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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):
A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from withholding
funds from so called sanctuary cities. A judge in California
Friday night granted an injunction stopping the administration's efforts to
take away funding from cities and counties that don't cooperate
with federal immigration authorities. The order also expands the list
of cities that federal officials cannot withhold funding from. Illinois

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governor is condemning reports that President Trump plans to send
federal troops to the streets of Chicago. Reports Saturday and
The Washington Post said the Pentagon's been planning a military
deployment to Chicago for weeks, and a statement Governor J. B.
Pritzker says Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis. A
Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania is criticizing the recent release of

(00:54):
Jeffrey Epstein related documents by the US Department of Justice.
We get more from Jim Foulloy.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
In a statement Saturday, US Representative Summerlease said just three
percent of the more than thirty three thousand pages of
documents given to Congress contain new information. She says the
remaining ninety seven percent was previously released by the DOJ,
the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, or Palm Beach County
State Attorney's Office. Lee accuses the DOJ of only pretending

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to respond to a recent subpoena issued by a House committee.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
More than fifty million Americans in the West are under
extreme heat warnings. Forecasters warn of dangerous heat from Phoenix
to Seattle, Portland, Spokane, and Boise could all see high
temperatures nearing triple digits. More than twenty people are injured
after a school bus in Pennsylvania carrying dozens of football
players crashed on a rural road north of Pittsburgh. School

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officials say the players from Aliquippa Junior High were on
their way to a game Saturday when their bus was
involved in a crash near Beaver County. Police say twenty
five kids were on the bus and twenty one one.
We're taken to area hospitals, most with minor injuries, but
two are in critical condition. I'm Scott Carr. Lawyers for
the Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrazio Garcia say the government's threatening

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to deport him to Uganda unless he pleads guilty to
charges of human smuggling.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
You're going to fight tooth and nail against any form
of deportation to Uganda, South Sudan, Libya.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
His attorney, Simon sandovel Mochenberg, who filed emotion Saturday, claiming
the Trump administration had offered to deport him to Costa
Rica if he pled guilty to the charges, but if
he didn't, they would deport him to the African nation
of Uganda.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
It is preposterous that they would send him to Africa,
to a country where he doesn't even speak the language,
a country with documented.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Human rights violations. Abrazio Garcia, who faces human trafficking charges
related to a traffic stop in Tennessee three years ago,
is now back in Maryland, where he's lived illegally since
twenty eleven while he awaits trial. He'd illegally entered the
US at age sixteen to escape gang violence in his
native country and join his brother in Maryland. In western Kentucky,

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there were some scary moments at a high school football
game Friday night.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Way wait wait, they said, we got shots fired. People
are running like crazy because they say shots are fired off.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Jason burkean with the Red Helmet Sports Network covering Mayfield
Versus Graves. Police say gunfire came from the War Memorial
Football Stadium parking lot. One adult was injured. The school
district says no students or staff were hurt, but all
weekend activities had to be canceled. President Trump is naming
the co founder of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia, as the first

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US Chief Design Officer. Gebia will be tasked now with
updating the federal government's digital services to be as user
friendly and well designed as those of leading tech companies.
He'll also lead the newly established National Design Studio, which
will assist matter real agencies in improving their digital offerings.
I'm Scott Carr.