Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to change his vote . Are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote . If not, the yeas are 52, the nays are 44, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the evious order, the motion to reconsider is consideredade and laid upon e table and the president will be immediately notified of the senas actions. A senator madam president. I ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call wit respect to the shelt nomination be waived. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk clotu motion, we, the undersigned setors, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, hereby bring to a close debate on the nomation of judy slton, of califora, to be a member of t board of governors of the Federal Reserve system, signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is,
Their 2nd and final president ial debate is more civil than the fast. French scientists warn that curve at 19 is now spreading faster than it did during the peak of the 1st wave. Guineas president is on course for victory in elections that report violence and i gave a force to nigerias leader addresses a nation on edge making no mention of the shooting of protesters at africas largest city. So we begin this hour with breaking news out of libya where the nations 2 warring factions of agreed to what the u. N. Is calling a permanent ceasefire the deal was agreed in geneva just a short while ago libyas been in turmoil ever since the fall of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 have been to rival administrations one based in the capital tripoli of another based in the east in tobruk the uns libya envoy says this is a moment of hope for the people of libya. In and. We have to give the people this hope of a Better Future im fully confident that i can place my confidence in you and the liby
Nagornokarabakh and the desk top keeps rising. Hello welcome to the program of france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 of the citys ily 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control at tesh about the reports from paris. French president emanuel macross that france was in the grip of a 2nd wave of coronavirus he urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris and 8 tell the cities the could last until december 5th. If we stick to this curfew for 6 weeks if we take collective responsibility for reducing our contacts we think it will be able to progressive the reopen at that stage. If you move the curfew adds to a raft of restrictions already in place in the countries big cities where cases of new infections are rising rapidly in the past couple of weeks queues outside the board freeze like this one in the city have been g
You received from your aunt. Tell the audience what it was. When i was a boy in new orleans in the late 1960s, i had an aunt named maude who was an elderly retired schoolteacher. She was a family historian and my mothers family. She was the keeper among others of our clansmen. She had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this. The one to remember is our clansmen, my grandfather. He was a redeemer. The redemption returned in new orleans after they had been dislodged. And if you had not battled liberty place, we would not be here today. When she died, her papers went to my mother. This is now decades later her files came to me. This is how i rediscovered the story of our clansmen and wrote about it. You remember your aunt mod. You have emulated her well. It sounds like she spoke of [inaudible] constant, he was a french carpenter. He spoke french. Is it fair to say that he was heroic . He was heroic for 100 years. As were the clans peo
A full month after the beirut explosions rocked new urgency for a merge and see workers sifting through the rubble of a collapsed building from the massive explosions that left scores of people dead. And u. S. President ial contender joe biden meets the family of a black man shot and injured by police in wisconsin and he issues a challenge to President Trump. Plus it was 5 years ago today the thousands of migrants left budapest hungary on foot to reach germany well talk to journalists who were there and ask them about an event that changed the course of european history. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today nato members are convening in the. Wing hours to discuss the poisoning of russian Opposition Leader alexei germany says it has evidence that he was targeted with a deadly nerve agent created during the soviet era a crime what is the now in the charges and has cautioned against a rush to judgment. While germany and the International Community wait for russia to answer quest