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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update the
latest use this hour.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
In just four minutes, the Senate has passed by unanimous consent,
the House passed measure to release all of the Jeffrey
Epstein files. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, we will pass
the House's bill without changes, without delay. This means now,
as soon as it comes to the Senate from the House,
it will simply receive the official approval, then move immediately

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to President Trump's desk, and he has indicated he will
sign it. Murder journalist Jamal Koshogi came up during a
press event with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince and President Trump
at the White House this morning. The CIA concluded Prince
Mohammed bin Salmon approved of the murder of Kushogi at
the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in twenty eighteen because Kashogi

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had written several articles critical of the prince. When a
reporter asked the Crown Prince about the murder, mister Trump
jumped in.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
A lot of people didn't.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Like that, gentleman that you talk talking about, whether you
like him or didn't like him.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Things happened, but he knew nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
About it, and we can leave it at that. You
don't have to embarrass our guests by asking your question
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
The Prince did speak questioning the credibility of that CIA report.
The White House, meantime, wants the FBI to take a
closer look at the investigation into the assassination attempt of
President Trump. In Pennsylvania, Caroline Levitt said new questions about
the background of twenty year old shooter Thomas Crooks are
definitely deserving of answers. Levitt was commenting on a New

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York Post report which claims the FBI never shared a
trove of digital footprints left behind by Crooks during the
congressional hearings. At a quick congratulations to Elder High School
in Cincinnati, where we are heard on fifty five karc Elder,
my alma mater, class of seventy seven. It's varsity football

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team is the only undefeated high school football team in
Ohio at eleven and zero. The next game against Saint
Xavier at Hey Core Stadium where the Bengals play, It'll
be this Friday night. Good luck Panthers. I'm Jim Roup.
Most voters believe extreme political rhetoric contributed to the killing
of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. At NBC News poll finds

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fifty four percent of Democrats seventy three percent of Republicans
say they feel that extreme political rhetoric used by some
in the media, especially by political leaders, though, was a
significant contributor to Kirk's death. Twenty eight percent say they
think it was simply an incident caused by a disturbed person.
NASA is holding a live event tomorrow to share images
of three i AT lists, an interstellar comment making its

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way through our Solar System.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Discovered in July.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
The comment is the third object in the Solar System
that's been confirmed to be from somewhere else in our galaxy.
The event, set for three pm Eastern, will be cast
on NASA Plus, the NASA App, the NASA website, YouTube channel,
and Amazon Prime. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
This one has really become a pet peeve of mine,
especially when I hear broadcasters do it. There's a generation
of people who are not showing any love to the letter.
T preed Tennis has more.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
There are twenty six letters in the alphabet, but one
is just not getting in off love. Linguists say the
letter T is being dropped from words like kitten, mountain
and interview coast to coast, and no one knows why,
but they have named it. It's called T glottalization, and
it's a speech error that's happening mostly in the under
twenty five age range. A reminder from your friends at

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Sesame Street, I love the letters from a toy and
you should too.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
I'm pre Tennis u See San Diego says it is
struggling with a growing number of freshmen whose math skills
are below middle school level. They say this fall, about
eight and a half percent of incoming freshmen are taking
a remedial course in math. Five years ago, that number
was half a percent. The university says in one assessment test,
some students failed simple addition and others cannot round off

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numbers to the nearest hundred. They also noted some students
are struggling with languae, which like the letter T probably
and writing I'm Jim Roup