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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bin news this hour, I'm Terry McCready coming up a
look at how Pope Leo the fourteenth is being described
as a modern pontiff. Congress voting yay on the Gulf
of Mexico for the first time in history. The twenty
twenty eight Summer Olympics will be held in dual venues.
But first let's take a look at the top news
stories happening this hour.

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I'm ree would with bi Inn's now. Firefighters along with
multiple agencies are battling a three hundred and fifty acre
brush fire in South Miami Dade County. The fire, which
started yesterday, is only twenty five percent contained. Florida Forest
Services Kevin McEwan speaks on the conditions.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
It is very dry, extremely dry, so some of the
equipment that normally doesn't stand up is standing up, and
we just have to work.

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In tandem with our air resources to be effectives.

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Their goal is to keep US one and cards sound
road open for traffic. About one thousand transgender service members
are being ordered to leave the US military following a
Supreme Court ruling supporting a transgender military band. Defense Secretary
pt tex Ethics blame the decision in a video on
X stating it reflects the will of the American people
and the end of jury selection in Shondi Combe sex

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crimes trial in New York is postponed until Monday. The
judge in the case granted the request from the defense
to push it back. Get bi in News Now on
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Pope Leo the fourteenth appears to have a history of
subtly pushing back on the Trump administration and its policies.
NBCs Lester Holt describing Leo as a modern pope who
is active on social media.

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As a cardinal, he appeared to criticize both President Trump
and Vice President Vance, recently posting the headline jd Vance
is wrong. Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love
for others.

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A review of Cardinal Robert Provo's posts on X before
he became Pope Leo's shows. He also criticized anti immigrant
rhetoric and spoke out against the death penalty and Congress's
handling of gun legislation. Congress has voted to permanently change
the Gulf of Mexico's name to the Gulf of America.
The move withstood a challenge from Democrats, led by California

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Congressman Jared Huffman, who called it an ego driven, performative stunt.

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We're not just renaming a golf, We're drowning public trust
in what this institution is supposed to do, serve the people,
solve problems, defend democracy.

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The renaming is facing an uphill battle in the Senate,
where it will need by partisan cooperation. Leader John Thune
has been silent so far about the possibility of a
floor vote. The Trump administration is proposing significant cuts to
federal rental assistance programs in the twenty twenty six budget,
which would affect thousands of California households. A proposal suggesting

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a forty three percent reduction for programs like public housing
and Section eight. The plan aims to give states more
control and proposes limiting rental assistance to two years for
able bodied adults, focusing support on the elderly and disabled.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition says about half of
project based Section eight residents are white and a third

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are black. The opening ceremony for the twenty twenty eight
Olympic Summer Games will be the first ever to be
held in dual venues. Black Mayor Karen Vass says the
opening ceremony will be shared between the state of the
art Sofi Stadium in Inglewood and the historic LA Memorial Coliseum.
Bass says LA will play host to the largest games

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in Olympic history, with three hundred and fifty one metal
events and fifteen thousand athletes.

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The U s.

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Government has reportedly granted refugee status to fifty four white
South Africans, and PR says the refugees are mainly descendants
of Dutch colonizers and are expected to arrive in the
US on Monday. It would be the first group of
Africaners to be resettled in the US after President Trump
signed an executive order back in February offering them possible

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humanitarian relief. The executive order says the US shall take
appropriate steps to resettle Africaners in South Africa who are
victims of unjust racial discrimination. Coming up, we'll have the
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I'm Terry McCready. The Black Information Network means Black News

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