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a cold start to the day in highlands, temperatures overnight falling to three degrees but for many of us it will be dry with some sunny spells, just a few showers around, and into the weekend it all changes as we start to see some rain. its wednesday the 31st of august. our main story. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war and is widely considered one of the most influential po...

but before that, this. the final chance for liz truss and rishi sunak to persuade conservative party members to vote for them — the last hustings gets under way here at wembley in under an hour. thejury in the ryan giggs domestic violence trial fails to reach a verdict. he could face another trial. andy murray is in action at the us open. well have the latest after emma raducanu falls at the first hurdle in her defence of the title. and on sportsday on the bbc news channel, one month...

donald trump. the panel also playing harrowing never-before-seen footage of congressional leaders sheltering from the mob during during the attack. also tonight the u.s. supreme court deals another legal blow to trumps defense in the mar-a-lago investigation, rejecting his plea to intervene in the fight over classified documents seized by the fbi. plus, a gut punch for the families of the parkland school massacre victims. a florida jury recommends gunman nikolas cruz not receive the de...

And television has been that. They dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. People are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. We have seen the news, and it is us. Slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. The 1980s will be upon us. What a decade it is coming up. Happy new year as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. More than 30 Million People are addicted to ...

and television has been that. >> they dont pay me enough to deal with animals like this. >> people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. >> we have seen the news, and it is us. >> slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. >> more than 30 mi...

♪ ♪ ♪ >> live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. >> damning new details this hour with the fbi search of donald trumps mar-a-lago estate. the justice department says confidential documents were likely concealed and removed from storage to obstruct its investigation. the revelations are part of the departments court filings against trumps request for a special master to review evidence seized from mar-a-lago. the justice department also argues that trump lacks ...

interest rates that weve seen, the rate hikes we have seen have done the trick to ease that. so why did stocks soar when all was said and done? a lot of technical definitions being given here. lets put it this way. people were in a buying mood. welcome. im neil cavuto. this is "your world." what in the world to make of inflation that remaining pretty much out of control, but buyers that seem to find a certain resolve. based not so much on what they see there but an economy that theyre ...

welcome back to "morning joe." it is 6:00 a.m. on the west coast and 9 a.m. here in washington, d.c. we have breaking news on the economy. it is bad news for consumers, it is bad news for working-class americans. it is bad news for middle-class americans. it is bad news for people invested in the stock market. it is bad news if you have retirement accounts because they will be going down. but it is good news if youre a republican running for office in four weeks. the year-over-year inf...

killing 14 students and three staff members at marjorie stone douglas high school. kerry, what do we know at this hour? >> reporter: well, the families of the victims who have been enduring this really difficult penalty phase where all the information of every minute of every second of what happened have been notified by the court that the jury of 12 has now reached a decision on what the sentence will be and we expect that sentence will be delivered here at about 10:30. family members...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. and what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! >> as we began the 80s in the television world, the landscape was on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people watching only one of three networks. >> more than 30 million people are addicted to it. social critics are mystified by its success. what is it? its televisions primetime prairie potboiler "dallas." >> a move like that will destroy all of ewi...