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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.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hurricane Aaron is traveling away from the US Erin is
a large storm with maximum sustained winds of one hundred
miles per hour. California Democrats are a step closer to
redrawing the state's congressional maps. Governor Gavin Newsom signed to
measure Thursday that calls for a special election aiming to
redraw state maps that would most likely give Democrats five

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additional House seats. Investors will be watching for any clues
on interest rates as Jerome Powell delivers what will likely
be his last address as FED chair on Friday. Economic
reporter Kevin Siilli is at the Federal Reserves Conference in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
What they hope will provide some clarity and clues around
his decision on whether or not he will cut rates
in September.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
It's widely expected the Fed will cut rates in September,
but sirrillly caution that Pommell remains weary about President Trump's
tariffs and the uncertainty they present to the market. New
York Attorney General Letitia James is vowing to appeal the
tossing of President Trump's massive penalty in the civil fraud
case she brought against him. Kristen Marx reports.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
And Appeals court ruled Thursday that the penalty, which topped
five hundred million with interest, is excessive and violates the
Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution. Trump took to social
media claiming total victory, but James points out that the
appeals court judges still found Trump, his company, and two
of his children liable for fraud. It was a narrow ruling,
but it means a president as well as Donald Junior

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and Eric Trump are limited when it comes to doing business.
In New York, Judge Arthur and Goron ruled last year
that Trump lied on financial statements to lenders and ordered
him to pay three hundred and fifty five million plus interest.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
The suspect in this stabbing spree at a Michigan Walmart
in July will have a competency hearing on Friday. Bradford
Gilly is being held on a one one hundred thousand
dollars bond and the prosecution has noted a history of
mental illness. I'm Brian Shook. Lawsuits are filed on behalf
of six US citizens who claimed they were detained and

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abused by ICE agents, Tammy Trehillo reports.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Attorney Luis Correo alleges in the lawsuit that immigration enforcement
operations in June and July targeted race, not criminals. They
went after Natino's US citizens and immigrants. That's what they
were focusing on. The lawsuits charged civil rights violations tied
to the racial profiling of five Latino US citizens and
one permanent resident. The lawsuits also allege excessive force used

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by agents against the plaintiffs. The government says US citizens
were sometimes detained because they interfered with the enforcement operations.
Koreo says they also plan on filing a lawsuit against
the City of Los Angeles, claiming the LAPD aided and
abedded federal agents.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
More Americans than expected found themselves filing for unemployment benefits
for the first time last week. The Labor Departments says
it received two hundred thirty five thousand initial requests in
the week ending August sixteenth. Most analysts at forecast today's
number coming in at around two hundred twenty five thousand.
Washington State is joining sixteen other states and the District

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of Columbia in asking the Food and Drug Administration to
drop restrictions on the abortion drug mif of prestone. Brad
Ford reports.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
The restrictions include providers being required to be a registered
prescriber of the drug, pharmacies need special certification to dispense it,
and patients have to sign a form to prove that
they are voluntarily terminating a pregnancy. The FDA approved myth
of pristone in two thousand and has been used by
more than seven and a half million women in the US.
I'm brad Ford.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
A new report says the Chevy Camaro ZL one is
the vehicle most likely to be stolen in the US.
New research released this week from the Highway Loss Data
Institute shows the ZL one is thirty nine times more
commonly stolen then the national average for all vehicles. I'm
Brian Shook.