found dead at the scene. it s being treated as unexplained but not suspicious. george michael shot to fame in the 1980s with the group wham, and then went on to have a hugely successful solo career. andy moore looks back at his life. # well, i hadn t seen your face around town a while, so i greeted you, with a knowing smile. he burst onto the scene in the early 1980s when he formed wham with andrew ridgeley. the duo had number one singles around the world. they even conquered china, becoming the first western pop band to perform there. george michael loved fame but never became used to it. to be obviously a part of people s lives as an artist, that s what i dreamed of and that s what i m still grateful for. but my god, i wish i could cope with the other stuff the way other people do. i wish i d been born with that particular suit of armour, you know, because i wasn t. # you know not everybody has got a body like you. but i gotta think twice before i give my heart away. as his
champagne down pennsylvania avenue. there are only two places where america s popping champagne; the white house and the corporate boardrooms including trump tower. the gop tax scam is about bleeding the middle class dry to pad the pockets of corporate america and the wealthiest 1%. paul: joining the panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and mary anastasia o grady and editorial page writer kate odell. why did they succeed on taxes when they failed on health care? right. that is one question, because you would expect a failure to make it harder to succeed. but i think here the health care failure really focused the minds for the gop that, for them, it was do or die for their majority in 2018 to get a tax bill passed. and it wasn t always clear they would choose do. [laughter] but also i think there was a rougher consensus on what a tax
something to behold from both directions. [laughter] paul: some of it s phony, i must say
a tweet trumped labeled the renewed sanctions as quote the most biting ever imposed he went on to say quote anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states so while this pressure from trump get iran to back to the table for a new deal with the united states i put that question to ben i m ben a research fellow from the foundation for defense of democracies who focuses on iranian security and political issues. well first and foremost thanks very much for having me yes this is exactly the sort of course of financial means basically economic sanctions that the u.s. is looking to levy and also in force against tehran to drive them to a choice about their behavior in the region and the economy as well as to more importantly get them back to the negotiating table and in co paly a more comprehensive nuclear deal as well as an agreement over its regional three teacher portfolios i mean so far tehran says though that they re not going back to
the negotiating
today in beijing in the shine of 1949 china turned 70 on tiananmen square there were no stains from the past as a soon to be superpower paraded its military might for the world to see but today in hong kong in the shadow of $989.00 violence own the streets and a policeman fired a bullet into a protester tonight china s split screen reality is one country 2 systems condemned to a future with one more massacre i m bored golf in berlin this is the day. when your good news there is no you fool speck and shake the foundation of peace great nation. people in the free world strongly support people to continue our fight it is important to come out to show. the humble government as well as paging god we
are not afraid to put me down no fools can stop the chinese people. and the chinese nation from forging ahead. we can t continue to allow china to break our country killing us and that s what they re doing but as far as america s concern those days are over. long live the people s republic of