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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bi N News this hour. I'm Andrea Coleman coming up.
The Senate confirms a black woman to the FCC, but
not everyone is applauding her confirmation. Attorneys for singer r
Kelly say prison officials are trying to kill him and
a rap of the day's testimony in the Sean Diddycomb's trial.
But first, here's behigh end news. Now.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
In Charleston, South Carolina, the Emmanuel Amy Church is marking
ten years since nine black churchgoers were killed by self
proclaimed white supremacist Dylan Ruth.

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You can tell the power of this sanctuary by the
simple fact that some people are threatened by it and.

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Want to take it away.

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Ugly racist hate is an evil.

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Now thirty years old, Rufe remains on death row after
being convicted of murder and hate crimes. R Kelly's lawyers
say he overdosed last week after prison staff allegedly forced
extra medications on him. He collapsed the next day and
was hospitalized for two days. They're now asking for home confinement,
claiming officials are conspiring with inmates to kill him, and
for the first time, the NAACP will not invite a

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sitting president to its annual Convention. President Derek Johnson says
Trump is attacking democracy and civil rights. The White House
fire back, accusing the group of spreading hate the convention.
It's next month, and Charlotte. I'm Air Repayton with Bi
in News. Now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Thanks. Amber, a black woman, has been confirmed as a
commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC. Olivia Trustee
is a former congressional staffer for Senator Roger Wicker out
of Mississippi and Representative Bob Lauda out of Ohio. Both
men are Republicans. During a hearing before the Senate Commerce
Committee in April, Trustee ran down a list of tasks
she would be committed to if confirmed to the Commission.

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I'd like to offer a short list of commitments on
which I hope there is bipartisan consensus if confirmed. If confirmed,
I will work with Congress in the administration to expand
access the high speed Internet services for all Americans, protect
consumers from legal robo calls, strengthen the security of the
nation's telecommunications now works, and restore America's leadership and next

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generation communications technologies.

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President Trump nominated Trustee in January, shortly after returning to
the White House. Some critics of her nominations say her
confirmation gives SCC Chairman Brendan Carr the Republican majority he
needs to follow through on President Trump's media agenda. According
to Ruters, that could spell trouble for CBS, who President
Trump has pressure card a strip of its broadcasting license.

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Trump sued the network for twenty billion dollars, claiming the
network edited a sixty minutes interview at then Democratic presidential
candidate Kamala Harris. The President is also sore with NBC
for Harris's appearance on Saturday Night Live during the presidential
election season last year. Right Kelly's attorneys are asking for
him to be released to home confinement, claiming prison officials

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have conspired within mats to kill him. Kelly's attorneys say
he was rushed to the hospital last week after overdosing
on medication. The attorneys claimed the staff at the Federal
Center in Butner, North Carolina forced him to take additional
MADS on Thursday. The following day, Kelly reportedly collapsed after
he felt dizzy and experienced vision loss and lost consciousness.
He was then rushed to Duke University Hospital and was

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kept under observation for two days. According to NBC. Prosecutors
called the request deeply un serious and theatrical and repugnant
to the sentence that the court imposed for deeply disturbing offenses. Meanwhile,
the government in the sex trafficking trial of rapper shandity
Combe says it's likely to rest its case on Friday.
Testimony in the trial continue today in New York City.

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A US Attorney's Office special agent said round trip travel
for a sex worker was paid for using a credit
card in Shaan didny Combe's name. The special agent also
testified that receipts showed Combs' as businesses were built, thousands
of dollars by hotels for damages to rooms, and one instance,
she said the Intercontinental Hotel charged Combs more than forty
six thousand dollars for damage to a penthouse in twenty twelve.

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Their jury was also sent home today so lawyers could
discuss another potential issue involving the panel. A jurer was
dismissed one day over problems about his New York residency.
Cones has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and other charges.
I'll stay informed, stay connected, and subscribed. I will be
ayaan NUSS Hour wherever you get your podcast. I'm Andrea
Coleman for the Black Information Network.