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Yellow season and south korea firing rounds of their own. Pakistans former chief and president musharraf is charged with treason for unlawfully suspending the constitution and imposing emergency rule back in 2007. The former president denies any of those charges. And former israeli Prime Minister olmert has been found guilty of bribery when he served as jerusalems mayor back in 2009. As a reminder, you can check us out all day long by going to www. Aljazeera. Com. A flee former president jimmy c...

Every taxpayer becoming somewhat of a nonreality tonight. Its being described as a pep rally, the president speaking in front of a group of middleclass americans about the impending fiscal cliff. He reassured liberal democrats that he hadnt given away too much but irritated republicans when he took a job. One thing we can count on with respect to this congress is that there is even one second left before you have to do what you were supposed to do, they will use that last second. I guess i have ...

Left him with an impairment on his left side. She will join us with comments from his doctors about his return. The 113th congress is now in session. The house of representatives convened this morning with the republicans still in control but by a smaller margin. Republicans now fill 234 seats in the new house. The democrats hold 201 thats eight more than in the previous congress. Among the first big issues theyll be dealing with. The automatic spending cuts that were postponed to the end of feb...

Upon their t. Homeowners to protect your home. Yes. If you have a home up here, its part living up here. Its like your own insurance policy. Youre supposed to have four inches, 400 feet from your house. From your road youre supposed to have 30 feet from your fences. This house you say you know had too much junk around it. Actually the house is about 90 i dont know hold it is. Ive lived up here on and off for seven years. So the house has to be 90, 100 years old. Its been abandoned for maybe 20, ...

That there arent any embers to any open areas to start the grass fire again. This area has a lot of dry brush, as we can see from our chopper. Are there any threats right now to neighboring homes at all . Im sorry. Can you please repeat . Are there any threats to the neighboring homes or any possible evacuations right now . We dont have any evacuations right now. Its just that we do have this we have to be very cautious of the wind and the embers so if the embers travel. But we dont think any of...

Cultures. Most of you know this, but memorials are always shaped by politics. Reflectrary concerns that. This is especially true of National Historic sites. Federal officials have long viewed commemoration as a kind of patriotic all to me, as a way of conjuring unity from divisiveness by appealing to shared perceptions of the past. Good as a getss for civil war content. Im kidding. President example, lincolns first inaugural address. The president suggested that if americans would pay heed to op...

1970s and he found when he created the layout that you see rings with the time telling a chronological story, he kind of painted himself into a corner because how do you end it. Where does it end . Of course, it does not and anywhere. Time keeps marching on. States history keeps going on. That is one more reason why in the back of the museum there are pictures of things like the moonwalk in the atomic bomb and all those kinds of things, to show that history did not stop. Thing that was what to d...

Memorials are almost always shaped by politics. Contemporary concerns how history is presented. Memorial designers look to be present and future as well as the past when they do their work. This is especially true of National Historic sites. Federal officials have long viewed memorials as a kind of patriotic alchemy. Getsis about as good as it forcible where content civil war content. [laughter] im kidding. You can take for example president lincolns first inaugural arrest. He said if americans ...

Hello, everybody. Im john king in washington. Thank you so much for sharing this special day with us, special because today the nations capitol honors and remembers the late congressman john lewis, the man who meant so much to so many, a civil rights icon, a hero, the conscience of the congress for decades and the casket will arrive at joint base andrews moments from now. Lewis will begin his final journey to capitol hill. For more on his arrival congressman lewis was honored in his birth state ...

Welcome to monday. It is meet the press daily and im Kristen Welker in for chuck todd. On capitol hill it is a day to remember and honor civil rights icon john lewis as he becomes the first africanamerican lawmaker to lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda. Were expecting joe biden to pay his respects any minute now. President trump told reporters today that he is not planning to go to the capitol to pay his respects. Well have more on congressman lewiss legacy and future of the social Justice Move...