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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bion News This hour, I Doug Davis coming up. It's
a long shot, but Democrats aren't giving up on the
fight over healthcare. Plus civil rights icon Jesse Jackson is
hospitalized in Chicago battling a neurogenitive disease and tsaagent's a
large amount who are black and staying on the job
during the shutdown will get a hefty bonus to help
their families recover. But first, here's bion News Now.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
A new report says young Americans are struggling to buy homes.
Experts say the vast majority of young Americans cannot buy
a home without a lot of help, and.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
If they're not subsidized by their families or parents and
able to contribute to buying a home, you forget about it.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
First time home buyers now average age forty, and they
made up just twenty one percent of purchases in twenty
twenty five. For the black community, only about forty four
percent of Black households own their homes, compared to roughly
sixty five percent nationwide. Friday is National Ruby Bridges Walk
to School Day. School's nationwide will honor bridges historic role
in desegregating Southern schools. In nineteen sixty, at just six

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years old, she became the first black child who attended
all white elementary school in the South. In A security
guard who lost her assault case against rapper Cardi b
is asking for a new trial, but Carti's lawyers called
the motion baseless. A hearing is set for December fifth.
I'm Amber paytent with BIA News. Now back to you,
Doug all right.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Thank you, good afternoon, and happy Thursday. After more than
a month, the government shut down is over, but the
fight for healthcare continues, with Democrats taking bold steps. Democrats
filed a discharged petition to force a floor vote on
a three year extension to Obamacare subsidies. Hakeem Jeffreys took
to MSNBC earlier today.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well over the last several weeks, several Republicans have gone
on records saying that they understood the need to extend
the Affordable Care Act tax credits. What the American people
who are in the middle of open enrollment right now,
they may see increases in their health insurance of one
thousand or two thousand dollars per month.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's an uphill battle, with some saying it will never happen.
Last night six, Democrats broke rank to pass a temporary
funding measure to reopen the government minus the extension of
ACA premiums. Jeffries, disappointed, said Democrats did their part to
reopen the government.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Opposition from the very beginning was clear. We wanted to
find a bipartisan path forward to enact the spending agreement
that actually meets the needs of the American people, but
we could not support a partisan, Republican spending bill that
continues to gut the health care of the American people.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Jeffries called the shutdown cruel and stood by federal workers
and families deeply impacted by the shutdown. Meanwhile, Reverend Jesse Jackson,
the naturally renowned civil rights leader and founder of the
Rainbow Push Coalition, is currently hospitalized in Chicago. He's being
treated for progressive super nuclear palsy, a rare brain disorder
affecting movement and balance. Jackson had been managing the condition

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for over ten years after being first diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Brain doctor doctor Puja Sulez explains the news for jacks
that it's similar to other neurological diseases.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
It's very similar to Alzheimer's disease. There is one certain
molecule and protein molecule in the brain that starts to
develop and that tox City City starts to kill the
brain cells until the brain starts to shrink and develop
abnormalities with thinking, with movement, with walking, but clinically it
looks very similar to Parkinson's. Parkinson's is more physical problems

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with movement and coordination and walking.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
The Jackson family and Rainbow Push have given statements asking
for the public to keep him in their prayers during
this difficult time. Jackson's decades of activism, including working alongside
doctor Martin Luther King Junior, and the founding of the
Rainbow Push Coalition, made him a leader that Black America
needed and loved. And finally, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Norman
announced a ten thousand dollars bonus check for TSA agents,

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many who are black, whose dedication kept airports running during
the longest government shutdown in US history. The agents will
also receive back pay. Nom praised them and women who
work through the shutdown. Amid shortages and security delays at
frustrated travelers nationwide. President Trump voiced his support for air
traffic controlers working through the crisis and recommended similar bonuses

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I'm Doug Davis for the Black Information Network. Have a
great Thursday, and of course, stay safe out there.