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Gulf Coast prepares for Tropical Storm Bertha · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: In the day's other headlines, Millions of Americans along the
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  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast are bracing for Tropical Storm Bertha. In Mississippi
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  Speaker 1: and Louisiana, people filled sandbags to keep out the rain
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  Speaker 1: in high surf that's expected. This swirling storm is turning
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  Speaker 1: off the coast of Florida and Alabama. It's expected to
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  Speaker 1: weaken as it makes its way slowly toward Land and
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  Speaker 1: west toward Texas, bringing heavy rain and the chants of
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  Speaker 1: coastal flooding. Tropical storm watches and warnings are in effect
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  Speaker 1: from Florida to central Louisiana. Meantime, severe thunderstorms will bring
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  Speaker 1: more heavy rain, flash floods, and even tornadoes to parts
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  Speaker 1: of the Ohio Valley, mid Atlantic, and Northeast throughout tonight.
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  Speaker 1: In Ukraine, President Vladimir Zelenski fired the commander in chief
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  Speaker 1: of Ukraine's armed forces and what's the latest shakeup of
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  Speaker 1: his top military ranks. The dismissal of General Olexander Sirsky
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  Speaker 1: came just days after Zelenski fired the kun Try's defense minister,
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  Speaker 1: who was largely credited with implementing drone technology in Ukraine's
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  Speaker 1: war against Russia. That firing sparked mass protests in Kiev
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  Speaker 1: and across Ukraine. Today, President Zelenski sought to ease tension,
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  Speaker 1: saying all sides are working toward the same goal.
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  Speaker 2: Marjana Ushikadne. We all want the same thing, to defeat
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  Speaker 2: the enemy and create the conditions on the front line
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  Speaker 2: and through pressure on Russia that would allow us to
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  Speaker 2: force Russia into peace. Ukraine must emerge from the situation stronger,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be harder for Russia.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier today, officials in the southern city of Zafarisha said
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  Speaker 1: a Russian guided bomb attack killed at least three people
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  Speaker 1: and injured more than a dozen. New Jersey's governor said
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  Speaker 1: today that more than six thousand non citizens were registered
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  Speaker 1: to vote in that state in twenty twenty three and
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and that fewer than four hundred of
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  Speaker 1: those actually cast a ballot. At a press conference, Governor
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  Speaker 1: Mikey Cheryl cited a software glitch at New Jersey's motor
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  Speaker 1: vehicle system and announced a full investigation.
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  Speaker 3: This failure didn' occur under my watch, but accountability starts
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  Speaker 3: now because the people of New Jersey shouldn't have to
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  Speaker 3: wait a year for problem to get solved or two
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  Speaker 3: years to learn it even happened.
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  Speaker 1: Cheryl says the individuals were mistakenly added when they registered
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  Speaker 1: either for it driver's license or a state id. The
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  Speaker 1: White House quickly seized on the New Jersey revelations to
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  Speaker 1: bolster President Trump's broader push to overhaul the nation's election laws.
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  Speaker 1: For President, Joe Biden lost a legal bid to block
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  Speaker 1: the release of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with
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  Speaker 1: his longtime ghostwriter that were used in Special Counsel Robert
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  Speaker 1: Hurr's investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents. Biden's lawyers
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  Speaker 1: argued the twenty sixteen and twenty seventeen conversations were candid
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  Speaker 1: and intended to remain private, but in a two to
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  Speaker 1: one ruling, the panel found the public interest in releasing
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  Speaker 1: the redacted materials outweighed any remaining privacy concerns. The court
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  Speaker 1: suspended its decision until August third, giving Biden's team time
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  Speaker 1: to consider another appeal. On Capitol Hill today, a top
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  Speaker 1: Smithsonian official pushed back against Republican criticism over how the
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  Speaker 1: Institution tells the nation's history, which included this exchange. On
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  Speaker 1: exhibits related to gender and equality.
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  Speaker 4: What is a woman? Doctor Hartig, as a director and
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  Speaker 4: as a historian, it's not my oport you sexualize the
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  Speaker 4: American History Museum.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a fair question.
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  Speaker 4: What is a woman?
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  Speaker 1: We strive to Appearing before a House Oversight subcommittee, the
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  Speaker 1: director of the National Museum of American History, Anthea Heartig,
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  Speaker 1: defended the Smithsonian's collections, exhibits, and programming. Heartig was named
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  Speaker 1: in a scathing White House report earlier this month accusing
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  Speaker 1: the museum of what it called extremelit activism. Partig countered
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  Speaker 1: that the institution, as she put it, does not take
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  Speaker 1: sides in America's political debates.
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  Speaker 4: When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don't
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  Speaker 4: mean erasing it. We mean adding the evidence, the voices,
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  Speaker 4: the objects that earlier tellings left out, so that more
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  Speaker 4: Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.
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  Speaker 1: Several Democrats at the hearing defended the Smithsonian and criticized
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  Speaker 1: what they called attempts by the Trump administration to rewrite
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  Speaker 1: moments of history in its museums. The Justice Department is
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  Speaker 1: investigating whether scholarships at Harvard University funded by Chinese donors
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  Speaker 1: favor foreign students. It's the latest inquiry the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: has levied against the Ivy League school. The DOJ announced
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  Speaker 1: the probe yesterday, citing concerns about possible discrimination against American students.
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  Speaker 1: It did not specify which scholarship programs are under review.
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  Speaker 1: In a statement, Harvard said it quote does not unlawfully
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  Speaker 1: discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin
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  Speaker 1: in allocating financial aid. France is now the latest country
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  Speaker 1: to pass a sweeping social media ban for children under
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  Speaker 1: the age of fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Rouen is.
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  Speaker 1: The measure, which also bans the use of cell phones
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  Speaker 1: and high school's, passed in both chambers of France's parliament.
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  Speaker 1: France joins a growing list of countries implementing or considering
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  Speaker 1: such bans, including Australia, Greece, and the UK. On Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street today, a rebound in AI stocks drove the markets higher.
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  Speaker 1: The Dow Jones Industrial Average added nearly four hundred points
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  Speaker 1: on the day. The Nasdaq rose more than one percent.
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  Speaker 1: The S and P five hundred also ended with a
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  Speaker 1: solid gain. Still to come. On the news hour, President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's latest tariffs heightened tensions between the US and Canada.
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  Speaker 1: One of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, discusses a
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  Speaker 1: recent meeting with the Acting Attorney General and renowned actor
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  Speaker 1: and playwright Anna Devere Smith's latest work examines her own
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  Speaker 1: family history.
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  Speaker 4: This is the BBS News Hour from the David M.
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