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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 in just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Illinois leaders are bracing for President Trump to send the
National Guard to Chicago. Governor J. B. Pritzker said he's
learned that federal agents and military vehicles began staging on
Monday on nearby federal property, including Naval Station Great Lakes
in North Chicago.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to
raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed the President for the city's
ongoing gun violence epidemic, accusing him of allowing tens of
thousands of guns to be trafficked into the state and city. Today,
the victims of sex offenders Jeffrey Epstein and Gillane Maxwell
will talk publicly on Capitol Hill. More from Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
The victims will be joined by Democratic Congressman Rocanna of
California and Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky. In a
bipartisan call to release all of the files tied to
the investigation of the Epstein's sex trafficking operation. The House
Oversight Committee released one thousands of pages of Epstein related
documents on Tuesday. Critics say those documents had already been

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made public. I'm Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
President Trump says he's going to the Supreme Court after
a lower court ruled most of his tariffs are illegal.
Trump said we're going to ask for an expedited hearing
with the High Court. On Wednesday, Trump blamed the recent
ruling against him on, in his words, crazy liberal judges.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US has conducted

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a lethal strike on a drug vessel in the Southern Caribbean.
More from Brian Shook.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
In a post on x, Rubio said the drug vessel
had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a
designated narco terrorist organization. His post came just moments after
President Trump had referenced the strike while speaking in the
Oval Office.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm Michael Cassner. Shaugus disease is in California and dozens
of other states. An explanation from Tammy Treheo.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Shaugus is a serious illness, and it causes more deaths
in Latin America than malaria. Once parasite gets in your body.
It can wreak havoc on your body, but it's been
deemed a silent killer, so you don't know about it
for many decades until it attacks your heart you have
a heart attack.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Doctor Norman L.

Speaker 6 (02:30):
Baty with the University of Florida's College of Medicine says
about three hundred thousand people in the US may be
living with the disease. It's caused by a parasite found
in kissing bugs, which are common in California. According to
the state's Department of Health, California has between seventy thousand
and one hundred thousand shaugas cases. The CDC wants the
disease classified as an endemic to raise awareness and attract

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funding to fight it. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, a longtime bachelor and former
Newark mayor, is getting married more from Natalie Migliori.

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The fifty six year old Democrat made the announcement on
Instagram Tuesday afternoon, posting a photo of himself on a
Hawaiian beach, down on one knee and popping the question
to Alexis Lewis. In another photo, his now fiance was
flashing her engagement ring. The two were set up on
a blind dat and have been together for sixteen months.
Booker and his fiance, who works at a real estate office,

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have been living together in Washington, DC.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Way Mo will bring its autonomous vehicles to Seattle. More
from brad Ford.

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The company operates driverless vehicles in Austin, San Francisco, Atlanta, Phoenix,
and Los Angeles. It's planning to expand operations to Seattle, Denver, Miami,
and Washington, d C. They say they spent years studying
Seattle and how to make its vehicles operate safely in
wet winter conditions. They have not said when their cars
will hit the streets.

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We'll suck Ropper CARDIV will not have to pay compensation
to a former security guard. On Tuesday, she was found
not liable in a civil a soult trial brought by
the security guard in Montiellas. I'm Michael Cassner.