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Speaker 1 (00:01):
BIA News this hour. I'm Terry McCready coming up. LA's
mayor is facing what could be a make or break
moment for her future in office. Resist that's the advice
Chicago's mayor is giving true residents. The VA zeroing in
on aid for unhoused veterans. But first, here's BIA News now.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
President Trump hosts the annual Congressional picnic today, but Senator
Ran Paul says he was uninvited. I think I'm the
first Senator in the history of United States to be
uninvited to the White House picnic. The White House is
owned by the taxpayers. We all are members of it all.
A critic of Trump's massive spending bill called the move
incredibly petty and says it's made him lose respect for
the President. Our Kelly's lawyers are asking President Trump to

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release him from prison, claiming officials plotted to have him
killed by a neo Nazi inmate. The singer's attorney say
Kelly's life is in danger and is seeking home detention
instead of his thirty year sentence. And Jewish groups are
pulling out of this year's San Diego Pride Festival in
California over safety concerns tied to headliner Kaelani's pro Palestinian views.
Eight organizations, including the Jewish Federation of San Diego, say

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her rhetoric as amplified anti semitism. PBI in News Now
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Here's Terry McCready.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
An overnight curfew remaining in place for an area in
downtown Los Angeles and right now is a critical moment
for the city's black mayor. Karen Bass is facing another
major crisis in the form of immigration protests on the
heels of deadly wildfires earlier this year.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I posit that maybe we are part of a national
experiment to determine how far the federal government can go
in reaching in and taking over power from a governor
power from a local jurisdiction.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Bass is running for reelection next year. She fell under
scrutiny over her wildfire response and her trip to Africa
as the city was burning. She's the only prominent name
running for her mayoral seat this early in the midterm cycle,
and experts say her management of the current crisis could
be the mayor's trajectory to reelection or create an opportunity
for challengers. Chicago's black mayor, Brandon Johnson, is urging residents

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to resist the Trump administration's immigration enforcement. The mayor said
it's necessary to fight, adding that descent matters in this moment.
Mayor's comments come as the city's bracing foreign influx of
federal agents to be deployed to the city for immigration raids.
The U s Department of Veterans Affairs is honing in
on homelessness and its impact on America's veterans to the

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tune of tens of millions of dollars in grant money.
VA officials say the availability of at least forty two
million in federal grants for eligible entities through the VA's
Legal Services Program seeks to address unhoused veterans and others
at risk of homelessness, and they'll do so in various
legal directions. Federal dollars will be earmarked for qualified grant

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recipients for veterans legal services, and that includes court representation
and landlord tenant disputes, aid with child support, court proceedings,
estate planning, and legal defense in criminal cases. A right
a black woman is suing the Walt Disney Company in
California over allegations that she was wrongfully fired from her
human resources job last year. Rachelle Brown says she complained

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about discrimination that she contends included Disney having a hiring
preference for Indian and Asian candidates while blacks were routinely
being laid off disproportionately. The lawsuit, filed in La Superior Court,
also alleges retaliation and failure to prevent discrimination. Brown is
seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, as well as an

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assessment of civil penalties. Hundreds of thousands of people in
Kenyan refugee camps are suffering from food insecurity and starving slowly.
That word from the United Nations after US funding cuts
slashed food rations to the lowest levels ever. The World
Food Program has drastically reduced its aid operations in many countries,

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and that's devastating since the US provided about seventy percent
of funding for the WFP's operations. In Kenya, the AGA
and He says refugees rations are down to thirty percent,
and that's the bare minimum of recommendations for an individual
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Terry McCready or the Black Information Network