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Speaker 1 (00:03):
BIA News this hour. I'm Terry mccreey coming up. Senators
receiving their first INTEL briefing on US air strikes in Iran.
The Trump administration is threatening to sue some media outlets
over their air strikes, reporting over a dozen people detained
after an ice raid in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But first, here's
BIA News Now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
A new Paul shows New York City's mayoral race is
a dead heat. If Andrew Cuomo runs as an independent,
we have zorin Mondami. He gets to thirty nine percent
of the vote. At this point, Cuomo is at parody
with Mondami thirty nine percent. That's poster Bradley Honan of
the Honen Strategy Group. Without Cuomo, Mamdanni leads by fifteen points.
Mayor Eric Adams polls at just thirteen percent, with Republican

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Curtis Sliwa at seven percent. The Department of Justice is
investigating the University of California over alleged race and sex
based tiring quotas in its UC twenty thirty capacity plan.
Officials say the plan may violate federal civil rights laws.
The university could face fines and damages found guilty, and
Rapper Cameron is writing a memoir with Simon and Schuster
in a seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars deal. The

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book will cover his rise in hip hop and shift
to media with behind the scenes stories from his life.
Gippi in Names Now on demand twenty four to seven
on the iHeartRadio app Here's Terry McCrady.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Senators are reacting to their first Intel briefing on the
strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas
says he learned the airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities were
an extraordinary success. Cotton added the vital components within the
chain for Iran to build a nuke were destroyed. Black
House Minority Leader Hockey Jeffrey's weighing in on the issue

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earlier this week.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
There apparently are reasons to believe that that was a
blatant misrepresentation made by Donald Trump to the American people.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Meanwhile, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy agrees. He says Iran's nuclear
program has been damaged, but not obliterated, as President Trump maintained.
Murphy noted Director of National Intelligence Tolcy Gabbard was notably
absent from the briefing President Trump is threatening lawsuits against
both CNN and The New York Times over reporting surrounding

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the air strikes. But I just wanted to thank our pilot.
You know, they were maligned and treated very big, demeaned
by fake new CNN, which is back there.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
We'll live it in a wasting time wasting nobody's watching them.
So they just wasted a lot of time, wasting my time.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
A lawyer for Trump sent letters to both news outlets
saying they damaged Trump's reputation, demanding a retraction and apology
for reporting that the attack on Iran had set back
the country's nuclear program by just a few months. The
Times posted a response yesterday, rejecting the demands and saying
they'd told the truth to the best of their ability.

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A CNN spokesperson also confirming the letter was responded to
with rejection. Fourteen people were arrested after an ice raid
at a restaurant in Marshall Township, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Homeland
Security Investigation Pittsburgh and Enforcement and Removal Operations Philadelphia joining
federal law enforcement partners in conducting a search warrant at

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the Bache Mexican Kitchen and bar Pittsburgh Action News for
reporting all were detained on immigration violations, and official say
removal proceedings are pending. The restaurant reportedly posted the following
on social media. Ice is currently raiding our Cranberry location.
If you are in the area and would like to
support our people, please stop, buy to stand outside and

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witness gracias. Kenya's Interior ministry is accusing protesters of an
attempted coup after deadly demonstrations in multiple cities and towns
across the nation. The Interior Minister, kipchumbum Or Comen, assessed
the damage to businesses in the capitol, Nairobi, and said
police would follow up with surveillance footage to facilitate arrests.

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Kenyans took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the
first anniversary of substantial anti tax protests, with demonstrators storming Parliament.
At least sixty people were killed and several remain missing.
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the Black Information Network.