Tom Brady Reveals New Dog Is A Clone Of His Late Pet

Public hospitals are under mounting pressure as demand for mental health care surges; The newly elected Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has appointed an all-women transition team to guide his move into City Hall; Nick Kyrgios is eyeing a shock return to the Australian Open in January; Tom Brady has revealed that his pit bull, Junie, is actually a clone of his family’s previous dog.

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You're listening to a Muma Mea podcast. Hi I'm Tali
Blackman from Mom and Me as twice daily news podcast
The Quickie with your Headlines for Thursday November six. Public
hospitals are under mounting pressure as demand for mental health
care surges, with patients waiting an average of seven hours

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in emergency departments. The Australian Medical Association's annual report warns
that long waits in bright, noisy environments can worsen patient symptoms.
AMA president Danielle McMullan says chronic under resourcing is pushing
hospitals to the breaking point, with violence against staff increasing.
Australia now has just twenty seven specialized mental health beds

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per one hundred thousand people, the lowest rate ever recorded,
while emergency department presentations have climbed sixty seven percent in
the last twenty years. Doctor McMullan is calling for greater
investment in general practice, psychiatry and community care to relieve
hospital pressure. Contact Lifeline on thirteen eleven fourteen or Beyond

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Blue on one three hundred double two four six three
six if you're someone needing support. The newly elected Mayor
of New York cities or around. Mamdani has appointed an
all women transition team featuring former city and federal officials
to guide his move into City Hall. Mamdani spoke at
a press conference today, vowing to work every day to

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honor the trust that he now holds, promising an administration
that is both compassionate and capable. Political strategist Alana Leopold
will serve as executive director of the transition, joined by
United Way of New York City President Grace Banilla, former
Deputy Mayor Melanie Hartzog, former Federal Trade Commissioner Chair Lena Kahan,

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and former First Deputy Mayor Maria Torres Springer. The thirty
four year old Democratic Socialist defeated Andrew Kuamo and Curtis
Sleewer to become the city's younger mayor in over a century.
Mom Danni says his team will focus on delivering campaign promises,
including free childcare, free bus service, and expanded community safety programs.

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Nick Kurios has announced he's feeling a new lease on
life and is eyeing a shock return to the Australian
Open in January. In his first interview since announcing a
Battle of the Sexes match against world number one Arena Sabelenka.
The thirty year old revealed what he called a miracle
recovery from a long term knee injury that once threatened

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to end his career. After years of pain and multiple surgeries,
Kurios says his knee is no longer swelling and he's
finally able to train freely again. He'll test his fitness
in a string of exhibition matches next month against Ben Shelton,
Tommy Paul, and Sabolenka. Tom Brady has revealed that his pitbull, Juni,

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is actually a clone of his family's previous dog, Luna.
The former NFL star said he worked with Colossal Biosciences,
a company known for its de extinction projects, to clone
Lunar using a non invasive blood draw before she passed away.
Colossal claims to have used similar cloning techniques to reproduce
ancient dire wolves, though experts have questioned whether those animals

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are true revivals or simply modified gray wolves. Cloning a
pets reportedly costs around fifty thousand dollars, and while the
science raises ethical questions, Brady says he's hopeful the technology
could also help preserve endangered species, and that's your evening
news headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie, we unpack

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what the New York City mayor or race tells us
about the state of US politics, and we have an
entertainment wrap up to end your week. Listen to The
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