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

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The latest use this hour in just four minutes. Police
in Providence have identified the person of interest in connection
with Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University that killed two
people and injured nine. Officials told NBC News that Benjamin
Ericsson is currently in custody, with public records showing his
residence as of twenty twenty four being an apartment in Washington,

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d C. Officials are looking into his mental health history
as well as the connection to Brown. Other records show
that he was a former member of the Army from
twenty twenty one to twenty twenty four. A shelter in
place order at Brown was lifted this morning, the university
president calling it a day of tremendous sorrow. President Trump
is offering his condolences after a series of mass shootings

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over the weekend. During an event at the White House today,
Trump paid tribute to the families of the victims in Syria, Australia,
and Providence, Rhode Island. President Trump vows to retaliate against
those who ambushed American trupe hoops in Syria.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
There will be a lot of damage done to the
people that they got the person the individual person, but
they'll be big damage done.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
At least two American soldiers were killed while on patrol
in Syria, while at least sixteen people were killed and
forty others injured during a mass shooting at a Jewish
event in Sydney. The president called it a rough day.
The approval rating of President Trump is down slightly, according
to a new poll. The NBC News Decision Desk poll
found forty two percent of those surveyed said they either

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strongly approve or somewhat approve of Trump's job as president,
down two percent from early September. Fifty eight percent in
the new poll said they either somewhat disapprove or strongly disapprove.
Arkansas will be the first state to cut ties with PBS.
The commission that oversees public television in the state voted
to end its contract with the broadcast company. The eight

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member Arkansas Educational Television Commission said the decision was made
due to annual membership fees of about two point five million,
calling it simply not feasible. The commission announced Thursday at
plans to disaffiliate from PBS on July first. I'm Rob Bartier,
the FDA has approved an at home brain stimulation device
to treat depression. The CDC says depression rates in the

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United States have risen sixty percent in the last decade,
affecting over twenty million adults. The device, Flow Neuroscience as
FL one hundred, delivers a gentle electrical current to the
part of the brain that regulates mood and is designed
for home use under remote supervision. It is the first
of its kind to be approved in the US. The
device is cleared to treat moderate to severe major depressive

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disorders in adults aged eighteen and older. An estimated three
million volunteers took part in Wreaths across America Day this weekend.
They placed holiday wreaths at more than fifty six hundred
military cemeteries nationwide in tribute to veterans. Hundreds turned out
at Arlington National Cemetery in DC on Saturday as volunteers
placed wreaths on all two hundred and sixty five thousand headstones.

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The nonprofit group added more more than seven hundred new
locations to this year's event. John Cena says he's stepping
out of the ring once and for all. We get
more from Scott Carr.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
The seventeen time WWE champ, thought his last battle Saturday night,
tapping out after being put in a sleeper hole by
three time Austrian champ. Gunther Sina announced his retirement last year,
saying his body hurts and was screaming to close the chapter.
The forty eight year old will continue his acting career,
he says, with three Hollywood movies in the pipeline, but

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will stay a part of the wrestling world. Senior recently
signed a five year deal to service at WWE Ambassador.
I'm Scott Carr.

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Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza has won the Heisman Trophy.
Mendoza is the first Indiana player to win the award.
The red shirt junior transferred last off season from the
University of California, Berkeley and accounted for thirty nine touchdowns
and thirteen games, leading the Hoosiers to a perfect thirteen
to zero regular season record and a Big Ten Conference championship.

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Indianana is the top ranked school heading into the college
football playoffs. I'm Rob Martyr