At a Student Accommodation building all universities to review fire in bolton after more than 200 firefighters spent nine safety in their buildings. Hours putting it out. Prime minister borisjohnson met students who were evacuated leading labour and trade union from last nights fire, figures are meeting to decide before visiting the scene of the blaze. Which policies will be included meanwhile, leading labour and trade union figures are meeting to decide which policies will be in the partys election manifesto. Included in the partys election manifesto. Competing on Climate Change policies the conservatives say they will plant 30 Million Trees competing on Climate Change policies, a year by 2025 if it wins the conservatives say they will plant 30 Million Trees the general election a year by 2025 if it wins but the lib dems say they can plant the general election twice as many trees. But the lib dems say they can plant twice as many trees. And now on bbc news, Victoria Derbyshire takes a
Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, the issue of President Bidens memory and Mental Fitness on full display in front of a House Committee today. The now former Special Counsel who wrote controversial remarks concerning the subject was grilled today in a hearing about his decision not to charge the president over his retention of classified documents. Correspondent david spunt has all the highlights tonight from a contentious hearing. Good evening, david. David good evening. Robert hur took questions for almost five hours and it became clear right out of the gate that this was a proxy fight over who could possibly win the white house in november. I did not sanitize my explanation, nor did i disparage the president unfairly. Former Special Counsel robert hur defending his report and his credibility. The report critical of President Bidens handling of classified documents found piled up in tattered boxes in his Delaware Garage and personal offices. We identified evidence that the president w
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Revolutionized american history. Whenever started working on the book people would react with recognition when i said i was writing about joseph pulitzer, but it was clear from their expression they knew the name and nothing about his life. He shares his fate with our herd novellas the wellknown for prize, which he endowed, but not for what he did in his life. Few people remember that offered nobel was explosive munitions maker and view people understand the significant world of joseph pulitzer. Like some of the giants of the 18th century whose names we remember, kartik carnegie, rockefeller all of these people. Pulitzer played a role at critical moment in american history, which is the Industrial Age took the age that made america the way we think of ourselves today. The role he played is he was really the midwife of the birth of the modern mass media. Before his time we did not have the kind of media we now swimming everyday. The notion of americans checking their news on their phone
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