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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. Multiple media
outlets are refusing to agree to the Pentagon's new press policies.
The Pentagon gave outlets until the end of yesterday to
sign on to the new policies that outline rules that
could lead to journalists being deemed as security risks and

(00:21):
have their access taken away. NBC News, CBS News, and
ABC News, along with Fox News and CNN, issued a
joint statement against the new policies. They said the new
requirements would restrict journalist's ability to keep the nation and
world informed of important national security issues. The Senate has
rejected a Republican backed standing measure that would have ended
the government's shutdown. It's the eighth time lawmakers have turned

(00:43):
away the bill that's already been approved by the House.
The ASER forty nine, then AASER forty five. Three fifths
of the Senate's duly chosen and sworn have not having
voted any infervative the motion is not agreed to. It
comes after President Trump said earlier that he's in the
process of closing programs popular with the Democrats and will
release a list of those programs on Friday, Democrats have

(01:04):
remained focused on healthcare issues and when Obamacare subsidies to
be extended. The shutdown is now the fifth longest in
US history. The collapse of Earth's coral reefs is pushing
the world across its first climate tipping point. Michael Kasner explains.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
The second Global Tipping Points report out this week says
warm water coral reefs are passing their tipping point. Nearly
one billion people and nearly a quarter of all marine
life depends on the coral reefs. According to the report,
widespread coral dieback is taking place, and reefs as we
know them will all be gone unless global warming is reversed.

(01:39):
With the climate. These points of no return are specific
moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain
effects have become irreversible. I'm Michael Kassner.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
And the Dodgers have a commanding lead in the National
League Championship Series. Yoshinobo Yamamoto through a complete game and
surrendered just one run to give a side a five
to one win over the Brewers from Milwaukee try to
take a stranglehold of the best of seven series. When
it shifts to Los Angeles for Game three on Thursday.
I'm Mark Mayfield. The US has begun charging Chinese ships
to dock at American ports. Jim Roop has the story.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Chinese government is coming back with a tit for
tat officials. They're saying that they plan to impose similar
fees on US ships docking in China. It comes as
the Trump administration threatens to impose one hundred percent tariffs
on Chinese goods amid a dispute over rare earth mineral exports.
President Trump expected to meet with Chinese President Jiji Ping

(02:33):
in the next few weeks. I'm Jim Roop.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
President Trump warns the US will get involved if Hamas
does not disarm. Trump told reporters that if the militant
group does not disarm, in his words, we will disarm them.
Hamas laying down their weapons is the next face of
Trump's Middle East peace plan. Reports say Hamas has not
yet agreed to disarm. Investors believe Jerome Powell is suggesting
another interest rate cut soon. Speaking at a conference in

(02:58):
Philadelphia Tuesday that fed Share warned that key economic reports
are being delayed due to the ongoing government shutdown, but
added US economic growth may exceed expectations. Data available prior
to the shutdown, however, show that growth and economic activity
may maybe on a somewhat firmer trajectory than expected, but
he also said the labor market remains weak, leading many

(03:19):
investors to speculate there's going to be another interest rate
cut at the end of the month. New research shows
life expectancy in the world has returned to pre pandemic levels.
Data shows in twenty twenty three, life expectancy was seventy
six point three years for women and seventy one and
a half years for men. That's according to data published
Sunday in the Journal of the Lancet. COVID was the
leading cause of death in twenty twenty one, but fell

(03:40):
to twentieth and twenty twenty three. Death rates among children
and young adults have increased in some places in the world,
including in North America, and Google's Franitgeist is keeping tabs
on the most popular Halloween costumes in the nation. The
site users search data from Google Trends to determine which
costumes are coming up the most often in a given city. Nationally.
The top five most popular Austin's for twenty twenty five

(04:01):
are all from K pop Demon Hunters. I'm Mark Mayfield,
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