Ethiopias government targets rebels in the north with asteroids. When you have companies that have the power of governments, some thing has to give the bosses a facebook and twitter grilled by both sides of u. S. Politics about that efforts to combat election dissent from ation and frowns debates a controversial new bill to protect police. But critics say it will stifle human rights and free speech. The pentagon has confirmed shop reductions in the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan and iraq by made january just before President Donald Trump leaves office. Trump had wanted a full withdrawal from americas longest war by christmas instead, 2000 will come out of afghanistan and 500. 00 from iraq leaving 2 and a half 1000 in each country. Let us remind those who question our resolve or may seek to interfere with this prudent well planned and coordinated transition. The United States armed forces remain committed to protecting the safety and security of the American People and supporting
Were pleased to be joined on this occasion by secretary of health and human services, alex azar, and administrator of center for medicare and medicaid services, seema, thank you both. Thank you both. And thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. The unprecedented reforms were completing today are the direct result of the historic drug pricing executive orders i signed in july. Statutorily, we had to go through a very long process and we got it done. I was very proud to have gotten this done. We were pushing it very hard. As we did with the vaccines and other things. The first action will save american seniors billions of dollars by preventing middlemen, famous middlemen, they call them, from ripping off patients high Prescription Drug prices. Currently, there are high discounts in the price of prescription medicines, including rebates to Medicare Part d plans last year alone. Yet often, middlemen stop those discounts from going to the patients, which is what were interested in. No
Fourth quarter shipments are up yearoveryear. We will talk to him about what is ahead for 2020. He is the amazon executive who calledd over what he vain toxicity running through company culture. Stories in a moment but first, tech earnings trickling out today. Abigail doolittle is with us. Abigail there was some action later in the day. Another sleepy day for much of the day for stocks. Record highs for the s p 500 and the nasdaq. News came out from pfizer, another headline that pfizer, the doses they will be able to provide for this year expected to be half of what had been anticipated. When the headline came out, it ran very bearish it read very bearish. Stocks initially took a leg lower. The s p 500 going down three tens of 1 . A decent intraday move. The s p 500 finishing down for the first time in three days. The nasdaq, however, managing to keep a small gain and a record high on the date. Pfizer really slipped, 1. 7 . Etf up 8 10 ofnd 1 . Tones of risk off, uncertainty around the
As mentioned earlier today, chief adams serves on preservation virginias board of trustees. It was at his urging that this symposium came to be. The chief served as a strong advocate for the federal recognition of the upper mattaponi. In the lead up to 2007, chief adams actively participated in the Jamestown Committee and activities associated. I can say we spent a lot of time together. At various events around the state. His leadership and persistence ensures that commemorative events reflected the respective Indigenous People, their culture, and governments long before the ships arrive to jamestown. He brought the lack of a permanent memorial on virginia capitol grounds, as did other cabinet leaders, to the attention of governor kane, resulting in the formation of the virginia Indian Commemorative commission, in 2018. Chief adams has generously dedicated himself to numerous causes and organizations across the commonwealth. It is an honor to introduce chief adams. Chief adams thank yo
Just the latest Research Says information and context. Coronaviruses special, monday to friday on w. Well, speech be the new intersection between humans and technology. Even twitter is setting its hopes on audio messaging. Now, even twitter setting its hopes on audio messaging. Now, how well does small Voice Recognition work, and what else does our voice reveal about us . Voice, command and voice analysis. Our topic today on shit and asking the fridge for recipes, talking to your g. P. S. Or turning off the lights with your voice. Turn off the lights, digital assistance using voice command, infiltrating our day to day lives, but why always so keen on them canis is a fan and his berlin by start up, the oval has developed an open source platform that anyone can use to Program Voice apps, which work on all devices. Thats a huge part of us and thats what i find fascinating about. Voice is how natural this type of interaction is when she comes in, but even a 3 year old child can ask for a s