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BIN News This Hour · BIN News This Hour

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  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour. I'm Terry McCready. Coming up, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump rallying voters in the Sunshine State. A prominent Michigan
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  Speaker 1: Democrat playing down disagreements and throwing her support behind Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 1: A judge rules on a new Medicaid work requirement. But first,
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  Speaker 1: here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Five Texas voters are facing federal election charges for allegedly
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  Speaker 2: voting illegally.
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  Speaker 1: U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Aaron Reid says all five are lawful permanent residents,
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  Speaker 2: but not U.S. citizens. All five of these individuals have
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  Speaker 2: been charged with illegal voting, lying on their immigration paperwork.
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  Speaker 2: They include a Nigerian man, a DACA recipient, and two
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  Speaker 2: immigrants who got their legal status under former President Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 2: Federal law prohibits non-citizens from voting. A judge is considering
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  Speaker 2: removing Black New York Attorney General Letitia James as special
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor in a Cornell University gang rape case. A defense
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  Speaker 2: attorney claims her social media posts supporting the alleged victim
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  Speaker 2: show bias. James says the posts reflect empathy. The judge
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  Speaker 2: has not yet ruled. And Black actor and comedian Tracy
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  Speaker 2: Morgan has been named Grand Marshal of Sunday's New York
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  Speaker 2: City Marathon. Morgan will help cheer on thousands of runners,
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  Speaker 2: including Tiki Barber, Jennifer Connelly, and Neve Shulman, as they
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  Speaker 2: tackle the 26.2-mile course. I'm Amber Payton with BIA News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Back to you, Terry.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump in Florida today, boosting Republican turnout ahead of
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  Speaker 1: the midterms. President rallying in Daytona Beach for GOP Senator
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Moody, who's running for re-election. against Black Democratic Socialist
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  Speaker 1: Angie Nixon.
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  Speaker 3: Ashley Moody actually used $ 10 million of our dollars that
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  Speaker 3: were supposed to go towards the most medically needy kids
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  Speaker 3: in our state to divert that funding and to defeat
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  Speaker 3: ballot initiatives that the citizens placed on the ballot. And
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  Speaker 3: so Ashley Moody doesn't care about anything but herself. We
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  Speaker 3: continue to see her net worth increase. Meanwhile, Floridians across
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  Speaker 3: our state, their net worth is going down exponentially.
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  Speaker 1: Nixon on CNN blasting her opponent. The president also something
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  Speaker 1: for Black GOP Congressman Byron Donalds, who's facing Democratic nominee
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  Speaker 1: David Jolly in the governor's race. Both contests are trending Republican,
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  Speaker 1: but the polls have tightened recently. Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens
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  Speaker 1: says she's still supporting her state's Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed,
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  Speaker 1: after her fiance announced he'd be backing GOP candidate Mike Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hear a form of MAGA bingo because
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  Speaker 1: the thing about MAGA is whenever they're talking, they are
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  Speaker 1: trying to distract you.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to use buzzwords.
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  Speaker 2: The bingo game ought to be how many times can
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  Speaker 2: he put the word Trump in any answer that he
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  Speaker 2: has given.
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  Speaker 1: El-Sayed and Rogers in their final debate for the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Senate race. Stephen's former campaign chair also is joining her
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  Speaker 1: fiancé in splitting from the Democratic ticket due to comments
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  Speaker 1: they deemed anti-Semitic. Stevens said, like a lot of households
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  Speaker 1: in America, we're a household divided. Stevens publicly backed El-Sayed
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  Speaker 1: in the race after he narrowly defeated her in Michigan's
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  Speaker 1: August Democratic primary. The BIN has continuous election coverage through
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  Speaker 1: post-election day, all from a Black perspective. And you won't
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  Speaker 1: want to miss Black America Votes, the 2026 midterms, on
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  Speaker 1: November 3rd at 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge ruling a new Medicaid work requirement is unlawful.
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  Speaker 1: Washington joining several states. In a lawsuit when the rule
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  Speaker 1: was announced back in June, the rule adopted a new
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  Speaker 1: interpretation of key terms like medically frail, making it harder
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  Speaker 1: for medically vulnerable individuals to be excused from the work requirements.
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  Speaker 1: The judge ruled the Trump administration's definition of medical frailty
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  Speaker 1: is contrary to law, vacated the language, issued a permanent injunction,
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  Speaker 1: and granted a six-month stay of enforcement. Sports commentator Stephen A.
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  Speaker 1: Smith says the New York Knicks don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: to the White House to celebrate their win at the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 NBA Finals. However, Smith added he doesn't know how
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  Speaker 1: much truth there is to it because he hasn't heard
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  Speaker 1: from the players directly. He said people were a little
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  Speaker 1: bit stressed because the owner, longtime Trump ally James Dolan,
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  Speaker 1: had an attitude with players who did not want to
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  Speaker 1: go to the White House. The Knicks have yet to comment,
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  Speaker 1: but no team that has won the NBA Finals has
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  Speaker 1: visited the White House during either of Trump's terms. Stay informed,
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  Speaker 1: stay connected, and subscribe. Follow BIN News this hour wherever
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  Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. I'm Terry McCready for the Black
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  Speaker 1: Information Network.