President trump has said hes dropping his attempt to add a Citizenship Question to next years us census. The move was blocked by the Supreme Court last month. Opponents fear it could deter immigrant households from taking part in the census, lead to an undercounting of the population in democratic districts, and benefit the president s republican party. But he still hopes to press on, announcing instead an executive order, requiring all Government Agencies and departments to provide records on population. Today im here to say were not backing down in our effort to determine the citizenship status of the United States population. I stand before you to outline new steps my administration is taking to ensure that citizenship is counted so that we know how many citizens we have in the United States. Our north america correspondent, peter bowes, explains why the citizenship issue is such a politicised and controversial issue, and so important to President Trump. It has become increasingly p
Troubled travel operator thomas cook begins rescue talks with banks and its largest shareholder. And englands netballers start their World Cup Campaign tonight with a match against uganda in liverpool. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. The American Military says its trying to put together a coalition to protect commercial shipping in the gulf after the royal navy had to intervene to help a british tanker which was being confronted by iranian vessels. The foreign secretaryjeremy hunt has promised to reverse cuts to the size of the royal navy if he becomes Prime Minister. Rising tensions with iran have led to uk merchant vessels being placed on the highest security alert near the strait of hormuz. On one side are the arab states, including a number of key allies. On the other, iran. Between them, the strait of hormuz at its narrowest point, its only 21 miles across. But in total, a fifth of the worlds oil exports are squeezed through this tiny corridor. So any disruption
Good afternoon. Everyone seated . All right, can everyone hear me okay . All right, good afternoon, thank you so much, sean, for the introduction. If youre like me youre fascinated by all of the panelists that are here today that have such incredible perspectives on the world and where their jobs have taken them, my goal today and my hope for you is that we are able to take a transcribe trip around the world through their experiences, able to understand the world and which may be pretty complicated and americas role in that, where do we go from here, so lets just sort of do an overview of where we are today. I work in the news world so if you guys think youre being bombarded by headlines, welcome. [laughter] but we have a lot going on, right . I was in venezuela where i covered the conflict there, not easy to see or understand much less explain, we have conflicts in syria, we have conflicts in yemen, and here is whats heartbreaking, we had nearly 70 million displaced people in the worl
Issues that may ultimately go behind closed doors. I think this is going to be fascinating and important how the republicans and democrats . Questionmocrats mueller. David turns out hes going to do a little more talking. Carol just before they all go out on recess. We are also walking the markets also watching the markets on this wednesday morning. S p 500 futures had a bunch of selling yesterday. S p down three consecutive days. A little bit of support here, up just about 12 point. The eurodollar 1. 13. Crude seeing some support. Concerns over the tensions continuing with iran. You got new york crude up about 1. 8 . David General Mills breaking their earnings right now, which is a bit of a puzzle to me. Net sales came out at 4. 2 billion, a little bit off estimates. 83 asngspershare was 0. 77, but they are down in premarket trading. It looks like there is a little disappointment creeping in. Carol the stock is up about 38 this year, so theres a lot of optimism. Any disappointment abou
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God our father, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Bless the members of this peoples house as they gather at the end of another week in the capitol. Endow each with the graces needed to attend to the issues of the day with wisdom. That the results of their efforts might benefit the citizens of our nation and the world. We also ask your blessing leading into this weekend upon fathers throughout our country. May they be their best selves and may their children appreciate fully the blessing they have been to them. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. New england journal of medicine pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman