a precursor to jooverturning it. a far cry from mississippi s 15 week restriction and texas is a full 18 weeks before the current standard. president biden called the texas law un-american today in his first on camera words about it, and is looking for ways for his justice department to limit it. the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out to anyway, and it just seems, i know this sounds ridiculous, almost un-american, i was told that there are possibilities within the existing law to have the justice department look and see whether there are things that can be done that can limit the independent action of individuals in enforcing a state law. the senate judiciary committee now plans to hold a hearing examining not only the law but also the high court s decision to allow it to take effect. in a scathing rebuke today, democratic chair dick durbin argued the court allowed it to see the light of da
country. the united states officials telling fox news that the taliban is now just 30 miles from kabul, and that city, the country s largest, could be seized as soon as tomorrow. remember, just yesterday and the day before they were saying about 30 days until they would reach kabul. now they are saying tomorrow. so that is a devastating reality. there are reports that inside the u.s. embassy a tenner has changed dramatically. you ve got staff they are preparing to begin withdrawal measures, which would include, by standard procedure, beginning to shred the documents, destroy the computers, all of that. part of the shocking but necessary move, given what is happening at a breathtaking pace right now in afghanistan. moments ago we were all watching together as the pentagon was asked if it is alarmed by the shift the quick change, i should say, and what has gone on here. watch this. we have noted with great concern the speed with which they have been moving, and the lack of
tomorrow to meet with victims of this week s mass school shooting part however along with the morning and anguish there are now angry mounting calls for action people want to know what in the world happened in the small community after we all learned that 19 police officers waited more than 45 minutes in a hallway outside the classroom. leaving students and teachers trapped inside with a gunman armed with an assault rifle. arthel: so many questions, jeff paul is live with more questions were. days of sadness and frustration are now turning into anger for many people here in this community and uvalde texas after law enforcement community admit mistakes were made for texas investigators saying they now know there are children in the classroom with the shooter for nearly an hour who might have been helped. this all goes back to investigators saying the local incident commander at the time about the situation has shifted from an active shooter investigation into a barricaded su
and what s in store for his first few days in power. also ahead: four more survivors have been pulled out of the debris of an italian hotel, almost 72 hours after it was swamped by an avalanche. leaders of europe s right wing parties gather in germany to discuss their opposition to the european union. thousands of protestors are expected to demonstrate. in sport, a woman on a roll, and johanna konta is aiming to keep her winning run going by knocking out a former world johanna konta breezes into the fourth round of the australian open by knocking out a former world number one in straight sets. and in from the cold: i ve been training with the british long track speed skating team, whose sport has been revived in the netherlands. and nick has the weather. the weekend is getting off to a frosty start. patchy fog around too. most places will see the sunshine today, with a dry day ahead. all your weather in half an hour. good morning. first, our main story: president donald trump
Small number of pupils have engaged in ‘time zone cheating’ and practice not widespread, IB says, although Post finds papers downloaded over 45,000 times.