Appoint him as Special Counsel. Charles a Special Counsel named in the hunter biden case, but its the same prosecutor, david weiss, who was already heading it up, and that has republicans calling it a coverup. Were going to get the latest from Lucas Tomlinson on what the white house is saying. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker on what weiss is now doing, and gop president ial candidate tim scott on how voters are responding. Plus, the death toll now at 80 in maui, and the word the Attorney General this hawaii will be lawn a. Ing a probe into the official response to those catastrophic wildfires. Welcome, everyone. Im Charles Payne in for neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live. We bin at the white house where President Biden so far is staying quiet on the Special Counsel appointment in his sons case. Lucas tomlinson is there though. Reporter charles, it was just a few weeks ago in that Delaware Courtroom where hunter biden and his family thought his legal issues would soon b
is very real. we must do more to protect our officers and communities. todd: brooke singman has the breaking details. brooke: all three l.a. police officers are in stable condition after last night s shooting following an hour s long standoff. this started about 3:50 this afternoon, shows a level of patience and officers trying to take their time to resolve this peacefully. behavior of this individual did not result in that. a deadly situation. we are grateful the officerslet be okay. brooke: the officers were shot three hours after the understand s standoff began. the officers families are with them. none of the dogs were injured in last night s shooting. l.a. issued a tactical alert in response. the suspect, who wassa on parole, is dead. he started firing at the officers. canine, bean bags and gas were used to detain him. the swat team broke his barricade and moved in on the suspect. the shooter was a felony drug suspect. police have not confirmed his identity. fra
rain. that looks more likely across england and wales. scotland, northern ireland and later northern england becoming drier and brighter. here it will be a little cooler. still warm across southern parts of england. not sure how much rain there will be here and again it will be largely dry. that leaves us finally at wembley where it will be a warm day, it may well be dry and hopefully we have something to celebrate in the evening. thank you very much, darren. that is it from the bbc news at six on friday, the 29th ofjuly. you can of course keep up to date with all of those stories hello and welcome to sportsday live from birmingham where the commonwealth games are up and running. coming up on tonight s programme, the big stories from the opening day. an incredible comeback in the mens triathlon sees england s alex yee win the first gold medal of these games. scotland s neil fachie wins gold in the men s tandem b 1000m time trial to equal the record for most golds won by a s
2022, reading scores saw their biggest drop since 1990. math scores plummeted during that period for the first time ever. these are some of the worst declines that the study has seen in its 50-year history. it could take a generation for some scores to rebound reports the wall street journal. the learning loss could weigh on economic output in this country in the years to come. pete hegseth and leo terrell are here. first, to david lee miller that shows us what s in the study. hi, lee. the nation s schools are getting a failing grade based on the test scores of 9-year-old students. let s start with math. the decrease was where s than nine points. so called lower performing students saw scores draw by 12 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white. when it comes to reading, the average test core dropped five points. some problem learners saw a decline by 10. reading scores by white, black and hispanic students were impacted equally by the pandemic. an education p
them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at all of the interactions that investigators had with trump s team over the past several month and that s going to be all factoring in as they decide whether anyone should be charged with a crime. no one has been charged at this time. there are a lot of questions about exactly what these documents pertain to. two house committees have asked for a classified briefing as well as a damage assessment from the intelligence community and trump for his part, he is indicating that his team could try to c