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Speaker 1: This is your twenty four to seven use update the

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Speaker 1: latest views this hour.

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Speaker 2: In just four minutes, Artemis II is officially bound for

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Speaker 2: the Moon. A roughly six minute engine burn pushed O'Ryan

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Speaker 2: out of Earth orbit, committing the crew to a lunar trajectory.

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Speaker 2: Mission control calling it a good burn as the astronauts

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Speaker 2: pulled away from Earth. It's NASA's first crude mission toward

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Speaker 2: the Moon since nineteen seventy two, with three Americans and

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Speaker 2: one Canadian scheduled to fly by the lunar surface on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Attorney General Pam Bondi is out in another cabinet shakeup

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Speaker 2: for President Trump. In a truth social post, Trump announced

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Speaker 2: that Bondi will be leaving the administration and moving to

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Speaker 2: a private sector job. He prais Bondi, calling her a

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Speaker 2: great American patriot and a loyal friend, and saying she

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Speaker 2: did a tremendous job. In the meantime, her eventual replacement

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Speaker 2: may be well known to those in the Tri State.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan O'Halloran reports.

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Speaker 3: Former Long Island Congressman Lee Zelden is one of the

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Speaker 3: favorites to be pegged as the next Attorney j Uneral

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Speaker 3: that according to multiple reports. Zelden currently serves in the

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Speaker 3: President's cabinet as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Speaker 3: Zelden represented New York's First District from twenty fifteen to

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, and lost a close race for New

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Speaker 3: York governor in twenty twenty two to Democratic incumbent Kathy Hokel.

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Speaker 2: President Trump's plans for a White House ballroom have been

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Speaker 2: approved by the National Capital Planning Commission. It comes despite

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Speaker 2: a federal judge temporarily halting construction on the project while

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Speaker 2: a lawsuit plays out.

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Speaker 4: They don't get congressional approval, am though it has when

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Speaker 4: they do things in especially when you know we didn't

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Speaker 4: ask for any tax money. We have no taxes, as

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Speaker 4: tax payer free, we have no taxpayer putting up ten cents.

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Speaker 2: The Commission greenlit the plans in a vote today where

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Speaker 2: there was only one no vote and several president votes.

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Speaker 2: Army Chief of Staff Randy George is stepping down, taking

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Speaker 2: an immediate retirement. George took the role in September twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three, after most recently serving as the Army's Vice

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Speaker 2: chief of Staff. The role is normally a four year post. However,

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Speaker 2: hover he was reportedly asked by Secretary of War pte

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Speaker 2: Hexseth to retire immediately. I'm Lisa Carton. The Georgia House

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Speaker 2: has narrowly defeated a bill that aimed to protect Confederate monuments.

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Speaker 2: Scott Kimbler reports.

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Speaker 1: The proposed legislation would have allowed lawsuits over the removal

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Speaker 1: or damage of monuments and permitted groups like the Sons

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Speaker 1: of Confederate Veterans to continue displaying monuments after relocation. Valdosta

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Speaker 1: Daily Times reports lawmakers raise concerns about costly court battles

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Speaker 1: and delays if individuals or groups were given the right

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Speaker 1: issue over monuments. Supporters say history cannot be erased and

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Speaker 1: the monuments serve as a reminder not to repeat past mistakes.

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Speaker 1: I'm Scott Kimbler.

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Speaker 2: In California, the latest Sierra snowpack survey does not bode

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Speaker 2: well for the state's drought future. The California Department of

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Speaker 2: Water Resources says the April snowpack is at zero percent

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Speaker 2: of average. The survey, the final one of the year,

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Speaker 2: was conducted on Wednesday, April first, as traditionally the peak

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Speaker 2: of snow accumulation in the Sierra. This year, the US

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Speaker 2: amount of snow is the second lowest ever recorded. Official

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Speaker 2: say there was practically no measurable snow left. That's largely

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Speaker 2: because a lot of it already melted during last month's

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Speaker 2: unusual March heat wave and because of high elevation rainfall.

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Speaker 2: Hailee Steinfeld and Josh Allen are now proud parents of

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Speaker 2: a baby girl. The Sinner's actress and The Buffalo Bill's

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Speaker 2: star quarterback announced the arrival of their newborn in a

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Speaker 2: short message to her Beau Society newsletter on Thursday. They

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Speaker 2: did not reveal their daughter's name, but said they are

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Speaker 2: feeling incredibly grateful and blessed and savoring these early moments.

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Speaker 2: Steinfeld and Alan tied the knot in May of twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five after getting engaged in November twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Olivia Rodrigo is coming out with new music. The Grammy

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Speaker 2: winning artist announced her new album You Seem Pretty Sad

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Speaker 2: for a Girl So in Love on social media today.

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Speaker 2: The album marks Rodrigo's latest release since her twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: three album Guts. Her new work is described as a

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Speaker 2: collection of set love songs and marks a new era

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Speaker 2: for the singer. I'm Lisa Carton