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This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour in just four minutes. No kings,
rallies and demonstrations are underway across the nation today. Pro
democracy protests are planned in all fifty states, with huge
crowds turning out in major cities like New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Austin, and Washington, d C. This protester is

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in Atlanta. It's not the direction our country needs to go.
We've been We're going to be celebrating two hundred and
fifty years and why would we ruin it all and
turn it into like a Banana Republic. Officials in several
states ramped up security and are warning that violence or
property damage won't be tolerated. President Trump is declining to

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give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles. Ukrainian President Zelenski confirmed he failed
to get Trump's approval for the long range missiles during
Friday's meeting at the White House. I think that Russia's
afraid about Tomahawk's really afraid because it's strong. Trump confirmed
there might be a possible swap of Tomahawk's four Ukrainian drones.

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Speaking after meeting with Trump at the White House, Zelensky
said discussions around territory will be tough, but he's optimistic
that progress will be made eventually. Arizona has executed a
man who was sentenced almost thirty years ago. Richard Jerff
was found guilty on four counts a first degree murder
and sentenced to death in nineteen ninety six. He died

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by lethal injection yesterday for killing four members of a
Phoenix family, including a five year old boy. He released
a handwritten statement last month saying he wouldn't be asking
for his life to be spared. This marked the fourth
execution in the nation this week. The Black Phone two

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is off to a solid start at the box office.
The sequel film starring Ethan Hawk as a serial killer
known as the Grabber, and is expected to make twenty
three to twenty nine million bucks in its first weekend
at theaters. Meanwhile, the comedy Good Fortune made about seven
hundred and twenty five thousand dollars from previews. I'm Lisa Carton.
A federal judges lifting travel restrictions on former Columbia University

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student Mahmud Khalil. Bailed conditions for the Palestinian activists previously
restricted him to new York, New Jersey, and a few
other places while he awaits court proceedings related to the
Trump administration's efforts to deport him. According to the Courthouse News,
a judge this week lifted restrictions allowing Khalil to move
freely about the country for public speaking engagements and advocacy work. Khalil,

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a Green card holder, was arrested back in March after
helping lead pro Palestinian protests at Columbia Nuque. A judge
is siding with rapper Lil Wayne on his ongoing legal
battle with his former attorney. The legal conflict began in
twenty nineteen when Wayne sued Ron Sweeney, arguing that an

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imposed ten percent fee was exorbitant and not legally by
finding since it was never signed, while Sweeney countersued seeking
twenty million dollars from deals that occurred post termination. However,
a New York judge ruled that this agreement is no
longer valid or lieving the wrapper of the obligation to
pay millions in fees to Sweeney. According to the judge,

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Sweeney can only pursue reasonable fees, which will be determined
in further legal proceedings. Health experts are emphasizing the importance
of washing hands to prevent illnesses from being spread as
we enter cold and flu season. Doctor Allan Capin, an
urgent care physician at the Cleveland Clinic, says that means
after a cough, sneeze, bathroom use, handling food, taking out

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the garbage, and being out in public. The temperature does
that matter. Either can be a cold or it could
be warm, But the whole point here is that you
have to wash them and scrub for at least twenty seconds.
The flu virus survives on hands for up to five minutes.
The CDC says regularly washing her hands can help reduce
the spread of germs, including respiratory illnesses, up to twenty

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one percent. I'm Lisa Carton.