Seeking justice for Briana Taylor protesters are right again in the u. S. As 3 policemen escape charges for her death. Long running protests in thailand forced parliament to delay plans to amend the constitution. And mozambique asked for help from the e. U. To find armed groups who forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. Now beginning this news hour in the United States where Senior Republicans are distancing themselves from Donald Trumps refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election in november the president was a vase of when asked about it on wednesday. Well have to see what happens you know that ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots and the ballot surges esther and the people arriving committed to making sure that theres a nice little word for all of the want to get rid of the ballots and youll have a very transfer will have a very peaceful there wont be a transfer or frankly there will be a continuation of the ballots out of
A recall a building on post street he and a walked on back in guessing 2005, 2006 which presented some very similar issues. It was a tax credit building. And what happened was and this has not happened a lot but it does come up, what happens when you take an Affordable Housing model and allow for protections and plot that on a place where people either were rent controlled or thought they were rent controlled tenant and that raised issues and complications and we worked through that and did legislation and supervisor peskin made clear tenants werent losing the protections even if you overlaid Affordable Housing. Honestly, colleagues, if midtown had been build in 2014 and everyone had come in we wouldnt have that problem and thats a shift in people with rent control protection to another program. Many protections of rent control exists in the program for example eviction protections, you dont need the rent board and frankly theres more loopholes in the rent control that allow people to
Lives in 188. 00 countries in the United States we launched the most aggressive mobilization since the 2nd world war the Fact Checkers in a country that suffered more than most from cope with 19 unlikely to question those claims as the Chinese Ambassador to the un listened in the General Assembly hall the president intensified his attack on china we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world china in the early is days of the virus china locked down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave china and infect the world before introducing president xi the Chinese Ambassador made an impromptu intervention complaining about bullying and. China resolutely acts that baseless accusation against china his president in a clear contrast to President Trump said International Cooperation was the key to combating covert 19. 19 reminds us that were living in an interconnected Global Village with a common stake all countries are closely connected and we share
Welcome everybody. Im head of Government Relations and pub Public Policy atlas forego. Im pleased to be here with you today. We are pleased to serve for the eight year as a charter sponsor of the book festival and even prouder to watch the book festival grow into the incredibly popular impactful event that it has become. I wouldnt be surprised applause thank you. I wouldnt be surprised to see us move the needle to the best seller list today. Its even more important to keep the book festival a free event. The Library Congress and book festival is a real purpose. Its literacy. It leads to learning and opportunity, which is our goal to help our community succeed. Learning to love books and learning to Love Learning our with the book festival is all about. In this session, ron chernow will discuss his biography of ulysses grant. And certain other popular Founding Fathers if we are lucky. One thing i learned from the story of president grant was how people could evolve through persistence a
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