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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.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The hearing is being held on Lisa Cook's removal by
President Trump as a Federal Reserve governor. It follows a
Justice Department criminal investigation into the board governor after she
was accused of making false statements on home mortgage applications.
Cook's lawyer said Trump has no authority to remove Cook.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt defended the move.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
He has the cause that he needs to fire this individual.
He laid it out in a letter that he provided
to her into the public as well.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
The suit is part of a legal battle between the
two sides that will likely end up in front of
the Supreme Court. Inflation rose slightly in July. The Personal
Consumption Expenditures Price Index, a key inflation gauge used by
the Federal Reserve, rose two tenths of a percent, in
line with expectations. That puts the annual core PCEE inflation

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rate at two point nine percent, which is a slight
acceleration from June. The TSA says it will screen more
than seventeen million people during the labor day travel period.
More from Tammy Treheo.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
The travel period runs through September fourth, with the peak
travel day expected to be Saturday, August thirtieth. The TSA
expects us to be the busiest Labor day travel period
on record, as the agency anticipates passenger volumes to be
eight point five percent higher than last year. Your travel
volumes this summer are the highest the agency has seen
in its history. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Chicago leaders are bracing for the possible arrival of the
National Guard to come back crime. Speaking to the city
council yesterday, the police Superintendent Larry Snelling said they won't
assist any federal troops.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
We do not assist, but at the same time, I
want to be clear, we also do not engage in
a way where we're obstructing federal agents. We do not
interfere with the work that they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Snelling also size there are no protections for criminal activity.
I'm Michael Kassner. Monday's dust storm that traveled more than
one hundred miles across Arizona had quite an impact on
the power grid. More from Brad Siegel.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Arizona's two largest utilities reported losing almost sixteen hundred megawatts
of solar energy generation as the skies blackened during the
height of the storm. They say that loss is enough
juice to power roughly three hundred fifty thousand homes during
peak hours. Both utilities relied on natural gas resources, which
came online quickly to compensate for the loss of the

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solar output. The utilities say this shows how the state's
diverse mix of energy resources allowed the grid to remain
reliable and keep the power flowing.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
A lawsuit against Sean Diddy Combs for a sex assault
is dismissed by a New York judge because it allegedly
happened too long ago. Sarah Lee Kessler reports.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
The suit, filed by a California man allegacy was drugged
and assaulted by Combs back in twenty fiftheen he filed
in New York, where rule was changed in twenty nineteen,
extending the five year statute of limitations to twenty years,
but the judge has thrown out the suit, ruling the
law isn't retroactive to twenty fifteen. The rap star has

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been hit with about eighty sex assault suits dating back
to the nineteen nineties. Did He is currently jailed in
New York City, awaiting sentencing on prostitution related charges after
he was acquitted of more serious sex trafficking charges. I'm
Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
There's been another death from Legionnaire's disease in New York City.
Andrew Whitman with more.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
Word of the seventh death from the disease, all in Harlem,
came from city health officials late Thursday. It was a
known case, one of one hundred forty four in Harlem.
So far, six people are still in hospitals because of it.
The death comes days after word of two unrelated cases,
both in the same building in the Bronx. Legionnaire's disease

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is caused by bacteria that's been found in Harlem cooling towers.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
And Michael Cassner