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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
A resolution has been introduced in Congress that would extend
the federal takeover of Washington, d C. Florida Republican Anna
Paulina Luna is sponsoring a measure that would keep state
and federal troops patrolling the streets of the capitol indefinitely.
Luna says President Trump should have the authority to exert
control over Washington for as long as he wants. Hurricane

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Aaron won't make landfall on the US mainland, but millions
of residents will feel it more. From Mark Mayfield, the
center of Erin is churning less than five hundred miles
south southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It's forecast to
move between the US East Coast and Bermuda on Wednesday
and Thursday, with high serve and rip currents expected from
Massachusetts to the Carolinas. Some residents in the mid Atlantic

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have already evacuated, including along parts of North Carolina's outer banks,
which is under a coastal flooding threat. Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noam says the entire southern border wall is being
painted black.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
That is specifically at the request of the President, who
understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something
is painted black, it gets even warmer and it will
make it even harder for people to climb.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
No One made the announcement Tuesday at a press briefing
near El Paso. She said funds for the painting were
allocated in the massive spending bill that was passed earlier
this year, and that the pace of the painting was
currently a little bit less than half a mile a day.
Nearly two thirds of Americans think racism is still widespread
across the US. More from Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Tying a previous high in twenty twenty one, a new
Gallup poll finds sixty four percent of Americans believe racism
against black people is widespread in the US. Black adults
continue to be the most likely to say such racism
is prevalent, with eighty three percent expressing that view. Meanwhile,
Americans believe that racism against white people is widespread is

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at a new low.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Before the opening bll S and P five hundred futures
are slipping. I'm Michael Kasner. President Trump's approval rating is
holding steady at its lowest level of his second term.
Chris Kragio with details.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
According to a new Reuters IPSIS survey, forty percent of
respondents back Trump's handling of his job, which marks a
seven point drop from the start of his second term.
Findings are in line with other polling as An average
from Decision Desk HQ shows Trump with a forty six
point five percent approval rating compared to the fifty six
percent approval rating he scored at the start of his

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new term. President Trump's decline in approval comes as he
has faced multiple controversies, including Jeffrey Epstein's case files, use
of federal force in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, and
the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
An Alaska man has a new motorcycle courtesy of Russian
President Vladimir Putin. Daniel Martindale explains.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Mark Warren says he was gifted a eural motorcycle last week.
It came after he spoke with two Russian state media
journalists earlier this month, before the Alaska summit between Putin
and President Trump. He says he was approached by the
journalists while riding his motorcycle through downtown Anchorage. He says
they started asking him questions about it while filming him.
Ural motorcycles are named after the Ural mountains in western Russia.

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Russia is calling the move an act of giving by
President Putin.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm Daniel Martindale.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
The price of some popular weight loss drugs are being
slashed for cash paying patients. Brian Shook with more.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordish is offering Ozepic and Wagovi at
half price four hundred and ninety nine bucks a month
for those who pay for them out of pocket. The
cash payoffer will expand access to eligible type two diabetes
patients who don't have insurance coverage for the weekly injections.
The move comes as drug makers face pressure from the

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Trump administration to lower drug costs in the country.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And the Trump administration it has a TikTok account. They
posted their first video on Tuesday. I'm Michael Cassner.