president biden is set to lay out his plan to once again bring down sky high cost of gasoline at the pump. once again, by tapping into the nation s emergency oil reserves, even as it brings the needle even closer to e. i m john roberts in washington, happy wednesday, sandra. sandra: and that s a visual for you, starting to look like that, right? the president will announce that release of 15 million more barrels of oil, rounds out the 180 million draw down the president committed to earlier this year. john: the releases have brought the supply to the lowest level since ronald reagan was president. likely bring down gas prices for a brief period of time, but critics say biden is using the emergency stockpile to play politics. midterm elections now just 20 days away. former vice president mike pence will join us to discuss what all of this means for the elections. sandra: looking forward to that. begin with fox team coverage. marc thiessen ready to sounds out, and one way
to give a lecture reads the guardian. the telegraph also leads with the stabbing of salman rushdie reporting that he was airlifted to hospital. and the daily express describes the attack as frenzied . some other stories featuring this evening the ft leads with the news that the new prime minister will face a public finance crunch, with debt payment and the nation s welfare bill set to soar. a picture of a very dry field is on the front of the i warning that drought will shrink food crops in the uk. but the star has a positive slant on the drought story reporting that rivers that are home to beavers are less likely to dry up. so, let s begin. with salman rushdie. it s like a holding statement of the moment from the newspapers. the police in new york say really what we ve been taught now for about five hours is that salman rushdie is in surgery and that is all we know. the front of the telegraph is perhaps the biggest selection of images and although the images appear
you blame the russian soldiers and putin. what did you think of russians before this? since 2014, i felt they were bastards but i didn t want to believe in that. 2014 was the year russia invaded and annexed crimea. 2022, the rest of ukraine came under attack. why do you think the russians hit this hotel? i can t explain this, there were no military, no mercenaries, no terrorists, no ukrainian nazis. there was no one like that here. will russians ever be allowed to come back here and stay at this seaside resort? i can only allow them to come back if they re taken prisoner and forced to rebuild. and jake, you will hear this time and time again. this place, odesa, there were many people who were very close to russia and had very friendly ties, from tourism companies that made tons of money on russian tourists, to the mayor himself, who was a part of a russian party, if you will, a pro-russian party. but more and more, as this place keeps getting hit, that sentiment has changed a
alicea. a white house walk back after tweeting a claim that could be flagged by biden s own disinformation board. and shawn. activists are about to harass the people justices after homes marching to the supreme court. now justice thomas has a warning about the impact of the drafts opinion a leak. but first, biden s devastating baby formula crisis worsens. shortages surpassing 50% in some states including delaware, tennessee, montana and texas. the shortage break not spring up overnight back in december of 50% foreman that was out of stock on things only got worse with abbott laboratories shut it doors after massive recall in february. president biden, when asked if this wasn t preventable only a mind reader would have been successful, listen. and parents got to the shelves and could not find formula? a foot inveterate minders i guess because of it. you know sean i cannot make eight joke about that with the statement biden made this happen in february it was th