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Longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and strikes last night on Apartment Complex In Beirut. Israel claims that hezbollah was using the complex as in underground headquarters. This represents a major escalation of the backand forth between Israel And Hezbollah, which israel has intensified in the last couple weeks. The strikes killed several other Highranking Hezbollah officials and the iranian State News that says in revolutionary Guard General was killed in the same strike. Lebanon lawns and more...

Includes nighthawks, doctor kings refrigerator, dreamer, facing a good thing and Middle Passage for which he won the National Book award in 25 years ago now. 1990. Wow. In 2002 he received the arthur letters award in literature from the American Academy of arts and letters. In the format tonight will beam remarks by Clifford Thompson and a conversation by doctor johnson and mr. Thompson and then we have time for your questions. Without further ado, help me welcome Clifford Thompson. [applause] t...

Im ben brown. Today at two. Bell tolls. The Prime Minister, the labour leader and the mayor of london lead tributes to the victims of the London Bridge terror attack. In cambridge, tributes to jack merritt and saskia jones who were killed. Mr merritts girlfriend attended a service along with family and friends. More details emerge of how a polish chef who fought off the attacker was stabbed five times in the struggle. There is a bad guy, hes got two knives in his hand, there is blood, theres scr...

Taking. Reporter within the hour we have learned all of the victims are students and the School President issued this letter to the school community, recognizing the anxiety these incidents create and she also outlined steps to make this campus safer. Has Campus Police have patrols, students said they feel safer traveling in packs following a series of disturbing Sexual Battery cases. It seems like its happening daily. It seems to almost happen exclusively to women. Reporter at least six cases s...

Where a 66yearold law means dancing in venues like this is illegal. No one seems to have told anyone here though. The sunni group trying to establish on Islamic State across swathes of the middle east as its leader appears on video for the first time. Iraqs government says the footage is fabricated. It shows Abu Bakr Albaghdadi giving a sermon in mosul. One of the iraqi cities that the group known as the Islamic State took over. Abu bakr albaghdadi called on all muslim to obey him as long as he ...

Cost. When federal money is involved state governments do not spend their money as efficiently. Host we are out of time. Chris edwards with the cato institute. Robert with the brookings institute. Thank you. That does it for todays washington journal. We will be that you tomorrow morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ...

And helmand. As far as advocacy for the corps there. Before they had the advisers to do this. Because we were going liftoff we wanted to make sure they had some kind of advocacy. We built a cell of four or five Coalition Members and some function that we thought they needed to continue to mature in our absence and put them up in kabul in september and they were foc in october before we left. Two interpreters were up there and all these individuals had served as advisers with the corps and the po...

Choosing people which is one of the most important jobs of president has. It is an open question. I am not saying she would do a bad job but in the past, she sometimes has chosen people for their loyalty rather than for their talent. Not always but sometimes. This has been a real problem with the Obama Administration is that there has not been a real reaching out to the best and the brightest. He pretty much has the same people who he had on the hill who got him elected. I think through four peo...

Adviser for reconciliation to iraqi forces in baghdad in 2008. Before we start, just a quick reminder, please put your mobile phones on vibrate. We are live on cspan today, apparently. So well start with mike knights. Thank you very much for coming today. Its great to see such a full room. And my colleagues on the panel with me, its a real honor to be alongside them. So im going to talk today about some of the themes coming out of our new study. The long haul rebooting u. S. Security corporation...

Festival. The United Nations security double is to hold an emergency meeting later on sunday. Houthi rebels call to arms. The state Department Says that the deteriorateing security situation has forced a withdraw of the remaining military security couple. People in taiz gather to protest the arrival of pro houthi forces in their city. They want to drag us into war and we refuse. A helicopter was a sign that pro houthi forces might be closer. President hadi has been trying to hang on to power sin...