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  Speaker 1: BIN News this hour. I'm Terry McCready. Coming up, a
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  Speaker 1: Florida county is urging opponents of a mosque expansion to
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  Speaker 1: take it up in court. The DOJ confirming federal agents
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  Speaker 1: will not be deployed during elections next week to keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on the polls. Nicki Minaj versus New York
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  Speaker 1: Governor Kathy Hochul. But first, here's BIN News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield has unveiled Project 1000, a plan
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  Speaker 2: to build 1,000 new homes on vacant lots by 2031.
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  Speaker 2: I drive through Detroit. I see the vacant lots.
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  Speaker 1: I would love for those to be populated with families, homeownership,
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  Speaker 1: and homes.
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  Speaker 2: Sheffield says the city will loosen zoning rules and work
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  Speaker 2: with the Detroit Land Bank Authority to turn vacant and
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  Speaker 2: blighted properties into new housing opportunities. New reporting is shedding
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  Speaker 2: light on the final days of Nolan Wells, the Mississippi
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  Speaker 2: teen whose death on Horn Island drew national attention. A
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  Speaker 2: review of hundreds of Snapchat messages show friends growing increasingly
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  Speaker 2: concerned after Wells disappeared while his family continues to push
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  Speaker 2: for a federal investigation. And Janelle James, best known for
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  Speaker 2: playing Ava Coleman on Abbott Elementary, will host the 32nd
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  Speaker 2: Annual Critics' Choice Awards. Nominations will be announced December 4th,
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  Speaker 2: with the awards ceremony scheduled for January 3rd, 2027. Get
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  Speaker 2: BIN news now on demand 24-7 on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Terry McCready.
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  Speaker 1: In Florida, the Pinellas County Administrator is telling opponents of
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  Speaker 1: a mosque's expansion plans to launch an appeal in court.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioners receiving many comments at a meeting this week that
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  Speaker 1: included someone dressed in a burqa who played a recording
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  Speaker 1: that sounded like a Muslim call to prayer. Ma'am, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have to stop the music, stop the tape.
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  Speaker 2: Ma'am, stop the tape.
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  Speaker 1: Commission chair Dave Eggers telling the speaker that recorded video
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  Speaker 1: and audio messages are not allowed during public comment. The
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  Speaker 1: meeting comes two weeks after the commissioners approved plans to
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  Speaker 1: tear down the current building and build a bigger one
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  Speaker 1: near Tarwan Springs. County Administrator Barry Burton says only those
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  Speaker 1: living within 300 feet of the mosque have standing to
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  Speaker 1: file suit. The Justice Department says ICE and FBI agents
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  Speaker 1: will not be deployed as poll monitors during next week's
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  Speaker 1: midterm elections. The federal agency clarified that only ATF and
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  Speaker 1: DEA officials will be at voting locations after the NAACP
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  Speaker 1: filed a lawsuit seeking to block law enforcement personnel from
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  Speaker 1: serving as election monitors. The DOJ says the monitor's primary
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  Speaker 1: role will be to observe, take notes, and interview willing
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  Speaker 1: voters outside polling places. They cannot interfere in voting and
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  Speaker 1: are prohibited from carrying any firearms. The governor of New
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  Speaker 1: York is in a war of words with Nicki Minaj,
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  Speaker 1: the so-called Queen of Rap, becoming an ardent Trump supporter.
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  Speaker 1: And on X, she called Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul an
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  Speaker 1: evil woman who will not escape God's wrath. Governor Hochul
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  Speaker 1: responding later, telling reporters that Minaj ought to get outside
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  Speaker 1: and get offline a little more. Minaj has been suggested
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  Speaker 1: by the White House communications director as a possible replacement
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  Speaker 1: for short-lived press secretary Katie Zachariah. The incumbent governor and
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  Speaker 1: her black lieutenant governor, Adrian Adams, are facing GOP opponent
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Blakeman and his running mate, Todd Hood.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody gets caught up in the horse race aspects of it,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to get the message out clearly. that
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  Speaker 2: there are still days to go. We've been taking polls
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  Speaker 2: around the state for the last 11 months, and every
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  Speaker 2: poll has us virtually neck and neck.
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  Speaker 1: A fresh mayorist poll giving Hochul an 11-point lead. The
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  Speaker 1: BIN has continuous election coverage through post-election day, all from
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  Speaker 1: a Black perspective. And you won't want to miss Black
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  Speaker 1: America Votes, the 2026 midterms, right here on November 3rd
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  Speaker 1: at 7 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: Families in Cameroon are calling for the repatriation of their relatives.
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  Speaker 1: allegedly recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Bring Back
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  Speaker 1: Our Sons and Brothers held a peaceful march this week
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  Speaker 1: in Yaoundé at the Russian embassy demanding action from Moscow
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  Speaker 1: and the Cameroonian government. Protesters are calling on the two
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  Speaker 1: countries to halt what they describe as clandestine recruitment networks
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  Speaker 1: targeting Cameroonians with promises of work in Russia. A report
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  Speaker 1: by the All Eyes on Wagner Collective shows about 1,400
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  Speaker 1: Africans have been recruited into the Russian army, with over
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  Speaker 1: 300 reportedly killed. Stay informed, stay connected, and subscribe. Follow
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  Speaker 1: BIN News this hour wherever you get your podcasts. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Terry McCready for the Black Information Network.