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Let's get to the other need to know headlines on this Friday, Kristen. All right. Well, there's just two days before the deadline to avert a government shutdown and Congress still does not have a plan to avert it overnight. The house passed three spending bills though the fourth was blocked. But the bills which provide funding for the full fiscal year are unlikely to pass in the Democrat controlled Senate. Meanwhile, the Senate's bipartisan stop gap bill passed earlier this week also has little chance of passing as House Speaker Kevin mccarthy said he will not support it. Mccarthy said he will reveal his own temporary funding plan today, we'll have more on how the shutdown will impact people financially. A little bit later in the show. Former president Trump says he will not attempt to move his Georgia case to federal court. That's according to a court filing from Trump's legal team yesterday, if the election's interference case was moved to federal court, Trump could have argued that he was immune from prosecution because his actions were taken in his role as president on September 8. Trump's former Chief of staff, Mark Meadows request to move his case to federal court was denied. Meanwhile, President Trump was named on the witness list for a civil fraud trial set to begin Monday in New York. His Children, Don Jr Eric and Ivanka Trump were also named on the witness list. New York, Attorney General, Letitia James brought the $250 million suit against Trump and his companies for allegedly committing fraud for years. Well, yesterday rejected Trump's request to delay the trial. And earlier today, a suicide bombing at a mosque in Balochistan. Pakistan has left at least 52 people dead. Another 70 people injured. Government officials say some of the wounded are in critical condition. Nearly 500 people had gathered in the area for a national holiday celebrating the prophet Mohammed's birthday. A second separate attack at a mosque in Pakistan's Cabra province has left five people dead and 11 injured. Local authorities say those numbers could rise as the mosque collapsed from the blast. No group immediately claimed responsibility for these bombings and the US. Navy said Iranian forces repeatedly aimed a laser at an American helicopter and American helicopter during a routine flight over the Persian Gulf. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy reportedly shown the lasers at the US Marine Corps helicopters multiple times on Wednesday evening, local time on the helicopter were not injured. Us. Navy spokesman Commander Rick Schnitzer said in a statement yesterday, these are not the actions of a professional maritime force. It is unsafe, unprofessional and irresponsible behavior by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Navy risks US and partner nation lives and needs deceased immediately end. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued online business review site Yelp Pat and claims the company violated Texas's deceptive trade practices act and what the Texas A calls inaccurate and misleading language on its crisis pregnancy center listing the Yelp notices state this is a crisis, pregnancy center crisis, pregnancy centers do not offer abortions or referrals to abortion providers. Well, Yelp preemptively filed its own lawsuit on Wednesday to protect its right to tell users that crisis pregnancy centers listed on the site do not provide abortions or abortion referrals. Yelp said it began putting notices on crisis pregnancy centers in August of 2022 when the company found the centers were leading people seeking an abortion to anti abortion counseling services elsewhere, a Massachusetts woman pleaded guilty yesterday to calling it a fake bomb threat at Boston Children's Hospital in August of 2022. Catherine Levy was arrested last year in Westfield. Massachusetts. Levy made the call after the Boston Children's Hospital launched the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the country. Levy allegedly phone the hospital and said there's a bomb on the way to the hospital. You better evacuate everybody you sicko. She pleaded guilty yesterday in Boston Federal Court to making a false bomb threat. And levy is scheduled to be sentenced in March of 2024 if convicted, she could face up to 10 years in prison. The US Supreme Court kicks off a new term on Monday. The justices are expected to consider major issues including the legality of food and drug administration regulations around the abortion pill Prestone school bans on transgender students using bathroom consistent with their gender identity and whether domestic abusers have the right to carry guns. Other issues include South Carolina's election map, whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be dismantled and whether to limit in house proceedings of the Security and Exchange Commission. Traditionally, the Supreme Court opens its yearly term the first Monday of October.