Chairman engles joining us. Were here joined by the select committee on Climate Crisis and an esteemed panel of witnesses for this hearing leading to the next generation on the global Climate Crisis. I know a few of our witnesses have a hard stop at 11 30 in order to get to their next event advocating on these issues. Ill just ask that all members keep their questioning to five minutes or less so we can fit in as many members as possible. Without objection all the members may have five days to submit statements, questions, exrainious materials for the record, subject to length limitation in the rules and id just like to call on the chairman of the full committee to who has a few words to offer. Chairman engel. Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to invite everyone to come to the Foreign Affairs committee, and by the looks of it youre all here. I want to welcome everybody. Climate change is certainly something that is so important, and the aggravating thing about it is that there are
But i had a wonderful professor at Columbia Law School who later moved to stanford, jerry gunther. He was in charge of getting clerkships for columbia students, and he called every federal judge on the Second Circuit, in the southern, eastern districts of new york, and he was not meeting with success. So he called a columbia graduate, judge edmund palmieri, who was a columbia undergraduate, Columbia Law School graduate and always took his clerks from columbia. And he said i strongly recommend that you engage ruth Bader Ginsburg. And palmieris response was ive had women law clerks, i know theyre okay, but shes a mother, and sometimes we have to work on weekends, even on a sunday. So professor gunther said give her a chance, and if she doesnt work out, a young man in her class whos going to a Downtown Firm will jump in and take over. So that was the carrot. It was also a stick, and the stick was if you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia graduate as your law c
Either, despite the claims that they had, they asked the people in gaza to move to what they called safe areas and they started actually bombing those socalled safe areas as well, so again we have this seminar scene, blooms of smoke going up into the air in gaza, and these really crimes going on of unabated, told now, more than 20, 700, and it definitely will go higher cuz there are thousands that are trapped under the rubble, and there are so many 50, more than 50 thousand people who have been wounded, and they are being treated in hospitals where they dont have adequate medical facilities to give them the property. Treatments and in just one day, the past day we had to reports 200 50 palestinians getting killed, every single day, women and children, especially are losing their lives to the israeli aggression, be it. In the forms of attacking hospitals like the nasa hospital and khanus that was attacked just recently or residential buildings, refugee camps, schools, un centers where p
Well, its that time of year across the country, High School Students are prepping for advanced placement exams. In various topics. And here on American History tv, were going to take a look at the 2023 advanced placement us history exam. Joining us jason stacy a history professor at Southern Illinois university in edwardsville and Matt Ellington, who teaches ap history at Iowa High School in chino hills, california. Mr. Ellington, if we could start with you. What exactly is the ap history exam . Well, good morning and thanks for having us on the ap us history exam is an end, of course exam. The test students knowledge and skills relating to u. S. To u. S. History is designed to be a test, and the course is designed as such to mimic a College Level course in terms of the content and the skills that students need to be able to succeed at a College Level. So its really a combination of a survey course that starts in 1491, which is the year before columbus comes all the way to the present,
bombing that killed dozens at kabul s airport has been killed by the taliban. that s according to us officials. 70 civilians and 13 american troops were killed when a bomber detonated his device among packed crowds as people tried to flee afghanistan, in august 2021. the officials did not reveal the name of the man, who was the leader of an islamic state cell. they said the leader died weeks ago, but it took time to confirm his death. us officials say intelligence gathering and monitoring of the region led them to conclude the leader had died, though they did not provide further details on how they learned that he was responsible for the bombing. the us began notifying families of the deceased troops about the death of the is leader on monday. earlier, i spoke with the director of the center for strategic and international studies, sethjones, about the reports. what do we know about what happened and who the leader of this is cell is? what us officials have talked about is th