in the whole house shook.
It was felt in western Connecticut and New York too,
both in Westchester and in the city, where some people
said it sounded like a really loud subway train. I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
A Texas mom is calling for some sort of change
after an octopus from the San Antonio Aquarium left her
son with suction welts on his arm. The boy was
visiting a touch tank a couple of weeks ago and
has interacted with the animal before, but this time it
didn't let go. The octopus also started to climb out

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of the tank. Brittany Terren's video of the event and
has since gone viral on TikTok with millions of views.
I'm Brian Shook.