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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):
Democrats in Congress will get the vote they were promised
on Affordable Care Act tax credits this coming week. It
was the issue that triggered the recent government shutdown, which
ended only after Republican Senate majority leader John Thune promised
Democrats they'd get a vote on the issue. Since then,
Republicans admit they've been struggling to craft legislation that would

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get enough votes to fix the core issue of rising
medical costs. Of votes expected in the Senate on Thursday,
the Supreme Court says it will rule next year on
whether or not President Trump can end birthright citizenship, granting
an appeal in the case. Friday, Trump had signed an
executive order that aimed to end birthright citizenship, which is

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guaranteed in the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. A Supreme
Court decisions expected by the end of June. President Trump
says he thinks soccer should be called football in the
US and is suggesting the NFL should change its name.
We get more from Jim Roop.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
The President making those comments Friday during the FIFA World
Cup draw. He says, this is football, There's no question
about it, and now we have to come up with
another name for the NFL. Soccer is called football outside
the US. The NFL got its name in nineteen twenty two,
changing from the American Professional Football Association to the National
Football League. A World Cup against June eleventh. It'll be

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played in stadiums across the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm Jim Roop, a suspect has been arrested in connection
with last week's deadly mass shooting at a children's birthday
party in northern California. The attack in Stockton left four
people dead and thirteen wounded. Days after the shooting, one
of the men attending the party was taken into custody
over an alleged parole violation. It's not clear if the

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shooting might have been gang related. Authority say Luciano Guerrero
was not a suspect in the shooting, but was previously
convicted of a gang related firearms charge. I'm Scott Carr,
a man who allegedly planted pipe bombs near the Republican
and Democratic National Headquarters in Washington on the evening before
the January sixth, twenty twenty one Capitol Riot is believed

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to be a supporter of President Trump. That from CBS News,
which cites several sources saying Brian Cole Junior's been speaking
with police telling them he believed the twenty twenty election
was stolen. Cole was arrested Thursday in Virginia. The top
seeded team in the NFC, the Bears, will face the
Packers in Green Bay Sunday. Perry Williams is in Chicago.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Bears quarterback Caleb Williams. Since their offense will have quite
a task ahead of them.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
They got a hell of a d line their corners
of twenty five and twenty four, they've been planned very well.
The safeties, like co said, are you Shomy Talenton. So
it's a great challenge for us.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
The Bears are nine to three and the eight three
and one Packers are on a three game winning streak.
Sunday's kickoff is at three twenty pm.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
After more than fifty years, the band The Grateful Dead
are still making records and is Rory O'Neil reports for
his breaking records.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Guinness World Records confirms The Grateful Dead now hold the
record for the most albums to hit the Billboard Top forty.
The record was set last month when The Grateful Dead's
latest album, Dave's Picks, Volume fifty six, recorded in nineteen
eighty one, hit number twenty five on the Top two
hundred chart. That gave The Grateful Dead a record setting
sixty six top forty albums, beating out Elvis Presley and

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Frank Sinatra. I'm Rory O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Having a disturbingly good weekend at the box office is
five nights at Freddy's two.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
How's happy? Some days she's good, some days she misses
her friends happy Hell No, Oh No.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
The Horror sequel now the number one movie in US theaters,
scaring up more than forty five million dollars so far,
a record for the first weekend after Thanksgiving, while the
Disney sequels Utopia Too falls to second place. I'm Scott
Carr