Capitol one arena. Before that, we have howie d. In studio. A very good friday to you. Good morning, and welcome to news 4 midday. Im erica gonzalez, today we are welcoming julie to the news 4 team. Were happy to have you back ime. Happy to be back, just like back streets back. Spent a few years at our sister station in new york. S. Were happy to have you, breaking new weve learned another shakeup in the trump administration, President Trump announcing alex asta is resigning. The two appeared together at the white house this morning, acosta ifyou remember, played a role in theen seng of epstein. He oversaw the agreement in 2008 that allowed epstein a toid federal charges. Another issue on President Trumps plate right now, immigration. After daysf hinting he would use an executive action tn insert a question about t citizenship, president is now backing off. Instead, hes ordering federal agencies to use already existing information to gather that data. Sarah dallehas more. Reporter Pres
Greg it is trends wednesday. Less about trends than the last of confidence. We are seeing more example of people using the banner of trends to do bad things. Who can forget Kayla Lemieux . The two biggest glue guns you have ever seen. [laughter] i was so preoccupied with her story i forgot i only fish. [laughter] all right. Anyway, the teacher demanded that the school complied with her identity choices. So standards were dropped. Meanwhile, in prisons, violent male felons would identify as women to get into womens jails. Basic rules about rapists being that among women were somehow ignored. In sports, men were saying they were women and the doors swung open like a pair of untucked balls. [laughter] thank you. And now we have a new example, trans power lifter just set a canadian Womens National record at the canadian powerlifting 2023 Western Canadian championship in manitoba. Yeah, Watch Anne Porter the man in manitoba. Put the man in manitoba. [cheers and applause] greg wow. She is de
Mother have been found guilty of murdering two men in a high speed car chase near leicester. Mark bukhari and her mother and sareen ambushed Saqib Hussain and Mohammad Hashim aijazuddin and rammed her car off the road after mr hussain threatened to use sexually explicit material to expose an affair he was having with ms bukharis mother. Two affair he was having with ms bukharis mother. Two further bukharis mother. Two further defendants were also found guilty of murder, while three others were found guilty of manslaughter. The government is turning to the private sector in an effort to clear record nhs waiting lists. Eight new Community Diagnostic Centres will be opened in england and theyll be operated by independent companies. Theyll be operated by independent companies. But independent companies. But services, though, will be free to patients. Theyll carry out almost 750,000 additional scans , checks and tests every year. The russian Opposition Leader alexei navalny, has been senten
The. News very good evening to you. Im Aaron Armstrong in the gb newsroom. A man who murdered his baby stepson has been sentenced to a minimum of 28 years in prison craig has been prison. Craig crouch has been convicted of killing ten month old jacob, who was found dead in his cot in december 2020. Hed suffered 39 rib fractures from numerous assaults in the months leading up to his death. Jacobs mother , gemma barton, was mother, gemma barton, was sentenced to ten years for causing or allowing his death. Causing or allowing his death. Mr justice kerr said crouch caused jacob intense and prolonged suffering. He was a small baby who had not yet learned to walk or talk. Sadly, he never did. So your attacks on him were an abuse of trust, of the grossest kind. You trust, of the grossest kind. You knew he was dependent on the adults caring for him to protect him from harm instead of protecting him. You killed him. A tick tock influencer and her mother have been found guilty of murdering two
This hour, the british beer and Pub Association is warning the governments alcohol duty changes will cost the industry an extra £225 million in tax. This the Prime Minister, however, has defended the overhaul, saying it will benefit thousands of businesses. The new thousands of businesses. The new system sees a shift from taxing alcoholic drinks based on their type, focusing instead on their strength, duty on certain drinks such as wine and vodka, will rise while tax on draught pints will be cut by around £0. 11. Roads and local transport minister Richard Holden says brexit made the changes possible. Were not going to see the price of a pint going up in your local pub due to our new draft beer duty relief, something that we couldnt have done when we were in the European Union that differential between what differential now between what you differential now between what you pay differential now between what you pay in the supermarket on terms of tax and what you pay in a is now gone u