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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. The White
House is touting over one thousand arrests since taking over
the nation's capital earlier this month. According to the White House,
one hundred eleven firearms have been seized, six known gang
members have been arrested, and forty nine homeless encampments have

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been cleared by the multi agency teams. The Republican led
House Oversight Committee is issuing a new subpoena for documents
held by the estate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The committee is moving ahead with its probe into the
disgraced financier, with the request for his will, any documents
resembling a client list, any black books containing Epstein's contacts,

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flight logs, and an alleged book of birthday letters from
Epstein's friends. President Trump says he's still working to end
the Russia Ukraine War. Today in the Oval Office, Trump
expressed his frustration with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Station I have
with him is a good conversation, and then unfortunately Obama
is loaded up into Kiev. Sul pleasant buddy once again

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said he thinks peace is possible. Lawyers for former New
Jersey Senator Bob Menendez his wife are begging for leniency.
Lawyers for former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez his wife
are begging for leniency ahead of next month sentencing for
her bribery and fraud conviction. Kristin Marx reports in.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
A letter to Judge of Sydney Stein, they ask for
twelve months and one day of prison time, claiming Nadine's
entire life has been marked by men who have taken
advantage of her and that she's deeply traumatized. Meanwhile, her
husband is also pleading for the judge to go easy
on his wife, writing that his defense should not have
suggested that Nadine was money hungry and would therefore solicit

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others for help. Prosecutors argued she was a partner in crime,
with her husband acting as a go between demanding and
collecting bribery payments and the form of gold bars cash.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Anna Mercedes, the Transportation Secretary, is set to announce action
Tuesday against three states over English language tests for truck drivers.
I'm Brian Shook. Taking a trip over the Labor Day
weekend should be a little easier on the wallet. This year,
Triple A expects the national average price for a gallon
of regular great gasoline to be under last year's three

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dollars thirty three cents and says prices should remain relatively
low for the rest of the summer as long as
Gulf Coast refineries are not hit by hurricanes. It also
says the cost of a round trip airline ticket has
dropped by about six percent from a year ago. A
disturbing trend is developing at professional sports events. Rob Martyr

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has more.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
During Friday night's preseason game between the Tennessee Titans and
Minnesota Vikings, it happened again as an adult toy was
thrown onto the field near the six yard line with
just over five minutes left in the game. The teams
were on the field when the object was thrown. Social
media video shows someone on the field pick up the
neon green toy and hand it to Curity. The incident
in Nashville follows a string of similar occurrences at WNBA games.

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I'm Rob Bartier.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
No one won the powerball jackpot on Saturday. Tonight's drawing
is up to seven hundred and fifty million dollars. Brie
Tennis says more.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Lottery officials say more people play powerball when the jackpot
is large, which can push the jackpot even higher, but
that doesn't change your odds of winning. They stand at
one in more than two hundred and ninety two million,
no matter how many tickets are sold. But when you
buy that two dollars powerball ticket, you know the jackpot's
a long shot, and it's really the dream you're buying into.

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Good luck.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm Bree Tennis, Panellis County, Florida. Man is one of
the few who can say he survived a lightning strike.
Travis Kurtz was struck indirectly last Monday. He said it
was raining just a little and the strike came out
of nowhere. Kurtz says he felt an unbearable, painful, burning
sensation and he was incapacitated. He was taken to the

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hospital and was there for several days. I'm Brian Shuck.