Years after the movember 2015 attacks. There are still painful memories and deep divisions. And then sport, tiger woods is in title contention. After the 1st round of the masters, the defending champion is well placed at the final major of the year. The United Nations is warning that fighting between Ethiopian Military to grave, Regional Forces could spiral out of control and war. Crimes may have been committed. The conflict is raising fears of regional repercussions impacting neighbors, eritrea sudan, and somalia. And the african union, which is headquarters in ethiopias capital, Amnesty International says scores of civilians have been massacred during the fighting on the Human Rights Group is unclear who is responsible. Some witnesses have blamed forces loyal to the 2 great Peoples Liberation front. And the u. N. Is warning of a humanitarian emergency, is that more and more people flee more than 4000 people crossed from ethiopia into sudan in just one day. Meanwhile, ethiopia is fede
Recent Political Trends given clues on how the state might vote in november. Today our focus is North Carolina. Were joined now by Jason Roberts university of North Carolina chapel hill professor mr. Roberts happened in 2016 in the state of North Carolina. Why is it a battleground state heading into november . 2016 was one of the least close elections. They been very evenly divided, 2008 barack obama had a very narrow victory here on president obama. President trump won by about three points heremp in 2016. The biggest change between 2008 and 2012 to 2016, we saw a sharp decline in turnout in 2016. House the ray shaping up for november . Is very, very close. If you look at the real politics average going into today, they have Vice President biden with. 5 lead. Think its the closest of any of the battleground states gradual thing ive seen a poll yet this election season that shows either candidate leading outside the pole margin of error. At this point its 50 52 close to call. And a can
Roy discusses the herd immunity approach. With the new school year beginning in schools and colleges across the country, the acrostic candidate joe biden said if he is elected help is on the way. To School Systems and parents. Good morning, this is washington journal. We start the program asking you about your experience so far. How is it going back either remotely or in person, is it working . Four those of you in the eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific. For educators, our number is 2027488002. If you want to send us a text, that line is 2027488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. And ontter or twitter. It was his Second Campaign appearance after his convention, biden in delaware yesterday. You can find it at cspan. Org. The Washington Post, biden blames trump because the education gap a national emergency. Joe biden sought to channel the frustrations of students, parents, and teachers around the country i blaming trump for School Districtss inab
Chapel hill. Later, Washington Post associate editor rob woodward talks about his new book rage based on a series of interviews he had with President Trump. Nationwide protests were reignited yesterday in the wake of the grand jury decision on Breonna Taylors death. We begin with your reactions this morning to the case. If you live in the easterncentral part of the country, 2027488000. Mountainpacific area, dial in at 2027488001. Text us with your thoughts with your first name, city, and state , and on488003 twitter cspanwj. A grand jury indicted one of three officers in the Breonna Taylor shooting but not for her death. Here is Kentucky Attorney general David Cameron yesterday charges. G the after hearing the evidence from our team of prosecutors, the grand jury voted to return an indictment for three counts of wanton endangerment for wantonly placing the three individuals in apartment 3 in danger of serious physical injury or death. The charge one endangerment in the first degree is
What were going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is were going to do robert e. Lee in the postwar years. And my coworker, when they were upstairs before we came down, asked me if this was going to be a beatification, which never hit me, but it might, because i am a big fan of robert e. Lee. What im hoping to do, among others, besides give you a timeline as to what robert e. Lee did in the postwar years, which i think is obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life, because the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. The other main theme of this lecture, im going to try to get across to you, the park service is big on themes, is that the amount of i wouldnt say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. Lee tries to reconcile the nation. And what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten is that how far apart this country was in 1865. I think it is th