00:00After months of negotiations, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would place
00:03new restrictions on stock trading by members of Congress and their families.
00:08More than a dozen Democrats joined with Republicans to pass the Bill 232-198.
00:12The proposal would bar members of Congress, along with their spouses and their dependent children,
00:17from buying individual stocks while in office, though they could still hold certain investment
00:22funds. Anyone wanting to sell individual stocks would have to provide advance notice,
00:26with violations carrying fines and possible ethics investigations.
00:30But, and this is a biggie, the bill also includes voter ID requirements, something unrelated to stock
00:36trading that was kind of shoehorned in. Notably, it's a provision that has drawn sharp Democratic
00:40opposition and could complicate its chances of becoming a law. Because even if it clears the
00:45House, the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where there appears to be
00:48very little support for the bill in its current form. But the debate over the bill itself has
00:53also renewed scrutiny of some of Congress's most active traders. Data from Quiver Quantitative
00:58shows California Democratic Representative Ro Khanna's household reported the highest volume
01:02of trades last year, to the tune of nearly $66 million in assets. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
01:09family also remains one of the most high-profile examples of congressional stock trading, making
01:13over $52 million worth of trades in the last year. Texas Republican Michael McCall moved $48 million
01:20in trades, and Wisconsin Republican Tony Weed close to $26 million. And those are just the bigger
01:24figures. Many more members of Congress stand to be limited by the bill as well.
01:29The independent autopsy of Nolan Wells is raising as many questions as it answers. The 18-year-old
01:35college football player died after a day with friends on a Mississippi island. Investigators
01:39don't suspect foul play at the moment, but his family says the facts just don't make sense.
01:45The preliminary report was revealed by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing
01:49the Wells family. It found nothing conclusive. Nolan's cause of death and manner of death
01:54were ruled to be undetermined. This was a secondary autopsy, and the official autopsy,
01:59which was done first, has yet to be released. As it stands, several key questions still don't
02:03have answers. Was there head trauma? Did he drown? And what happened before he entered the
02:07water? For more on what the preliminary autopsy found and the questions that still remain,
02:11let's bring in the New York Post's reporter, Anthony Blair.
02:13It was a frustrating day for the family of 18-year-old Nolan Wells after a preliminary
02:20autopsy report found that we still don't know the cause of death almost two weeks after the
02:26teenager died during a 4th of July trip with friends. Wells' family still, of course, want to know
02:32how he died, whether he died before his body entered the water, and when he died. So the nature of
02:41the
02:41decomposition of the body means that authorities still can't say for certain exactly when
02:45Wells died. We know that he vanished apparently on the 4th of July, his body was discovered on the
02:526th, and two separate autopsies have so far failed to determine his cause of death. So his family now
02:59say they want authorities to take the case more seriously and also speed up the process of which
03:06they complete several parts of the autopsy. For instance, the toxicology report is still yet to
03:12be completed. Also the throat, so Wells' throat was taken out at some point between the first and
03:20second autopsy. I spoke to Dr. Michael Barden, the former chief medical examiner for New City today,
03:30and he told me that while this isn't always done, it isn't super uncommon, and they may be looking for
03:37minor fractures in the sort of bones of the trachea, which could provide some more indication of how he
03:44died. But at this point, his family still know very little and are sort of trying to get at least
03:51more attention onto the case. A dispute over a $65 parking contract is being blamed for a shocking
03:58triple murder in Minnesota. Authorities say an Ethiopian migrant, 30-year-old Saigab Benesu,
04:05allegedly flew off the handle and gunned down three parking lot employees after learning he
04:09couldn't cancel his month-to-month parking garage agreement at the apartment complex that he lived
04:14in in St. Paul. Investigators say Benesu had called the office about canceling the contract because he
04:19wanted to join the U.S. Navy. When he was told no, he allegedly went to the office armed to
04:24kill.
04:24Court documents say he fired more than 20 shots. One of the three victims reportedly
04:28tried to escape through a window before she was killed. Benesu was arrested about 200 miles away
04:33while, get this, driving one of the victim's cars. Now, investigators say he later told police that
04:38he felt he'd been treated unfairly because he was Black and an immigrant and expressed frustration
04:43over his inability to bring his family from Ethiopia to the United States after trying
04:47for the last seven years. He's been charged with three counts of second-degree murder.
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