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WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW: AUGUST 24. 2026 · What You Need To Know

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  Speaker 1: It's Sybil Wilkes with what we need to know today.
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  Speaker 2: It's Monday, August twenty fourth, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Number one security.
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  Speaker 2: Footage captured sixty three year old Elisa Goods collapsing down
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  Speaker 2: an embankment near Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: two days before her family reported her missing. The New
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  Speaker 2: York grandmother vanished August eighth while visiting a friend in
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas, and her body was later discovered in a
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  Speaker 2: nearby ditch. Law enforcement continues to investigate her death, while
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  Speaker 2: her family reports receiving strange, unauthorized text messages from her
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  Speaker 2: phone requesting cash and cryptocurrency. Number two, a Texas judge
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  Speaker 2: officially denied African American nineteen year old Carmelo Anthony's motion
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  Speaker 2: for a new trial in the fatal stabbing of student
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  Speaker 2: athlete Austin Metcalf. This ruling leaves the Fifth Court of
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  Speaker 2: Appeals in Dallas as Anthony's next legal path to challenge
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  Speaker 2: his thirty five year prison sentence. Defense attorneys reaffirmed their
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  Speaker 2: commitment to the case, pledging to pursue every available legal
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  Speaker 2: avenue on mister Anthony's behalf. Number three, President Trump announced
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  Speaker 2: a ninety day pause on higher import tariffs for ground
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  Speaker 2: beef to help lower retail meat prices for consumers. This
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  Speaker 2: executive order will permit up to three hundred thousand metric
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  Speaker 2: tons of ground beef to enter this country without out
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  Speaker 2: of quota tariff rates. While the temporary measure aims to
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  Speaker 2: reduce grocery costs, it's expected to draw opposition yes from
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  Speaker 2: the domestic cattle industry. Number four Its Ministry Monday and
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  Speaker 2: our own Willie May McIver reflects on the spiritual meaning
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  Speaker 2: of being blessed through God's favor, regardless of life circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: Willie May explains that believers unlocked divine favor by delighting
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  Speaker 2: in God's commandments, showing mercy and avoiding fear and doubt,
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  Speaker 2: and she encourages those of us who follow to daily
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  Speaker 2: exalt and worship God while striving to be a meaningful
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  Speaker 2: blessing to others.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Number five Black America. We've got to know our history.
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  Speaker 2: It was on August twenty third, nineteen seventeen, that racial
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  Speaker 2: hostility and police brutality in Houston sparked one of the
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  Speaker 2: largest race riots in.
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  Speaker 1: United States history.
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  Speaker 2: Members of the All Black twenty fourth Infantry Regiment took
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  Speaker 2: up arms after local police assaulted a black corporal, leading
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  Speaker 2: to clashes that left twenty people dead. Nineteen black soldiers
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  Speaker 2: were subsequently executed following military trials that historians widely criticized
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  Speaker 2: as a tragic miscarriage of justice. Read more about it
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  Speaker 2: in today's What We Need to Know newsletter.
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  Speaker 1: Here's your daily.
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  Speaker 2: Inspiration from Yogi's Jewels. Seek Wise Council, because wisdom is
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  Speaker 2: not found in knowing everything, but in knowing who to
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  Speaker 2: learn from.
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  Speaker 1: Oo. I'm Sybil Wilke's Be Informed, be Empowered.