politicsnation. tonight s lead, more hostages released. right now, right now, after nearly two months of hostilities, israel and hamas are in the second day of a cease-fire, and with that, a series of prisoner exchanges that has included women, children, and the elderly at this hour, after long and dramatic day that saw a few delays and a personal intervention by president jill joe biden, 13 additional israeli hostages have been released by hamas. eight children and five women, along with four foreign thailand nationals. israel, saying that the red cross has confirmed the release. they are on their way to the rafah crossing in gaza. meanwhile, 39 palestinian prisoners have been released by israel. have promised to continue tomorrow with the third round. but in the interim, the white house is trying to figure out how to push this truce forward into a lasting peace, and how to get as much humanitarian aid into gaza as possible. democratic senator, chemo smith, joins me
Its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm in the evening in new york, where the United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned north koreas latest Ballistic Missile test. The Us Ambassador to the un, nikki haley, said it is time to hold north korea accountable with actions, not words. A few hours before, President Trump told a joint News Conference with the canadian Prime Minister, that the us faces many dangers. When i was campaigning, i said it is not a good situation. Now that i see it, including with our intelligence briefings, we have problems that a lot of people have no idea how bad they are, how serious they are. Not only internationally, but when you come right here. 0bviously north korea is a big, big problem, and we will deal with that very strongly. 0ur correspondent neda tawfik is at the un in new york. She told me there was a clear message from the Security Council. Well, the Security Council issued a very strong statement, as you said, unanimous the
Its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in london and 8 00pm in the evening in new york, where the United Nations Security Council has unanimously condemned north koreas latest Ballistic Missile test. The Us Ambassador to the un, nikki haley, said it is time to hold north korea accountable with actions, not words. A few hours before, President Trump told a joint News Conference with the canadian Prime Minister, that the us faces many dangers. When i was campaigning, i said it is not a good situation. Now that i see it, including with our intelligence briefings, we have problems that a lot of people have no idea how bad they are, how serious they are. Not only internationally, but when you come right here. 0bviously north korea is a big, big problem, and we will deal with that very strongly. 0ur correspondent neda tawfik is at the un in new york. She told me there was a clear message from the Security Council. Well, the Security Council issued a very strong statement, as you said, unanimous the
numbers as measured by gallop actually went up. his approval rating increased from 39% to 40%. a month later by the end of may 1975, ford s approval ratings surged to 51%. so gerald ford, president of ford, oversaw an international embarrassment but americans gave him a pass. they weren t done with him just yet. something very similar happened during the john f. kennedy administration. kennedy was in charge from the bay of pigs invasion april 1961 which he singlehandedly turned into a disaster. that disaster made fidel castro a national hereflo cuba and drove hero in cuba and drove cuba closer to the soviet union. this happened during the cuban missile crisis. that wasn t a good thing for anybody, and yet despite that, jfk s approval ratings did not drop, in fact, they went up from 78% to 83% in the days after that disaster. the bay of pigs happened in the first year of the kennedy administration.
armstrong was an excellent pilot but led an unassuming private life he and his family lived in a home in the mountains of southern california with no electricity or hot water. his colleagues described him as friendly but reserved he preferred to let his talents as a pilot speak for themselves. in the early 1960 s. few thought that a manned spacecraft to the moon was possible and the u.s. space program was about to be outdone again by the soviet union. and april 1961 yuri gagarin became the 1st human to journey into outer space. capsule made a single orbit around the earth and then returned. but his good garden was being celebrated worldwide as the 1st man in space the u.s. was putting the final touches to its own inaugural spaceflight.