Selloff. The dow industrials down 36 points, nasdaq up 61 and s p higher by 3 and a quarter. This as we await testimony from treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve chairman jay powell today, both on capitol hill later today. This follows a huge selloff yesterday sparked by an open Supreme Court seat and impact of it on the ledge Kellyanne Conway slalegislative agenda. Dow indusn 500 points, nasdaq lower by 14 and s p lower by 38. The state of our cities, the department of justice naming three major cities anarchist jurisdictions that could lose federal funding due to ongoing unrest. Rudy giuliani is back with us with his take on all of this. Then, fine on the field, nfl handing out massive fines for mask violations, all the numbers coming up this morning. Women and wellness, how some are expanding business while keeping their cool in the era of coronavirus. Super model Kathy Ireland is here with lifestyle tips you dont want to yo miss. Mornings with maria is live right n
But prior to that. Youre a journalist for many years. How did you make that transition . Well, id reached the point where i thought i had sort of fulfilled whatever plan i could have in journalism. In the sense that ive been a Foreign Correspondent a variety of places. Ive been an editor and the president chairman of random house said, you know journalism is really not a fit profession for growing and if you ever get serious, call me. So i did and they found a position for me is a Senior Editor at random house, which was obviously a great place to go and so i sort of made a lateral move. Out of the Washington Post into being a first book editor and eventually a book publisher. So it was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience. I had in journalism, which turned out to be very valuable and connections. So i i know one of the last thing i realized almost as soon as i got there that the difference is in the newspaper business you went out and got the story in the Publishing
After having his 2020 rape conviction overturned on appeal last week. Weinstein s conviction was seen as a historic milestone for the me too movement, which saw hundreds of men accused of sexual misconduct. Floridas six week abortion ban has come into force, closing the door for now on the last major Abortion Access point in the us south. The new legislation replaces an existing 15 week law. Pro choice campaigners say the ban will push an overstretched system to the brink. Parliament in georgia has provisionally approved controversial new legislation, despite violent protests and clashes with police. The foreign agents law requires organisations to state whether theyre funded from abroad. Welcome to the programme. The Student Protests in america are not the anti apartheid protests of the 80s this isnt 1968, either. Yes, the university of columbia, has an honoured place in the history of american protest but in previous protests, the students were in it together, this is something diff
Good evening, everyone. Im laura coates, here with abby philip, and this is a Special Edition of cnn tonight. Kevin mccarthy, i listed as house speaker, he says hes not dont even run again. Now, the house will be in recess for a week. Theyre not even planning to return till next tuesday night for cough conference meetings, before then, a Potential Vote later that week on electing a new speaker. So that means the house will be closed for business, maybe well get another speaker. Me while, because he lost that speakership gavel today, police said this tonight. These are the same people that never voted for me, they thought it was big they went to present. After we went through 15 rounds. Im not quite sure those individuals are looking to be productive. Well, this is certainly a moment in american history. And a series of a number of moments that weve never seen anything like before. Never before has a speaker lost the job in a vote on the house floor. And it happened with the pounding of