The Latest: 08/20/2025 10:58pm ET

All the latest national and international news. Topics also include finance, weather and entertainment.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is praising the state House for
passing a plan to redraw congressional maps. The governor said
in a statement Wednesday evening he'll sign the bill when
it reaches his desk. Abbot said, while Democrats shirk their
duty and ran away to other states, Republicans stayed the course,
stayed at work, and stayed true to Texas. Severe weather

(00:31):
is coming to North Carolina's outer banks as Hurricane Aaron
moves through the Atlantic Ocean. A state of emergency has
been declared as the storm's outer bands are expected to
bring storm surge flooding to the region soon. Vice President JD.
Vance is giving details on the visit Ukrainian President Zelenski
took to the White House this week. President says, you know,

(00:53):
we've had a pretty good meeting. I'm going to cook
call Vladimir Putin, see what he says about it.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
And everybody's like.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh, you're going to call him next week, and he's like,
no time visit in Moscow. Let's call him right now.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Vance said on Fox News Wednesday that he started things
off with an icebreaker, telling Zelenski, as long as he behaved,
Vance would not say anything. Federal Reserve officials are concerned
over tariffs, inflation, and labor markets.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Chris Karraggio reports recently released minutes from the fed's July
meeting showed a divided board after two governors voted against
the decision to hold rate steady, marking the first time
multiple governors rejected a rate decision in more than thirty years.
The governors also noted rising threats to the economy that
would warrant monitoring, as well as the possibility of facing

(01:38):
difficult trade offs due to more persistent inflation and a
weakened labor market. President Trump has pressured the FED for
months to cut rates, criticizing Chairman Jerome Powell on the board.
I'm Chris Krajio.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
A California parole board will consider the fate of the
Menendez brothers on Thursday and Friday. Lyle and Eric have
spent the past thirty years behind for the highly publicized
murders of their parents in nineteen eighty nine. I'm Brian Shook.
The FDA is warning the public about eating certain great

(02:10):
value raw frozen shrimp sold at some Walmart stores around
the country. The agency issued the warning after Customs and
Border Protection alerted the agency about possible Saesium one thirty
seven contamination, a radio active isotope from shipping containers. Washington
State says President Trump does not have the authority to

(02:31):
eliminate vote by mail. Brad Ford reports.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
President Trump says he'll sign an executive order to end
vote by mail and ballot machines. Washington Secretary of State
Steve Hobbs says the Constitution gives Congress and state legislatures
the authority to set the times, places, and manner of elections,
and not the president. Washington voters approved vote by mail
nearly twenty years ago. I'm brad Ford.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It looks like a legionnaire's lawsuit is in the works
following a fifth death in New York City. Sarah Lee
Kessler reports.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
The Reverend Al Sharpton is expected to announce a lawsuit
Wednesday that's also connected to the one hundred eight people
sickened and fourteen patients still hospitalized by this severe type
of pneumonia. The Gothamist reporting that lawyer Jory Lang is
calling the death toll shocking and says he represents thirty
seven people who've contracted legennares in this Central Harlem outbreak.

(03:26):
Last week, Mayor Eric Adams said the twelve cooling towers
a tested positive for lee Janella. The bacteria that causes
the illness have been remediated. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
A Justin Bieber impersonator, has been banned from a Las
Vegas nightclub after tricking the staff into letting him perform.
The staff at the Excess nightclub on the Las Vegas
Strip were fooled Saturday night into believing the impostor was
the real Bieber, the bogus Bieber saying several of the
pop star's big hits until the deception and was realized

(04:01):
and he was escorted off the stage. I'm Brian Shook.