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The vote is the most powerful, nonviolent change agent you have a democratic society. Is must use it, because it not guaranteed. You can lose it. In less than 90 days, americans across the country will participate in election unlike any other in our history. As they scramble to administer it, decisions related to the number and location had impacts on peoples rights to vote. Long lines and crowded voting locations and predominate black andbrown Neighborhoods Police violence that underscored we h...

Staggering job losses. Toniht the 1. 4 million filing claims last week. But with Unemployment Benefits set to expire in just days, will congress extend the lifeline . Culture of misogyny. Congresswoman alexdrsicorts a rr alusa sexist profanity. Its not about one incident. It is cultural. Odonnell dangerous Hand Sanitizer, dozens of brands being recalled, the chemical that could be life threatening. Tracking Tropical Storm gonzalo. It is on its way to becoming a hurricane. And finally tonight, th...

This is the august 12th, 2020 budget and pre prations meeting. Im sandily fewer, chair of the budget and Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Member supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen and yee. Do we have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect our members citi employees and the public, the board of supervisors and ledge lay ter of chamber and Committee Room are closed but members will participate in a meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the local, st...

Insurance. We think it should be crafted in a way that does not pay people more to stay home than to go back to work. We got here because our republican colleagues couldnt get their act together, they still dont have their act tgether, and now they are worried. But instead of being serious in negotiating, they have created a stunt. Reporter democrats are pushing for a 3 trillion package, republicans pushing for a much smaller 1 trillion package. The president is eager for a plan to be passed, le...

Senator mcconnell good afternoon, everyone. We just had a fulsome discussion of the proposals that were developed over the last two weeks by various republican colleagues in conjunction with the administration, including the presence of secretary mnuchin and the president s chief of staff, and we are now in the process of absorbing all of this, and we know that the process of reaching out to the democrats has begun. Obviously, that will be led by mark meadows and steven mnuchin. Today to undersc...

Hop Health Officer abruptly resigned. I try not to have personnel conversations in public. I dont know that it serves the larger good. At the end of the day, he buck stops with me. Im accountable. Reporter the governor saying testing is one of the governments top priorities, and said there are encouraging signs that the number of coronavirus cases is slowing from the rapid increases we saw in july. Encouraging signs, but not the kind of stability and long term decline that we ultimately need to ...

Good afternoon as chairman of the Senate Commerce subcommittee on manufacture, trade and Consumer Protection i welcome you all here today to a hearing entitled, protecting americans from covid19 scams. The nation continues to fight the unprecedented Public Health present and president Public Health crisis brought on by the covid19 pandemic. In light of the serious threat this post to america, in the shoe shuddering of mainstream businesses, the response of Public Health protocols, have been felt...

Hearing on reopening schools during the pandemic. Tennessees Education Department commissioner and the Dallas School superintendent testified about plans in their jurisdictions. Well also hear from a pediatric Infectious Disease specialist and the president of the national parentteacher association. The subcommittee on Early Childhood secondary education will come to order. Welcome, everyone. I know that a quorum is presentm and i note for the subcommittee that mr. Courtney of connecticut, mrs. ...

Thats what we are trying to achieve. Roche sees profits and sales fall in the first half but a turnaround has already begun helping with the full year outlook. Since june and now july, hospitals have opened again and patients are returning to hospitals. We see our sales recovering. Thats why we returned our initialo initial outlook. Sales of unilever as sales of ben and jerrys and more in north american sales the outbreak continues to weigh in many markets. I would say latin america is in the th...

It took nearly 3 months for the United States to go from one infection to 1 million. Now, we have more than 12 million at least 1 million americans infected in the last two weeks. Hospitalizations and deaths are unacceptably high. Hospitals in some states are at risk of running out of beds. Some hospitals have reported they may be forced to choose which patients to treat and which to send home to die. On our recent current cross, experts predict another 150,000 americans could lose their lives o...