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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven use update. The
latest use this hour at just four minutes.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Texas House Democrats have vowed to keep fighting Republican efforts
to redraw the state's congressional map. Governor Abbott issued civil
arrest warrants for lawmakers who fled Texas to deny the
chamber quorum. On Monday, over fifty Democrats traveled to Illinois,
New York, and Massachusetts to prevent the GOP from quickly
advancing the maps, aimed at adding up to five seats
ahead of the twenty twenty six midterms. At a press

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conference in Illinois, those who fled labeled the proposed map racist,
designed to dilute the voting power of black and Hispanic communities.
President Trump says he's hiking tariffs on India over Russian
oil purchases. In a post on truth Social Trump said
India is buying massive amounts of Russian oil, then turning
around and selling that oil on the open market for
big profits. Last week, Trump announced a twenty five percent

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tariffund goods imported from India. The Trump administration is changing
visa rules to keep transgender women from competing in elite
women's sports here in the US, immigration officials issued new
guidance at Block's extraordinary ability visas for athletes who are
biologically male but wish to compete in female sports. The
policy doesn't mention transgender women directly, but instead refers to

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male athletes who want to compete in women's sporting events.
Sean Diddy combs as being denied bail once again. The
entertainment mogul was denied bail for a second time on Monday,
with the order saying he failed to satisfy his burden
to demonstrate an entitlement to release. Holmes was convicted of
two counts of interstate prostitution, but acquitted of the more
serious federal charges against him last month. He's said to

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be sentenced on October the third. Tourists from certain countries
looking to come into the US could soon have to
pay as much as a fifteen thousand dollars bond in
order to get a visa, as according to multiple reports
citing a note sent to State Department employees on Monday,
visa applicants from countries with high over stay rates would
be required to pay a five thousand, ten thousand, or
fifteen thousand dollars bond, they'd get their money back if

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they leave the US within their visas given timespan. A
twelve month pilot program is expected to launch in two weeks.
I'm Tammy Triheo, a Trump administration envoy, is headed to
Russia for what the president is called the last chance
at Ukraine ceasefire talks. Mark Mayfield reports.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Steve Winkoff hens there as a ceasfire deadline that Trump'm
host on Russia expires on Friday. Trump has grown increasingly
frustrated with what he calls Vladimir Putin's inaction toward any
sort of ceasfire deal. The President has threatened Moscow with
tough tariffs if no deal is reached. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Another official in the Biden administration, is set to testify
Tuesday in the GOP probe of the ex president's mental
fitness while in office. Bruce Reid, the former Deputy chief
of Staff or Policy, previously agreed to do a closed
door interview, but it's unknown if he'll plead the fifth
and not answer questions. The probe has been focused on
Biden's mental decline in the use of an auto pen.

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Republicans say the autopen use may make some of Biden's
pardons void. Changers are coming for Social Security beneficiaries who
get paper checks. Matta Mattinson explains.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
The Social Security Administration announced that starting on September thirtieth,
it would no longer issue paper checks. Now, beneficiaries must
opt to have their benefit payments delivered electronically by direct deposit, or,
if they don't have a bank account, receive their benefit
payments on a prepaid debit card known as direct Express.
An agency spokesperson said the administration is proactively contacting beneficiaries

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to alert them about the change, and note that if
a beneficiary has no other means to receive payment, they'll
continue to send paper checks. I'm at Mattinson.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
The acting head of NASA's calling for a nuclear reactor
on the Moon. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent out a
directive saying it's imperative to get it done quickly. Duffy
says a nuclear reactor on the Moon would support a
future lunar economy and strengthen America's national security in space.
He says China and Rush our planning to put a
reactor on the Moon by the mid twenty thirties and

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they could declara keep out zone. He wants proposals from
commercial companies within sixty days. I'm Tammage for he O