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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
In just four minutes, President Trump is extending the deadline
for tariffs on China to go into effect. Chris Garagio
has details.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
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
high levels seen in April. I'm Chris Karagio.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
President Trump is nominating EJ. And Tony to be the
next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Antoni is
the chief economist of the Heritage Foundation and a longtime
critic of the BLS. Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erica macintar
for earlier this month after the agency released a week
jobs report. Trump claimed the jobs numbers were rigged to
make him and the Republicans look bad. The President hosted

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on social that Antoni will ensure the numbers released are
honest and accurate. The mayor of Washington, DC is reacting
to President Trump's crime actions in the nation's capital. Here's
Brian Shook.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser spoke out after Trump placed the
DC police under federal control and activated the National Guard
as part of his major crackdown on crime. And while
this action.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Is unsettlingly an unprecedented, I can't say that given.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Some of the rhetoric of the past that were totally surprised.
Bowser thinks Trump's current view on crime and DC is
shaped by rising crime rates during his first term, but
she says it's dropped since then. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
And for the first time in more than two decades,
a girl group has the number one song in the country.
Golden by fictional kpop girl group Hunters is this week's
top song on the Billboard Hot one hundred chart. Hunterricks
is from the Netflix and Sony Pictures animation film K
Pop Demon Hunters. The last girl group through top the
Billboard Hot one hundred was Destiny's Child with Bootylicious in

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two thousand and one. I'm Mark Mayfield. Five journalists working
for Al Jazeera are dead, killed on Sunday by an
Israeli airstrike. Michael Kasner reports.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
The network claimed the strike was a targeted attack on
the media in Gaza City. 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 that Israel has a long

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history of accusing journalists of being terrorists without offering up
any evidence. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Forecasters say tropical storm Erin could become a hurricane toward
the end of the week. The storm is currently churning
in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean after forming just west of
the Cabo Verde Islands. The National hurricaneet Are sent 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

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if this storm will impact the US coast.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Three people aren't.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Dead in a shooting that happened at a target store
in Austin, Texas. Police Chief Lisa Davis as a suspect
carjacked a car and then crashed as he tried to.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Escape, then hijacked another car.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
He was then found by Austin p d where he
was taken into custody after a tasing.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
She says the suspect has a history of mental health issues.
She did not give a possible reason for the attack,
which happened around two in the afternoon. Ford is planning
five billion dollars in new investments in Kentucky and Michigan
to build a new electric truck and batteries. Ford CEO
Jim Farley said the money would be going towards four
thousand jobs. The new trunk is described as a mid
size four door that starts at about thirty thousand dollars,

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and families across the country are increasingly turning two dollar
stores to buy food items. A new study published in
the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found
that calories obtained from dollar store items had nearly doubled
from three point four per cent three point four percent
to six point five percent of a household's purchases. Dollar
stores now of the fastest growing food retailers in the US.

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A marked Mayfield