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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. President Trump
is set to host Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski at the
White House shortly. It's part of Trump's ongoing effort to
end the years long Russia Ukraine War. Yesterday, Trump said
he had a very productive phone call with Russian leader

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Vladimir Putin and told reporters the two will be meeting
in Hungary soon. Former Trump administration national security advisor John
Bolton has pleaded not guilty to his federal charges. Tony
Waterman reports that Bolton was indicted yesterday on charges related
to the alleged mishandling of classified documents.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Consecutors claim Bolton used personal email accounts to share more
than one thousand diary like entries containing top secret information
with two relatives, including intelligence on foreign leaders and foreign
attack plans.

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The indictment claims classified information may have been exposed when
Bolton's personal email account was hacked by somebody associated with
the Uranian government. A vocal critic of President Trump, Bolton
says the indictment is politically motivated. The federal government shutdown
is now in its seventeenth day, with the Senate not
set to vote again until next week. Thursday's vote was
the tenth time lawmakers have attempted to pass a spending

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measure that's Republican backed and has already made it through
the House. Democrats continue to hold firm in wanting to
see healthcare subsidies preserved as a sticking point for any
conversation about making a deal to end the shutdown. California
is now the number five economy in the world. Data
released this week by the International Monetary Fund shows Japan's
economy surging past Californias. Some of it has to do

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with the economics of the world, and some of it
has to do with the currency trading, and at this
moment Japan has slipped ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
California is doing okay.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Japan is just doing.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
A little bit better.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Jonathan Lansner, a business columnist for the Southern California News Group,
says India and the United Kingdom have growing economies and
could give California a run for its money near future.
The top three economies in the world are the US, China,
and Germany. I'm Chris Kraji kiss Rocker Ace Freeley has
died at the age of seventy four. Mark Mayfield has details.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
His death was confirmed in a statement from his family.
In September, Frehley announced 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. Railey left Kiss in nineteen eighty two and
eventually started a solo project, which became known as Frehley's Comment.
He rejoined Kiss in nineteen ninety six for a reunion tour,

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only to exit again in the early two thousands. Railey's
cover of New York Groove from his nineteen seventy eight
solo album was one of his biggest.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Hits, and the members of Kiss are paying tribute to Freeley,
who was the spaceman of the group and played on
all of their nineteen seventies hits. Gene Simmons and Paul
Stanley say they're devastated by his passing. In a statement,
they said Freely was an essential and irreplaceable rock soldier
during some of the most formative foundational chapters of the
band and its history, and will always be a part

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of the Kiss legacy. We have susssion different. Snoop Dogg
has released a new children's song called Love Is Love
after drawing backlash over the summer for his comments about
same sex parents. The fifty three year old rapper was

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on a podcast when he said he was scared to
go to the movies now after his grandson asked how
two women in a Pixar movie had a baby together.
His remarks to criticism from the LGBTQ community. So Now,
Snoop has released a new song on his animated children's
YouTube series Doggie Land, which he says celebrates families of
all shapes and sizes. Weimo and DoorDash both announced a

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partnership Thursday. The delivery app is set to use the
Robotaxis for food and grocery orders. It's currently being tested
in the Metro Phoenix area until the end of the year,
with a larger rollout expected in the future. I'm Chris Gracio.