Administration it will be, i guess time will tell. The latest on trumps legal challenges to the election and how the delay in the transition is leaving president elect biden in the dark on critical issues. Deadline approaching. Federal relief set to run out for millions of americans struggling to make ends meet. With covid cases growing as well as lines at food banks lawmakers at an apparent stalemate. Can they resolve their sticking points . And set for launch. Ignition, liftoff. The new liftoff date for a Historic Mission and the final preps under way for nasa and spacex. The two astronauts ready to make history and crew1s nod to a challenging year as they get ready to rocket into space. Hey, good morning, everybody, happy saturday. Were going to start here with the surging coronavirus pandemic. America has just shattered the daily record again with more than 193,000 new cases reported in just 24 hours. Several state and local officials announcing new lockdowns, pauses, freezes and o
Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholars big is currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the author of eight books. Professor is now on the faculty of holy Honors College for today will be discussing his latest book, lincoln on the verge, story about a 13 day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington, d. C. , to be inaugurated as president. These are two
Alert to its highest level. Translator we will up the mobilization of the military operation from 3,000 to 7,000 soldiers on the ground. Macron visited the scene of the attack at notre dame basilica on thursday. He pledged to protect freedom of religion. The attacker was detained after being shot and wounded by police. One woman was a victim in her 60s who had been praying in the basilica. The others are a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s. The alleged tacker is a 21yearold tunisian national. He said the suspect repeatedly shouted god is great in arabic while being treated at the scene. The bloodshed comes less than two weeks after a teacher in a paris suburb was attacked with a knife. The teacher had shown his students caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a class of freedom of expression. European Union Leaders condemned the attacks, calling on the International Community to work towards dialogue and understanding among communities and religions, rather than division. Chinas com
Georgia democratic candidate for president. We thank you, president ford and we thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. There there are to be three debates between the president ial candidates and one between the vicepresident ial candidates. All are being arranged by the league of women voters education fund. Tonights debate, the first between president ial candidates in sixteen years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before an audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The Television Audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss
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