Giant us steel have fallen sharply, after President Biden weighed in to oppose a near 15 billion takeover of the firm by a japanese company. Us steel is based in pittsburgh, pennsylvania a key battleground in this years election. The takeover deal, agreed in december, has caused major controversy there. But any move to block it could raise tensions with japan a vital ally for the us as it tries to counter the growing power of china. From new york, erin delmore reports. President biden is taking a stand against a deal in the making. Us steel, an american company, is set to be bought by nippon steel, a japanese company. But President Biden says that us steel should stay in the us. L115 says that us steel should stay in the us in the us. Us steel the stronger in the us. Us steel the stronger america in the us. Us steel the stronger america is in the us. Us steel the| stronger america is made in the us. Us steel the stronger america is made here. The president praised the iconic 123 year o
federal judge in louisiana. here s his exchange with republican congressman mike johnson on wednesday. the fbi made the social media platforms pull that information off the internet if it came from conservative sources. they did this under the guise that it was disinformation. can you, can you define what disinformation is? our focus is on malign, foreign disinformation; that is, foreign hostile actors who engage in mr. wray to use our social media platforms i have to stop you for time. that s not accurate. you need to read this court opinion, because you re in charge of enforcing it. paul: joining the panel, columnists dan henninger, kim strassel and bill mcgurn. so, bill, first, let s start with that exchange on disinformation. what do you make of the fbi director s answers? i think he answered very weakly. he came across as a man who either hadn t read the material as congressman johnson suggested, or he just didn t take the whole oversight process very
with the rising cost of living. it will help with millions ofjourneys through the toughest months, the winter when we know things are going to be tough, and i think it will help attract people to the bus, particularly at a time when costs are so high. ready for lift off.again. nasa prepares to make a second attempt later to launch its most powerful rocket to the moon five days after technical problems scuppered the first. these are live pictures from cape canaveral ahead of take off, which is hoped to be in the next four to six hours. good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev, the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of moscow s house of uni
if you are capable of getting out now, get out now. evacuations are under way in parts of mississippi in anticipation of heavy flooding tomorrow. the mayor of jackson is going to be joining us live with more on how his city is preparing and why this could be the second round of flooding for some residents. on the eve of history, one day away from the launch of artemis i. how the forecast is shaping up and why this mission is so critical when it comes to getting americans back on the moon. it is sunday, august 28th. thank you so much for waking up with us. good to be with you, boris. good morning, amara. i hope you enjoyed the cupcake you had for breakfast. i enjoyed my prosciutto i have every morning. i m still working on mine, slowly. we hope you are enjoying your breakfast wherever you are. we re grateful that you made us part of the start of your week. up first, assessing the damage to national intelligence from classified documents that were found at donald
mayor a second term. when i spoke to the residents, mayor, they told me they feel more prepared, the city officials told them more about the flooding than in 2020. what have you done differently to prepare your residents this time around? unfortunately, we ve had this experience within a short period of time and so we ve learned a lot. so we ve communicated early and often. we ve been able to better instruct the things that residents need to prepare around taking pictures of their items, making sure that they take their critical documents. we ve had a strong coalition of not only city departments but the county and state so it s been an all hands on deck process and hopefully that allows us to save life and property that would not be spared otherwise. reporter: we know that we re not expecting the river to crest at as high of a level as we saw in 2020 but this isn t a moment to underestimate the floodwaters. absolutely not. we want residents to heed these warnings. this