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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 in just four minutes.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
It's expected that former Trump administration National security advisor John
Bolton will surrender to federal authorities today in Maryland. Bolton
was indicted yesterday on eighteen federal charges related to alleged
mis handling of classified documents. A vocal critic of Trump,
Bolton is calling the indictment politically motivated. He is the

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latest in a number of Trump critics who have been indicted,
including former FBI Director James Comy and New York Attorney
General Letitia James. The government remains partially shut down for
a seventeenth day, and there's no end to insight. White
House correspondent John Deckers has President Trump is content for

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now to have a hands off approach. He's leaving it
up to the leaders of Congress to find some sort
of compromise to fund the government to reopen the government,
and that hasn't happened yet. A shutdown will continue. After
the Senate once again denied a GOP spending measure on Thursday,
House Speaker Mike Johnson warned this shutdown may become the

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longest in history. Democrats are ramping up pressure on House
Speaker Mike Johnson to seat Democratic Congresswoman elect the leader
at Grahova of Arizona. Johnson said Thursday, a president has
already been set.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
I'm following the Pelosi president.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
By the way.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
When my dear friend Julia Letlow, Congresswoman let Low from Louisiana,
won a special election to seceed her late husband in
twenty twenty one, Pelosi took twenty five days to wear
her in. Nobody had her a rant. They didn't go
and beat down the doors. We just understood that was
part of the legislative process.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Letlow swearing in was delayed during the COVID pandemic. Grahova
is expected to be the final signature needed to force
a House vote on releasing the Justice Department's files related
to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The latest US
strike on a suspected rug vote in the Caribbean is
reportedly the first to leave survivor since the attacks started

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last month. I'm Michael Cassner. New Yorkers are weighing in
on the three mayoral candidates following last night's debate. With
election day two and a half weeks away, Scott Pringle
with more.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
There were a number of jabs between Zoron Mom, Donnie,
Andrew Cuomo and Curtis sleewas they sparred over the Israeli Hamas, conflict, crime,
and affordability. Following the debate, this woman thinks Cuomo is
the only option, is steady stable, he has the experience,
He's ready on day one. This young lady recently turned eighteen.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
And that means I'm a first time voter and I
get to vote for Zoron Momdani.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
This New Yorker is a Curtis Sleiewaw fan.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
We have to keep fighting, you know, for our city,
New York City. We have to save New York City.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The mayor old candidates will ad it again next Wednesday
in a final debate.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Kiss rocker Ace Frehley is dead at the age of
seventy four. His death was confirmed in his statement from
his family. In September. Freely announced that he was pausing
his solo tour due to a minor fall in his studio.
The guitarist was one of the founding members of Kiss
in nineteen seventy three. Freeley left Kiss in nineteen eighty

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two and eventually started a solo project, which became known
as Freeley's Comment. He rejoined Kiss in nineteen ninety six
for a reunion tour, only to exit again in the
early two thousand's. Freeley's cover of New York Groove on
his nineteen seventy eight solo album was one of his
biggest hits. We're getting close to Halloween, no stress, but

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Bree Tennis has details on one thing you might not
have considered when selecting your costume.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
The National Retail Federation says fifty one percent of all
adults we'll dress up for Halloween this year. They say
the average costume will set you back about fifty bucks.
That's a lot of cash if you end up changing
your mind about your costume, and Psychology Today says that
happens about nineteen percent of the time to adults. Kids
are more secure with their choices because there's less social

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anxiety about the choice and the reward is candy.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I'm Michael Kassner.