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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. President Trump
has announced he's federalizing Washington, DC's police department as part
of his crime crackdown. Speaking at the White House Monday morning,
he said he will rescue Washington, d C, calling Monday
its Liberation Day. Trump is activating the National Guard to

(00:22):
help local law enforcement as part of his plan, and
added he will send in the military if needed. He
said they will be allowed to do their job properly.
The President went on to claim crime numbers in DC
are worse than places like Baghdad. President Trump is extending
the deadline for tariffs on China to go into effect.
Chris Garagio has details.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Multiple reports say he signed an executive order just hours
before his pause on the higher tariffs was set to expire.
The executive order pushes back the deadline ninety days until
November ninth. The extension comes after US and Chinese officials
met last month. Had the pause not been extended, tariffs
on Chinese goods would have gone back up to the
highline seen in April.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
I'm Chris Gragio the Minnesota primary for the special election
to fill the seat held by murdered Representative Melissa Hortman
is Tuesday. Brian Shook has.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
More Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark
were murdered in June. The suspect, Van Spelter, pleaded not
guilty in federal court. The general election for the deep
Blue district will take place September sixteenth. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
A federal judge has rejected a request from the Department
of Justice to unseal grand jury materials from Geelane Maxwell's
sex trafficking case. The Justice Department has also sought to
release grand jury materials from cases involving Jeffrey Epstein in
New York, but asked judges overseeing the requests to refrain
from issuing a ruling until August the fourteenth. However, a
judge determined that unsealing the materials in Maxwell's case is

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not a matter of historical or public interest, and said
much of the material being requested has already been made public,
and officials now say two people were killed in Monday's
explosion at a steel factory near Pittsburgh. One person who
had been missing was confirmed down on Monday night. At
least ten people were injured when the explosion happened just
after eleven am local time. Y'm Mark Neefield. Five journalists

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working for Al Jazeera are dead killed on Sunday by
an Israeli airstrike. Michael Kastner reports.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
The network claimed the strike was a targeted attack on
the media in Gaza City. They're calling it an assassination.
NBC News reports that without evidence, Israel is claiming one
of those killed as prominent journalist Annas al Sharif, who
they say was actually working with the Palestinian militant group AMAS.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the bloodshed, arguing

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that Israel has a long history of accusing journalists of
being terrorists without offering up any evidence. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Forecasters saying Tropical Storm Erin could become a hurricane toward
the end of the week. The storm is currently turning
in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, atter forming just west of
the Cabo Verde Islands. The National Hurricane Center set on
Monday afternoon that Erin's maximum sustained winds were nearly forty
five miles per hour. The storm is expected to head
westward toward the Northeast Caribbean. It's too early to tell
if this storm will impact the US coast. Three people

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are dead in a shooting that happened at a target
store in Austin. Police Chief Lisa Davis as a suspect
carjacked to car, but then crashed as he tried to escape.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Then hijacked another car.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
He was then found by Austin pete where he was
taken into custody.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
After a tasting.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
She says the suspect has a history of mental health issues.
She did not give a possible reason for the attack,
which happened at about two in the afternoon. Parts of
the Midwestern Plains still under the threat of flooding. Blood
watches are in place for areas of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
and Wisconsin comes as severe weathers swept through the region
over the weekend, leading to flash flooding in places like

(03:39):
Milwaukee and Taylor. Swift making her first appearance on The
New Heights podcast. The show hosted by a Kansas City
Chief star Travis Kelcey and his brother, retired NFL starred
Jason Kelsey. Released a brief clip on social media Monday
showing Swift next to boyfriend Travis as they prepared the episode.
The latest edition of New Heights is going to be
released on streaming services Wednesday at seven pater, which is

(04:01):
also a departure from the normal morning release. A Mark
Mayfield