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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update, the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. President Trump
says he'll know if he's made any progress towards peace
in Ukraine soon two weeks.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We're going to find out which way it's going to go,
and I'd better be very happy.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Trump has attempted to brok her a piece deal, meeting
with Russia's Vladimir Putin, then with Ukraine Zelensky and US
European allies. Friday from the White House, Trump was asked
about new Russian strikes against Ukraine and said he wasn't
happy about anything with the war. Kilmar Abrego Garcia could
soon be deported after being released from a Tennessee jail.
Attorneys for the famous immigrant were notified Friday that he

(00:42):
could be deported to Uganda as soon as next week,
even as he waits trial on human smuggling charges. After
his release yesterday, his lawyer said Abrego Garcia was on
his way to Maryland to reunite with his family. He
was originally deported earlier this year, and what the White
House said was at administer strad of mistake, but then
they later claimed he was a member of a crime gang.

(01:03):
The Abrego Garcia case has become a flashpoint for President
Trump's immigration policies. A police manhunt in Detroit is over
following today's arrest of a fifty three year old suspect
in the hospital shooting death of his ex wife.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
He added to a verbal altercation with what I'm being
told with his ex wife in the basement area of
henry Ford Hospital. He produced a gun handgun and fire
multiple shots, killing his.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Ex wife, Belisse Mario Greenshot and killed Latricia Green Friday
morning in the basement of henry Ford Hospital where she worked.
Utility bills are on the rise across the US. Federal
data shows electricity costs are up by more than five
percent and natural gas has risen by nearly fourteen percent.
An analysis from the Center for American Progress shows nearly

(01:54):
sixty utility companies will soon increase rates this year by
more than thirty eight billion dollars. The increase in rates
will affect over fifty seven million Americans. I'm Lisa Carton.
Vice President JD Vance was in the Metro Atlanta area
on Thursday promoting Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. Liz Kennedy reports.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
During his stop at All Time an industrial refrigeration manufacturing
facility in Peachtree City. The Vice President wasted no time
talking about the tax cuts for working class families. So
how nice is.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It in Washington, d C.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
To have a government that is going to protect your jobs.
It's going to fight for this facility and say, very simply,
if you're building it here, if you're producing it here,
we are going to give you, and already have given
you a big fat tax cut.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
And Georgia's US Democratic Senator John Ossoff also wasted no
time criticizing Vans for trying to sell an agenda that
Osoff tells MSNBC is defunding hospitals and nursing homes to
cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
The Trump administration can move forward with pulling hundreds of
millions of dollars National Institutes of Health grants linked to
diversity initiatives. After a Supreme Court ruling on Thursday. Here's
Michael Cassner.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
The five to four decisions in part reverse to lower
court ruling that canceling the funds was illegal. Five of
the court's conservative justices ruled in favor of the administration,
accusing the lower court of defying an earlier Supreme Court
ruling that allowed the administration to cancel Grant's Chief Justice
John Roberts joined the liberal justices in opposition.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Jeffrey Epstein associate Gallaine Maxwell says she does not believe
he died by suicide while in jail. Transcripts and audio
from the DOJ meeting with Maxwell have now been released.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
So you think he did not die by suicide given
all the things we just talked about.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I do not believe he'd died by suicide. Maxwell also
says she never saw President Trump get a massage from
Epstein's young female victims, adding Trump was a quote gentleman
in all respects in the interactions she had with them.
The Trump administration is facing pressure from both sides of
the isle to make those files public. I'm Lisa Carton.