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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):
A partial government shutdown is here. Ryan Nobles reports funding
was cut off after Congress failed to approve a new
spending bill yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
What was once a threat is now a reality.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
The bill, upon reconsideration is not passed.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
A series of votes, all designed to fund the government
failed overnight. Congress pointing fingers.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Tens of thousands of federal workers are on furlough as
this government shutdown goes into effect.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Tammy Treheo reports starting today, federal employees whose jobs don't
protect life or property are being told not to come
to work. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the US Postal
Service will continue operating. Air traffic controllers, TSA agents, ice officers,
prison staff, and active duty military members are expected to
continue working without pay. They'll received back pay when the

(00:58):
shutdown is over. I'm Tammy Trihio.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Hundreds of US generals and other military leaders were in
Virginia Tuesday to hear speeches by President Trump and Defense
Secretary Pete HeiG Seth. In his remarks, heg Seth railed
against what he called fat generals and diversity initiatives that
he claims have led to decades of decay in the military. Today,

(01:23):
HeiG Seth will be in Tennessee ahead of the upcoming
troop deployment in Memphis. A judge is ruling against a
Trump administration policy targeting international students engaged in pro Palestinian advocacy.
Chris Carraggio with more.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
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 iministration had adopted

(02:01):
an unlawful policy, but a remedy will be determined at
a later phase of the case.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I'm Michael Cassner. The new COVID nineteen variant is spiking
in nine states. More from Sarah Lee Kessler.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
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 Sara Lee Kessler.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
President Trump says he will slap a one hundred percent
tariff on films produced outside the United States. More from
Liz Warner.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
Doug Steiner, chairman of Brooklyn based Steiner Studios, supports the
president's movie tariff proposal.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's a crazy to export being the the content creator
for the world and lose that position and trained other people.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
To take our jobs. 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 2 (03:26):
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 6 (03:37):
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 2 (04:04):
I'm Michael Cassner.