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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
Just four minutes. The FBI is getting involved in the
fight between Texas Democrats and Republicans over congressional redistricting. Texas
Republican Governor Greg Abbott confirmed the FBI as tracking Downhouse
Democrats who fled the state to stop a vote on
GOP led redistricting efforts. Meantime, Senator Ken King says that

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they have the power to redraw maps whenever they want.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is recognized by the courts and its election cause
to choose when to do redistricting.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
President Trump says Russian President Putin would like to meet
with him. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said both
Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenski both want to meet with him.
As a Friday deadline for Russia to start cease fire
talks approaches, Trump told reporters it's not necessary for Putin
to meet with Selensky prior to a meeting with him.

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Former co workers say the Fort Stewart shooting suspect had
been bullied over his stutter. Two people who served with
Sergeant Cornelius Radford tell NBC News the bullying started almost
as soon as he joined the military. They say he
was picked on during two months of training at Fort
Lee in Virginia. A Confederate memorial that was removed in

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twenty twenty three is returning to Arlington National Cemetery.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
It's part of an effort by the Trump administration to
bring back statues that honor the Confederacy. The Reconciliation Monument
features a bronze statue of a woman standing on a
pedestal with several interpretations linked to the South, including depictions
of slavery underneath her. The monument was initially debuted in
nineteen fourteen by Confederate veteran Moses Ezekiel. It'll cost nearly

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ten million dollars to restore. I Chris Cries You.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
A child in Pennsylvania will face charges after authorities say
he severely burned his brother doing a social media prank.
Lancaster County officials said the twelve year old boy filed
water in the microwave, then poured the water on his
sleeping nine year old brother. I'm Brian Shook. A new
study says California's devastating palisades and eaten wildfires may be

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linked to hundreds of deaths. The massive fires in January
killed a confirmed thirty one people in Los Angeles County.
On Wednesday, a research letter was published in the Journal
of the American Medical Association. It said LA County experienced
four hundred and forty more deaths than typically expected between
January fifth and February first. Former TV Superman Dean Kaine

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says he's joining ICE.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Kin became famous in the nineteen nineties when he starred
in Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman. Wednesday night,
Caine revealed on Fox News that he has signed up
with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help carry out the
Trump administration's mass deportation of immigrants in the US. He
told host Jesse Waters that he's already a sworn deputy
sheriff and a reserve police officer, and will be sworn

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in now as an ICE agent asap. I'm Tammy Trio.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Today is National Sea Serpent Day, celebrating the first known
sighting of a snakelike creature in the ocean back in
eighteen forty eight. Pre Tennis has.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
More that serpent was the dentalus in the South Atlantic.
There are sea serpent sightings in every ocean in the world.
Canada has Ogopogo, Scotland the Lochness Monster, there's one in
Japan with eight tails, and don't forget the Kraken. But
there's no scientific evidence proving they actually exist because the
government will not fund searches, which means they don't exist,

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or they do. I'm pre Tennis.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
The popular McDonald's adult happy meals are returning next week.
The McDonald land Meal will be available starting August twelfth.
It comes with the customer's choice of a quarter pounder
with cheese or ten piece chicken McNuggets, fries, and the
new limited edition Mount McDonald land Shake. Fans will get
one of six collect double tins featuring a McDonald land character.

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I'm Brian Shook.