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  Speaker 1: BIN News this hour. I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, the
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  Speaker 1: custody battle over actress Halle Berry's 13-year-old son is over,
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  Speaker 1: at least for now. We'll tell you where things stand.
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  Speaker 1: New developments in the case of Krista Pike, the death
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  Speaker 1: row inmate who survived an execution attempt.
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  Speaker 2: And I am old enough to remember when a president
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  Speaker 2: wearing a tan suit. was a major national controversy.
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  Speaker 1: Some 12 years later, former President Barack Obama is still
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  Speaker 1: defending the wearing of that tan suit. But first, here's
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  Speaker 1: BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 3: Former President Barack Obama is firing back at Republicans upset
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  Speaker 3: over his Cheesecake Factory joke about White House renovations.
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  Speaker 2: I heard the president was not happy when I joked
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend that he's got the White House looking
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  Speaker 2: like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking in Georgia Wednesday, Obama accused the administration of overreacting,
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  Speaker 3: saying they mobilized a government response to a joke. The
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  Speaker 3: NAACP is challenging North Carolina's voter ID law ahead of
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  Speaker 3: the midterms. Attorneys argued Wednesday that the law discriminates against
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  Speaker 3: black and minority voters. The organization wants the case returned
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  Speaker 3: to a lower court to present more evidence, while supporters
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  Speaker 3: say voter ID requirements help prevent fraud. And New York
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  Speaker 3: Governor Kathy Hochul and rapper Nicki Minaj are exchanging insults
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  Speaker 3: on social media. Minaj, a Trump supporter, called Hochul an
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  Speaker 3: evil woman who would face God's wrath. Hochul fired back,
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  Speaker 3: telling Minaj to get offline and stop attending Trump rallies,
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  Speaker 3: saying they're poisoning her mind. I'm Amber Payton with BIN
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  Speaker 3: News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Amber. When it comes to the custody arrangement
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  Speaker 1: for her son, things seem to be reverting back to
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  Speaker 1: normal for Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry. A judge today
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  Speaker 1: dropped a restraining order against her and refused to impose
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  Speaker 1: a domestic violence restraining order as requested by Olivier Martinez,
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  Speaker 1: her ex-husband and the child's father. According to page six,
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  Speaker 1: Martinez will retain physical custody of the teen, whose name
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  Speaker 1: is Maceo, and share joint custody of him with Berry,
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  Speaker 1: which reportedly is the arrangement that was in place before
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  Speaker 1: this latest incident. Page Six quotes an attorney for Berry
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  Speaker 1: as saying they are extremely pleased with the outcome of
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  Speaker 1: the proceedings and that this is a huge win for Halle.
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  Speaker 1: Martinez requested the restraining order after accusing Berry of choking
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  Speaker 1: their son, something the actress denies doing. Tennessee Governor Bill
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  Speaker 1: Lee is commenting on the death sentence of Krista Pike.
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  Speaker 1: Lee reportedly was asked yesterday about commuting Pike's sentence and
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  Speaker 1: said he suspects her death sentence will remain in place
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  Speaker 1: unless changed by the courts. Pike's attorneys requested Lee commute
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  Speaker 1: her sentence to life in prison, after a failed execution
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  Speaker 1: attempt last month. Well, last week, a court filing included
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  Speaker 1: an attorney's account claiming members of the execution team repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: questioned whether Pike's veins had collapsed before administering lethal injection
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  Speaker 1: drugs on September 30th. Attorney Randy Spivey says the team
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  Speaker 1: used approximately 10 needles and struggled to establish working IV lines.
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  Speaker 1: before Pike complained of burning pain.
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  Speaker 3: In her arm.
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  Speaker 1: Pike survived after receiving two rounds of the execution drug
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  Speaker 1: penobarbital and was taken to a hospital. She has since
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  Speaker 1: been released and is back in prison. Former President Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama apparently still feels a certain way about the backlash
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  Speaker 1: he received for wearing a tan suit during a press
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  Speaker 1: conference in 2014. Last night, the former commander-in-chief brought it
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  Speaker 1: up once more, letting the audience know just how he
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  Speaker 1: felt about wearing it at the time.
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  Speaker 2: I am old enough to remember when a president wearing
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  Speaker 2: a tan suit was a major national controversy. They were
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  Speaker 2: very upset. And I know I look good in that suit.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's right. I know it was tight.
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  Speaker 1: In case you couldn't make it out, that was the
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  Speaker 1: crowd behind him egging him on, saying, yes, you did
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  Speaker 1: look good in that suit, that is. Some critics thought
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  Speaker 1: the suit was inappropriate because of the subject matter being
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  Speaker 1: discussed at the press conference. Mr. Obama was discussing the
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  Speaker 1: military response to the Islamic State in Syria. They thought Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Obama should have worn a darker color to emphasize the
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  Speaker 1: seriousness of the matter.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Obama made the comments last night when speaking at a
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  Speaker 1: Democratic campaign rally in Atlanta. This is BIN News This Hour.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure to follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Coleman on the Black Information Network, home of
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  Speaker 1: Black News First.