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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 3 (00:09):
The government has partially shut down after Congress failed to
approve a new spending bill. President Trump spoke Tuesday ahead
of the shutdown.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
As you know this country, no country can afford to
pay for illegal immigration, health care for everybody that comes
into the country, and that's what they're insisting, and obviously
have an obligation to not accept that that would affect everybody.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Democrats and Republicans each had their own spending bills that
failed to get passed on the Senate floor on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of federal workers will be furloughed as
a result. The last government shutdown during President Trump's first
term in twenty eighteen lasted thirty five days. Congressional Budget
Office is about seven hundred and fifty thousand federal employees
could be furloughed each day, with pay losses topping four

(00:54):
hundred million dollars daily. The White House's cautioned that some
temporary furloughs could even become permanent cuts. Two unions they
are suing the Trump administration over its plans to lay
off federal workers well the government is shut down Temmi
triheo with more.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
The lawsuit, filed by unions representing federal and state employees,
alleges that threats by the administration who fire workers are unlawful.
The government partially shut down at twelve oh one am
Eastern after Congress failed to approve a new spending bill.
When asked how many federal workers could be laid off,
President Trump said Tuesday, we may do a lot. I'm
tammy tricheo.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
A judge's ruling against a Trump administration policy targeting international
students engaged in pro Palestinian advocacy. Chris Craggio with more.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
The Boston judge sided with groups representing university faculty and
found that the administration was in violation of the Constitution's
First Amendment by chilling free speech on college campuses. A
lawsuit was first filed in March challenging the administration's actions
after immigration authorities arrested recent Columbia University graduate Macmood Khalil.
The judge's decision only assessed whether the administration had adopted

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an unlawful policy, but a remedy will be determined at
a later phase of the case.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm Michael Casner, the new COVID nineteen variant is spiking
in nine states. More from Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
The CDC says cases involving the XFG variant, also known
as stratus, are up in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Vermont, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
South Dakota, and North Dakota. COVID nineteen researchers at New
York Stonybrook Universities say most cases are mild in people
who are vaccinated, but say people who are unvaccinated can

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experience brain fog, nausea, chest tightness, and scratchy throat in
addition to the usual fatigue, fever, and dry cough associated
with COVID. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
President Trump says he will slap a one hundred percent
terrify on films produced outside the United States. More from
Liz Warner.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Doug Steiner, chairman of Brooklyn based Steiner Studios, supports the
president's movie tariff proposal.

Speaker 5 (03:01):
It's a crazy to expert being the the content creator
for the world and lose that position and trained other
people to.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Take our jobs.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
In a truth social post Monday, President Trump said, quote
our movie making business has been stolen from the United
States of America by other countries, just like stealing candy
from a baby. He went on to say that California
has been particularly hit hard, and he criticized Governor Gavin
Newso as weak and incompetent.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
The Trump administration has restored roughly five hundred National Institutes
of Health grants to use CLA after they were suspended
earlier this year. Jim Roop with more.

Speaker 7 (03:38):
The restoration comes following a federal judge's order last week
to restore a half billion dollars in federal grant funding
frozen by the White House. In August, UCLA announced that
the Trump administration had suspended over five hundred and eighty
million dollars in grants over allegations of civil rights violations
related to anti Semitism and affirmative action. DOJ attorney submitted

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a court mandated update on the status, saying all but
nine grants have been restored.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I'm Michael Cassner.