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In just four minutes, Famed Hollywood director Rob Reiner and
his wife Michelle were found dead inside their home in
the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles Sunday afternoon from an
apparent stabbing. The Los Angeles Times is reporting the detectives
from the LAPD's Robbery Homicide Division are questioning a family
member in connection with the deaths. As according to sources

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at this point, with no official confirmation from authorities yet,
the New York Post as Reiner's thirty two year old
son Nick, is considered as a possible suspect. Police and Providence,
Rhode Island are releasing from custody a person of interest
in connection with Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University that
killed two people and injured nine. Mayor Brett Smiley of Providence,
in a late night news conference, said the investigation into

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the shooting continues. He added that while the release would
likely cause anxiety, the belief is that everyone remains safe.
A shelter in place order at Brown was lifted on
Sunday morning. Ukrainian presidents and US envoys are in Berlin.
For another round of peace talks in an effort to
end the ongoing war with Russia. The Ukrainian president is
also set to meet personally with President Trumps Special on

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Voy Steve Whitcoff and son in law Jared Kushner. This
comes after Selenski suggested abandoning his country's ambition for joining
NATO in exchange for security guarantees. Another blast of dangerously
cold air is spreading across the central US. Millions living
in the Central Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes region where
coping with temperatures thirty degrees below average on Sunday morning.

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Forecasters say the Arctic air mask could keep temperatures well
below freezing from Indiana to Minnesota. Hanika has begun. One
of the most widely observed Jewish celebrations, the Festival of
Lights is an eight day holiday in the Jewish faith
marked by the nightly lighting of candles. The holiday this
year follows a shooting at a Jewish event in Sydney, Australia,
wherever a dozen people were killed and another forty were

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hospitalized after gunman opened fire in a crowd at Bondi
Beach in Sydney. Authority say Jewish families were celebrating on
the beach. I'm Tammy Trhello. President Trump is withdrawing his
pick for deputy director of the National Security Agency, Scott
Carr reports.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Republican Congressman from Nebraska Don Bacon shares in a post
on x the administration was pulling Joe Francescin's nomination. This
as the acting deputy director at the National Security Agency
is set to retire at the end of the month.
Bacon blamed infighting in the White House and the involvement
of what he calls wacky Laura Lumer as the reason
why the top two positions at NSA will continue to

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remain vacant. Lumer complained that Francescan had donated to the
campaign of Colorado Congressman Jason Crowe in twenty twenty three.
Crowe's one of six Democrats involved in a video advising
members of the military they don't have to follow any
illegal orders. I'm Scott Carr and Washington.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
The parent company behind Rumba, is filing for Chapter eleven bankruptcy.
Massachusetts based I Robot made the announcement Sunday that it
will be acquired by its main manufacturer, Vacuum cleaner maker
Sheens and Pisahirobat has sold millions of cleaning robots since
the room but was introduced in two thousand and two.
The FDA has approved an at home brain stimulation device

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to treat depression. That story from Lisa Carton.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
The CDC says depression rates in the US have risen
sixty percent in the last decade, affecting over twenty million adults.
The device, called Flow Neurosciences FL one hundred, delivers a
gentle electrical current to part of the brain that regulates
mood and is designed for home use under remote supervision.
It's the first of its kind to be approved in

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the US. The device is clear to treat moderate to
severe major depressive disorders in adults aged eighteen and older.
I'm Lisa Carton.

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And 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.
The nonprofit group added more than seven hundred new low
cations to this year's event. I'm Tammy Trahillo