tennis legend billie jean king on the game changing moment for women in sports 50 years ago. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. president biden tonight announcing his new plan to bring down high fuel prices the president calling on a somewhat skeptical congress to suspend the federal gas tax. that s currently around 18 cents a gallon for gasoline. 24 cents for diesel. a federal gas tax holiday will provide only minimal relief from the price at the pump which has trickled down to a still staggering average of $4.95 a gallon and the president is asking states to suspend their fuel taxes, too. gas prices are up nearly $2 a gallon in the past year helping to fuel soaring inflation. with limited levers at his disposal, the president faces increasing pressure to show he s trying to do something to blunt the impact of runaway prices but at what cost chief white hous correspondent kristen welker leads us off tonight. reporter: under pressure with gas pri
Under-fire Congress MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu has finally broken his silence over the country s “highest-ever” cash haul in an Income Tax department raid on an Odisha-based distillery firm owned by his family, and linked entities
how much could it save you and does it have the votes to pass? just in the embattled chief of the alde school district police placed on administrative leave a day after th head of texas state police called the response to the school shooting an abject failure. uvalde s mayor lashing out. what he s accusing state investigators of doing. the senate advancing the first major gun safety bill in decades gop lawmakers defending their support for the bipartisan deal. what s in and what s out. dangerous heat more than 200 million feeling highs of 90 and over as yellowstone begins to reopen after unprecedented floods the powerful earthquake killing more than a thousand people in afghanistan. the urgent search for survivors. the nfl team under fire congress accusing the owner of waging a shadow investigation to discredit employees who alleged a toxic work environment. the scathing testimony today from commissioner roger goodell.
and you it is really hard to climb out of that. reporter: snyder previously called the team s conduct unacceptable but denied engaging in the behavior himself a spokes person called the committee s investigation predetermined from the beginning and a politically charged show trial still the committee is issuing a subpoena to compel snyder to testify at a deposition next week lester all right gabe, thank you. up next as we continue, major market moves. amid reports that th fda is about to order juul e-cigarettes off the shelves.