This is next live from n.p.r. News in Washington Herbst a federal appeals court in Richmond Virginia hears arguments today in a case accusing President Trump of profiting off the presidency as N.P.R. s Bobbie Allen reports the case is one of 3 pending suit seeking to force Trump to divest himself from his business empire the attorneys general of Washington d.c. And Maryland say the president hosting foreign leaders at his own hotel just blocks away from the White House is illegal the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution prohibits federal officials from accepting profits and other perks from foreign governments attorney Deepak Gupta represents the state suing Trump unlike all previous presidents he took no steps to prevent his business intent comments with foreign governments and to this day we still have not seen an accounting of what payments President Trump is getting through his businesses from which foreign governments to similar suits are still active travel ministration lawyers
Temperature rises to $1.00 degrees Celsius scientific consensus is that to have a 2 thirds chance of holding to that figure we can only emit carbon at the current rate for another 80 years reports from Nice shares say suspected Islam is militants have attacked 2 Army bases over the past 72 hours in what analysts are calling an alarming escalation of insurgency it s not known how many people were killed in the assaults that happened on Monday and Tuesday in the south of the country no group has said it carried out the attacks but Boko Haram fighters are active in the area were news from the b.b.c. Kosovo and the Bosnian capital Sarajevo have separately barred this year s Nobel Laureate in literature pater hand from entering their territory for his denial of Serbian war crimes Kosovo and Sarajevo were both under siege from Bosnian Serb nationalist forces for around 3 and a half years they ve declared Peter had kept persona non-grata for denying this reverend It s a massacre in 9095 and
A u.n. Report shifts focus from income inequality to opportunity inequality now these headlines live from n.p.r. News a in Washington I m Jack Speer House Democrats are bringing 2 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump abuse of power and obstruction of Congress N.P.R. s Brian Naylor says the articles were unveiled this morning on Capitol Hill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the filing of impeachment articles was a solemn act Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler a New York Democrat said the president was in Nablus words in danger in our democracy and national security today in service to our duty to the Constitution and to our country. The House Committee on the judiciary is introducing 2 articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States Donald j. Trump with committing high crimes and misdemeanors now they are said the Judiciary Committee will take up the articles later this week in a tweet President Trump said he has done nothing wrong Brian Na
Are Times which says it would allow the government to withhold federal aid to college campuses that failed to combat anti semitism the orders expected to extend protections against discrimination to Jewish students under Title 6 of the 19 $164.00 Civil Rights Act essential directing that Judaism be regarded not just as a religion but as a race or nationality as well legislation to combat anti semitism amid a boycott Israel movement that has caused tension on some college campuses has stalled in Congress even though it has drawn bipartisan support critics say such a policy change could end up suppressing legitimate speech about Israeli policies trial Snyder n.p.r. News Washington Jersey City Mayor Steven follow up says authorities think a kosher market was targeted in a gun battle yesterday that left 6 people including the 2 gunman dead although he didn t elaborate on why he thinks the market was targeted and full of says authorities are working to help people heal we could see the van
Same number as the day last April when the moment report was released to influence on the reporting police say a person injured in a volcanic eruption in New Zealand has died in an Auckland Hospital bringing that death toll the 6 about 30 people remain hospitalized news analysis at townhall dot com I m Keith Peters in Washington a Pennsylvania appeals court has rejected Bill Cosby s bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction Bill Cosby s lawyers argued that the trial judge improperly allowed 5 women to testify at last year s retrial but a 3 judge panel on Pennsylvania s Superior Court appeared to agree with that judge s logic in letting some women take the stand after more than 60 women accused Cosby of sexual misconduct the panel also questioned why cause me didn t get a written immunity agreement for the deposition that was unsealed a decade later Kaspi serving a 3 to 10 year sentence for the 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Konstanz cause we can now appeal to the Pennsylvania Supre