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Speaker 1 (00:01):
BIA News this hour. I'm Terry mccredi coming up. Jeffrey Epstein,
ABU servifers on Capitol Hill calling on Congress to take action.
President Trump says Chicago residents are in favor of his
plan to send in the National Guard. Several hotel employees
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, avoid prison and connection with the depth
of a black Man.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Two years ago.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
But first, here's Bion news now.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
President Trump says a US strike on a drug vote
in the Caribbean killed eleven people. Secretary of Defense Pete
Hexeth called them narco terrorists.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
We knew exactly who was in that vote, we knew
exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who
they represented, and that was trenda Ragway narco terrorist organization
designated by the United States, trying to poison our country
with illicit drugs.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Venezuela's president condemned the move as a criminal and bloody threat.
Black mayor Patrick Braxton has been re elected in New Berne, Alabama,
ending years of leadership disputes in the majority black down.
His win restores spare representation and marks the first true
election since the nineteen sixties. And September is Prostate Cancer
Awareness Month. Black men are nearly twice as likely to

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die from the disease. Experts now recommend PSA blood tests
starting at age forty to catch it early and save lives.
Get bi in News Now on demand twenty four to
seven on the iHeartRadio app. Here's Terry McCready.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Jeffrey Epstein survivors are considering compiling their own list of clients.
Speaking on Capitol Hill, black survivor Lisa Phillips says they
know the names of those who were regulars in Epstein's world.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
I would like to announce here today us Epstein survivors
have been discussing creating our own list. We know the names.
Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors,
we will confidentially compile the names we all know.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
She added that they aren't sure how or even if
they would release the list publicly, and called on the
Apartment of Justice to release the names of those involved.
Dozens of Epstein's sexual abuse victims gathered in Washington, DC yesterday,
calling on Congress to take action. It comes as the
first batch of documents related to the late sex offender
have been released. President Trump believed the people of Chicago

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support his efforts to use the National Guard to fight crime, but.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
We could straighten out Chicago.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
All they have to do is ask us to go.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Into Chicago if we don't have the support of some
of these politicians.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Trump telling reporters at the White House yesterday that Illinois
and California are being run by incompetent people. Chicago's black mayor,
Brandon Johnson.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
Chicago will continue to have a violence problem as long
as red states continue to have a gun problem. Shootings
will continue as long as this presidential administration continues to
put politics over people.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Trump meanwhile defending his use of the Guard in Los Angeles,
again claiming the city would not be hosting the Olympics
in twenty twenty eight if he hadn't sent in the
troops this summer. When asked earlier this week about the
possibility of the National Guard going to Chicago, he replied,
we're in, but did not share a timetable. President indicated
national Guard troops may be set next to New Orleans.

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Several former hotel employee who pleaded guilty in connection with
the death of a black man outside a Milwaukee hotel
last year have avoided prison time. Forty three year old
Davonte Mitchell was killed after he sparked a disturbance at
the downtown Highatt Regency Hotel. Four workers struggled with him
and pinned him to the pavement. The county Medical Examiner
said he died by restraint, sphyxia, and toxic effects of

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cocaine and methamphetamine. A circuit court judge sentenced security guard
Brandon Turner to a year of probation. Bellman Herbert Williamson
and Devon Johnson Carson were both sentenced to time served.
Williamson spent ten days behind bars after the incident, and
Johnson Carson was held for four Florida is planning to
end all vaccine mandates in the state. Black Surgeon General

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Joseph Ladipoe says the state Health Department will work on
the effort with Governor Ron DeSantis's office. Ladipo claims the
mandates are all wrong and dripping with disdain and slavery. Currently,
Florida requires children in grades K through twelve to receive
four or five doses of the DETAP vaccine, four or
five doses of the polio shot, two measles, mumps and rebella,

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one dose of tea DAP and at least two chicken
pox vaccines. Florida does allow parents to request religious exemptions.
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