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Speaker 1 (00:02):
BIA News this hour. I'm Terry McCready coming off The
black mayor of Washington, DC is reacting to President Trump's
crime actions in the nation's capital. A judge is considering
evidence to decide if the National Guard in la is unlawful.
Dollar store groceries might not be harmful to American diets
after all. But first, here's Bion News Now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Detroit, Michigan residents want Lodge Elementary School torn down after
fifteen years of abandonment. Locals like Jared Tucker say it's
a nice ore and hope the city adds it to
its demolition list.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
And you've got this building right here that's been closed
and abandoned.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's just so much more we can we can do
with that. The West Side School, near renovated Heckel Park
has become a hotspot for crime and dumping. A twelve
year old black girl died by suicide at Sacred Heart
Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, after slipping out of a
pediatric unit not designed for psychiatric care. Fifteen nurses were fired.
Sarah Junie and Bona had a history of self harm,

(00:59):
but staff monitoring was reduced days before her death and
Monday marked sixty years since the Watts riots erupted in
Los Angeles, sparked by a roughly ui arrest of Marquette Frye.
The unrest lasted five days, left thirty four dead and
over one thousand injured. Good bi in Names Now on
demand twenty four to seven on the iHeartRadio app Here's

(01:21):
More with Terry McCready.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
President Trump announcing a major crackdown on crime in the
nation's capital. Speaking at the White House, he said he'll
rescue Washington, d C.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Under the authorities vested in me as the President of
the United States. I'm officially invoking Section seven forty of
the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, you know what
that is, and placing the DC Metropolitan Police Department under
direct federal control.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Trump is activating the National Guard to help local law
enforcement as part of his plan, but Illinois Senator Dick
Durbin said while he's sympathetic to victims of violent crime,
Trump's actions were intended to create chaos and draw attention
away from other issues. Democratic Black mayor Muriel Bowser spoke
out after Trump placed the DC Police under federal control

(02:13):
and activated the National Guard as part of his major
tough on crime initiative. Bowser insists her police chief is
still in charge.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Chief Pamela Smith is the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Bowser says she's cooperating with the Trump administration, but adds
the president's actions are just a reminder that DC should
be granted full statehood. Meanwhile, a federal judge in San
Francisco is considering evidence to decide whether the Trump administration
deployed National Guard troops and US Marines to Los Angeles

(02:48):
during immigration protests unlawfully. The city's black mayor, Karen Bass.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Problems in about two square miles.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
It lasted for a couple of days.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
I initiated a curfew. Well, we have had no problems
or for weeks, so why were they here.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
The Department of Defense deploying around four thousand California National
Guard troops and seven hundred Marines to Los Angeles. About
two hundred and fifty troops remain on duty. California is
asking the court to return control of the troops to
the state. All Right, dollar store grocery purchases might not
be harming American diets, even though there is a comparative

(03:28):
lack of healthy products and according to a new study,
with families trying to save money, they are increasingly turning
to local dollar stores for staple food items. According to
the study published in the Journal of the Academy of
Nutrition and Dietetics, researchers found that calories obtained from dollar
store items have nearly doubled, rising from three point four

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percent to six and a half percent of households purchases.
It's especially the case in lower income and black and
Latino households. According to the data, what's on the shelves
at the dollar stores isn't necessarily a snapshot of what
each household plays on the table, as families are balancing
their purchases with other more nutritious items from various stores.

(04:15):
I'm Tarry mccreedy for the Black Information Network.