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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast. Hi, I'm Tully Blackman

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Speaker 1: from Mamma MIA's twice daily news podcast Quickie with Your

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Speaker 1: Headlines for Friday, December five. Australia is facing dangerous heat

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Speaker 1: and fire conditions as a broad heat wave spreads across

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Speaker 1: the country. Temperatures are expected to climb more than ten

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Speaker 1: degrees above average in southern states, while parts of the

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Speaker 1: northern Outback will endure days of above forty degrees celsius.

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Speaker 1: Authorities have issued extreme heat and fire warnings, with around

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Speaker 1: forty bush and grass fires burning in New South Wales alone.

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Speaker 1: A grass fire near Bulladulla has closed the Pacific Highway

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Speaker 1: in both directions, while fires in Victoria and Tasmania remain

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Speaker 1: at watch and Act levels. Meteorologists say this heat wave

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Speaker 1: may mark the beginning of what could become one of

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Speaker 1: Australia's hottest summers on record, with high overnight temperatures any

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Speaker 1: real Relief officials are urging everyone to stay cool, check

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Speaker 1: on vulnerable neighbors, and keep pets shaded and well hydrated.

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Speaker 1: The FBI has arrested a Virginia man, thirty year old

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Speaker 1: Brian Cole Junior, charging him with planting two pipe bombs

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Speaker 1: near the US capital the night before the January sixth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one attack. Coal faces charges of an explosive

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Speaker 1: device and attempted malicious destruction charges. Police deactivated the bombs

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Speaker 1: on January sixth, as riders stormed the capital, assaulting officers

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Speaker 1: and causing millions in damage. Coal reportedly purchased bomb components

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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty while living with his parents.

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Speaker 1: The FBI reopened the case with a fresh team, new

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Speaker 1: evidence and surveillance footage after earlier tips and a five

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars reward failed to identify a suspect. Authorities

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Speaker 1: have not revealed Cole's motive or what new evidence led

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Speaker 1: to the arrest nearly five years after the attack. A

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Speaker 1: Toney General, Pam Bondi, said the investigation is ongoing and

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Speaker 1: additional charges may be filed. Israel has been cleared to

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Speaker 1: participate in the twenty twenty six Eurovision Song contest, prompting Spain,

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Speaker 1: the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia to withdraw in protest over

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Speaker 1: the Gaza conflict. The European Broadcasting Union, which runs Eurovision,

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Speaker 1: decided not to vote on Israel's entry after a meeting

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Speaker 1: in Geneva, instead passing new laws aimed at preventing governments

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Speaker 1: from influencing the contest. Following the announcement, Dutch, Spanish, Irish

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Speaker 1: and Slovenian broadcasters confirmed they would not send singers, citing

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Speaker 1: civilian deaths in Gaza and accusing Israel of violating rules

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Speaker 1: designed to keep the contest neutral. Israel's president, Isaac Hertzog,

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Speaker 1: welcomed to the decision, saying he hopes Eurovision will continue

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Speaker 1: to promote music culture and international friendship. Actress Halle Berry

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Speaker 1: has spoken out on women's health, collin on everyone to

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Speaker 1: fight for better menopause care and criticizing California Governor Gavin

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Speaker 1: Newsom for rejecting related legislation. Barry, an advocate for menopause

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Speaker 1: awareness and founder of menopause focused company Respin, spoke on

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Speaker 1: Wednesday at the New York Times deal Book Summit. She

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Speaker 1: congratulated Illinois for mandating hormone replacement therapy coverage, then criticized

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Speaker 1: Newsome for vetoing California's AB four three two bill two

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Speaker 1: years in a row. The legislation would have expanded insurance

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Speaker 1: coverage for menopausal care and offered incentives for doctors trained

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Speaker 1: in menopause treatment. Newsom's office said he vetoed the bill

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Speaker 1: to avoid raising health care costs for millions of working families,

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Speaker 1: but expressed support for Barry's advocacy and a willingness to

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Speaker 1: work together on the issue. Barry urged women to be bold,

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Speaker 1: be loud, and fight for health rights, emphasizing that women

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Speaker 1: deserve better care during midlife and beyond. Pantone's twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Color of the Year has the Internet in shock,

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Speaker 1: not because it's neon, not because it's bold, but because

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Speaker 1: most people wouldn't even call it a color at all.

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Speaker 1: It's white. Well, it's the Pantone eleven four to two

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Speaker 1: zero one Cloud Dancer, to be exact, a soft, airy white,

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Speaker 1: which was chosen Pantone says because the world feels exhausted

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Speaker 1: and needs calm. Online reactions were immediate and intense, many

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Speaker 1: calling the pick dystopian, pretentious, or reminiscent of the Sydney

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Speaker 1: Sweeney genes. Add backlash, critics argue the symbolism feels fraught,

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Speaker 1: especially amid heated US immigration debates. Flash and critic Vanessa

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Speaker 1: Friedman noted that white now carries unavoidable political associations, while

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Speaker 1: writer Alex Vidukul emphasized its long history as a symbol

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Speaker 1: of wealth, vanity. Fair joke that the announcement reads like

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Speaker 1: a parody, and others say that after a year of

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Speaker 1: clashes over diversity initiatives, declaring white the color of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six feels out of touch. That's your latest news headlines.

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Speaker 1: On Monday's episode of The Quikie, Taylor Strano has a

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Speaker 1: conversation with Gold Logi winner Tom Gleeson, who's putting some

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Speaker 1: of Australian TV's most recognizable names through their paces, and

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Speaker 1: a special edition of Hard Quiz Battle of the Networks.

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