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This sin is your twenty four to seven use update
the latest use this hour In just four minutes, Texas
Republicans could start a redistricting showdown if their plan to
redraw maps comes to a vote. The state House reconvened
today after protests from Democrats that saw them lead the
state to break quorum and delay a vote. The new
congressional map would create five more Republican leaning districts. Meantime,

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the majority Democrats in California are watching and say they'll
push to redraw their maps to add five more democratic
seats if Texas does the same. Hurricane Aaron is slowly
traveling up the Atlantic, affecting millions along the US East Coast.
The outer bands of the category two storm are expected
to bring dangerous weather conditions to the North Carolina coast.
Most East Coast beaches are closed due to life threatening

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surf and rip currents. Aaron has maximum sustained winds of
one hundred and ten miles per hour, and it's about
three hundred and thirty five miles southeast of North Carolina.
The Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records will remain sealed. Kristin
Marx reports.

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A Manhattan judge Wednesday denied the Justice Department bid to
get the records unsealed that led to Epstein being indicted
on sex trafficking charges. Public interest in the case reignited
after the DOJ announced that Epstein did not have a
client list and confirmed the convicted sex offender's death was
as suicide evidence so as scene and heard by grand juries,
is not allowed to be released without approval from a judge.

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Last month, President Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to
get court approval to release the grand jury material.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics is drawing the ire of
Robert F. Kennedy Junior over vaccines. The Health and Human
Services chief went after the pediatric group in a post
on x just hours after the AAP recommended COVID nineteen
vaccines for all young children six through twenty three months.
Kennedy claims the group's recommendations were corporate friendly because AAP
receives donations from vaccine companies like Pfizer and maderna AP's

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president issued a statement welcoming an opportunity to sit down
with Kennedy to review the recommendations. Target's chief is stepping
down after sluggish sales and DEI policies. CEO Brian Cornell
will depart from the retail Giant early next year after
a continued decline in sales. I'm Chris Kroshio. Scientists have
found another moon orbiting Uranus. The new moon was found

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by a team from Colorado using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
They say the tiny moon is only about six miles
in diameter, which made it undetectable to other telescopes. It's
the twenty ninth moon discovered orbiting Uranus and it doesn't
have a name yet, so for now it's being called
S twenty twenty five U one. Over in the UK,
the BBC pulled a new Ozzy Osbourne documentary just hours

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before it was set to premiere. Mark Mayfield has details.

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Ozzy Osbourne Coming Home was supposed to air on Monday evening.
A BBC spokesperson told US Weekly that the film premiere
date was moved and they'll confirm a new date in
the future. Ozzy Osbourne Coming Home captures an intimate glimpse
into the os Wyne family's journey returning back to the UK.
Osborne passed away on July twenty second, just over two
weeks after his final performance as a solo artist and

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with Black Sabbath at their back to the beginning concert.
I'm Mark Mayfield Kriuz. If you lie the lane, you
look a much, Oh baby, you should go love your seven.

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A Justin Bieber impersonator is banned from a Las Vegas
nightclub after tricking the staff and performing on stage. The
staff at the x S Nightclub believed the impostor was
the real thing and led him on stage Saturday night.
He went on to sing several of Bieber's hits, but
it wasn't long until the deception was realized and the
impersonator was escorted out and banned. A driver was pulled

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over by police in Washington State for speeding, and she
told the officer she was on her way to pay
a previous speeding ticket. The officer saw the driver illegally
passing another vehicle and going seventy four in to thirty
five mile an hour zone. The twenty one year old
driver was arrested and booked for reckless driving and not
having a life sense or insurance. I'm Chris Kragio