string of shootings targeting his political opponents. we re going to have that for you. plus cnn has learned more searches could be coming as biden biden white house continues to face questions over the handling of classified material. and a college student in indiana was stabbed in the head and police now say it was a racially motivated attack. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you so much for being here, everybody. i m kate bolduan. let s start in new mexico with a wild story that is raising questions whether political violence is becoming a norm. police have arrested a man for being the mastermind behind a series of shootings at the homes of state and local democratic officials. solomon pena, he is accused of conspiring with and paying four men to carry out the shootings. he had run he had run in an election, lost as a republican candidate, for the new mexico state house. thankfully no one was injured in those shootings. but officials believe that
asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve
of course that has the attention on the the white house today. there is also new reporting that the investigation into biden s handling of the classified documents, that it could be expanding. paula reid is in washington and she s joining us now, tracking all of the deetails. what are you learning today. it is possible there could be additional searches of locations connected to the president. we know after they found this initial batch of classified material at the president s former d.c. office, his lawyers decided to undertake additional searches about but they looked at locations where the documents were shipped and that includes that former office and his two his two delaware residences, one in wilmington, one in rehoboth. but they re not just looking for classified material. they could look for other presidential records that need to be returned to the archives. an it is interesting, in our reporting we learned that the u.s. attorney who handled the
times longer than they should. questions for president biden after it emerges from his lawyers found a fresh batch of classified government documents at his delaware residences. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. people claiming sickness and disability benefits could soon be allowed to keep receiving their payments , even when they find a job. the plans are being considered as part of government changes, aimed at getting more people back into employment. at the moment, benefits can be reduced , or withdrawn altogether , when a claimant returns to work. the charity citizens advice wants an outright ban on energy companies forcing people to switch to prepayment metres because of the number of people getting cut off. customers on prepayment metres have to pay for their energy in advance.
hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines. new figures show record waiting times in england for an ambulance, with many patients waiting five times longer than they should. but we kept thinking that the ambulance would pull up any minute. we kept thinking it s going to arrive, it ll be ok. and itjust didn t. next year, what were you thinking? questions for president biden after it emerges his lawyers found a fresh batch of classified government documents at his home in delaware. he says he s cooperating fully with thejustice department. asl as i said earlier this week, people