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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
House members are looking over transcripts released to them on Friday.
Jeffrey Epstein associate Gleen Maxwell says she doesn't believe he
died by suicide while in jail. Transcripts and audio from
the DOJ meeting with Maxwell have been released. Maxwell also
says she never saw President Trump get a massage from

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Epstein's young female victims, adding Trump quote was a gentleman
in all respects in the interactions she had with him.
The release comes as the Trump administration faces pressure from
both sides of the political aisle to make public the
files connected with the convicted sex offender. Maxwell is serving
a twenty year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking. Kilmar

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Abrigo Garcia will be deported after he was released from
a Tennessee jail Friday. According to multiple reports, his attorneys
were notified that he could be deported to Uganda as
soon as next week, even as he awaits trial on
human smuggling charges. After his release, his attorney said he
was on his way to Maryland to reunite with his family.

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Abrego Garcia was originally deported in what the White House
said was an administrative mistake, but later said he was
a member of the MS thirteen gang. The Abrego Garcia
case has become a flashpoint for President Trump's immigration policies
and Governor Gavin Newsom's redistricting campaign has raised just over
six million dollars in just a week with around two

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hundred thousand individual donations. This comes ahead of a November
fourth special election.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Well, we've an overwhelming support, including former President Barack Obama.
She united the Democratic Party independence I think broadly recognize
what's at stake, and so we put a stake in
the ground. We're giving the people the opportunity to side.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Newsom has become a key player in the Democratic Party's
defense again Republican redistricting efforts, especially in Texas. And that's
the latest. I'm Jim Forbes, a key global hunger monitor,
says the northern Gaza Strip is experiencing famine and that
it will soon spread to the rest of the region.
By the end of September, the Integrated Food Security Phase

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Classification Organization announced that after nearly two years of war
with Israel, more than a half a million Palestinians in
the Northern Strip are facing starvation and malnutrition. Another million
are facing emergency food shortages. Things are projected to get
worse in the coming weeks, and more than one hundred
and thirty thousand children under the age of five will

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face death by malnutrition by June of next year if
things don't change. Israel says there is no famine Gaza
and that the deaths attributed to malnutrition are actually from
other medical conditions. President Trump is saying the Intel CEO
has agreed to give the US a ten percent stake.
Brian Shook explain.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
The President said on Friday he reached an agreement with
Intel CEO Lipbutan, giving the United States a company stake
worth ten billion dollars. Two weeks ago, Trump called for
tans immediate resignation following reports alleging a connection to China.
The model of this deal is something Trump hopes to
revisit with other companies. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
The twenty twenty six World Cup draw will take place
at the Kennedy Center in Washington, d C. President Trump
made the announcement from the Oval Office Friday, calling the
World Cup the biggest event in Sports. The tournament's draw
set the group stage of competition for the forty eight
countries set to participate. The draw will take place December fifth,

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about six months before the first matches kick off. And
the Ethan Cohen directed Honey Don't is off to a
decent start at the box office. The film made five
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from Thursday previews and
is expected to make between three and four million dollars
this weekend. Meanwhile, the hit original film Weapons has crossed

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the one hundred million dollar mark. I'm Jim Forbes