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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes. Texas
Republicans are again being blocked from moving ahead with 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. The Texas House

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speakers signed civil arrest warrants for the absent Democrats. Millions
in the Southeast are under a floodwatch as rain and
thunderstorms hit the region over the next few days. The
same cold front that helped develop tropical Storm Dexter off
the coast of the mid Atlantic is bringing a separate
threat to some Southeast states throughout the week and could

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stretch into the weekend. A federal judge in New York
is allowing alleged killer Luigi Mangioni access to a laptop
while in jail awaiting trial. Sarah le Kesler reports.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Luigi mangione, the twenty seven year old Maryland man accused
of gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in broad
daylight outside of midtown Manhattan Hilton last December, is getting
a laptop not for entertainment, but strictly for looking at
case related documents and videos provided by the government. He'll
be able to use it seven days a week from

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eight am to four pm. His lawyers requested it so
he can help them prepare for trial and assist in
his own defense. If convicted, Mangioni is facing a death sentence.
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
President Trump says he's working to make sure wildfires don't
disrupt the twenty twenty eight Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Speaking from the White House, Trump said Governor Gavin Newsom
has to allow more water to flow into California from
the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
I've been fighting with him for a long time about
allowing the watercoat to come down from the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Essentially, Trump also said California's protection of the Delta smelt
has to stop the cause of the death of Metal Icon.
When Ozzy Osbourne is being revealed Osborne died due to
a heart attack, I'm Brian Schuck. Changes are coming for
Social Security beneficiaries who receive paper checks. Matt Mattinson explains.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
The Social Security Administration announced that starting on September thirtieth,
it would no longer issue paper checks. Now, beneficiaries must
opt to have their benefit payments delivered electronically by direct deposit, or,
if they don't have a bank account, receive their benefit
payments on a prepaid debit card known as direct Express.
An agency spokesperson said the administration is proactively contacting beneficiaries

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to alert them about the change, and note that if
a beneficiary has no other means to receive payments, they'll
continue to send paper checks. I'm at Mattinsen.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
The Gates Foundation is pledging to spend two and a
half billion dollars on women's health by twenty thirty. Founder
Bill Gates says the money will focus on conditions like
preclampsia and menopause, health concerns that he says have been
long neglected. The plan is to drive research and product
development and get those products to women around the world.

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It's part of gates effort to give away his two
hundred billion dollar fortune by twenty forty five. The acting
head of NASA is calling for a nuclear reactor on
the moon. Mark Mayfield has more.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent out a directive last Thursday
saying it's imperative to get it done quickly. Duffy says
a nuclear reactor on the Moon would support a future
lunary economy and strengthen America's national security in space. Duffy
says China and Russia are playing to put a reactor
on the Moon by the mid twenty thirties, and they
could declare a keep out zone. He wants proposals from

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commercial companies within sixty days.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
A Mark Mayfield officials at a zoo in Denmark are
asking for unwanted pets as donations to help feed their
enclosed predators. Staffers say the practice mirrors the natural food chain.
Donated pets, such as healthy horses, chickens, and other small animals,
will be gently euthanized before feeding time. I'm Brian Shuk