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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. After a
bitter fight, the Republicans are victorious in the state of Texas.
President Trump is now praising Texas Republicans after the state
Senate gave final approval to redraw the Lone Star state's
congressional map. In a post on True Social Trump singled

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out Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for his quote terrific
and powerful leadership on the bill, calling it a quote
huge victory for his America First agenda. Trump had pushed
for the legislation, which gives Republicans a big advantage in
five more districts ahead of the midterm elections. Homeland Security

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Secretary Christy Nome is condemning the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
He has been petitioning for his release from federal custody
since his March deportation to El Salvador. Garcia was released
from a Tennessee jail on Friday. Nome said QUI quote
today we reach a new low with this publicity hungary
Maryland judge mandating this illegal alien, who is an MS

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thirteen gang member, human trafficker, serial domestic abuser and child
predator to be allowed free. A new survey from a
retirement services provider shows Americans are not all that realistic
when it comes to financial milestones. Rob Martyr has More.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
In Power asked nearly one thousand Americans to set target
ages for six life milestones retirement, saving, landing a dream job,
earning six figures, buying a home, becoming debt free, and retiring.
Most people said the age to start saving for retirement
is twenty seven, and landing your dream job should happen
at twenty nine. Respondent said you should earn six figures

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by thirty five, buy your first home at thirty, become
dead free at forty one, and retire at fifty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I'm Rob Martyr and Louisiana official say a fire at
a manufacturing plant continues to burn Saturday and a mandatory
evacuation order within a one mile radius of the facility
remains in place. I'm Jim Forbes. Both Menendez brothers are
being denied parole in California. A San Diego parole board
turned down Lyle Menendez's request for parole last night, a

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day after his brother Eric was also denied three months ago.
Eric and Lyle were re sentenced to fifty years to
life for the nineteen eighty nine shotgun murders of their parents.
The brothers have maintained the killings were in self defense,
claiming they were sexually abused by their father. Seven New
Jersey cities are making a list of fifty of the

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richest and safest cities to live in in the US.
Lisa Salvadi has more.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
The list, compiled by go banking rates dot com, looks
at average household income, home prices, cost of living, property crime,
and violent crime rates. Ridgewood comes in at number eleven,
with an average household making nearly two hundred eighty nine
thousand dollars annually. The six other cities were Westfield at
number thirteen, Madison at number two twenty one, Haddenfield at
number twenty two, Glenridge at twenty three, Summit at number

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thirty one, and the Touchein slipping into the last slot
at number fifty. New York didn't make the list. Western Springs, Illinois,
a suburb of Chicago, is number one. I'm Lisa Salvadi.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
The Trump administration is declining to defend a key federal
funding program for Hispanic serving colleges. The program steers millions
in federal support to institutions with at least twenty five
percent Hispanic enrollment. It's being challenged in court as an
unconstitutional racial quota by Students for Fair Admissions and the

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State of Tennessee. And An assistant director on the Netflix
show Emily in Paris has died. The series was filming
in Venice at Hotel Danielli when Diego Borella reportedly collapsed
in front of the crew on Thursday. Italian media outlet
La Republica said paramedics were unable to revive the forty
seven year old after he suffered a heart attack. Was

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shooting the final scene of season five. I'm Jim Forbes