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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump says murderers in Washington, d C. Should get
the death penalty while touting the National Guard intervention in DC.
Trump said if somebody murders someone in the nation's capital,
they should get the capital punishment. He then called it
a very strong preventative measure. Trump made the comments during
his seventh Cabinet meeting of his second term. The meeting
covered a wide range of topics. Trump recognized American workers

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when noting the upcoming Labor Day holiday. He said the
average worker has gotten a five hundred dollars wage increase
since he took office. He also claimed grocery and gas
prices are down and factories are booming in the US.
Trump also praised the American military, calling it the greatest
on the planet. Cracker Barrel's doing a one to eighty
and ditching its brand new logo. Mark Mayfield explains Cracker

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Barrel unveiled.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Its new logo last week that got rid of an
older man leaning against a barrel. The response was more
mostly negative, and late Tuesday, the company said in a statement,
our new logo is going away, and our old timer
will remain even. President Trump went in on the controversy,
advising the restaurant chain should admit a mistake based on
customer response. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
California Governor Gavin Newsom is seeing a rise in popularity
among Democratic voters as he's emerged as a possible top
contender for the party's twenty twenty eight presidential nominee. A
new survey for Morning Consult has Newsom gaining eight points
in just the last two months, going from eleven percent
in January to nineteen percent now. Former Vice President Kamala

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Harris topped the list at twenty nine percent support. Although
Newsom is the only potential twenty twenty eight candidate to
see a significant increase in numbers, General Motors is recalling
over twenty three thousand Chevrolet Corvettes. The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration says the cars were recalled because of a
fuel leak issue that increases the risk of a fire
during refueling. The recall effects Corvette models from twenty twenty

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three to twenty twenty five. NITSA says roughly point one
percent of the cars recalled have the defect. I'm Tammy trheo.
President Trump's appealing a recent court ruling that tossed out
a five hundred million dollar fraud penalty against him. Jonathan
O'Halleran reports.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Last week, the New York Appeals Court wiped the penalty,
but upheld the finding that Trump was liable for civil fraud.
It also left in place of penalty barring Trump or
his sons from serving in executive roles at New York
companies in the near future. Lawyers for the president filing
a notice of appeal Tuesday announcing their intention to challenge
that ruling. Jonathan o'huller In New York.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Open Ai is being sued by a California couple who
accused chat gpt of helping their teenage son commit suicide.
The lawsuit, file Tuesday claims that chatbot helped sixteen year
old Adam Rain to explore suicide methods and helped him
write the first draft of his suicide note. The forty
page lawsuit names open ai and its CEO Sam Altman
as defendants and accuses them of wrongful death, design defects,

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and failure to war. One of the risks associated with
chat GPT SpaceX is celebrating a successful test flight of Starship.
The massive uncrewed rocket launched from Star based Texas Tuesday
night and splashed down in the Indian Ocean just over
an hour later. The latest test came after three straight setbacks.

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NASA plans to use Starship on trips to the Moon
and to Mars. Gen Zers in America are becoming less
inclined to describe themselves as thriving. The annual Voices of
gen Z surveyed participants between the ages of thirteen and
twenty eight and found that forty five percent of them
described themselves as thriving, marking a drop from forty nine
percent in twenty twenty four and forty seven percent who

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said the same in the twenty twenty three study. Researchers
believe the drop is likely fueled by adult members of
gen Z, as only thirty nine percent see themselves as
being in a good place. The survey's school aged respondents
were significantly more optimistic, with fifty six six percent thinking
of themselves as thriving. I'm tammage for he O