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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The fight to stay in the United States is not
over for a man recently living in Maryland, Lawyers for
Kilmarrow Brego Garcia say the government is threatening to deport
him to Uganda unless he pleads guilty to human smuggling.
In a court filing Saturday, of Brego Garcia's lawyers claim
that Trump administration offered to deport the Salvadorian immigrant to

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Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to the charges, but
if he didn't agree to the plea deal, they would
deport him to the African nation of Uganda. Abrego Garcia
was residing in Maryland earlier this year when he was
accidentally deported to Al Salvador in what the White House
had called an administrative error. They later claimed he was

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a member of a gang. A group of Texas residents
issuing Governor Greg Abbott over a new congressional map designed
to give Republicans more power. The plaintiffs are alleging that
the new map, which will give the GOP five more
seats in the US House, is racially discriminatory and violates
voter protection. The sixty seven page complaint also argues that

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redrawing congressional districts mid decade is unconstitutional. One person is
dead and four others are wounded following a shooting during
a basketball tournament in the Bronx Jonathan o'holleran has more.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Police say it happened just before seven thirty Saturday evening
inside half In Park in Baychester. The victims range from
seventeen to forty two years old. A thirty two year
old man were struck in the chest and later pronounced dead.
Police say four people were taken into custody in relation
to the shooting. The circumstances that led to the gunfire
remain unknown.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
And the National Park Service says the north rim of
the Grand Canyon will remain closed for the rest of
the season because of a huge wildfire. The Dragon Bravo
wildfire has damaged or destroyed about seventy structures, including the
historic Grand Canyon Lodge, and has burned over one hundred
and forty five thousand acres. I'm Jim Forbes. A federal

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judge is blocking the Trump administration from withholding funding from
so called sanctuary jurisdictions. On Friday, night, the California judge
granted an injunction halting the administration's effort to take away
grant funding from cities and counties that don't cooperate with
federal immigration authorities. The order also expands the list of

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cities that federal officials can't withhold funding. The rolling covers
over thirty cities and hundreds of millions of dollars in grants.
A suspect is being held after an early morning burglary
attempt at a Beverly Hills home of singer songwriter Lionel
Ritchie Scott Carr has More.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Police say the seventy six year old music legend was
home at the time, but no one was hurt and
nothing was taken. Police in Beverly Hills were called to
the home just after midnight Friday to check on a
report of a string dre on the property. Officers saying
an intruder entered the home but was scared off by
security alarms. After a search of the neighborhood, a suspect
was arrested, thirty eight year old Michael Bond on suspicion

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of burglary. I'm Scott Carr, a.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
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 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

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and malnutrition. Another million are facing emergency food shortages, and
gas prices are expected to remain low for the upcoming
Labor Day weekend. Triple A says the national average for
a gallon of regular should stay below last year's average
of three dollars and thirty three cents, and should remain
relatively low for the rest of the summer as long

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as the Gulf Coast refineries are not hit by hurricanes.
And that's the very latest. I'm Jim Forbes