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  Speaker 1: BIN News This Hour, I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, can
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  Speaker 1: she stay or will she have to go? That is
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  Speaker 1: the question a judge is deciding in a petition to
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  Speaker 1: have Letitia James removed from the Cornell 7 case. Plus...
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  Speaker 1: And for too.
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  Speaker 2: Long we've had people in D.C., national Democrats, that have
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  Speaker 2: ignored Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: They gave it up.
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  Speaker 2: They said we're not going to even try to compete there.
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  Speaker 2: And the result of that has been terrible policies.
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  Speaker 1: A black Senate candidate gets a major show of support
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  Speaker 1: from a former president, and no, it's not Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: And a retired NBA legend signs on to lead a
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  Speaker 1: basketball program at an HBCU. But first, here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump rallied in South Carolina Thursday for Republican Senator
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham, who's facing a tight race against Democrat Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 1: Your brother's looking down.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to be Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make Lindsey really happy and proud.
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  Speaker 3: Graham was appointed to replace her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Senate in nearly 30 years. The final push is underway
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  Speaker 3: ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections. Vice President J.D. Vance is
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  Speaker 3: campaigning for Ken Paxton in Texas. Democrat James Tallarico is
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  Speaker 3: also holding a rally in Dallas. And former Vice President
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  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris is attending an NAACP town hall in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: And a Chicago hospital is preparing to close its labor
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  Speaker 3: and delivery unit Saturday. Protesters outside Roseland Hospital say the
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  Speaker 3: shutdown will force expectant mothers to travel farther for care,
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  Speaker 3: raising concerns about Black maternal health. It's the fourth labor
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  Speaker 3: and delivery unit in the Chicago area to close this month.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Amber Payton with BIN News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Amber. Attorneys for New York Attorney General Letitia
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  Speaker 1: James were in court today presenting their arguments for why
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  Speaker 1: she should stay on the Cornell 7 sexual assault case.
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  Speaker 1: Julia Lopez, one of the men accused in the case,
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  Speaker 1: has filed a lawsuit demanding James be removed from it
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  Speaker 1: because of comments she posted on social media in support
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  Speaker 1: of the alleged victim. James posted the comments a few
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  Speaker 1: days before Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order assigning
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  Speaker 1: the case to her. This is one of two such
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  Speaker 1: cases seeking James' removal from the case. The other is
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  Speaker 1: in Tompkins County, where the university is located. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: faculty at Cornell University is moving forward with the vote
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  Speaker 1: of no confidence in the school's leadership following the recent
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  Speaker 1: rape allegations. The vote is in response to how Cornell's
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  Speaker 1: administration handled the alleged 2024 sexual assault of a former
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  Speaker 1: student identified only as Jane Doe. Online voting is set
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  Speaker 1: to start tomorrow and is expected to last.
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  Speaker 2: About a week.
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  Speaker 1: Former President Bill Clinton is heading to Mississippi tomorrow to
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  Speaker 1: campaign for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colon. Clinton is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to appear at a campaign event in Tupelo as
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  Speaker 1: Colon makes his final push ahead of Tuesday's election. Colon,
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  Speaker 1: who is black, recently spoke to MSNOW about the value
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  Speaker 1: of states like Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the problem in our party right now.
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  Speaker 2: We got one group of people that are treading water.
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  Speaker 2: They're just the path to least resistance. What's the path
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  Speaker 2: that can get us just to 51 and whoo? And
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  Speaker 2: you got people that are dreamers, people that dream of
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  Speaker 2: a party that can represent the whole country, that can
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  Speaker 2: actually have a senator in Mississippi, have a senator in Iowa. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the people that are supporting me, I would
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  Speaker 2: call them dreamers. When a country ignores places like Mississippi, inevitably,
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  Speaker 2: it costs the country.
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  Speaker 1: Cologne is challenging Republican incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in a
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  Speaker 1: race that has attracted attention from national political figures. Former
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  Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg
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  Speaker 1: have also campaigned for Cologne, while President Trump visited Corinth
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  Speaker 1: Monday to support Hyde-Smith. The announcement was received with applause.
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  Speaker 4: You've seen his thunderous ducks. So I will bring up
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  Speaker 4: at this time Mr. Dominique Wilkins, the general manager of
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  Speaker 4: men's basketball here at the Alabama State University.
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  Speaker 1: Former NBA star Dominique Wilkins is signing on as the
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  Speaker 1: general manager of the men's basketball program at historically black
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  Speaker 1: Alabama State University. Wilkins, who was formerly known as a
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  Speaker 1: human highlight film, is a nine-time NBA all-star and also
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  Speaker 1: won a couple of slam dunk competitions during the height
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  Speaker 1: of his career. Wilkins told WSFA that he looks most
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  Speaker 1: forward to working with students to map out a game
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  Speaker 1: plan for a successful future on and off the court.
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  Speaker 1: This is BIN News This Hour. I'm Andrea Coleman on
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  Speaker 1: the Black Information Network, home of Black News First.