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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Two survivors of a US attack on an alleged Venezuelan
drug boat are reportedly being detained on a US Navy ship.
The Washington Post reports the US military killed an unspecified
number of suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean c Thursday,
and the two survivors were apprehended in the attack on Friday.
President Trump would not talk about the attack, except to

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say the vessel was a submarine loaded up with drugs,
he says, and not an innocent group of people. Weather
forecasters warrned severe weather in the central US today could
produce tornadoes from northeast Texas to Indiana. They say the
weather system could produce supercell thunderstorms capable of damaging winds,
large hail, and flooding rains. The chapter of the New

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York State Young Republicans has been suspended after reports of
racist and anti Semitic messages sent between its members nationwide.
Andrew Whitman in New York.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Politico reported this week that the chats and between Young
Republican leaders across the country included racial slurs about black
and Latino people, praise for Adolf Hitler and jokes about
sending political opponents to gas chambers. Three officers in the
New York State Young Republicans were identified in the messages.
Two have since apologized. State gopachair ed Cox Set officials

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voted to suspend the group Friday, saying such vile language
has no place in our party or its subsidiary organizations.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
President Trump has commuted the prison sentence of disgraced former
Republican Congressman George Santos. The former representative from New York's
been serving time in a New Jersey prison after pleading
guilty to identity theft and wirefraud and being expelled from Congress.
On social media, the President called Santos somewhat of a rogue,
but added there are many rogues throughout our country not

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forced to serve seven years in prison. Santos admitted to
illegally financing some of his election campaigns, stealing covid on
employment benefits, and providing materially false information in his financial disclosures.
I'm Scott Carr. In a cost cutting move, Chevron says
it'll layoff about one hundred and seventy five workers at

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two of its California offices. The layoffs begin this coming week,
including one hundred positions in San Ramon and seventy five
in Baker's Field. This after Chevron moved its headquarters out
of San Ramon to Houston. About six hundred positions with
the company were eliminated last March as part of efforts
to simplify operations. An online petition is circulating seeking to

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replace Bad Bunny with country singer George Strait at the
upcoming Super Bowl halftime show. Politics professor at the University
of San Francisco, James Taylor says the backlash against Bad
Bunny super Bowl performance shows what's happening in society today
that everything is being challenged.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
People are choosing to make the halftime show cite the
site of contention around what should be presented to America
as Americana an American culture.

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Reports say the petition's got over thirty two thousand signatures.
Bad Bunny, who's from Puerto Rico, which is a US territory,
has over eighty one million monthly listeners just on Spotify,
compared to George Strait's eight million. Just in time for Halloween,
the popular summer horror flick Weapons is coming to HBO.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Max zach Kreger's sophomore film is set to be available
for streaming on October twenty fourth. Weapons depicts the story
of a community that's left puzzled after all but one
child from the same classroom mysteriously vanished on the same
night at the same time. The film was released in
August and has made more than two hundred and sixty
million dollars globally. I'm Wendy Swanson.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
A judge, is siding with rapper Lil Wayne in his
ongoing legal battle with his former attorney eighteen. The legal
conflict started in twenty nineteen when Wayne sued Ron Sweeney,
arguing that an imposed ten percent fee was exorbitant. Sweeney
countersuits making twenty million dollars from deals that happened post termination.

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I'm Scott Carr.