President obama traveled to elkhart indiana, where he talked about the 2016 campaign and the economy at a speech economy in a speech at concorde high school. [applause] president obama hello everybody. [applause] hello, hello. Can everybody please give kelly a big round of applause for that great introduction . [applause] it is good to be back in elkhart. [applause] great to be back at concord high school. Go minutemen. I brought a couple of friends with me. Your senator, joe donnelly, is here. Mayor tim neese, is here. I want to congratulate them for everyoneulate graduating tomorrow. I met a couple of the valedictorians, who seem like Outstanding Young ladies. My older daughter graduates next week. , ithere are any parents here hope you can give me some not to cry too much at the ceremony and embarrass her. If you have a chair, sit down, i have some stuff to say here. [applause] im not going to talk about the fact that my daughter leaving me is breaking my heart. Im not here to talk
Paris ahead of a key eu summit. First, russia is being blamed for airstrikes that have hit at least three hospitals and a school in a northern syria. At least 50 people have died in the strikes. Witnesses saying that the bombings came as russian warplanes backed up syrian troops. Government forces are intensifying their push towards aleppo. The strikes have drawn condemnation from the united states. Scrambledrescuers frantically at rubble on monday. They are survivors of the wreckage of what was once a hospital with 30 beds. French Charity Doctors without borders had been supporting the facility with supplies and finance. It seems at least five centers around syria were hit the beginning of the year. The organization denounced the latest Deadly Strike in no uncertain terms, saying the blame lay only in one place. Clearly the syrialed coalition, either the government it is russian plane clearly an attack against the medical mission. To be a doctor or nurse in the area controlled by the
Item on my agenda than going after them and defeating them. The issue is how do we do it in an intelligent way. What has been working is the air strikes that were taking on their leadership, on their infrastructure, on their financial systems. And heres what we know. Identifying two of the suicide bombers in yesterdays attack, Ibrahim El Bakraoui and his brother khalid who blew himself up at the train station. One of the attackers still on the loose, french Prime Minister says European Union members must heavily increase their investment in antiterror measures. And there was another Police Operation near brussels earlier today. Masked police carried out bags and boxes from an apartment in the anderlick area of that city. Britains interior minister says donald trump was just plain wrong to say muslims in britain are failing to report suspicious activity by extremists. Earlier trump said it was a disgrace that one of the suspects behind the paris attacks had been found in an area of brus
Brussels main airport an erie silence followed by sirens, frightened and confused people on the ground and calling out. And this video of chaos in the airport just fed into the newsroom a short time ago. You see people scrambling to get out. Day brie is everywhere. Michelle carusocabrera is on her way from havana, cuba, where she was earlier today now to brussels. Sue herera is standing by now with the latest. Hi, sue. Here is the latest in the situation. You just showed the interiors of the airplane. We have a photo showing three men who are considered the major suspects in the bombing attack at the Brussels Airport. The photo, which we hope to show you in just a moment there it is. Those are the three men. That phototaken by airport surveillance. We also have just learned that a third bomb has been neutralized at that airport. The Islamic State claiming responsibility for the series of attacks in brussels in morning. It described the events as a multipronged attack that started at th
Do better when we all do better. And i still believe thats true today and so do my colleagues who join me. We need to be focused on how we can help more women share in our Economic Growth and share in the american dream. I ask my colleagues to support and pass the paycheck fairness act. Thank you. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. A senator mr. President , i ask unanimous consent to speak up to five minutes. The presiding officer without objection. A senator thank you, mr. President. I come to the floor with my colleagues, the senator from minnesota and my colleague senator murray from washington along with the other women who have been here to talk about this important issue of paycheck fairness. It is truly shameful this kind of discrimination still exists and youve heard the statistics by my colleagues what the pay gap means but literally over someones career, over a 40year career in my state, a woman could lose as much a