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live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. thanks for joining me this hour. so, we know that afghan women are defiant, despite growing signs that the taliban government is sidelining them. a group of activists protested outside what used to be the women s ministry on sunday of the the taliban closed that ministry, and replaced it with their ministry which is called the ministry for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice. the protests came after concerns were raised about girls being allowed to attend secondary school. translator: you cannot suppress the voice of afghan women by keeping girls at home and restricting them, as well as by not allowing them to go to school. you cannot suppress the voice of afghanistan s women. well, the taliban have claimed they will not rule as they did during the 90s but they have done little else to calm fears that women will be denied basic freedoms or be shut out of jobs and schools. on sunday, afghanista ....
this is cnn breaking news. top of the new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. democrats announcing moments ago they will tie an increase in the debt limit to the government spending bill. this move sets up a looming show down with republicans. for more, let s bring in manu raju and lauren fox on capitol hill. lauren, i want to start with you. walk us through what this decision means and how it will work. essentially democrats are daring republicans to vote against an increase in the debt ceiling. there of course is a looming deadline coming sometime in mid october to raise the country s debt limit for what democrats say is money that they have already borrowed. with republicans, given all of the spending for coronavirus over the last year and a half, now, republicans have been saying over and over again that they are not going to join with democrats to actually increase that debt limit. here democrats are saying if yo ....
that search has been called off as authorities discovered a body near at grand teton national park yesterday consistent with gabby s description. this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno. here today, mica hosts harris faulkner and kayleigh mcenany. new york post colonist and fox news contributor, miranda devine, and in the center seat for the first time we welcome mike rowe, ceo of mike rowe works. he s also the executive producer and narrator of the new show, how america works, which premieres tonight on fox business, and we are excited to get into it a little bit later in the show, mike. we are awaiting official confirmation that the body found near grand teton national park in wyoming is indeed gabby. an autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow and that should reveal the cause of death. petito and laundrie set off on a cross-country road trip back in july, but only brian came back. laundrie s family say they haven t seen him since last tuesday and now authorities in flo ....
inflation keep investors on edge. welcome. i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto, this is your world. a down tour in china s housing market sparking worries over there as inflation is a huge concern here. democrats continue to push for massive new spending plans. the dow diving on the news today. down nearly 1,000 points midday. coming back on the final minutes of trading. finishing off down 614 points. we ve got fox team coverage with fox business s lauren simonetti and what is driving the selling. chad pergram on the spending that has inflation fears spiking. we begin with lauren. lauren, what was it about today? the impetus to sell, not the reason, came from china, sandra. they have a major property developer called ever grand and they have debt due that they can t pay. some call it china s lehman brothers bankruptcy. the white house isn t worried yet. let me first note that this is a company based in china whose activities are overwhelmingly centered in china. t ....
to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices beca ....