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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, transcripts and audio from the DOJ
meeting with Jeffrey Epstein associate Gillen Maxwell have been released.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I met mister Epstein in nineteen ninety one. I've never
heard of him or mat kinderfore, and no one in
my family had ever either.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Maxwell last month.
It came as the Trump administration face pressure from both
sides of the aisle to release files connected with the
convicted sex offender. Maxwell is serving a twenty year federal
prison sentence in Texas for sex trafficking. The FBI staged
early morning raids at former Trump National security advisor John
Bolton's Maryland home and office. Authorities were reportedly looking for

(00:54):
classified records. Bolton, who became a strong critic of the
president after he left his administration in nineteen had previously
been accused of leaking classified material, but an investigation didn't
result in charges. At the time, stocks continued to surge
on Wall Street. It comes after a FED chair Jerome Powell,
spoke this morning and suggested interest rate cuts are coming soon.
The Dow Jones has been up over nine hundred points

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at times today. Meantime, the Nasdaq has been up over
two percent in the s and P five hundred over
one percent. Several people have died after a tour bus
rolled over in western New York this afternoon. A witness
said he was driving on I ninety and Pembroke, which
is about thirty miles east of Buffalo, when he saw
the bus on its side.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Oh well, I was headed eastbound and I just see
the bus basically going perpendicular from the medium across to
the shoulder of the road. Of course, hit the brakes.
Traffic was real.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
How do you The crash reportedly involved more than fifty people,
with some trapped underneath the bus. All lanes of the
New York State Thruway are completely shut down the traffic
in the area. The bus had left Niagara Falls and
was returning to New York City. Governor Hochl says she's
been briefed on the describing it as tragic. Authorady say
most of the people on the bus are Indian, Chinese
and Filipino.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'm Chris Krazio.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Three decades after the original Beatles anthology, an expanded version
is coming out this fall. Anthology twenty twenty five features
a near four hundred page book, another episode added to
the original nineteen ninety five eight part TV series, and
an additional disc to go with the original three double
album set. The additional disc includes the twenty twenty three
single Now and Then. Release date for the twelve LP

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and eight CD box sets is November twenty first, a
month after the October fourteenth release of the book. Two
for one deals are available today at cinemas around the country.
Tammy Trahio has details.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Cinema United and the Cinema Foundation are teaming up to
ring two for one concessions and additional discounts to movie theaters.
It's all part of an inaugural event sponsored by Fendango
called Date Night at the Movies. According to the chair
of the Cinema Foundation, the one night only event is
all about enjoying the big screen with somebody special.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
A new study finds fewer Americans picking up a good
book every day just for fun. Researchers looked at stats
submitted by more than two hundred and thirty thousand Americans
fifteen and older from two thousand and three to twenty
twenty three.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Here's what they found.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Daily reading for pleasure has dropped some forty percent over
the past twenty years. The decline was even greater among
Black Americans, and when it came to reading to kids,
the study found just two percent of adults reporting that
they did so on a daily basis. The cost of
Apple TV Plus is going up. The streaming service will
now cost thirteen dollars per month, after previously costing ten
bucks a month. The new price went into effect yesterday

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for new subscribers, while existing customers we'll see the price
hike over the next thirty days. Apple TV Plus is
the only major streaming service without a cheaper ad supported option.
The semifinals of the Little League World Series are all
set tomorrow. Las Vegas will be taking on Fairfield, Connecticut
on the US side. On the international side, it'll be Chinese,
Taipei and Aruba.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm Chris Kiagio.