India has not taken part in negotiations since november of last year. Officials suggested the country may not want to be part of a free trade pact seen as hurting its domestic industries. The u. S. House leader and other Top Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to accept joe bidens win and move on. Republicans continue to throw up roadblocks in the transition to power. Stop the circus and get to work on what really matters to the american people, their health and their economic security. President trump has made few Public Comments since the election, but repeatedly publishes claims of Election Fraud on twitter. His camp has also filed a number of legal challenges, but no states have overturned results. Even some republicans are now calling on President Trump to break the impasse. They want his administration to grant biden access to the daily Intelligence Briefings normally given to a president elect. While biden has received no help from the state department, he continues
History of Supreme Court nominations. The panel approved barrett by a 120 vote as democrats did not show up. Instead, their chairs were filled with posters of americans who they say could lose their health care coverage. There had been concerns that barretts previous rulings would side with the conservative majority and strike it down. Our democratic colleagues informed me last night they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. The republicans skirted rules that require members of he minority to be present for official business. The entire senate is expected to vote monday to confirm barrett to a lifetime seat on the countrys top court. The vote will likely pass, as republicans hold a majority. The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is the most illegitimate process i have ever witnessed in the senate, and her potential confirmation will have dire, dire consequences for the senate, for the Supreme Court, and our
8 55 utc. The epicenter was at a depth of 40 kilometers. The center is recommending people in the area to remain observant and exercise normal caution near the sea and no action is required. Japans Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide will leave vietnam for indonesia for talks with president joko widodo on tuesday. Translator i want the two countries to work closely on various issues including the coronavirus and the economy. I want the summit to establish such a relationship. In the meeting suga is expected to emphasize that as a key member of asean indonesia is a Strategic Partner and the two countries share basic values like freedom and democracy. Suga hopes the nations will agree to Work Together over a range of regional issues including chinas growing maritime presence. He wants to arrange a meeting of their foreign and defense ministers soon. Suga also plans to accelerate negotiations on the transfer of defense equipment. Indonesia has the highest total number of coronavirus cases in so
Announced today some extra resources to help with that. The extra resources will go to eight counties in californias central valley. Thats where theres been a surge in coronavirus cases. The governor delivered todays update from a Diamond Foods sto. While positivity numbers are stabilizing statewide, eight counties are seeing increased infections in the central valley. How deadly this disease continues to be. Reporter he announced a 52 Million Investment for those counties specifically, used to improve isolation and testing protocols, as well as to provide more support and personnel to health care workers. The money is part of a 499 cdc grant to california. These dollars, we think are timely. These dollars are critical. And important. And they will buld off local infrastructure already in place. Reporter strike teams will be deployed to support the essential workforce. We have a great deal of work to do to get transmission rates down here in the central valley. Reporter the governor to
Exhibit that began at the New York Historical society and has traveled here, and it was a real pleasure to work on that, and i hope that you all get a chance to see it. Its an interesting exhibit. Today im going to talk a bit about my current research, which, as camille said, is about how the u. S. Army as an institution was trying to manage a crisis that its leaders perceived during the war in vietnam, a crisis around race. And as i imagine almost all of you know, the u. S. War in vietnam was the first major conflict that the United States fought from the beginning with an integrated armed force, with a racially integrated armed force. And for much of that war, that process was treated as a great success. And in combat, it almost without exception was. But by the end of the 1960s, army leaders were talking about the war within the war and trying to figure out how to manage a racial crisis that they saw as starting to tear the army apart. So, my research right now is trying to think ab