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Speaker 1 (00:01):
BION News this hour. I'm Terry McCready coming up. Former
President Biden posting on social media about his cancer diagnosis.
Reaction from former Vice President Harris. Congress is giving the
green light to what President Trump is calling his Big
Beautiful Bill, Chicago's mayor giving his vision for the city
going forward. But first, here's bin News Now.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm Bree Wood with BION News Now. The White House
expects positive results from President Trump's call with Putin on
a Ukraine ceasefire. That's what US Special Envoy Steve Wikoff
told ABC's This Week.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
The President is going to have a successful call with
Vladimir Putin. The President is determined to get something done here.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
President Trump hopes for a productive day following Russia Ukraine
talks in Istanbul that led to their largest prisoners flop
in three years. Two sailors are dead and at least
nineteen injured after a Mexican Navy tall ship struck the
Brooklyn Bridge Saturday night. The ship's masts snapped on impact,
sending crew members dangling in the rigging. The vessel was
in New York for a July fourth Celebration preview. In

(01:07):
Shanda de Combe's Sex trafficking trial resumes today in New York.
Is ex Cassie Ventura testified he raped her and forced
her in the drug fueled sex parties. The defense pushed
back Friday, winning to text, they say show she was
a willing participant. Gippei in News Now on Demand twenty
four to seven on the iHeartRadio app. Now back to
Terry McCready.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Former President Biden posting on social media about his cancer diagnosis,
posting on X that cancer touches us all, sharing that
he and the former First Lady have learned they are
strongest in broken places. Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris
posted on X that she and her husband Doug, are
saddened to learn of his diagnosis, calling Biden a fighter

(01:50):
who will face this challenge with strength and resilience. Congress
is advancing President Trump's so called Big Beautiful Bill, complete
with a major spending increase for immigration enforcement and the military,
while cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits. Meanwhile, the White House
is in talks with Walmart after the retail giant said

(02:10):
higher prices were on the way due to tariffs. An
NBC's Meet the Press, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said he's
spoken with Walmart CEO.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Walmart is in fact, they are going to, as you
describe it, eat some of the tariffs.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
On Saturday, President Trump posted Walmart should eat the tariffs.
Chicago's black mayor, Brandon Johnson sharing his vision for the
city during the remainder of his term.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
We're going to educate our children. We're going to create
opportunities for entrepreneur growth. We're going to build the most affordable,
safest big city in America, and we're going to do
it together, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
A yearly tradition continuing this morning in North Miami, Florida,
with a dude George Benjamin, celebrating his one hundred and
sixth birthday. His friends at North Miami's Gold and Silver
Seniors program are throwing a great, big party.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Every year. He gets up, he dances with people, he
walks around. So it's just a blessing for him to
be able to be moving at such.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
An age, and he has the dance move to prove
it the city. Stephanie Xenon says Benjamin, affectionately known as Papa,
moved from Haiti to North Miami twenty three years ago.
He has thirteen children, nineteen grandchildren and dozens of great grandchildren.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramafosa arriving in the US this

(03:35):
morning ahead of a meeting with President Trump on Wednesday.
This comes after months of tenuous relations that were sparked
back in February when Trump accused South Africa of seizing
land belonging to white farmers under its Land Expropriations Act.
Africaner's own more than seventy percent of the land despite

(03:55):
making up just seven percent of the population. Trump also claimed,
without evidence, that a genocide of white South Africans was underway.
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