In philadelphia shortly. Some republican states are trying to tighten rules including texas. Thats prompted democrats in texas to leave the state. Thats prompted democrats in texas to leave the state. They are determined to kill thisbill and this Special Session, which will end on August The 7th. And we will stay out until then in order to do that. In England Weve seen a huge show of support for rashford that was Defacing Graffiti has now been covered in hudson messages. And working to see this incredible story. The moment parents were reunited with their son who was stolen at the age of two,. His father travelled half i age of two,. His father travelled halfi million km to try and find him. We start in South Africa, where 45 people have died in violence thats escalated since the jailing of the former president Jacob Zuma last week. That includes 10 people dying in a stampede in soweto nearjohannesburg. This is happening in Kwazulu Natal Zumas Home Provincce And Gauteng which includesj
Republican members of State Legislatures are trying to pass. The let legislatures are trying to pass. The 21st Centuryjim Crow Assault is 2ist centuryjim Crow Assault is real. Its unrelenting. And we are going to challenge it vigorously. While this brought assault against Voting Rights is not unprecedented, it is taking on a new and literally pernicious forms. It is no longer about who gets to vote or making it easier for eligible voters to vote. It is about who gets to count the vote. Who gets to count whether or not your vote counted at all. It is about moving from independent Election Administrators who work for the people to polarise a State Legislatures and partisan actors who work for political parties. To me this is a simple, this is election subversion. It is the most dangerous threat of voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Never before has been decided who gets to count, count, what votes count. Some State Legislatures want to make it harder for
three donald trump allies. good afternoon. i m garrett haake in for hallie jackson. i m joined by matt bradley and courtney. and andrea mitchell is our chief foreign affairs correspondent. matt, i ll start with you. you ve been following the travels of these evacuees from mariupol. what can you tell us? reporter: we don t exactly know where they are. we know that some have left, and i ve been here at the parking lot that normally hosts people who come from all over the southeastern region from inside russian occupied territory. they didn t show up, at least not in the numbers that we were expecting today. and not the ones from the steel plant. the much-anticipated arrival of bus loads of civilians sheltered underground underneath that steel factory for months on end. they aren t there yet. instead, we saw quite a few others. we saw people from all over the region, two had come fleeing from russian occupied territory, placeskherson, outside of mariupol. and all of these peop
Need to get your a1c down? ( ) ask your healthcare provider about rybelsus® today. we end this hour with more breaking news. amazon warehouse workers in staten island voting not to unionize. the first and still the only amazon warehouse to unionize is another one on staten island called jfk 8. they voted in early april. since that vote workers say the company has beefed up its anti-union messaging and even isolated workers in that other staten island warehouse. covering this for us is nbc news correspondent antonia hilton in brooklyn, new york. antonia, what happened here and
And other organisations announced their plans to stay vigilant and challenge these odious laws in the courts. in texas, for example, republican led state legislatures want to allow partisan poll watchers to intimidate voters and imperil and imperil impartial vote workers. they want voters to be in a position where they wonder who is watching them and intimidating them and to wait longer to vote and to drive a help excuse me. a long way to get the boat. they want to make it so hard in inconvenient that they hope the people don t vote at all. that s what this is about. this year alone, 17 states have enacted and notjust repost but enacted 28 new laws to make it harder for americans to vote. not to mention, catch this, nearly 400 additional bills