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Speaker 1 (00:03):
BIA News this hour. I'm Terry mcgreey, coming up reaction
from Senators after their first intel briefing on air strikes
in Iran. Statistical dead heat in New York's manoral race,
the Supreme Court ruling on Planned Parenthood's challenge in South Carolina.
But first, here's bi N News now.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
A new Paul shows New York City's mayoral race is
a dead heat. If Andrew Cuomo runs as an independent,
we have sore.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
In Mandami he gets to thirty nine percent of the vote.
At this point, Cuomo is at parody with Mondami thirty
nine percent.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's poster Bradley Hoanan of the Honen Strategy Group. Without Cuomo,
Mamdani leads by fifteen points. Mayor Eric Adams pulls at
just thirteen percent, with Republican Curtis Leewa at seven percent.
The Department of Justice is investigating the University of California
over alleged race and sex based hiring quotas in its
UC twenty thirty capacity plan. Officials say the plan may
violate federal civil rights laws. The university could face fines

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and damages if found guilty, and Rapper Cameron is writing
a memoir with Simon and Schuster in a seven hundred
fifty thousand dollars deal. The book will cover his rise
in hip hop and shift to media with behind the
scenes stories from his life. Get bi in Names Now
on demand twenty four to seven on the iHeartRadio app.
Here's Terry McCrady.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Senators are reacting to their first Intel briefing on strikes
on Iranian nuclear facilities. Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas says
he's learned the US air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities
were an extraordinary success. Conton added the vital components within
the chain for Iran to build a nuke were destroyed.
Blackhouse Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, weighing in on the issue

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earlier this week.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
There apparently are reasons to believe that that was a
blatant misrepresentation made by Donald Trump to the American people.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Meanwhile, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy agrees. He says Iran's nuclear
program has been damaged, but not obliterated, as President Trump maintains.
Murphy noted Director of National Intelligence Telsey Gabbard was notably
absent from the briefing. A new poll showing the New
York City mayoral race is a statistical dead heat between
Assemblymen Zoron Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. If the former governor

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runs as an independent in the general election, we.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
Have Zorin Mandami, he gets to thirty nine percent of
the vote. At this point, Cuomo is at parody with
Mondami thirty nine percent.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
As poster Bradley Honan of the Honen Strategy Group, which
conducted the poll following the Ugandan born Mamdani's historic but
still unofficial win over Cuomo in the Democratic primary. That's
if Cuomo decides to run as an independent, a move
he's considering. If Cuomo ultimately packs it in, the poster
says Mamdani would lead by fifteen points. The survey also

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shows that if Black Mayor Eric Adams drops out of
the race, unlikely since he has just announced his re
election bit, then Cuomo would win by four points. Adams
is polling at thirteen percent, with Republican Kurtis Liwa at
seven percent. The Supreme Court is rejecting a Planned Parenthood's
challenge to South Carolina's attempt to bar the organization from

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participating in its medicaid program. This clears the way for
this state to strip the organization of Medicaid funds. The
Supreme Court ruled that Planned Parenthood and a Patient cannot
sue the State of South Carolina under federal civil rights
law to enforce a provision of the Medicaid Act that
aims to ensure a beneficiary can obtain medical care from

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the provider of their choosing. The Court's conservative majority reversing
a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit that allowed Planned Parenthood's lawsuit against state officials
to move forward and prevented South Carolina from excluding the
organization from its Medicaid program. Black former New York Representative
Jamal Bowman has an interesting claim. He says black people

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face higher rates of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes
due to the stress of being called the N word
on the daily. Bowman sharing his perspective with CNN this week,
he argued that the United States isn't dealing with America's
original sin and its disease of hate and racism targeting
black and brown people. He says if the GOP would
listen and try to learn, grow and stop being hateful,

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the country would be much better off, stay informed, stay connected,
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