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Rosident Trump is directing the Commerce Department to start working
on a new census. Mark Mayfield with more.

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The President made the announcement with a post on truth
Social and also noted that people who are in the
country illegally will not be counted. The census is used
to determine, among other things, congressional representation. According to the
president's post, the new census will be based on modern
day facts, figures, and information gained from the presidential election
of twenty twenty four. The US conducts census every decade,

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as required by the Constitution, and another is scheduled for
twenty thirty a Mark Mayfield.

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The Israeli security cabinet has signed off on a full
military takeover of the Gaza Strip. The office of Prime
Minister Benjamin Nettnyaho says a majority of his security cabinet
backed his proposal early Friday to begin the gradual military
takeover of the Palestinian territory, beginning with Gaza City. Prime

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Minister spoke with Fox News.

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We don't want to govern it, we don't want to
be there as a governing body. We want to hand
it over to air forces that will govern it properly
without threatening US and giving gosins a good life.

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The FAA says it plans to hire eighty nine hundred
air traffic controllers over the next three years. Tammi Trahillo
reports the Federal.

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Aviation Administration on Thursday released a workforce plan with details
on how it will address a shortage of air traffic
controllers in the US. The report adds, however, that it
expects to have only about one thousand additional certified controllers
by the end of fiscal year twenty twenty eight because
of washouts among its recruits. The report comes after sixty
seven people died last January in a mid air collision

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in Washington, d C. That was attributed in part to
a shortage of air traffic controllers, and.

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The first trailer for the Office spin off, The Paper
is out now. The first four episodes up the mockumentary
series hits Peacock on September fourth. I'm Michael Cassner remains
from three More victims of the nine to eleven terror
attacks in New York City have been identified. Scott Pringle
with more The Office.

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Of the Chief Medical Examiner says Ryan Fitzgerald of Flora Park,
New York, Barbara Keating of Palm Springs, California, and a
woman whose name is being withheld have been matched with
remains using advanced DNA technology and new samples from family members.
About forty percent of the people who are killed at
the World Trade Center site on nine to eleven still
have not been identified. The Medical Examiner's Office continues to

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test remains.

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Health experts are reminding us that West Nile virus cases
typically rise this time of year. Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

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West Nile is the virus transmitted by mosquitoes during warm weather,
with the most cases seen in September. Doctor Donald Dunford,
an infectious disease specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, recommends voiding
being outside at sunrise and sunset, when mosquitoes are most active.

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If you're going to be outside, apply an EPA approved
mosquito repellent. This is great not just for mosquito barney illnesses,
but also for mime disease and other tich corne illnesses.

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West Nile virus doesn't always present with symptoms, but when
it does, people generally experience fever, muscle aches, and sometimes nausea.
I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

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A Confederate memorial that was removed in twenty twenty three
is returning to Arlington National Cemetery. More from Chris Caragio.

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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 and be put back on display.

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I'm Michael Kassner.