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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven US update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Organizers of today's No King's protests expect millions of Americans
to take part protesting against President Trump and his use
of executive power. Protests are planned in more than twenty
five hundred locations across the country. Republican House Speaker Mike
Johnson's been calling it a hate America protest. Two survivors
of a US attack on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat

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are reportedly being detained on a US Navy ship. The
Washington Post says the US military killed an unspecified number
of suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean Thursday, and the
two survivors were apprehended in the attack on Friday. President
Trump would not talk about the attack except to say
the vessel was a submarine loaded up, he says, with drugs,

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and not an innocent group of people. The chapter of
the New York State Young Republicans has been suspended after
reports of racist and anti Semitic messages sent between its
members nationwide. Andrew Whitman has more from New York.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Politico reported this week that the chats sent between Young
Republican leaders across the country. Included racial slurs about black
and Latino people, braise 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. Skate Gopachair ed Cox set officials

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voted to suspend the group Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
The House of Representatives has canceled another planned session from Monday.
In a brief pro forma session Friday, the chambers set
all of this coming week as a district work period
for the House. Just before the session gabbled out, the
acting speaker refused to recognize Democrats on the floor who
were pushing for the swearing in of Arizona's new representative elect.

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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has said he won't swear
in Arizona Congresswoman elect at Alito Gehava until the government reopened.
The federal government shutdown is now in its eighteenth day
with no end in sight. I'm Scott Carr. In a
cost cutting move, Chevron says it'll layoff about one hundred
and seventy five workers at two of its California offices.

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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 replace Bad Bunny with country

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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 site the
site of contention around what should be presented to America
as Americana and American culture.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
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 (03:20):
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 1 (03:42):
A judge, is siding with rapper Lil Wayne in his
ongoing legal battle with his former attorney. The legal conflict
started in twenty nineteen when Wayne sued Ron Sweeney, arguing
that an imposed ten percent fee was exorbitant. Sweeney countersuit
seeks twenty million dollars from deals that happened post termination.

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I'm Scott Carr.