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Speaker 1 (00:03):
BN News this hour. I'm Terry McCready coming up. Former
President Biden making an initial statement on social media regarding
his cancer diagnosis. A GOP committee is advancing President trump
so called Big Beautiful Bill that egan's cuts to Medicaid,
as some Black Democrats have been warning about the spending cuts.
Several inmates remain on the LAMB after escaping from a

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prison in New Orleans. But first, here's Bin News Now.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I'm Bree Would with Bin News Now. FBI Director Cash
Bettel says the agency will leave its DC headquarters due
to poor conditions. We want the American men and women
to know, if you're going to come work at the
premier law enforcement agency in the world, we're going to
give you a building that's commensurate with that, and that's
not this place. About fifteen hundred employees will be relocated nationwide,

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but no timeline or new headquarters location has been announced.
New York City and federal officials have started their investigation
into the deadly crash of a Mexican Navy training ship
into the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday morning. The National Transportation
Safety Board said it was dispatching a go team to
investigate the crash, and Costco was limiting the amount of
goal bars its members can buy. Costco's website says there

(01:12):
is a limit of one transaction per member, with a
maximum of two units per twenty four hours. The prices
of Costco's goalbars have risen since October. Getbi in News
Now on Demand twenty four to seven on the iHeartRadio app.
Now back to Terry McCready.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Former President Joe Biden facing an aggressive form of prostate
cancer that has metastasized to his bones. In a post
on X Today, Biden noted that cancer touches us all
spent ten years since he lost his son Bo to
brain cancer. Biden went on to say in the post
is first since the news broke yesterday that like so

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many of you, Jill and I have learned that we
are strongest in the broken places. Congress advancing President Trump's
so called Big Beautiful Bill. The package includes a major
spending increase for immigration enforcement and the military, and also
slashes Medicaid and snap benefits. The budget advancing in a
rare Sunday vote along party lines. Black House Minority Leader

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Hanking Jeffries has been sounding the alarm over the GOP proposal.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
And so it's my hope and expectation not just in
the next few days, but in the next few weeks,
in the next few months, as we engage in this
legislative struggle, that we can stay together in defense of
the American people.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Virginia's Black Democratic Representative Jennifer McClellan told News Nation the
budget is primed to make TEX cuts permanent on the
backs of millions of Americans. Seven of the ten inmates
who escaped from New Orleans jail on Friday are still
on the loose. Luisiana State Police Colonel Robert Hodges says
the manhunt is continuing.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
They have friends and family members who are helping them
and concealing them and helping them move, which makes law
enforcements job more challenging. We end up getting there just
to little too late.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry announcing yesterday that a twenty thousand
dollars reward that's per inmate is now being offered. Landry
has ordered the Louisiana Attorney General to investigate how this
happened and who's responsible for the escape. All Right, Calm
is being restored at Libya's capital Tripoli. That's welcome news
after violent clashes have been erupting there since last week

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between rival militia groups. Stability Support commander abdel Gani al
Keighley was killed. The SSA is one of the most
powerful militias in the country, and Misty International accusing Alquighlee
of war crimes and human rights violations. The clashes were
some of Tripoli's heaviest in years. The United Nations reports

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at least eight civilians were killed. There's a special mass
in honor of Pope Leo the fourteenth. The Cathedral Basilica
of Saint James in downtown Brooklyn is holding what officials
are calling a Mass of thanksgiving and prayer getting under
way this hour. New York's Brooklyn Diocese is celebrating his
official inauguration. The mass is streaming on the cathedral's website.

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