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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Multiple reports say two people are dead and at least
a dozen are injured after a gunman opened fire at
a Catholic church and school this morning in Minneapolis. This
man knew somebody who was in the church when the
shooting happened.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
He just ran, you know, when the fire and he
said it seemed like it went on for eternity, but
when it stopped, he just he ran out of the building.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Cara Levin says the victims include children. The shooting happened
at the Annunciation Catholic Church in the south side of
the city. Governor Tim Walls has been briefed on the
shooting and added he's praying for the children and teachers.
Fifty percent tariffs are now being charged on imports from
India's punishment for buying oil from Russia. The tax on
imports from India went into effect today.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
The US and India have yet to reach a trade agreement,
but President Trump has been insisting that India stopped buying
Russian oil. While negotiations are underway to end the war
in Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Vice President JD Vance told meet the Press Sunday that
the US was applying aggressive economic leverage on India to
try to make it harder for the Russians to get
rich from their oil economy. Iowa State Democrats are celebrating
a big victory after flipping a Republican seat in a
special election to break the GOP's supermajority in the Senate.
Unofficial results show that Caitlin dre defeated Republican Christopher prosch.

(01:24):
Drey won the Sioux City district fifty five percent to
forty four percent. She said her election win highlights Iowan's
desire for change in political leadership. Democrats in the Iowa
State Senate now hold seventeen seats, breaking up the Republicans
two thirds supermajority. The twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is Friday.
They made landfall on the US Gulf Coast on August
twenty nine, two thousand and five. It remains one of

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the most devastating natural disasters in US history, killing over
eighteen hundred people. Most of those deaths were in New Orleans,
particularly in low lying areas like the Lower ninth Ward,
After the city's levy system failed, Images of thousands of
stranded Resis sudents living in squalor for days waiting for
basic supplies, stunned the country. I'm Chris Caracio. The governor

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of Colorado was showing interest in the upcoming marriage of
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcey. Governor Jared Polis congratulated the
couple on their engagement yesterday, using several references to Taylor
Swift songs. In his social media post. Polus invited the
couple to get married in Colorado, saying they should exchange
rings and the majestic Rocky Mountains. He also offered to
marry Swift and Kelsey, calling himself a certified Swifty Wedding Officiant.

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Today we're celebrating the definitive and oldest dispute settling game
Bree Tennis Now with more on Rock, Paper Scissors Day.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
The handgame dates back to about two hundred and six
BC in China. What we play today is very different
from the original, which used a slug, a snake, and
a frog. The rock is thrown the most, followed by paper,
then scissors. Women throw scissors, most men rock. There are
books on strategy and psychology as to what to play,
but it is just a simple game with three components

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rock paper, scissors, lizardspock five if you watch The Big
Bang Theory.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
More performers are being announced for this year's MTV VMAs.
Tate McCrae, Doja Cat, Jelly Roll, Post Malone, and Conan
Gray have all been added to the lineup. They joined
previously announced artists like Sabrina Carpenter, Ricky Martin, and Buster Rhymes.
Lady Gaga is the most nominated artist this year, followed
by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar. The MTV VMAs will
be held September seventh in New York. Signists say they

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have found a bright orange shark in the waters off
Costa Rica, the first time a shark that color has
ever been recorded. The researchers published pictures of the nurse
shark this month in the journal Marine Biodiversity. The shark's
skin is the result of a rare genetic condition. Nurse
sharks typically have light brown skin. A squirrel that interrupted
a Yankees Red Sox game recently is getting its own

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baseball card. The squirrel ran out onto the field during
the fourth inning of Friday night's game at Yankee Stadium
and interrupted play when it's scampered onto the mound and
got into a stare down with Yankee pitcher Max Freed,
now the Yankee Stadium Squirrel, as his own Tops Baseball card.
The cards sold out quickly on the Top's website. I'm
Chris Carragio.