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7.21.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: July twenty first, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, Radio
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Speaker 1: read printed material. Your reader for today is Cindy Fraser.
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Speaker 1: To day's front page headlines for The Washington Post are
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Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty focus falls flat of GOP each pushed
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Speaker 1: old fraud planes, but many have moved on to mid terms.
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Speaker 1: The next headline uptick in U S troop injuries, US
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Speaker 1: Iran continue trading strikes Boutie's the Claire blockade of Red
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Speaker 1: Sea oil route. Next, Shrinking student pools put public schools
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Speaker 1: at risk. Closures have reasoned nationally each of the past
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Speaker 1: four years. The next headline on boiling DC strip canopy
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Speaker 1: plan offers relief. Next, the nineteen ninety four World Cup
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Speaker 1: changed US soccer, will this year's have a lasting impact?
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Speaker 1: And the final headline from today's front page old fid
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Speaker 1: gets renewed scrutiny in Arizona race, religious sept local police
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Speaker 1: force at heart of decade old issue. In addition to
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Speaker 1: those headlines, there is a photo on the front page,
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Speaker 1: which is titled a New Face on Downing Street and
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Speaker 1: captioned Andy Burnham, who became Britain's Prime Minister on Monday,
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Speaker 1: delivers a speech outside ten Downing Street in London. Burnham
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Speaker 1: is Britain's sixth Prime minister in a decade and takes
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Speaker 1: charge of the Labor government that won power in a
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Speaker 1: landslide two years ago but quickly lost the country's confidence.
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Speaker 1: Now let's turn to our first item entitled Trump's twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty focus falls flat with GOP speech pushed old shrod
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Speaker 1: claims the many have moved on in the mid terms by
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Speaker 1: Natalie Allison. For weeks, President Donald Trump had privately floated
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Speaker 1: the idea of delivering a televised address to detailed claims
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Speaker 1: of foreign interference and purported election fraud quote shocking new discoveries,
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Speaker 1: He'd go on to say that had been covered up
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Speaker 1: by the so called deep stay and should be a
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Speaker 1: central focus of elected officials. Advisers initially steered him away
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Speaker 1: from the idea for a prime time address, but it
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Speaker 1: was quickly resurrected. Dozens of Cabinet members and close aids
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Speaker 1: gathered to watch his speech in the East Room on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: dutifully standing and applauding when he finished. The next morning,
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Speaker 1: trub bragged about the quote great reviews and quote big
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Speaker 1: audience for the address. But outside of the President's list
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Speaker 1: of frequently dialed contacts and the clips assembled a White
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Speaker 1: House aligned influencers praising the speech, the prime time address
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Speaker 1: failed to galvanize conservatives, with some publicly questioning his focus
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Speaker 1: on twenty twenty. As the midterms approach, Republicans fighting to
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Speaker 1: maintain congressional control this fall largely sidestepped the message. By
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Speaker 1: the weekend, the White House aligned commentators and members of
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Speaker 1: Congress who had pushed the Trump team's talking points about
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Speaker 1: the speech had seemingly moved on. The muted response underscored
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Speaker 1: a broader political reality. Many Republicans facing voters this fall
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Speaker 1: have shown little interest in making Trump's renewed focus on
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election central to their campaigns as a
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Speaker 1: head into a midterm complicated by the president's week standing
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Speaker 1: with independent voters. As Trump's favorite cable news network, Fox
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Speaker 1: News largely ignored the address Friday morning. Former Republican National
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Speaker 1: Committee Chair Michael Watley, the Trump endorse GOP nominee for
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Speaker 1: Senate in battleground North Carolina, held a thirty four minute
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Speaker 1: campaign event largely focused on public safety. We're going to
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Speaker 1: talk about the economy and what I'm going to do
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Speaker 1: to make sure everybody makes more and keeps more. We're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about our military and our national security,
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Speaker 1: Lotley said, But the number one issue that we want
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Speaker 1: to talk about in this election cycle, that we need
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Speaker 1: to talk about in this election cycle is keeping our
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Speaker 1: kids and our communities safe. Asked by a reporter afterward
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Speaker 1: about Trump's latest messaging, Whatley, who has previously boosted some
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Speaker 1: of Trump's twenty twenty election fraud claims, said he is
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Speaker 1: a big proponent of election integrity and of the Signature
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Speaker 1: election legislation Trump has pressed Congress to pass. Whatley predicted
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Speaker 1: that his race will be decided within a percentage point,
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Speaker 1: though he has consistently trailed former Democratic Governor Roy Cooper
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Speaker 1: in polling by much more than that. He is fighting
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Speaker 1: to succeed retiring Senator Tom tillis a moderate Republican who
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Speaker 1: has had a turbulent relationship with Trump and regularly the
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Speaker 1: asserts his independence from the president. The quote clear and
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Speaker 1: simple explanation for why most Republican candidates aren't primaring to
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Speaker 1: talk about the twenty twenty election, is that voters are
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Speaker 1: focused elsewhere, said Paul Shoemaker, a vegable Republican strategist and
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Speaker 1: longtime political advisor, to tell us who decline to comment
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Speaker 1: directly on Trump's speech, If candidates are not talking about
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Speaker 1: the economy, if candidates are not talking about affordability, if
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Speaker 1: they're not talking about how they're going to make people's
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Speaker 1: lives at home cheaper and less expensive, then they're not
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Speaker 1: talking about the issues that voters care about, he said.
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Speaker 1: Democrats seized on the address, which Trump promised as revealing
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Speaker 1: quote really big news, to accuse the president of laying
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Speaker 1: the groundwork to challenge election results if Republicans lose this hall.
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Speaker 1: Some of Trump's own hard right allies meanwhile, complained the
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Speaker 1: speech amounted to little more than rhetoric, lacking a concrete plan,
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Speaker 1: told anyone accountable for the purported fraud. Trump had initially
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Speaker 1: wanted to give the televised address a few weeks earlier
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Speaker 1: in late June, according to two people with knowledge of
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Speaker 1: White House deliberations about the speech, but advisers managed to
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Speaker 1: put it off as an alternative idea and to avoid
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Speaker 1: a primetime address. The president's team also mulled the idea
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Speaker 1: of presenting the declassified information to reporters during a White
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Speaker 1: House briefing to be held soon after Press Secretary Caroline
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Speaker 1: Kavitt returned to work last month. Ultimately, Trump got his way.
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Speaker 1: Bracings with Trump on the new material continued into last week.
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Speaker 1: Administration officials, in consultation with some outside Trump allies, re
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Speaker 1: examined old FBI files and other records dating back to
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Speaker 1: the first Trump administration, but the documents later posted to
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Speaker 1: the White House website largely reflected information that was publicly
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Speaker 1: known and still did not prove foreign countries had high
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Speaker 1: project votes or that election officials in the United States
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Speaker 1: conspired to rate the twenty twenty election against Trump. Matthew Bartlett,
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Speaker 1: who served as State Department appointee on Trump's first term
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Speaker 1: and is now a Republican public affairs strategist, described Trump's
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Speaker 1: Thursday speech as a mess and said the lack of
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Speaker 1: new evidence undercut Trump's broader effort to pressure Republicans into
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Speaker 1: passing the Save America Act, which he has oddly weaponized
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Speaker 1: against his own party. He said many Republicans seemed to
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Speaker 1: be thankful Trump's message didn't successfully break through the pervasive sentiment. Afterward,
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Speaker 1: Bartlett said, seems to be if the president makes outrageous
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Speaker 1: claims about an election and no one is listening, did
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Speaker 1: it even happen. Two Republicans opposed to Trump's Save America Act,
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Speaker 1: Tillis and Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska, indicated in
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Speaker 1: interviews afterward that Trump's speech did not change our position.
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Speaker 1: Senate Republican leadership has long maintained the legislation does not
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Speaker 1: have the votes to pass, but Trump has continued to
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Speaker 1: land ask senators for not doing so. Senator John Cornyn,
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Speaker 1: Republican from Texas, a co sponsor of the same America
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Speaker 1: Act who was retiring after losing his primary election this
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Speaker 1: spring to a Trump back challenger, was similarly dismissive. There
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Speaker 1: wasn't a whole lot new in Trump's speech, he said
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Speaker 1: Friday at the Aspen Security Forum. Foreign adversaries have long
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Speaker 1: tried to quote so discord and influence American elections, Cornyn said,
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Speaker 1: but the bottom line is none of this would have
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Speaker 1: changed the outcome. We have one hundred nine days until
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Speaker 1: the midterm elections and I don't understand talking about what
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Speaker 1: happened six years ago in light of these upcoming elections.
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Speaker 1: Cornyn said the speech also fell short with Trump's hard
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Speaker 1: right supporters, who wanted a more aggressive person. Former Trump
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Speaker 1: advisor Stephen K. Bannon, who hosts the popular MAGO War
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Speaker 1: Room Show, said the president's focus on passing his election
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Speaker 1: bill is no longer enough, arguing the legislation could not
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Speaker 1: take effect before the midterms even if Congress passed it immediately.
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Speaker 1: He said arrest should be made in connection with the
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Speaker 1: cover up of alleged election fraud in twenty twenty, and
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Speaker 1: that Trump should issue a national security emergency executive order.
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Speaker 1: It's too late for the Save America Act, Ben said Friday.
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Speaker 1: After Homeland Security Secretary Mark wage Mullen gave a news
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Speaker 1: conference Friday following up on Trump's claims from his speech
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Speaker 1: about large numbers of illegal immigrants on voter rolls. Bannon
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Speaker 1: told his listeners that he was decidedly unimpressed and didn't
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Speaker 1: hear any sense of urgency or any real action plan.
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Speaker 1: Prominent right wing ally Laura Lumer questioned on social media
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Speaker 1: as Trump spoke whether any of the information he was
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Speaker 1: sharing was new The White House did not respond to
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Speaker 1: a request for comment. Americans continue to give Trump's largely
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Speaker 1: negative reviews on his job performance, as I have for months,
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Speaker 1: according to our recent Washington Post ifso's poll. Trump's renewed
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Speaker 1: focus on his twenty twenty election loss comes as Poles
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Speaker 1: continue to register voter's frustration with his handling of the
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Speaker 1: economy and the Iran war, and while Republicans are not
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Speaker 1: losing by a wide margin on a hypothetical mid term ballot.
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Speaker 1: Despite Trump's deep unpopularity, Republican voters currently aren't as energized
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Speaker 1: to turn up at the polls. The survey town Republicans
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Speaker 1: are ten points more likely to be certain to vote
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Speaker 1: this year than Republicans compared with their two point edge
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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. Beside of his accompanied by photos, the
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Speaker 1: person's caption A person enters a voting booth at a
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Speaker 1: polling station in Colebrook, New Hampshire, on election day in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Joseph Pezzioso AFP Getty Images. The next photo
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Speaker 1: is captioned North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Michael Watley speaks
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Speaker 1: in March. Watley didn't mention the president's latest election front
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Speaker 1: campaign in a rally over the weekend, Eric sardusco ap
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Speaker 1: in the final FOTTL accompanying this item is captioned Senator
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Speaker 1: John Cornyn, Republican from Texas, said the speech did not
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Speaker 1: contain much new information how they deal deady images. The
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Speaker 1: next home from today's front page is entitled uptick in
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Speaker 1: US troop injuries US Iran continued training strikes whuch's the
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Speaker 1: Claire Blockade of Red Sea oil route by Dan the Mouth,
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Speaker 1: Joshua Yang and Mary Ilushina. The Pentagon said Monday that
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Speaker 1: nearly one hundred US troops had been injured in the
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Speaker 1: war with Iran over the last two weeks, underscoring the
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Speaker 1: significance of Tehran's strikes on US military installations across the
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Speaker 1: region since negotiations to end the conflict collapsed. The disclosure
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Speaker 1: came as a US military identified two US soldiers who
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Speaker 1: were killed in a fatal attack on Friday night, and
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Speaker 1: after the Trump administration for days declined to detail how
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Speaker 1: many US service members have been injured recently. Sean Parnell,
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Speaker 1: a Pentagon spokesman, said on social media that nearly one
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Speaker 1: hundred service members would deem to have some degree of
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Speaker 1: injury since July seventh, with ninety six percent of those
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Speaker 1: since returning to duty. They are determined to get back
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Speaker 1: in the five Parnal said. Of the affected service members,
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of injuries experienced were minor concussions. Parnell
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Speaker 1: said further updates would be posted to an online Pentagon
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Speaker 1: database that was stagnant for days, if not weeks, showing
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Speaker 1: fourteen troops dead and four hundred and twenty seven troops
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Speaker 1: injured since the beginning of the war on February twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: On Monday evening, those figures were briefly updated to reflect
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Speaker 1: that eighteen service members have died and four hundred forty
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Speaker 1: seven have been injured since the beginning of the war
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Speaker 1: on February twenty eight. The new tally of those killed
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Speaker 1: in action included a Friday night attack that left three
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Speaker 1: troops dead, one still unidentified, and others wounded at the
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Speaker 1: Maiuwatha itself the air base in Jordan, but with no
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Speaker 1: explanation from the Pentagon. The database later reverted Monday night
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Speaker 1: to the earlier numbers. If the figure Parnell disclosed on
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Speaker 1: Monday is accurate, the number of service members injured in
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Speaker 1: the conflict since February could easily exceed five hundred. Aroan
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Speaker 1: has launched several significant attacks on US military installations in
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Speaker 1: Jordan in recent days, the US officials said, speaking on
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Speaker 1: the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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Speaker 1: The death of another service member in Iraq on Saturday
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Speaker 1: brought the number of American troops killed to eighteen. Among
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Speaker 1: the ladies arraigning attacks strikes Monday on US military sites
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Speaker 1: hosted by Kuwait and Bahrain, according to a statement by
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Speaker 1: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps publicized by Iranian state media.
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Speaker 1: The IRGC, Iran's paramilitary force said it targeted multiple U
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Speaker 1: S military facilities at Kuwait's Ali Al Salem air Base.
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Speaker 1: Iran also planned to strike US drone installations at Bahrain
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Speaker 1: Salmanport and Sekir Air Base, along with American assets at
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Speaker 1: Kuwait Camp Eruvshan. According to the semi official Tasman News agency,
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Speaker 1: which is associated with the IRGC, Bahrain's defense forces confirmed
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Speaker 1: they had intercepted multiple rounds of aerial attacks Monday. Nesson
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Speaker 1: as item is a map titled Iranian strikes on Bahrain
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Speaker 1: and Kuwait July twentieth. The map shows the locations of
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Speaker 1: the strikes in those countries. Some military officials and experts
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Speaker 1: have the express concern over the lack of protection and
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Speaker 1: US installations in the Middle East. One military official familiar
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Speaker 1: with the matter said that since the beginning of military
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Speaker 1: operations on February twenty eighth, AARON has launched approximately eight thousand,
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Speaker 1: five hundred drones and missiles at targets across the region,
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Speaker 1: agus approximately one hundred have gotten through US and regional
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Speaker 1: partner air defense systems. The officials spoke on the condition
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Speaker 1: of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. The deceased soldiers in
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Speaker 1: the Jordan attack identified on Monday our first Lieutenant Tyler
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Speaker 1: James Fan, twenty five of EBCHWII and Private Developed Gonzales,
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Speaker 1: nineteen of Carrollton, Texas. According to a Pentagon statement, Gonzales
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Speaker 1: died the night of the strike. Othion died the following
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Speaker 1: day from injuries suffered in the same attack. The Pentagon
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Speaker 1: said Fan served with the thirty second Army Air Missile
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Speaker 1: Defense Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, while Gonzales was
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Speaker 1: assigned to the tenth Army Air Missile Defense Command. In Anstock, Germany.
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Speaker 1: The US military launched another way of a retaliatory strikes
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Speaker 1: against Ran on Monday evening, marking the tenth consecutive day
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Speaker 1: with similar US action. The strikes were launched at President
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's direction and are designed to further degrade Irraignian
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Speaker 1: military capabilities used to attack commercial's shipping in the Strait
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz. According to a statement from US Central Command,
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Speaker 1: which oversees operations in the region. Trump said Sunday that
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Speaker 1: the U s strikes on Iran that night were in
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Speaker 1: retribution for the Satle Iranian attack in Jordan. Trump called
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Speaker 1: the deaths a very sad thing. Separately, Young's Arraignian BacT,
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Speaker 1: which he rebels, announced Monday a blockade on Saudi Arabia's
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Speaker 1: oil ships through the Red Seas bob A Nundeb strait,
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Speaker 1: closing off one of the golf's few vital alternatives to
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Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz for exporting oil. If the Hutis
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Speaker 1: were to successfully block the Red Sea route, that would
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Speaker 1: reduce global oil supply by seven percent at a time
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Speaker 1: when the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has already
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Speaker 1: halted ten percent of global oil shipments. Before this ride
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Speaker 1: to the past two weeks, the US Ran ceasefire briefly
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Speaker 1: energized hopes that the Strait of Hormus would be reopened
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Speaker 1: for ship traffic. Recent days have instead threatened to enlarge
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Speaker 1: the conflict and further drive up oil prices. The IRGC
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Speaker 1: said Monday that two oil tankers had exploded and were
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Speaker 1: left disabled after attempting to take a route through the
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Speaker 1: strait that Iran considers to be unauthorized. It was unclear
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Speaker 1: whether the reference was to a similar plane over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: The average price of gas in the United States did
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Speaker 1: four dollars a gallon Monday, the second time has reached
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Speaker 1: that mark since the war disrupted global oil supplies. According
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Speaker 1: to Triple A Data, gas prices last reached that price
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Speaker 1: on March thirty, first month into the war. The price
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Speaker 1: of oil also briefly rose above ninety dollars a barrel
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Speaker 1: on Monday for the first time since June, even as
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Speaker 1: both sides continued to trade strikes. Mediators reached out to
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Speaker 1: Tehran with an offer for a ten days use fire,
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Speaker 1: a waiting Foreign Ministry spokesman Zmaeo Baki confirmed in a
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Speaker 1: news conference in Tehran on Monday that messages from Washington
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Speaker 1: had reached Tehran true Qatari intermediaries. The diplomatic apparatus had
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Speaker 1: been acted in recent days and ideas have been conveyed
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Speaker 1: to US by certain mediators, Bayi said, according to Audennes
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Speaker 1: Franz Press, but declined to go into the details of
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Speaker 1: the ceasfire offer. Bak englynned Washington for the recent escalation,
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Speaker 1: adding that Iran held no hostility toward regional states, but
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Speaker 1: expected them to prevent their territory from being used for
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Speaker 1: at tax against it. The US always remains open to
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Speaker 1: a diplomatic solution. Secretary of State Mark Rubio tot reporters
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Speaker 1: earlier on Sunday, but he added it's growing apparent that
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Speaker 1: even within their own system, there's a growing split. Tera
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Speaker 1: Popp contributed to this report. This item is accompanied by
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Speaker 1: photos captioned Private Isabella Gonzales nineteen and First Lieutenant Tyler
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Speaker 1: James Fann twenty five, were killed in an Iranian attack
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Speaker 1: on a military base in Jordan. U S Army AFP
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Speaker 1: getting images US Army Space and Missile Defense Command. The
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Speaker 1: photos appeared to be official headshots of the two killed soldiers,
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Speaker 1: and they sat in from today's front page is entitled
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Speaker 1: Shrinking student pools put public schools at risk. Closures have
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Speaker 1: risen nationally each of the past four years. By Todd Wallack,
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Speaker 1: school closures have spiked thirty five percent across the country
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Speaker 1: over the past four years, propelled by a shrinking youth
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Speaker 1: population and the end of COVID nineteen relief funds that
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Speaker 1: had propped up education funding in some places for the
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Speaker 1: fourth yater row. The number of school closures rose nationally
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Speaker 1: last year. According to data from the National Center for
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Speaker 1: Education Statistics released last week. Districts closed more than one
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Speaker 1: thousand schools in twenty twenty five through twenty six, compared
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Speaker 1: with seven hundred and fifty five in twenty twenty one
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Speaker 1: through twenty two, and more closures are planned, including districts
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Speaker 1: in Houston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Broward County in Florida. We
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Speaker 1: call it the Big shrink, said Marguerite Rosa, who tracks
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Speaker 1: school funding as director of Georgetown University's at dounomics lab.
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Speaker 1: Enrollment at public schools is declining, partly because there are
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Speaker 1: fewer kids in the US. Public school closures temporarily slow
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Speaker 1: during the pandemic, as administrators focused on dealing with a
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Speaker 1: fallout from COVID and tapped relief funds to balance their budgets,
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Speaker 1: but now that the funds have run out, experts said
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Speaker 1: strators often must close schools to deal with reduced enrollment,
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Speaker 1: which in turn reduces the amount of money they received
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Speaker 1: from states. This in this item is a titled school
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Speaker 1: closures have risen since twenty twenty one through twenty two.
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Speaker 1: Number of public elementary and secondary schools in the US
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Speaker 1: that have closed each year. The graph shows over eleven
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Speaker 1: hundred schools closed in the eighteen through nineteen and nineteen
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Speaker 1: through twenty school years, going to a low of seven
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five schools closed in the twenty one
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Speaker 1: through twenty two school year, steadily increasing to one thy
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Speaker 1: eleven closures in twenty four through twenty five and one
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Speaker 1: thy nineteen closures in twenty five through twenty six. Exclude
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Speaker 1: schools in US territories, overseas, military schools, those focused on
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Speaker 1: adult education, and schools that were listed in the prior
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Speaker 1: year as an active close or planned for the future.
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five through twenty six. Data is prelimit source
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Speaker 1: National Center for Education Statistics, Nationally federal projections indicate public
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Speaker 1: school enrollment has already started to decline from its peak
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen and will continue to do so in
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Speaker 1: the coming years. From twenty nineteen through twenty thirty one,
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Speaker 1: schools were projected to lose nearly four million students, and
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Speaker 1: those estimates were made before the Trump administration made changes
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Speaker 1: to sharply curb immigration, further reducing the number of kids
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Speaker 1: at some schools. Some districts are also coping with populationships
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Speaker 1: as families moved to the suburbs or other parts of
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Speaker 1: the country. In addition, Rosa noted that families in some
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Speaker 1: parts of the country, such as Florida, have enrolled their
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Speaker 1: children in private schools, taking advantage of taxpayer funded vouchers
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Speaker 1: and scholarship programs offered in a growing number of states,
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Speaker 1: or charter schools, which are publicly funded but generally operate
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Speaker 1: with some degree of autonomy that means more closures, sometimes
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Speaker 1: year after year. School administrators acknowledge that moves can be
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Speaker 1: hard on students, families, and neighborhoods. It's very difficult, said
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Superintendent Tony B. Ratlington. Senior public schools have always
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Speaker 1: been anchors of communities. The Philadelphia district said schools have
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Speaker 1: seventy thousand more seats than are needed because of enrollment declines,
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Speaker 1: and many of its aging school buildings need repairs. In May,
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Speaker 1: Philadelphia school board voted to close seventeen schools, rejecting a
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Speaker 1: recommendation to cut even more students. Teachers and others rallied
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Speaker 1: before the meeting to try to stop the closures to
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Speaker 1: ease the burden on families. Wedlington said Philadelphia decided to
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Speaker 1: gradually close campuses over the next decade to give students
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Speaker 1: time to graduate from their current schools. The district also
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Speaker 1: created a transition office to help them families affected by
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Speaker 1: the changes. We know how hard and how difficult this
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Speaker 1: is for our families, he said. Wyllington said the district
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Speaker 1: hopes to attract more students from other local schools by
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Speaker 1: improving its academic performance and modernizing one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: nine remaining buildings. In Florida, Broward County Public Schools north
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Speaker 1: of Miami closed one elementary school last year. The school
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Speaker 1: district voted in January to close six more ahead of
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth through twenty seven school year, and
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Speaker 1: plans to identify additional schools to close or repurpose in
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Speaker 1: the future. In May, the superintendent said he didn't want
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Speaker 1: to scare the public, but thought the district might have
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Speaker 1: to close more than ten additional schools in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: seven through twenty eight. The school district said it considered
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Speaker 1: factors including declining enrollment and the operating costs for the
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Speaker 1: buildings when deciding which facilities to shutter. The Houston Pennant
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Speaker 1: School District's Board of Managers decided in February to move
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Speaker 1: forward with a plan to close a dozen schools despite
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Speaker 1: protests from parents and community members, and Pittsburgh Public Schools
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Speaker 1: voted in May to close twelve schools. Researchers said they
25:16
Speaker 1: expected more school closures in coming years because of declining enrollment.
25:21
Speaker 1: The Hokusgudas, an economist who had studied declining school enrollment
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Speaker 1: and school closures, said it is hard to make precise
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Speaker 1: predictions because of changing immigration patterns and other issues. Nests
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Speaker 1: in the atom is a graph entitled enrollment peaked in
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. US enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools
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Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety. In nineteen ninety, enrollment was forty one
25:45
Speaker 1: point two million students, which steadily increased to forty nine
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Speaker 1: point three million students in two thousand and six, had
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Speaker 1: relatively studied to forty nine point five million students in
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven, increased again to fifty four eight million students
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Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, succlined to forty seven point six million
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Speaker 1: students twenty twenty six. Predictions are for forty six quite
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Speaker 1: nine million students in twenty thirty one. Figures are projections
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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty two to twenty thirty one source National
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Speaker 1: Center for Education Statistics. One notable factor, he said, is
26:21
Speaker 1: that some students appear to have disappeared from school data
26:24
Speaker 1: in recent years, perhaps due to increases in homeschooling or
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Speaker 1: private micro schools that are not fully tracked by the government.
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Speaker 1: The unaccounted for student is the most worrisome, said Boulas,
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Speaker 1: a senior researcher at Foundary ten, an education research organization
26:41
Speaker 1: based in Seattle. We know little about them. Meanwhile, many
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Speaker 1: teachers and others have expressed frustration with the closures. There
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Speaker 1: is just an overall lack of funding in our public
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Speaker 1: education system, said Mary Custler of the National Education Association.
26:59
Speaker 1: The nation's large union representing three million educators. Cussers had
27:04
Speaker 1: efforts to cut taxes in many states have reduced the
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Speaker 1: money available for local schools and made it hard to
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Speaker 1: keep up with inflation. She also pointed to efforts to
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Speaker 1: expand bouchers and scholarship programs, which help families pay for
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Speaker 1: private schools. Supporters contend those programs create needed competition and
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Speaker 1: provide more options for parents, especially in areas where public
27:26
Speaker 1: schools have struggled, but Cusser argued it also ultimately reduces
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Speaker 1: a pool of money for traditional public schools, which still
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Speaker 1: serve most students. There's only so much money to go around,
27:38
Speaker 1: she said. This item is accompanied by photos. The first
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Speaker 1: is captioned Alcad Elementary School is one of twelve schools
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Speaker 1: of the Houston Independent School District plans to close recount
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Speaker 1: of Delicio Houston Chronicle getting images. The final photo accompanying
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Speaker 1: this item is captioned In May, Philadelphia's school board voted
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Speaker 1: to clothes seventeen schools to ease the birds and families.
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Speaker 1: The city decided to gradually close campuses over the next
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Speaker 1: decade to get students time to graduate from their current schools.
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Speaker 1: Att Rourke ap. The photo shows a partial view of
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Speaker 1: a school bus with students looking out the windows. The
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Speaker 1: next siding from today's Time page is entitled on Boiling
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Speaker 1: DC Strip canopy plan offers relief in Slona, in a
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Speaker 1: city that has spent much of July under extreme heel
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Speaker 1: lords and has at times this summer been hotter than
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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the planet. Two DC review boards
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Speaker 1: will hear a novel plan this week to cool down
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Speaker 1: a particularly steamy business quarter. The proposal, brought to the
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Speaker 1: Historic Preservation Review Board and AMC three by a local architect,
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Speaker 1: would construct a shade canopy spanning nearly the length of
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Speaker 1: a football field over the sidewalk of Cleveland Park's commercial strip.
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Speaker 1: The roof would be made of undulating wooden movers with
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Speaker 1: climbing plants woven in the effect, falling somewhere between grand
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Speaker 1: Roman arcades and flexible Floridian strip while sunshades. It looks striking,
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Speaker 1: but the proposal, one of the more ambitious architectural interventions
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Speaker 1: pitched for a business district in recent years, is meant
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Speaker 1: to be a creative solution to the oppressively hot stretches
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Speaker 1: of summer when visitors are less likely to linger in
29:26
Speaker 1: public spaces or frequent businesses there. And it comes when DC,
29:32
Speaker 1: like cities across the world, is traveling with the compounding
29:36
Speaker 1: effects of a warming pliant and a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: hot asphalt. You would be walking in Cleveland Park and
29:42
Speaker 1: is nice and cool, and then you get to the
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Speaker 1: Strip and is like ten degrees hotter, said architect Magan Downey,
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Speaker 1: who propose the project with the non profit District Bridges.
29:53
Speaker 1: She said she and her children avoid going out during
29:56
Speaker 1: the day or choose to walk only on the more
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Speaker 1: shaded west side the street. That heat disparity has been
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Speaker 1: exascerbated by a years long project to transform a service
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Speaker 1: lane into what business organization Cleveland Park Main Street calls
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Speaker 1: a promenade, a long, wide, stretched concrete meant to make
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Speaker 1: the neighborhoods more attractive. A lush tree canopy that once
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Speaker 1: shaped the street was removed years prior to fix frequent
30:23
Speaker 1: flooding in the neighborhood's metro station, but those renovations struggle
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Speaker 1: to bring people to the strip. On Connecticut Avenue, several
30:31
Speaker 1: businesses have shuddered, leaving stretches of vacant storefronts. Some business
30:36
Speaker 1: owners said the updates, including flower beds and saplands, have
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Speaker 1: not been maintained, attracting pets and trash. Downey, the architect
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Speaker 1: and mother of three young children who lives in Cleveland Park,
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Speaker 1: noticed two distinct problems around the same time last fall. First,
30:55
Speaker 1: the stifling heat was making her walkable neighborhood harder to access. Second,
31:00
Speaker 1: the towering tull of poplar tree in her backyard about
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty years old, was dying and slaved
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Speaker 1: for removal, so she approached district bridges. The umbrella organization
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Speaker 1: for Cleveland Park main Stream was a solution for both.
31:17
Speaker 1: Downy proposed wreezing wood from her tree and another failed
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Speaker 1: one to create a shade structure that would bring vibrancy
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Speaker 1: to the business district. I thought there was something very
31:28
Speaker 1: poetic about trees that had existed before the neighborhood itself
31:32
Speaker 1: continuing to shape the inhabitants of Cleveland Park, she said.
31:37
Speaker 1: Cleveland Park's business quarter is one of the city's many
31:40
Speaker 1: heat islands, where heat is trapped by impervious surfaces such
31:44
Speaker 1: as roads and sidewalks, green space is lacking, and additional
31:48
Speaker 1: heat is emitted by cars and industrial zones, resulting in
31:53
Speaker 1: literal hotspots that can feel far more sweltering than the
31:57
Speaker 1: areas around them. DC ranks six among cities where urban
32:01
Speaker 1: heat island effects can hike temperatures than most. According to
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Speaker 1: Climate Central, half of the city's population lives in areas
32:09
Speaker 1: where temperatures feel at least eight degrees higher than they
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Speaker 1: actually are. It's something that affects everyone who is in
32:17
Speaker 1: the public realm, said you are Brondy's chair of d
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Speaker 1: c's Commission on Climate Change and Resiliency, and creating more
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Speaker 1: shade and creating more greenery in the city in the
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Speaker 1: center of the city is one of the best solutions
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Speaker 1: to mitigate it. Cleveland Park is among the more shaded
32:34
Speaker 1: neighborhoods of the city. Urban heat islands are most common
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Speaker 1: in d c's northeast quadrant, where continued development has introduced
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Speaker 1: ample and pervious surfaces. You can't plant trees for this
32:47
Speaker 1: now soil to plant them in, said Vinn Strader, a
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Speaker 1: spokesperson for Casey Trees. The nonprofit works for the city
32:54
Speaker 1: to restore and maintain the district's canopy. Kcy Trees plants
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Speaker 1: thousands of trees per year in and around the city
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Speaker 1: and has a goal of making DC forty percent tree
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Speaker 1: covered by twenty thirty two. Currently, the kantidy covers thirty
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Speaker 1: seven percent of the city, an improvement from a low
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Speaker 1: of thirty five percent in two thousand and one when
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Speaker 1: Casey Trees was founded. Still, that's far from the fifty
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Speaker 1: percent coverage the district had in the nineteen fifties. Another
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Speaker 1: challenge for Casey Trees County goal is a time that
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Speaker 1: takes for foliage to mature. Trees planted today won't provide
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Speaker 1: communities with adequate shade for several decades. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: Drader said, structures like this are the next best option,
33:42
Speaker 1: including for Cleveland Park's promenade where saplings were recently planted.
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Speaker 1: They're not there yet, said Cassandra Heathington, director of Cleveland
33:52
Speaker 1: Park Main Street. So we need something else. Given the
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Speaker 1: historic designation, it's very challenging to find something that were
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Speaker 1: allowed to do. She was surprised, she said, when Downy
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Speaker 1: approached her with the plan to shave the business district,
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Speaker 1: where her team had already dedicated time and resources to
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Speaker 1: make it inviting and comfortable both emotionally and physically. To
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Speaker 1: the thirty five thousand or so people who live within
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Speaker 1: a mile radius. I was shocked that someone would just
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Speaker 1: come out of thin air and want to undertake such
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Speaker 1: a huge project, she said, But given the strict restrictions
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Speaker 1: on buildings in the Historic area, she knows it could
34:30
Speaker 1: be a long process. People are going to have to
34:34
Speaker 1: be a little flexible because we're putting a round hole
34:37
Speaker 1: in a square peg. If granted approval from the Historic
34:41
Speaker 1: Board and its anc district, Bridges would need to raise
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Speaker 1: about three hundred thousand dollars down He plans to complete
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Speaker 1: the cannedy by next summer, she said. Some owners of
34:52
Speaker 1: businesses that would border the structure fear that the proposal
34:56
Speaker 1: limits his ability to their storefronts, so people on the
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Speaker 1: street or sidewalk but have trouble identifying their shops. They
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Speaker 1: say that the city has also asked them to volunteer
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Speaker 1: to water plants or otherwise oversee their promenade renovations. There's
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Speaker 1: always the initiative, but there is a very severe lack
35:14
Speaker 1: of follow through, said Liz Winchell, owner of pottery paint
35:18
Speaker 1: shop All Fired Up. The storefronts on either side of
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Speaker 1: hers are currently taken, so it gets put in and
35:26
Speaker 1: then it gets left. Then it puts pressure on the
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Speaker 1: business to either maintain it or fix something down. Instead,
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Speaker 1: district bridges would handle upkeep and management, using money rais
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Speaker 1: for the initial building investment. The design OUs includes plans
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Speaker 1: for a children's play area and more seating, which Downy
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Speaker 1: said could help create a park like space where people
35:47
Speaker 1: gather and linger in the historical strip rather than pass
35:51
Speaker 1: through quickly on their way to find air conditioning. The roof,
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Speaker 1: alternating sections between wooden slats and cables woven with plants,
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Speaker 1: would be partially permeable, so dack of light would shavee
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Speaker 1: the sidewalk. In my view of preservation, the best way
36:06
Speaker 1: to preserve historic architecture is to really allow the businesses
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Speaker 1: in them, the companies that own them, to flourish, she said.
36:15
Speaker 1: As the item is accompanied by photos and illustrations. The
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Speaker 1: first is captioned the shade structure will run the width
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Speaker 1: of the sidewalk along Connecticut Avenue northwest between Mackholm and
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Speaker 1: Ordway Streets, northwest Megan Downey's studio. The illustration shows the
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Speaker 1: artist's rendering of what the canopy would look like. The
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Speaker 1: next is caption The proposed design includes benches, planters and
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Speaker 1: a roof partially made of plants Megan Downey Studio. This
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Speaker 1: is another artists rendering from a pedestrian's view of the canopy.
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Speaker 1: Next to the photo caption the Cleveland Park metro station
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Speaker 1: along Connecticut Avenue in twenty fifteen, Benjamin C. Tankersly for
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Speaker 1: The Washington Postal photo accompanying this item is captioned the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Park streetscape is reflected in the store window. In
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty Bonnie Joe Mount the Washington Post. Next as
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Speaker 1: an ITEMN entitled the nineteen ninety four World Cup changed
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Speaker 1: US soccer? Will this year's have a lasting impact? By
37:18
Speaker 1: Les Carpenter. Before the United States could have its first
37:22
Speaker 1: World Cup, it needed its second pro soccer league in
37:26
Speaker 1: the late nineteen eighties. Before FIFA awarded the US the
37:29
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four World Cup, American officials had to promise
37:33
Speaker 1: FIFA it would create a professional league. That wouldn't be easy.
37:38
Speaker 1: The previous attempt, the North American Soccer League, had fallen
37:41
Speaker 1: apart in nineteen eighty five after eighteen years in business,
37:45
Speaker 1: but FIFA expected a league, so as a sports American
37:49
Speaker 1: governing body, the US Soccer federation began planning a World Cup,
37:54
Speaker 1: it was also building Major League Soccer. In nineteen ninety six,
37:58
Speaker 1: two years after the globe's biggest soccer stars had gone home,
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Speaker 1: MLS played its first matches. The legacy of nineteen ninety
38:06
Speaker 1: four was a league, but it didn't happen organically. It
38:10
Speaker 1: happened contractually. Recalled Doug Logan, the first MLS commissioner, soccer
38:16
Speaker 1: bloomed in the US after the nineteen ninety four tournament.
38:20
Speaker 1: Nowhere is this more apparent than in the rise of MLS,
38:23
Speaker 1: which went from ten teams in its first season to
38:26
Speaker 1: thirty today, most of which play in soccer only. Stadiums
38:31
Speaker 1: built over the past two decades, but the impact of
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Speaker 1: the country's second World Cup, which ended Sunday when Spain
38:38
Speaker 1: outlasted Argentina to cap the tournament, is harder to predict.
38:44
Speaker 1: Exciting matches with stunning finishes have captivated television audiences, star
38:49
Speaker 1: players have become even more popular. The debate that followed
38:53
Speaker 1: the US team's loss in the Round of sixteen shows
38:56
Speaker 1: the country is more engaged than ever with soccer. Yet
39:00
Speaker 1: in a country with two thriving pro leagues, the MLS
39:04
Speaker 1: and NWSL, and robust youth organization's coast to coast, the
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Speaker 1: changes are unlikely to be as obvious. What does soccer
39:13
Speaker 1: look like in the United States on the day after
39:16
Speaker 1: the World Cup is over? Ask former US Soccer president
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Speaker 1: Sanil Gulati, who helped leave the bid that brought this
39:22
Speaker 1: year's World Cup to the US, Canada and Mexico. We're
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Speaker 1: not going to know the answer on Monday. That's the point.
39:29
Speaker 1: I don't expect viewership to quadruple on Wednesday for next
39:33
Speaker 1: week's MLS games. But he wonders how many more people
39:37
Speaker 1: will watch MLS and WSL and oversee soccer in the
39:41
Speaker 1: coming weeks and months. With the advertisers that rush to
39:45
Speaker 1: make World Cup commercials stick around to build campaigns around
39:48
Speaker 1: the pro leagues or the men's and women's national teams. Ultimately,
39:53
Speaker 1: this World Cup might bring modest innovation or rules changes.
39:57
Speaker 1: It will set attendance records and and as a first
40:00
Speaker 1: World Cup with forty eight teams, will probably lead to
40:04
Speaker 1: more teams and more matches in the coming years. It
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Speaker 1: won't fundamentally change American soccer. That happened thirty two years
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Speaker 1: ago when the World Cup came here the first time.
40:16
Speaker 1: But it may stoke the fire. The landscape is quite
40:20
Speaker 1: different than in nineteen ninety four. Galati says, it's not
40:24
Speaker 1: about a new league's surviving or getting people to watch
40:27
Speaker 1: soccer games. This is now harder than just growing the game.
40:32
Speaker 1: The US was not an obvious choice for FISA leaders
40:35
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight when they met to pick a
40:37
Speaker 1: host for the nineteen ninety four tournament. In addition to
40:41
Speaker 1: the failed NASL, the country had no soccer tradition, hadn't
40:46
Speaker 1: been to a World Cup since nineteen fifty, and had
40:49
Speaker 1: a rabid sports culture built around the NFL, the MLB,
40:53
Speaker 1: and the NBA. The US's biggest selling point was a
40:57
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four Los Angeles Summer olymp which had been
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Speaker 1: profitable at a time when many other games had drained
41:04
Speaker 1: house cities budgets. But any doubts that the country could
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Speaker 1: organize an elite soccer tournament were eased in the early
41:11
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties as the US hosted a pair of test
41:14
Speaker 1: tournaments against some of the world's top national teams. Once
41:18
Speaker 1: the World Cup came, the stadiums were mostly filled, and
41:21
Speaker 1: the US team advanced from the group stage with a
41:24
Speaker 1: win and a tie before losing one zero to Brazil
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Speaker 1: in the round of sixteen. In addition to respect, enough
41:32
Speaker 1: money poured in to solidify US soccer, build training centers
41:36
Speaker 1: and create a development system, FIFA also felt comfortable letting
41:40
Speaker 1: the US host the Women's World Cup five years later.
41:44
Speaker 1: It really galvanized our country, says Bruce Murray, a star
41:48
Speaker 1: on the nineteen ninety US team, the first to go
41:51
Speaker 1: to the World Cup in forty years. Still, when the
41:55
Speaker 1: MLS started, Murray was skeptical. There was worry, he says,
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Speaker 1: that players would get paid well enough to want to stay.
42:03
Speaker 1: But as the years went on and the league got stronger,
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Speaker 1: he saw a change. He noticed players from countries such
42:09
Speaker 1: as Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay coming to the US, especially
42:14
Speaker 1: talented wings who were fast and had great skill. The MLS,
42:18
Speaker 1: he realized, was no longer an afterthought to players from
42:22
Speaker 1: other countries. Stars such as David Beckham and later Nionel
42:26
Speaker 1: Messi brought credibility. The MLS has forty five players in
42:31
Speaker 1: this year's World Cup, the sixth most of any league,
42:35
Speaker 1: behind only the top leagues in England, Germany, Spain, France
42:39
Speaker 1: and Italy. The debate that rage after the US lost
42:44
Speaker 1: to Belgium in the round of sixteen is also seen
42:47
Speaker 1: as progress by some in the soccer community. It came
42:50
Speaker 1: up more than in nineteen ninety because more people care.
42:53
Speaker 1: Glatti says, now we have fifty million people watching. That's
42:58
Speaker 1: a positive sign. The other day, while out in a run,
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Speaker 1: Murray stumbled across a group of men around his age
43:06
Speaker 1: arguing about soccer in tree. He stopped and asked the
43:09
Speaker 1: men how much they knew about the game. Nothing, they said,
43:14
Speaker 1: but they had been watching the World Cup and now
43:17
Speaker 1: they were interested. Murray says. If there is a legacy
43:21
Speaker 1: of this World Cup, it might be the stories. Murray
43:24
Speaker 1: and Galotti both imagine people remembering for years Messy's late
43:28
Speaker 1: game goals and England holding on to beat Mexico in
43:32
Speaker 1: Mexico City with only ten players, and Cape Ferdy's incredible
43:37
Speaker 1: run behind a forty year old goalkeeper. Maybe it's me,
43:41
Speaker 1: but I can't remember a better World Cup than this one.
43:44
Speaker 1: Murray says. Much of that is probably due to what
43:48
Speaker 1: he calls the late game fireworks, the flurry of goals
43:52
Speaker 1: scored an extra time or overtime periods that have often
43:55
Speaker 1: been devoid of action. In past World Cups. He suspects
43:59
Speaker 1: this is because of the hydration breaks added to this
44:02
Speaker 1: tournament to handle the extreme summer heat. He believes the breaks,
44:06
Speaker 1: especially in the second half, give a boost of energy
44:10
Speaker 1: that teams have never had at the end of matches before.
44:14
Speaker 1: Having fitness is part of the game, he says, if
44:17
Speaker 1: you get five minutes of rest, you are a whole
44:19
Speaker 1: new man. He predicts the hydration breaks will become a
44:23
Speaker 1: regular part of professional soccer, as you is who recognize
44:26
Speaker 1: the potential to sell ads for slots in the middle
44:29
Speaker 1: of games. One of the biggest problems is calling it
44:33
Speaker 1: a hydration break. They should just split the game into quarters,
44:36
Speaker 1: says Alan Rothenberg, who ran the nineteen ninety four World
44:39
Speaker 1: Cup and was president of US Soccer in the nineteen nineties.
44:43
Speaker 1: But the brakes also help. They let teams come together.
44:46
Speaker 1: Traditionalists will be upset, but they'll get over it. Rothenberg
44:51
Speaker 1: says this World Cup will lead to another change in
44:53
Speaker 1: global soccer, examining the replay system. The new Assicient Referee
44:59
Speaker 1: or VAR was supposed to help determine whether balls had
45:03
Speaker 1: actually crossed the line into goals and make it easier
45:07
Speaker 1: to see whether a player is offside. Rosenberg is dismayed
45:11
Speaker 1: at how much the ar is now used to look
45:13
Speaker 1: at fowls and to hand out yellow or red cards,
45:16
Speaker 1: including the controversial cards own to American Valerian Vologan that
45:20
Speaker 1: drew Present Donald Trump into the fray. It's led to
45:24
Speaker 1: silly replays. Rothenburg says, Logan, appalled by the cost of
45:29
Speaker 1: tickets to this World Cup, where prices soared into the
45:32
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars, wonders whether this tournament will serve as
45:36
Speaker 1: a tipping point. He sees that as a prime example
45:40
Speaker 1: of a sports system that has been pricing out average
45:42
Speaker 1: fans for years, and he worries about the impacts those
45:46
Speaker 1: of us in our industry who have stumped These differences
45:49
Speaker 1: from sushi to VIP seating where you watch the game
45:52
Speaker 1: on television even when you are in the stadium, are
45:55
Speaker 1: creating a VIP culture for an entire stadium. He says.
46:00
Speaker 1: It especially bothers him to see this in soccer, a
46:03
Speaker 1: sport he has always seen as the most democratic in
46:05
Speaker 1: the world, since all you need to play is a ball.
46:09
Speaker 1: This is just a validation of who we are now,
46:12
Speaker 1: he says, adding I suspect by the time we get
46:16
Speaker 1: to twenty thirty World Cup hosts Spain, Portugal and Morocco,
46:20
Speaker 1: FIFA won't be able to get away with that, But
46:23
Speaker 1: ticket prices and the AI reforms are smaller details for
46:26
Speaker 1: future World Cups. Galotti keeps thinking about the question he
46:30
Speaker 1: kept asking himself several years ago when he pushed the
46:33
Speaker 1: bid this World Cup. What will American soccer be like
46:37
Speaker 1: on Monday? What is a legacy of these past six weeks.
46:42
Speaker 1: Murray figures it will be European players still in the
46:46
Speaker 1: prime of their careers, leaving top European leagues for the
46:49
Speaker 1: MLS because they enjoyed playing this World Cup in cities
46:53
Speaker 1: such as Atlanta or Houston or Seattle. Galotti imagines the
46:58
Speaker 1: time ten or twelve years in a few when a
47:01
Speaker 1: young American star player is telling reporters that he fell
47:04
Speaker 1: in love with soccer when his parents brought him to
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Speaker 1: a game at this World Cup and he watched Messy
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Speaker 1: or some other grade. Galotti is sure the game will
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Speaker 1: continue to boom here in the coming years, but how
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Speaker 1: much he asks decided his Accompanied by photos, the first
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Speaker 1: is capted Clike Hooyman and Thomas Dooley celebrate a two
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Speaker 1: to one victory over Columbia during the nineteen ninety four
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Speaker 1: FIFA World Cup. Christian Lewin Temphs sport Cobis Getty Images.
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Speaker 1: The photo shows the two men standing very close to
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Speaker 1: each other, one holding an American flag. The next photo
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Speaker 1: is captioned the World Cup opening ceremony in Chicago's Soldier
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Speaker 1: Field in nineteen ninety four Jonathan Daniel Guinny Images. The
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Speaker 1: photo shows a packed stadium. The next photo is captioned
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Speaker 1: German fans outside Soldier Field in June nineteen ninety four
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Speaker 1: Chris Wilkins, AFP Getty Images. The next photo is captained
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Speaker 1: San Jose Spartan Stadium during the opening ceremony of Major
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Speaker 1: League Soccer's inaugural match in nineteen ninety six. Todd Warshaw
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Speaker 1: Getty Images. Again, the photo shows a pax stadium. The
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Speaker 1: next photo is captured it really galvanized our country, Bruce Murray,
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Speaker 1: a star on the nineteen ninety US team, said at
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Speaker 1: the nineteen ninety four event. Simon Brudy Getty Images. The
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Speaker 1: photo shows two men in different teen jerseys chasing a
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Speaker 1: soccer ball in the air. The next photo is captained
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Speaker 1: David Beckham is announced as La Galaxy player in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven Fraser Harrison Getty Images. The photo shows
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Speaker 1: mister Beckham holding his jersey with some gentlemen in suits
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Speaker 1: seated behind him while confetti flies in the air. A
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Speaker 1: next photo is captained from left Jote maas Lean Mount
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Speaker 1: Messi co owner Jose Moss and co owner David Betham
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Speaker 1: as Messi is introduced by Inter Miami c App in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Joe Radel Getty Images. The next photo
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Speaker 1: is captioned an expanded World Cup introduced such smaller countries
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Speaker 1: as Cape Verday, whose goalkeeper Lauzina became a viral star.
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Speaker 1: Rebecca Blackwell ap. The photo shows a man in a
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Speaker 1: yellow soccer kit standing on a pitch. The next photo
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Speaker 1: is catching referee Raphael Plaus shows Laren Belogan a red
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Speaker 1: card against Bosnia Michael Steele Getty Images. And the final
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Speaker 1: photo accompanying this Island is captioned Mascots Napel d Mouse, Canada, Value,
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Speaker 1: the Jaguar Mexico and Clutch the Bald Eagle. US Greek
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Speaker 1: kids out of a match between Germany and Potaguay on
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Speaker 1: June twenty nine mottopenmienfo afp Getty images and the final
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Speaker 1: item for today's Fun page is entitled old Fide gets renewed.
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Speaker 1: Scrutiny in Arizona race, religious sect, local police force at
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Speaker 1: heart of decade old issue by Hannah Knowles. Momentum was
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Speaker 1: growing in twenty thirteen to crack down on a polygamous
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Speaker 1: religious group accused of sexually abusing girls in role Arizona.
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Speaker 1: The Justice Department was suing. The group's leader was in
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Speaker 1: prison after a stint on the FBI's most wanted list.
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Speaker 1: Arizona's Attorney general wanted to shut down the local police force,
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Speaker 1: the Colorado City Marshall's office, which he accused of doing
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Speaker 1: the bidding of sex leaders. But a bill designed to
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Speaker 1: strip authority from the Marshal's office never got about in
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Speaker 1: the state Senate. Its Republican sponsor blamed ben Senate President
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Speaker 1: Andy Biggs, a Republican, for the bill's failue to advance
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Speaker 1: in that chamber. Now more than a decade later, as
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Speaker 1: Biggs cruises towards an expected victory in Tuesday's primary for
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Speaker 1: Arizona governor, the episode is likely to get renewed attention.
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Speaker 1: Rats expect to highlight the old fight over the Marshal's office,
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Speaker 1: one of many polarizing moments in Biggs's long legislative record
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Speaker 1: that some Republicans worry could come back to haunt them
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Speaker 1: in a hotly contested swing state race. The Colorado City
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Speaker 1: issue left Biggs, a former chairman of the ultra conservative
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Speaker 1: House Freedom Caucus, at odds with some members of his party.
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Speaker 1: I would rather vote for somebody who has made a
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Speaker 1: stand for women and children above religion, said Buster Johnson,
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Speaker 1: a long time Republican supervisor for the county at the
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Speaker 1: center of the controversy. He said he cast an early
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Speaker 1: ballot against Biggs in the primary. Asked whether he would
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Speaker 1: nevertheless vote for Biggs in the general election, Johnson was
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Speaker 1: non committal. I'll have to look at it when it
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Speaker 1: comes up, he said. An adviser to biggs campaign, Drew Sexton,
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Speaker 1: said in his statement that Biggs has already addressed this
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Speaker 1: poorly written legislation, which was too broad and opposed by
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Speaker 1: the Arizona Police Association. Sexton attacked the public safety record
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Speaker 1: of biggs expected opponent in the fall, Democratic Governor Katy Hobbs,
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Speaker 1: pointing to a surge in overdose debts in Arizona last
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Speaker 1: year and criticism of the state child Safety Department. He's
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Speaker 1: touted big support from the Arizona Law Enforcement Association and
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Speaker 1: local prosecutors, and said the congressman has worked to increase
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Speaker 1: funding for Arizona's child Safety department, combat child exploitation, and
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Speaker 1: expand the Amber Alert notification system for child abductions alongside
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Speaker 1: the late Senator John McCain. Hobstein defended her record, saying
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Speaker 1: she has invested two hundred and fifteen million dollars in
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Speaker 1: law enforcement. Biggs, who for the past decade has represented
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Speaker 1: a solidly red district in the US House, has seen
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Speaker 1: success as a conservative congressman, but now needs to convince
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Speaker 1: some letters that he's not what he has been, said
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Speaker 1: Chuck Codlin, a long time political consultant in arizon Zona.
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Speaker 1: What are you willing to do to show people you're
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Speaker 1: not still justice freedom Caucus republican whose all fire and
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Speaker 1: brimstone about how much libertarians hate government. Complin said that's
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Speaker 1: going to be his challenge this cycle. The height over
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Speaker 1: the Colorado City Varshal's office was part of a year's
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Speaker 1: long push for changes in two small towns that served
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Speaker 1: along Arizona's northern border, Colorado City, Arizona, and Hilldale, Utah.
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Speaker 1: Authorities say a secret to religious sect wielded enormous power
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Speaker 1: over the community, controlling public services, discriminating against non members,
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Speaker 1: and forcing girls into underage marriages. The group, known as
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Speaker 1: the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
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Speaker 1: f LDS, split from the Mormon Church after the latter
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Speaker 1: banned polygamy more than a century ago. It drew renewed
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Speaker 1: attention this year with the release of a Netflix documentary
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Speaker 1: on a self decline named FLDS prophet Samuel Bateman, who
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Speaker 1: prosecutors said sexually abused child quote brides as young as nine.
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Speaker 1: Batman was sentenced to prison in twenty twenty four and
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Speaker 1: convicted on additional charges this summer. Scrutiny of the set
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Speaker 1: grew in the two thousands, when officials charged this leader
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Speaker 1: at the time, Warren Jeff's, with sex crimes. Jeffs was
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Speaker 1: placed on the FBI's most wanted list and convicted in
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Speaker 1: twenty eleven of sexually assaulting a twelve year old and
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Speaker 1: a fifty year old, both of them he forced in
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Speaker 1: the marriage. The Justice Department sued the twin bordered towns
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Speaker 1: in twenty twelve, alleging that the Colorado City Marshal's Office,
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Speaker 1: which served both cities, acted as the enforcement arm of FLDS.
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Speaker 1: Prosecutors said that marshals applied the law selectively and carried
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Speaker 1: out the edicts of the FLDS leaders, recounting how they
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Speaker 1: killed dogs abandoned by the church, and worked to return
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Speaker 1: an underage bride to FLDS officials after she fled. Seven
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Speaker 1: members of the Marshal's office had already lost their state
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Speaker 1: certifications for refusing to testify in court and for other
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Speaker 1: misconduct since two thousand and three. Prosecutors noted, one of
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Speaker 1: the de certified officers wrote to Jeff's while the FLDS
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Speaker 1: leader was on the run, According to court documents, I
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Speaker 1: want to do the job the way that you would
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Speaker 1: like it done, the officer wrote. Officials with the town
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Speaker 1: of Colorado City and its police force did not respond
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Speaker 1: to requests for comment. Colorado City and neighboring Hilldale issued
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Speaker 1: a joint statement last year saying their communities have acknowledged
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Speaker 1: the failures of the past and changed after court found
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Speaker 1: civil rights violations. The Washington Post was unable to locate
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Speaker 1: a representative of flds for comment, and the group does
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Speaker 1: not publicize contact information online. In Arizona, top officials called
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Speaker 1: to disband the Marshal's office. The Republican Attorney General Tom
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Speaker 1: Horn put his weight behind the twenty thirteen bill. It
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Speaker 1: would have created a mechanism to strip local departments of
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Speaker 1: their authority in extraordinary cases, in which many officers launched
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Speaker 1: their certification. The legislation was designed to target the Colorado
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Speaker 1: City Marshall's office. Women who have wanted to escape have
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Speaker 1: been forcibly held by the marshals against their will, Horn
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Speaker 1: said at a January twenty thirteen news conference. The bill
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Speaker 1: passed the State House fifty two to seven, but installed
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Speaker 1: in the state Senate and never made it to a vote.
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Speaker 1: Asked last year in a TV interview about accusations that
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Speaker 1: he helped kill the bill, Biggs said that officials were
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Speaker 1: trying to gather more information and that he is not
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Speaker 1: sure we ever got to the conclusion that the Marshal's
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Speaker 1: office was fully corrupt. What I was concerned about is
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Speaker 1: did we have enough as a state to step in
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Speaker 1: as a state legislature, Big added. Others argue there was
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Speaker 1: plenty of evidence. They had more than enough, said Flora Jessop,
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Speaker 1: who left f LDS and then helped others escape. I
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Speaker 1: thought it's never going to change the community, said von Broadbent,
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Speaker 1: another woman who left. Over the next few years, Arizona
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Speaker 1: officials launched reviews into allege this conduct by six more
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Speaker 1: officers in the Marshal's office, according to Saint records. Local
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Speaker 1: news reported at the time that one officer, who eventually
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Speaker 1: gave up his certification, was accused of lying about sex
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Speaker 1: crime evidence. A county sheriff testified in twenty sixteen that
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Speaker 1: his department would not alert the Marshal's office Winnyako called
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Speaker 1: to respond to child custody disputes because deputies feared they
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Speaker 1: would arrive to find the child gone. Residents accused the
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Speaker 1: marshals of unlawful arrests. Court documents show women who fled
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Speaker 1: f lds also kept raising alarms. In a lawsuit, one
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Speaker 1: recounted difficult negotiations through the Athaldeas police to get her
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Speaker 1: children back, while another enlisted a different law enforcement agency
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Speaker 1: to help retrieve her kids and was sworn by afldea's followers.
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Speaker 1: In an A b C. Twenty twenty episode. The federal
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Speaker 1: lawsuit against Colorado City eventually triggered changes. In twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: a judge ordered reforms and ten years of oversight at
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Speaker 1: the Marshal's office. The crackdown came too late for Biggs critics.
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Speaker 1: Due to time constraints, will be unable to complete this item.
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Speaker 1: This concludes the reading of the Washington Post for to
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