And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman s association and the us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation for the workers are unhappy with the current contract which spanned the pandemic and dockworkers st
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bret: okay. thanks, greg. greg: thank you. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier. another record for migrant encounters as a federal appeals court puts a halt to the biden administration s plan to remove a barrier along that border. we will take you there live. sweaty palms among former associates of the late sex offender jeffrey epstein as their names could soon be made public. the latest on this. and remembering the first female justice on the u.s. supreme court tonight but, first, breaking tonight, on the heels of disappointing poll numbers across the board, worries among democrats that president biden could drag down the rest of the democratic party next november. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has that as she starts us off tonight live from the north lawn, good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. americans are upset about the state of the economy. and hunter biden s tax crimes put a spotlight on the president s messaging that things woul
individual could corroborate parts of hutchinson s testimony. this is both historic visit and deeply personal one. they will both commit to never allowing iran to ever get nuclear weapons. inflation soaring to 9.1%. i get paid tomorrow and already my whole paycheck is spoken for. europe is once again facing a dangerous heatwave. these heatwaves are staying for quite some time. it is thursday, july 14th, 11:00 a.m. in jetta and in israel where job is expected to meet this hour with the israeli prime minister yair lapid. u.s. officials say mr. biden will stress the state to state relationship with israel and not focus on the importance of any one person deal. the leaders are also expected to sign a statement vowing to never let iran obtain a nuclear weapon. the more controversial leg of mr. biden s trip comes saturday when he will meet here with saudi leaders in jetta. the u.s. president had promised to make the kingdom is pariah for its role in the murder of the
runaway inflation. we re going to talk to one of the president s top advisers. and we re going to hear from president biden directly. he s speaking this hour as the white house is rolling out its plan to protect access to abortion. that s what we re watching at this hour. we begin with new developments in the assassination of japan s longest serving prime minister. shinzo abe killed, shot twice during a campaign speech earlier today. and the attack was caught on video. it is hard to watch. here are the moments the shots rang out. [ speaking foreign language ] [ gunshots ] police took the gunman into custody just moments after the shooting. officials say he s a local resident in his 40s, though his motive is not yet known. the assassination of the 67-year-old abe has shocked japan. a country where gun violence is extremely rare. his death also having an impact around the world. abe stepped aside as prime minister partly because of health issues in 2020, but he was one of t