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This since your twenty four to seven US update.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Pope
Francis this morning at the age of eighty eight. As
Anne Thompson reports, Francis will be remembered in part for
being a reformer. He elevated the role of women in
the Church in a series of first making a woman
head of a Vatican department, giving a woman a vote
in the Senate of Bishops, and appointing a woman to

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oversee the Vatican City State. The Pope's death comes about
a month after he left a Rome hospital where he
was being treated for double pneumonia. But he made a
surprise Easter appearance on a balcony at Saint Peter's Basilica
yesterday and also met briefly with Vice President J. D. Vance.
Archbishop Nelson Perez from Philadelphia says Francis's mission has been completed.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
He wanted to be there for Easter, and he was
spoke to the world, roamed around.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Saint Peter's Square.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
How beautiful, right, And then I think the Lord said.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Work an historical process will now take place after his death. First,
the Pope's chief of staff calls out his baptismal name
three times, and if there is no response, a death
certificate is prepared. The chief of staff then takes the
ring of the Fishermen from Francis and destroys it along
with the papal seal to ensure there are no forgeries.
He then starts planning for the body to lie in state,

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makes the funeral arrangements, and preps for the election of
a successor. The faithful can pay their respects to Francis
within the nine day morning period at Saint Peter Square.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is once again accused of
sharing more detailed military plans across a second group chat
in the signal app Multiple reports a heg Seth shared

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the military plans regarding an operation against Huthi's in Yemen
with his brother, lawyer, and wife. The report comes following
an incident last month where top members of President Trump's
cabinet sent operational plans and classified information about US military
strikes on Yemen to a group threat on signal to
which a reporter had accidentally been added. I'm Lisa cartin

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President Trump's border z are says the administration followed the
law when it deported a Maryland man to El Salvador.
Details from Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
In an interview with ABC's This Week, Tom Homan defended
the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, repeating allegations that he's
a gang member.

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And we have followed the constitution, we have followed law.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I am confident that everything we've done has followed laws
within the constitutional constricts.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Absolutely whom we said. The administration was allowed to deport
Abrego Garcia under the Alien Enemies Act, even though the
administration admitted in court he was deported due to an
administrative error. Homan went on to criticize US Senator Chris
van Holland for going to El Salvador to meet Abrego Garcia,
calling the deported man a terrorist.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Jury selection continues today in Lower Manhattan for the sex
crimes retrial for Harvey Weinstein. Scott Pringle reports.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
So far, nine of twelve jurors have been picked. Six
alternates still have to be chosen as well. Meanwhile, a
judge last week did honor the former Hollywood producer's request
to move out of the Rikers Island jail complex and
into a hospital because of Weinstein's health issues. Weinstein's facing
one count of rape two counts of criminal sexual acts
connected to three alleged incidents. Weinstein's previous conviction was tossed

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due to errors in how the witness process was handled.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
A University of Massachusetts student has been arrested for allegedly
firebombing at Tesla dealership. Here's Jim Forbes.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
The Department of Justice said nineteen year old Owen McIntyre
was arrested on the UMass Boston campus. McIntyre has been
charged with unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and
malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce.
A federal criminal complaint says McIntyre was in his hometown

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of Kansas City for spring break when he allegedly set
the dealership on fire.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Three more states are reporting their first measles cases of
the year. Louisiana, Virginia, and Missouri reported k is over
the weekend, all linked to international travel. I'm Lisa Carton.