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

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

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Two children are dead with seventeen more people heard after
a gunman opened fire through the windows of a Minneapolis
Catholic school on Wednesday morning. The shooting happened at Annunciation
Catholic School during a mass celebrating the first week of school.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry says it was too easy for
the suspect to get a gun.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
We're not talking about your father's hunting rifle. We're talking
about people that have gotten guns at it, seemingly in
this case, legally, that obviously have a whole ton of
mental health issues. You're not right in the head if
you're going to a church to shoot it up.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
The fourteen children and three parishioners who were heard are
all expected to survive. The FBI identified the shooter's twenty
three year old Robert Westman, who police say killed himself.
Fired CDC director Susan minars Is refusing to leave her post.
She'd been on the job only two weeks when HHS
posted on exit she was no longer the CDC director.
Hours later, her attorneys said she'd neither resigned nor been

(01:04):
told by the White House that she'd been fired. They
added that as a person of integrity and devoted to science,
she won't resign. Minaris's lawyers say their client was targeted
after clashing with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior over
vaccine policy. Four other top CDC officials resigned Wednesday, one
citing in a letter the ongoing weaponization of public health.

(01:24):
A man who through a sandwich at a federal agent
in Washington, d C is not being indicted by a
grand jury. The US Attorney's Office in Washington wanted Shawn
Dunn to be indicted on charges of felony assault. He
seen on video hitting the officer in the chest with
a sandwich after saying they weren't wanted in DC. He
was fired from his job at the Justice Department following
the incident. In Vidia is taking a hit ahead of

(01:46):
Thursday's market open. Shares are down over three percent in
extended trading, even after the chip maker posted results at
topp to Wall Street forecasts. The drop could be tied
to in Nvidia's data center segment, which came in slightly
lower than expected. Wall Street closed hire Wednesday with the
SMB five hundred, hitting a record high. I'm Tammi Trhio.

(02:06):
California Republican leaders want to split the state in two,
calling it a two state solution amid redistricting efforts. Brian
Shook reports.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Assembly Republican leader James Gallagher argues it will improve representation
for underserved regions.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
And those forgotten people, mostly in the inland counties of
the state. They have no voice, and in fact, now
even worse, their representation could be completely stripped by the
Gavinmander proposal Prop. Fifty that's been put on the ballot.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
California plans to redraw its congressional maps to counter potential
Republican gains in Texas. I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
The majority of surveyed US voters say they wouldn't trust
Russian President Putin to honor any peace deal reached with Ukraine.
A recent Quinnipiac University poll found seventy six percent of
voters don't trust Putin to stand by a peace agreement.
Well eighteen percent do trust him to honor a deal
if one is reached on the war. Looking at the
survey along party lines, it shows ninety one percent of
Democrats distrust the Kremlin, while seventy seven percent of Independence

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and sixty two percent of Republicans feel the same way.
Denmark's foreign minister is calling out the US over its
alleged influence operations in Greenland. Michael Kasner has details.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen released a statement on Wednesday saying
they're aware that foreign actors continue to show an interest
in Greenland and its position in the Kingdom of Denmark.
Crasmussen said any attempt to interfere in the internal affairs
of the kingdom will of course be unacceptable, and that
he summoned the top US diplomat in Denmark for a meeting.

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President Trump is often expressed a desire for the US
to control Greenland, saying it was vital for national security.
I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Dodger Stadium's being called the most instagrammable MLB stadium in America.
That's after a study done by flash Picks. The study
compared the number of Instagram posts tagged at each Major
League Baseball stadium, measuring it in photos per seat. Dodger
Stadium averages about twelve point three photos per seat. It's
also the largest state medium in Major League Baseball with
a capacity of fifty six thousand. I'm Tammy Trhio