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This since your twenty four to seven use update the
latest views this hour at just four minutes. The foreign
ministers of Britain, France, and Germany are a meeting with
Iranian diplomats in Geneva today, as the conflict between Israel
and Iran enters its second week. It began last Friday,
when Israel attacked Iran in an effort to keep it
from developing nuclear weapons. Iran claims its nuclear program is peaceful.

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President Trump said he'll aside within two weeks if the
US will enter the conflict. A heat dome is bringing
extreme heat and humidity to more than two hundred million Americans.
New York Governor Kathy Hochel says temperatures will intensify Sunday,
with feel like temperatures reaching up to or above one
hundred degrees through Thursday. I know New Yorkers are tough.
We like to think we're really tough, but this is

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not your run of the mill hot summer week. It's
truly not. Extreme Heat Watches, warnings, and advisories are already
in effect for parts of the Southwest, Rockies Plains, upper
Midwest and northeast Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota, and Iowa could
see new temperature records. On Friday, extreme humidity will hit
the Gulf Coast through western Minnesota. A federal judge is

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ordering the Trump administration to release Columbia University student Machmud
Khalil on bail. Khalil has been detained for three months
after the White House said he's an anti Semitic Hamas
supporter who should be deported. The judge previously ruled Khalil's
attention is not justified by a foreign policy law used
to detain him. He was the first of a number
of students that ended up being taken into custody over

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pro Palestinian protests. AFLAC is alerting customers about a major
security breach. The insurance company says hackers gained access to
its customer's personal information in a cybersecurity attack last week.
AFLAK says the hack attack is impacting other insurance companies
as well, and is offering its customers free credit monitoring
and identity Theft Protection Court is adjourned for the week.

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In the Shawan Diddycombe sex crime trial in New York,
a former personal assistant for Comes took the stand today
and spoke about the drugs he used to buy for Combs.
Federal prosecutors planned to rest their case on Monday, and
the judge says the trial could wrap before July fourth.
Ainly Se Taylor, Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his
wife are speaking out after they were targets of an

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alleged assassination attempt last weekend. They released a statement yesterday
detailing Saturday's early morning shooting at their home near Minneapolis.
They say the senator lunged at the gunman as the
weapon was pointed at him. The legislator was shot nine times.
His spouse, Yvette, tried to push the man and shut
the door, but was shot eight times. The Hoffmans added

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that they were heartbroken over the murders of state Representative
Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. The alleged shooter, Vance Belter,
was arrested and faces several charges, including murder, attempted murder,
and stalking. Experts are urging a wider use of weight
loss drugs. The American College of Cardiology says we should
use GLP one drugs earlier and not require patients to

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first try healthier lifestyle changes. In major trials, these drugs
have been shown to reduce cardiovascular events, improve heart failures symptoms,
and help manage fatty liver disease. But it's not as
easy as it sounds. There are barriers that include limited
insurance coverage, high out of pocket costs, and supply shortages.
Around sixteen billion passwords are reportedly compromised after one of

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the largest data breaches in history. According to cyber News,
logins to social media VPNs and user accounts for companies
like Apple and Google have been left exposed. The passwords
are often put up for sale on the dark web
and can be used for identity theft, fraud, and blackmail.
The Data Watchdog said it's been monitoring the exposed password
since the start of the year. Twenty eight Years Later

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is off to a good start at the box office.
There are many kinds of death, some better than office.
The third film in the zombie franchise made five point
eight million from Thursday previews, while Pixar's Ilio brought in
three million dollars last night. Twenty eight Years Later is
projected to make between twenty eight and thirty million dollars

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in its first weekend, while the latest Pixar movie is
expected to collect between twenty five and thirty million. I'le
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