Honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to give their attention with the court is now sitting with the United States and this honorable court. This morning we will hear argument in case 19177, the United States agency for International Development versus the alliance for open Society International. I know at the outset that Justice Kagan is recused in this case. Mr. Michelle. Mr. Chief Justice Manny please the court, 20 years ago the hivaids pandemic was devastating the world in response president bush proposed that congress adopted leadership act, since reactor rice three times theyve committed 80 billion to global aids relief, it is worth saving more than 17 million lives in the most successful American Foreign aid efforts since the marshall plan. The funding can issue requires recipients travel policy prostitution and sex
Coming, this is exciting, i know its miserable and disgusting outside. X im reallyw glad you slushed up here. Im so glad you are here. Im sarah, im a labor journalist and do labor pot cast and i have known erik since we were bloggers. Out of sight, the book that we are here to discuss and also has a book coming out, later movement in the logging industry in the specific northwest. Thats coming in october, and he writes with blog, lawyers, skins money. So once upon time, erik recruited me, and hes written this book, which is combined labor and environmental history into a potent argument about the problems that we face now in todays politics and todays world. Thank you so news press. Im going to turn over to a minute to tell you a little bit about the book and i will have a few questions for him and we will take questions for you. Were also on cspan book tv, so smile, say thank you for them to coming and ill turn the floor to erik. Thank you for coming out on a hot, hot day. Im just goi
Funds to the separatists. We call on russia to step back from confrontation, and take the path of peace. The ukrainian people has shown its strong commitment to freedom and democracy. Ukraine has been an active and reliable partner for nato over many years. With us, in our operations, and in the Nato Response force, we highly value our partnership. Our meeting sends a clear message that nato stands with ukraine. We support ukraines democratic reforms. And we will be working even closer together to help reform ukraines Defense Sector and build a strong modern army. And continue to improve the ability of ukrainian and nato forces to operate together. So the partnership between nato and ukraine is strong, and we are determined to make it Even Stronger today and in the future. This concludes the public part of our meeting, and i would like to thank the members of the media who have joined us. And there we were listening to the opening remarks of the nato, Ukraine Commission meeting being h
Its still sort of finding its way in terms of what exactly comes under its umbrella of securing the homeland. Part of what has been just a tidal wave of big consequential news this week its been an incredible news week was the emerge of a high level whistleblower from the department of Homeland Security. The man who served as the head much intelligence and analysis for that department. He says this week in an official whistleblower complaint that among other things, the Trump Administration ordered what is effectively a standdown order for the federal government to not respond, not alert anyone, not react to another serious foreign attack on our country. Brian murphy says in his whistleblower complaint that he was told to not release intelligence reports from the department of Homeland Security to state and local officials, even to other federal Law Enforcement agencies, about the russian government attacking the 2020 election to try to mess with the election and influence its outcome.
Fireworks show at the nearby burj went on with this inferno next door a little over an hour ago. Lets get right to cnns becky anderson. Shes in dubai. Becky, is there any new information as to what caused this fire . What we are being told by sources is that a curtain in a room on the 20th floor of this hotel caught alight. And caused the hotel to effective effectively go up in flames. The hotel now is 90 contained so far as authorities are concerned. It is now just after 1 00 in the morning here. And this fire broke out at only 9 35 p. M. Only two and a half hours before the huge firework display just a kilometer or so away was due to take place. And indeed did go on. As far as injuries are concerned there are 16 people who have sustained minor injuries from this fire which was at the address hotel, a fivestar hotel. And residential compound. 63 stories high. 196 rooms, as you rightly pointed out, a hotel that was full tonight as are many of the hotels in dubai for what is one of the