Ministers reject pleas to issue a medical cannabis licence for a six year old boy whose rare form of epilepsy improves after taking the drug, his parents say. And caught on camera, an attempted ram raid on a high end watch shop in leeds. Police say the shop front was damaged but no one was injured. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Save the children says the widower of the murdered labour mp, jo cox, resigned from a senior role at the charity in 2015, before an inquiry into a complaint of inappropriate behaviour against him was completed. Brendan cox has stepped down from two organisations set up in his wifes memory, after admitting he behaved inappropriately three years ago. But he rejects a separate allegation he assaulted a woman at Harvard University in the United States. Charlotte gallagher reports. The murder ofjo cox by a far right extremist stunned the nation. The labour mp and mother of two was shot and stabbed in the week before the Eu Referendum in 2016. In the months
Were the two profit drivers in the Second Quarter for General Motors and more importantly for investors, margins were above 10 and for the remainder of this year General Motors expects business to be Even Stronger in part because of pickup trucks in north america. Our pickup share in the Second Quarter was up close to 3 Percentage Points on a year over year basis. So we continue to see a lot of Strong Demand for fullsize pickups, suvs and crossovers. To drive that point home think about this. Year to date General Motors pickup sales, both fullsize and midsize up 25 . Thats one reason why gm is doing so well in north america which we saw in the 2q numbers. Eli lilly beat the street. Meg tirrell, the Company Raised its forecast for the year. The beat on the adjusted earnings was 16 cents. Raise only by 10 cents though. Ceo on squawk box this morning address what went into that question. As we are launching products and bringing drugs through our late stage pipeline that drives certain am
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New america is a think tank in washington dc. The group posted a discussion on how to Counter Terrorism recruitment and how to link them to economic inequality in the middle east. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome to good america. On behalf of our president , Vice President , thank you very much for coming. I am a senior fellow here at new america. Discuss aare here to new paper by my colleagues. It is entitled all jihad is l oca. L. Im really excited about this paper because isis and al qaeda and the recruitment of of jihadis is something we talk about a lot. You often see people on stages debating how this comes about, what do people go join isis and so on. Generally the conversation ranges from i think this, you think that, and i emote this, and you emote that. What is exciting today is we have data, which they will talk about in some detail. Let me talk about my colleagues, and i will let them give an overview of the paper. Nate rosenblatt is a security fellow,
Grandmother its my Great Fortune to welcome you to this panel, this wonderful discussion well have about the presidency of Richard Nixon and the lessons thin, and im also happy to invite you to a conversation. Well be able to have on that same theme and that same question. Before we get started in ernest, though, it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that were in, and who founds it. Tonight we are gathered in at the First Amendment center here at vanderbilt yard which is founded by john seigenthaler. You may not be aware of his legacy, he served for 43 years as an awardwinning journalist for the tennessean, and his retirement he was editor, publisher, and ceo. And in 1982 he became the founding editorial director of usa today and served in that position for a decade. Seigenthaler left journalism to serve in the u. S. Justice department as Administrative Assistant to attorney general robert f. Kennedy. His work in the field of civil rights let to center field as chie