Revolt on fisa as the House Speakers future hangs in the balance, just a few votes. But we begin at the white house where President Biden is still predicting an Interest Rate cut and defending his administrations role fighting inflation. At the same time, the president is trying to circle the wagons in the pacific against china. White house correspondent Jacqui Heinrich starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, bret. Once enemies now allies closer than ever. The United States and japan announced more than 70 Defense Cooperation Agreements among other collaborations in a not so subtle message to china, increasingly aggressive in the South Pacific and the taiwan strait. President Biden Preemptively Cooling Blowback from beijing. And our alliance we have with japan is a purely defense in nature. Its not aimed at any one nation or a threat to the region. The japanese state visit comes one day before a trilateral meeting with the philippines under i
Superfund program and efforts to remove lead from municipal water systems. Senator John Barrasso chairs the environmental and Public Works Committee. This is 2 1 2 hours. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. We have quite a full house today. I welcome the audience. This is a formal Senate Hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. Im going to maintain decorum. That means if there is any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. First, id like to welcome the administrator of the Environmental Protection agency, the honorable scott prosecute, to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for your testimony today. Were going to abide by the committees fiveminute rule for length of member questions in the first round. Time permitting, we will also have a twominute second round of questions until 12 30 when administrator prosecute has to leave the buildin
This is nightly Business Report with Tyler Mathisen and sue herera. Historic highs. What a way to start the week. Stocks closed at records, but can the quiet rally last . Risk protection. How the biggest Ransomware Attack in history is demanding a product that you know exists. Staying put. Is outofcontrol competition for homes fueling the renovation boom . Those stories, and more, tonight on nightly Business Report for monday, may 15th. Good evening, everyone. Halfway through may and investors had a pretty good start to the w the s p 500 and the nasdaq closed at new highs, thanks to a rally in the price of oil that lifted energy shares. Technology stocks also helped out, and the result was a record close for two of the three broad major indexes we follow. Dow jones industrial average to 20,981. Nasdaq up 28 to a record, and the s p 500 gained 11, alltime high there as well. Volatility remains sort of suspiciously low. In fact, this is the 14th straight day the s p 500 has failed to mov
The country of yemen sits on the knifeves edge. Twin suicide attacks on mosques on the capital killed 127 people the white house says it cannot confirm that. Washington is watching the violence in yemen very closely. Shia houthis, battling for control in a country from the crossroads. Our report reporter the attackers knew the mosques would be packed for friday prayers. The heart of yemens capital, two mosques were targeted. Both belonged to the power base for houthi fighters who control the capital. Witnesses say the first explosion was inside one mosque and the blast went off and people fled. More targeted the other mosque. Rescuers struggled with the high number of casualties. Bodies were taken out. The hospital, the field for blood donations. The attacks happened a day after intense fighting at the airport in the southern port city of aden thats where the president has been trying to build a power base ever since he was forced out of the capital by the houthi advance. For hours, in
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