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This since your twenty four to seven US update the
latest views this hour in just four minutes. President Trump
will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu at the
White House on Monday. Netanyaho addressed the UN General Assembly
in New York on Friday and said much of the
world no longer remembers the October seventh attack on his country.

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Hamas carried out the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
They slaughtered twelve hundred innocent people. The Israeli prime ministers
said they are not yet done when it comes to
fighting Hamas and Gaza. Speaking to reporters Friday, Trump said
he thinks they have a deal on Gaza, and it's
a deal that will get the hostages back and end
the war. The State Department says it will revoke the

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visa of Columbia's president after he called on US soldiers
to disobey President Trump. President Gustavo Petro made the remarks
Friday during a pro Palestinian rally that was held outside
the UN headquarters in New York. During this week's General Assembly.
Petro said, I ask all the soldiers of the United
States Army not to point their guns at humanity, but
to disobey the orders of Trump. The State Department responded

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on social media and said it would revoke Petro's visa
because he stood on a New York street and urged
US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence. The US
is reportedly drawing up plans for military strikes against drug
traffickers inside Venezuela. NBC news site sources saying those strikes
could happen in a matter of weeks. The Trump administration
had been expanding its campaign against suspected drug traffickers over

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the past few weeks. The US military has struck at
least three boats from Venezuela that were allegedly carrying illicit drugs.
Trump claims they were Narco traffickers transporting drugs that could
threaten Americans. There's a report the FBI has fired over
a dozen agents who were photographed kneeling during George Floyd protests.
CNN sight sources saying the bureau found around fifteen agents

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who were associated with the twenty twenty kneeling incident in Washington,
d C. The agents had been deployed to protect buildings
and help with crowd control during the protests. The Justice
Department said earlier this year, reviewing more than fifteen hundred
FBI agents tied to investigations of President Trump and his allies,
only se Tailor, the superintendent of the largest public school

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district in Iowa, has been detained by ICE. Students and
community members rallied and support of Des Moines superintendent doctor
Ian Roberts. On Friday, official say Roberts is an illegal
immigrant with no work authorization and a criminal record. When

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agents approached, they say he took off in his car,
and when they caught him, Ian Roberts was in possession
of a loaded handgun, a hunting knife, and three thousand
dollars cash. Roberts was born in Guyana and came to
the US on a student visa in nineteen ninety nine.
He became head of Des Moines Public Schools in twenty
twenty three. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court

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to rule on the president's executive orders seeking to end
automatic birthrights citizenship. On Friday, the administration asked for ada
definitive ruling on whether the executive order is constitutional. The
current interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment allows anyone born on
US soil to be granted citizenship except children of foreign diplomats. Meanwhile,
the Trump administration argues birthright citizenship doesn't apply to the

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children of temporary legal visitors or illegal immigrants. Federal Reserve
Board of Governor's member Lisa Cook is looking to the
Supreme Court in an effort to keep her position. Cook's
legal team is seeking to keep her in her post
while her lawsuit over President Trump's attempt to fire her
moves forward. Lower courts have kept Cook in her role,
but the Justice Department has asked the High Court to

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put Trump's firing over mortgage fraud allegations into effect. Lawyers
for Cook, however, contend that her removal would strip the
Central Bank of its long standing autonomy. Elon Musk is
mentioned in the new Epstein documents released by House Democrats.
Members of the House Oversight Committee on Friday released a
batch of partially redacted files on Jeffrey Epstein. Musk said
in twenty nineteen that he had visited Epstein's New York

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mansion but had never been to his private island. I'mly
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