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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.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are defending
the strike allegedly targeting survivors on a suspected Venezuelan drug boat.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Every boat that UC get blown up, we saved twenty
five thousand, on average labs twenty five thousand laves.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
During a cabinet meeting at the White House, both were
asked about the Washington Post report that Navy Admiral Frank
Mitch Bradley directed a second strike to comply with hexcess
order that no one be left alive. Hegseth said he
didn't know the second strike involved two people, but he
backs Bradley's decision. Trump said he hasn't gotten a lot
of information on the incident, but did say he regards

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the operation as a justified attack, not one or two strikes.
Bradley is reportedly going to brief lawmakers on the incident
this week. The man accused of killing one National Guard
member and injuring another in a shooting in Washington, d C.
Has been formally charged with murder. US Attorney for Washington
d C, Jeanine Piro.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
The crime is one that we believe we will be
able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Ramanula Lackinwall appeared virtually before a judge on Tuesday from
a hospital bed where he's recovering from gunshot wounds suffered
during the incident last week. He was seeing covered in
a blanket lying down in the bed during the appearance.
Lockinwall is also charged with assault with the intent to
kill and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges. Luigi Mangioni is

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in a Manhattan courtroom for a second day as evidence
suppression hearings continue. The twenty seven year old Maryland man
who's accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in
Midtown last December, was mostly expressionless as he came face
to face with the Pennsylvania copp who recognized him at
Annaltuona McDonald's. Mangioni is pleading not guilty to Thompson's murder.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I hadn't seen Aaron over ten years.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
The first trailer for a twenty four's music drop My
Mother Mary, is out now. The film stars Anne Hathaway
as a pop star who's plotting a comeback. I'm Lisa Carton.
The Trump administration has fired eight New York City immigration judges,
prompting questions. Andrew Whitman reports.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
The eight fire judges were among just thirty four who
worked out of twenty six Federal Plaza, and included the
assistant chief judge who supervises other judges there. Former judges
fired earlier in the year say the move of delay proceedings.
Some fear it was a move to acts judges deemed
too lenient. This is the Trump administration seeks to increase deportations.

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The New York Times as ninety immigration judges had been
fired nationwide before Monday, adding thirty six have been replaced
by the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Michael Tubbs, who served as the mayor of Stockton, California,
from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one, is speaking out
about the tragic weekend shootings that left four dead and
eleven others wounded at a child's birthday party. Tubbs says
the city needs a full scale intervention.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
We know that in the state, but particularly in stout Them,
we have a problem with gangs, groups, sets clicks of disconnected,
disenfranchised young men oftentimes choose to live lives of violence
that have impacts on the entire community.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
He says there needs to be strategies employed to make
sure the community is safe. Tubbs is running for lieutenant
governor in the spring of the twenty twenty sixth primary.
A new study says cats do one thing differently for
men than for women, bree tennis with more.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
When cats want attention, they meow. Big studies not necessary
to figure that one out, but researchers at a university
in Turkey found cats me out louder and longer for
men than they do for women, and the why shows
just how smart cats really are. Cats are louder for
men because men are worse at noticing subtle feline body
language than women. They figured out they need to be

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allowed to get the attention they crave and deserve.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
This basically means cats have figured out how men in
their lives aren't always the best listeners. I'm Lisa Carton