nation marks one full year since his supporters carried out an attack on the u.s. capitol. new york state attorney general james has subpoenaed ivanka and donald trump jr. demanding testimony and documents in a civil investigation into the trump organization s business practice. and asked the court to force i subpoena for their father. earlier lawyers for the trump s have filed a motion to quash the subpoenas. we should know trump and his children have not been accused of any wrongdoing in this investigation and donald trump has called this investigation politically-motivated. this comes as the house selection committee investigating the insurrection appears to be zeroing on communications with trump while the mob desecrated congress and one committee saying they have firsthand testimony that he was sitting in the dining room next to the oval office watching the attack on television. we have firsthand testimony his daughter ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to please s
they were supposed to be taking at least one senate vote today, but then they all got slid into tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician the doctor for the house in the senate sent a sobering detailed letter to the democratic and republican leaders of the senate. telling them that you know, regardless of the stall, senators ought to be staying home now anyway. apparently, the covid testing sites they have set up at the u.s. capitol, the positivity rate, the rate at which tests that are coming back positive, it had been under 1%, until recently, until the omicron wave of the virus started to hit in d.c.. the capital physician advised senators today that as of right now, the positivity rate at that testing that has gone from under 1% to over 13%. he described the number of covid cases on capitol hill right now as, quote, unprecedented. saying, quote, thousands of individual with coronavirus infections identified at the capitol daily. this i
in at least twice to ask him to please stop this violence, and quote. earlier tonight another committee member shared more details about we are making significant progress in our investigation. we continue to gather invest information via text messages and interviews from individuals and one of those key areas that we have discussed all along, these 187 minutes that president trump was in the white house when he could have been doing something to help stop this attack, those are some of the questions that we have for individuals as well. this is folks in government, and out of government that could have done things that could have helped that day and chose not to. meanwhile, the committee chairman bennie thompson says they re weighing subpoenas for republican members of congress to force their cooperation. thompson says the key issue under examination is whether this panel, this committee can lawfully issued subpoenas to sitting members of congress. as we mentioned, tho
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster david davies and the chief political correspondent at the daily mail, harriet line. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the metro leads with golfer thorbjorn olesen who s accused of sexually assaulting a woman on a flight he denies the accusations. financial times front page looks at scrutiny in the us of the way a donald trump s new media group is being funded. the guardian says the uk red tape chaos has led to afghans dying in kabul according to a diplomat. the times omicron cases in the uk are on the rise it says cases with the new strain of variant double every three days. staying with coronavirus the daily telegraph says the booster roll out is at a standstill . the daily mail carries a report about a whistle blower who says afghanistan rescue flights were hampered by the work from home culture in whitehall. the mirror says the grenfell
(1) CHENGDU WORLDCON ROUNDUP. [Item by Ersatz Culture.] New articles on the Chengdu Worldcon website, but only in Chinese There have been several news articles published on the official website since the convention ended on the 22nd, but only in Chinese. Below are extracts from a few of them, via Google Translate with minor manual