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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. Jeffrey Epstein's
associate says the deceased sex offender never had a client list.
In just released transcripts of her interview last month with
the Justice Department, Gilaine Maxwell also says she never saw

(00:22):
President Trump get a massage from Epstein's young female victims
or do anything inappropriate. Maxwell is serving a twenty year
federal prison sentence in Texas for sex trafficking. Five people
are confirmed dead following a tour bus crash in western
New York Friday afternoon. Police say the bus overturned on

(00:42):
the eastbound side of the New York State Thruway in
the town of Pembrooke after the driver lost control. A
number of people were ejected from the bus upon impact
and others were trapped. Lyle Menendez has been denied parole.
A San Diego parole board made the decision Friday night,
a day after his brother Eric was also denied. Three

(01:03):
months ago. Eric and Lyle were re sentenced to fifty
years to life for the nineteen eighty nine shotgun murders
of their parents. President Trump says he may take on
crime in the city of Chicago. While touting the use
of the National Guard in Washington, d C. Trump said
the Windy City may be next. When we're ready, we'll
go in a world straight down Chicago, just like we

(01:24):
did DC. Nearly half of California voters support Governor Gavin
Newsom's redistricting efforts. Chris Carraggio has.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
More the governor is seeking to secure Democratic congressional seats
before the mid term elections, and a new poll from
the University of California Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies found
forty eight percent of voters were in favor of the move.
Survey results also found that thirty two percent of respondents
were against it and about twenty percent say they were undecided.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Major League Baseball is reportedly finalizing new media rights deals
with NBC, ESPN, and Netflix. The three year deals would
see NBC getting MLB's Sunday games as well as Wildcard
playoff games. I'm Brian Shook, a former top aid to
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, is among several facing

(02:12):
new charges in a city hall corruption probe. Yesterday, Manhattan
District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced new 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

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Adams in any way. Los Angeles Tourism Workers Union is
threatening an Olympic labor action.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Leaders with United Here Locally Leven, 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 others are not met, they will not hesitate to strike.

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

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Astronomers say there will be a rare black moon this
Saturday night. Tammy Trehello has more.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
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. Like all new moons, the
sunlit side will be facing away from the Earth. So
you won't be able to.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
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.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
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, and officials

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