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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. Geelane Maxwell
says there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list. She spoke
in just released transcripts of her interview last month with
the Justice Department.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
During the time that you were with mister Epstein, you
never observed your univer saw any sort of list or
black book or a list of individuals who linked to
certain messuses or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
She also said she never saw President Trump get a
massage from Epstein's young female victims or do anything inappropriate.
The FBI has conducted raids at former Trump National Security
advisor John Bolton's Maryland home and his office. Authorities were
reportedly looking for classified records. Bolton, who became a strong
critic of Trump after he left the administration in twenty nineteen,

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had previously been accused of leaking classified material, but an
investigation didn't go anywhere. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is
giving the strongest indication yet that interest rate cuts may
be on the way. He spoke at the Federal Reserves
conference in Jackson Hall, Wyoming, Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
The stability of the unemployment rate and other labor market
measures allows us to proceed carefully as we consider changes
to our policy stance. Nonetheless, with policy and restrictive territory,
the baseline outlook and the shifting balance of risks may
warrant adjusting our policy stance.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
The FED will meet next month to decide whether or
not to restart rate cuts. Several people are dead following
a serious crash involving a tour bus in western New
York Friday afternoon. State Police a preliminary report show the
bus overturned on the eastbound side of the New York
State Thruway between exits forty eight A and forty nine

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in the town of Pembrook, between Buffalo and Rochester. Several
witnesses say the bus lost control, went into the median,
and crossed to the shoulder before rolling over. I'm Brian Shook,
a former top aid to New York City Mayor Eric Adams,
is among several facing new charges in a city hall
corruption probe. Yesterday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced new

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bribery charges against Ingrid Lewis Martin and the Deputy Commissioner
of Real Estate Services, Jesse Hamilton, as well as other
Adams supporters. First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro says the conduct
does not implicate Mayor Adams in any way. Los Angeles
Tourism Workers Union is threatening an Olympic labor action.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Leaders with United Here Local eleven, alongside other unions, are
demanding the IOC and the LA twenty eight Organizing Committee
commit five billion dollars to build housing in LA. The
LAS reports. The unions are also demanding that Airbnb not
be allowed to add more short term rental units for
the games. Union co leader Kurt Peterson says of these
and other demands are not they will not hesitate to strike.

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The union's contract expires before the Olympics. I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Astronomers say there will be a rare black moon this
Saturday night. Tammy Trijello has more a black moon occurs
when there are two new moons in a single month,
and it won't happen again until August of twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Like all new moons, the sunlit side will be facing
away from the Earth, so you won't be able to
see it, but moon enthusiasts will be glad to know that.
On Sunday and Monday nights when the black moon begins waxing,
it will create the thinnest lunar crescent, which should appear
on the western horizon about thirty two forty minutes after sunset.
I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
A Portland, Oregon polar bear, is headed for the Windy City.
Amelia Gray has been a beloved resident of the Oregon
Zoo for the last four years, but zoo officials say
she'll move to the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago in the coming
weeks as part of a new effort to save her species.
It's a bit of a blind date. Amelia Gray will
get to spend time with a male bear. Officials say

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they will hopefully get to raise some cubs. I'm Brian Shuck.