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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour In just.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Four minutes, Didty's doing time? Rap mogul Sean Diddy. Combs
is sentenced to just over four years in prison after
being found guilty in July on two prostitution related charges.
Prosecutors were asking for eleven years. Diddy's lawyers were asking
for fourteen months, including time served, which has already been
about eleven months. He was facing twenty years. Colmes is

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also sentenced to five years supervised probation and five hundred
thousand dollars fine. Hamas is agreeing to release all hostages,
living and dead. NBC correspondent Richard Engel As in Israel
and reports is the militant group's first response to President
Trump's plan to end the war between Hamas and Israel.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
This was presented to Hamas as a take it or
leave it deal. A Gaza city, which is the largest
city in the Gaza Strip, is completely surrounded by Israeli troops.
Israel has been destroying apartment buildings in Gaza. Israel has
been applying an extraordinary amount of military pressure just in
the last several days, while Hamas has been mulling over this.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Deal, Hamas is agreeing to release the hostages, it says,
in an effort to start negotiating a full peace plan.
The Senate has denied both Democrat and Republican backed funding
bills to end the government shutdown. The GOP measure has
already made it through the House. The Chamber will be
adjourned until Monday, but there won't be another vote until
the following Monday. President Trump has promised federal layoffs and

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says he would use the shutdown to decide which Democrat
agencies to close. The US Treasury has unveiled a draft
for a one dollar coin featuring President Trump for America's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. In front of the coin
has a side profile of mister Trump, along with Liberty
in God We Trust and seventeen seventy six to twenty

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twenty six. The tales side depicts mister Trump with a
raised fist in front of the US flag, similar to
a picture taken in the aftermath of an assassination attempt
in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'm Jim Roop. Secretary of War Pete
Haigseth says the military killed four NARCO terrorists on a
boat off the coast of Venezuela this morning. Haygseth posted

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on x that no US forces were injured during the operation.
It marks the latest strike on narco trafficking vessels in
the Caribbean Sea, and follows a declaration from President Trump
that the US is now in an armed conflict or
war with drug cartels. The Supreme Court is agreeing to
decide if states may bar people from carrying guns on
private property without permission from the property owner. Michael Keshner

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explains it's a.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Case that stems from a twenty twenty three law enacted
in Hawaii in response to a Supreme Court ruling that
made it easier for Americans to obtain concealed carry permits.
Hawaii's law required unambiguous, written or verbal authorization to carry
a handgun into a store, but it also barred the
carrying of guns on beaches and in parks, as well

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as bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Three gun owners
and a gun rights group have challenged the law, arguing
that it rendered illusory the right to carry in public.
I'm Michael Cassner.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Metow will soon use your conversations with its AI chatbot
to hit you with personalized ads. Charlotte North with more.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Meta is taking another step towards the CEO's vision of
an AI augmented future. Meta AI will mind chatbook conversations
to determine which ads and recommendations show up in your feed,
while users won't be able to opt out. The company
said that the content of some conversations, for example involving
religious or political views, will be excluded. Experts have raised
concerns about Meta AI safeguarding for minors and privacy violations.

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Charlotte North, Washington.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Cracker Barrel is cutting ties with the consulting firm behind
its disastrous rebrand. The company announced it's ending its partnership
with Profit, the group hired last March to design a
new brand marketing campaign. The new logo drew swift rebuke
from Cracker Barrell customers when it dropped its iconic picture
of an elderly man on uncle herschel leaning on a barrel.

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I'm Jim Roup