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Process it, to be able to make this decision, stand strong. i understand that people are going to agree and some people are going to disagree. >> kyrie irving undeniably letting his teammates down. now to a historic performance on the ice with san jose sharks. timo meier with five goals. the last time, seven in 1920. the australian open is under way in melbourne, but it no not include u.s.sfernandez. thats the thirst year in a row hes failed to progress to the second round in the first tenni...

Holocaust didnt just happen in the last few years of the war but the -- i would say the factors that led to the holocaust had been around since the 1920s with the founding of the nazi party in germany, the dehumanization of jewish party germany, the dehumanization in 1942. >> david ignatius. >> weve been talking through this hour about the inability to talk about complicated subjects in america. and im just wondering if you think that the holocaust and reluctance to really engage the holocaust i...

Than its ever before. you mentioned jordan, nba has never as big as the nfl is now but michael was a global figure. babe ruth was a pretty big deal in america back in the 1920s. you are really talking about an iconic figure and in our town he is number one, which is a lot to say when youve had ted williams, bobby orr, bill russell, guys like that. >> it is an incredible career and if this is the end of it is quite a chapter in nfl history. i just want to note i read this yesterday, the miami dol...

Bad? and he said, i would take the police officers and a task force i would lead and we will go up to the homeless people sleeping on the side of the road come on the sidewalks and put them in the shelter. someone had mental instability, they would get in a mental institute or some sort of hospital. that is what we need to do is clean up the streets so this kind of thing doesnt happen. >> brian: 1920s were the families torn up because they could not pay rent. they want to be the subculture but n...

Selects is going to make it very hard for mcconnell to obstruct, as is his want. >> randi kaye mentioned in her report the contentious defeat of conservative nominee robert bork back in 97. you were one of the witnesses who testified against judge bork. i want to play a clip of what you said to the senate judiciary committee. >> lot of attention is focused on judge borks quite scornful dismissal of the supreme courts long line of decisions from the 1920s to the present upholding the rights of in...

Now, i can see your book there, your latest one, violeta, behind you, and it depicts an old woman, violeta, writing a letter to her grandson. now, your... camilo. your book came out at a time when we were all experiencing covid, and its set in 1920 when the spanish flu has just arrived in latin america. 18 million people killed, of course, in that pandemic. so why did you want to write about the spanish flu? is it because of covid? i didnt! really, i didnt. i wanted to write about a woman who wa...

Their belief system. a poll this week showed the republicans may be ahead by 57-42 in terms of who you will vote for for congress, that would be a landslide that would take it back probably to the 1920 with the republican congress that was that strong and would mean probably picking up six or seven seats in the senate and between 40 and 70 seats in the house. you would think at that point that the democratic leadership would get together and say this aint working. instead, they get together and ...

And what theyve taken from us. in 1927, mercedes gleitze became the first british woman to swim the channel. later that same year she became the first person to swim the strait of gibraltar, and went on to set many more remarkable swimming records. her achievements made her a celebrity in the 1920s and �*30s, before she completely disappeared from the public eye. today her life as a pioneer of british swimming will be celebrated in brighton, as david sillito explains. sunrise, brighton seafron...

No one can predict what the next variant is going to be. i think it is most likely that the next variant is going to continue a trend toward mildness, that it will continue the shift toward infecting the upper respiratory tract so you get like a cold as opposed to the lower -- the lungs where you get pneumonia and youre at greater risk of death. i think that trend is the most likely thing to happen. but theres no guarantee. it could turn in another direction. you know, that is what happened not ...

Says there were three waves. but the reality is thats because people at the time were so tired of having lived through it they basically just stopped thinking about it. in 1920, however, there was another wave in kansas city and detroit, in milwaukee and minneapolis and other places, that was actually the deadliest. and people did nothing. in 1918 they did what we did in 2020. closed down. when another wave came, not every place closed down, but some did. 1920, they basically just forgot about i...