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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Creia news issaur I'm Andrea Coleman coming up. The US
Supreme Court delivers a major ruling for some aspects of Obamacare.
The push to p tech gains made in the black
HIV community as funding for critical programs is at risk
of being cut, and a daycare owner who shot her
husband after learning he's sexually abuse children at her center
is preparing to rebuild her life the first year's bin

(00:25):
news now.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Disorderly conduct and battery chargers are coming to the forefront,
and a complaint filed against an embattled black Arkansas mayor,
according to Fox thirteen Helena West Helena, Arkansas Mayor Christopher Franklin,
and a complaint by a DA in a circuit court
in Phillips County, Arkansas, reveals charges in twenty twenty three
alleging he was caught on video striking a woman and

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without justification. There are also allegations of financial misdeeds in
office and false documentation. Brandy Crawford, who lives in the area,
didn't know this was happening.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I had no idea that that was going on.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
It's really horrible.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Crawford, who is African American, says that the mayor must
be held accountable for his actions. President Trump is pulling
the plug on all trade talks with Canada and says
it's in response to Canada's digital services tax on American
technology companies. Trump called Canada a very difficult country to
trade with and said US farmers have faced a terror
from the country of up to four hundred percent four

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years on dairy products. And now back to you, Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Thanks Mike. The US Supreme Court is upholding the constitutionality
of Obamacare requiring insurance companies cover certain preventive care recommended
by an expert panel. The health law requires insurers to
cover services recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force,
such as cancer screenings and HIV prevention drugs. The six
to three decision upheld the panel's authority, protecting access to

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preventive care for an estimated one hundred and fifty million Americans,
many of them black. Justices also reinforced the ability of
AHHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, to exert control over
the panel's recommendations. The ruling comes as advocates for the
HIV community hold out hope that federal funding for HIV
prevention programs is not cut by the Trump administration. The

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President's spending bill, which is in the Senate, calls for
upwards of one point five billion dollars in cuts towards
certain HIV prevention programs at the CDC. BIN spoke with
Cedric Sturdivant, co founder of Community Health Peer in Greenwood, Mississippi,
which educates people throughout the Mississippi Delta about health strategies
and preventions. Certivant fears a loss of prevention funding could

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lead to an uptick in new HIV infections.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
People are not educated about really what's going on. If
they're not educated about prevention of HIV, then it's going
to lead back to what people was back in the
early ages. And even with that as you still may
help people are not getting test fits and they don't
know their status, and they won't find out that status

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until it gets very sick. Then you never know how
many people that they may have actually passed the virus
off to that am not knowing, and that aim not
using protection and not using protection. I mean that's a
file of prevention too.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Certify encourages anyone interested in helping to secure funding for
HIV prevention programs to reach out to their elected officials
and share their concerns about the loss of funding. He
points out the cost of prevention is way less than
the cost of treatment, which would be impacted if HIV
infections increase. Shantiri Young, the daycare owner who shot her
husband after learning he was sexually abusing children at her center,

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is being released from prison. Young was sentenced to four
years in prison and has now moved to a halfway
house in Washington. In an interview at CBS News, Young
thanked her supporters and emphasized how sexual abuse is not
okay with children. Young has divorced her husband, James Weims,
who was a former Baltimore City police officer. She also
testified against him last year. He was convicted of rape

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and sexual abuse and is now serving a life sentence
in prison. Young says she will likely have to spend
some time in home confinement before her sentence is complete
in December of this year, and looks forward to rebuilding
her life. I'll stay informed, stay connected, and subscribed. Follow
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I'm Andrea Coleman for the Black Information Network.