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beijing. china has slapped export controls on two rare metals used in the manufacture of semiconductors. the move by the chinese ministry of commerce targets the metals gallium and germanium. china is a major producer of both. from august, exports of these metals will require a licence. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to berlin, and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the worlds two top economies deteriorated ...

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hes lost all credibility. after the supreme court 6-3 decision striking down the use of racial preferences in college admissions biden was sent out by whoever winds him up to lie. >> affirmative action is so misunderstood. many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students, unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. this is not, this is not how college admissions work. >> laura: the white house people arent that ignorant. they know the...

a detachment of his men first to take over the city of rostov—on—don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it — prigozhin ordered his men to turn back, and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailo...

what might ukraines future be after putins war? the mood in ukraine is that if ukrainian officials agree to something less than the borders of 1991, the question would be, why did all those people die? and populism — is its day over? the way i like to look at this issue is not, are we going to see a resurgence of populism, but are we going to see a resurgence of democracy? its been one of the most confusing episodes of recent times, and we still dont know exactly what happened or wha...

higher. i spoke to tribeca investment partners, who told me what was driving the rally. 2024 - me what was driving the rally. 2024 — were heading to a good start. certainly the investor optimism has returned after the first couple of weeks of a little bit of weakness. investors have decided 2024 is going to be a year where interest rates will head lower locally and the economic activity will slow down, but not as bad as feared previously. so all that combined, its good to see the nas...

streets under siege, a dramatic outpouring of anger, after a 17—year—old, nahel, was killed by police during a traffic stop. many of the rioters are teenagers, out despite a plea from frances president to parents to keep their children at home. as the protests have intensified, so too has the police presence. across the country from friday into saturday morning, more than 115,000 officers were deployed stop and it is the police thatis deployed stop and it is the police that is driv...

decision. first what the president just said, speaking live from the white house, i strongly, strongly disagree with the courts decision. he said the court walked away from decades of precedent and called this not a normal court. what was your reaction to what you just heard? >> my reaction is that actually the supreme court is finally bringing into alignment education law with employment law. for over 40 years the supreme court has been more conservative on employment law and has rest...

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that aside, its as emphatic anm definitive as conservatives hoped and progressives feared. its the way that the 14th amendment was color blind, jackson and others, nonsense., look at what the 14th amendment achieved. brown versust board of educati, likewise. nonsense says the dissent. it was race sensitive. the 14th amendment must be race sensitive. then theres this world s worl viewpoint, there they are like t ships passing in the night. one side says, look at the worlt today an...