Page 749 - Posts News Today

What democrats do. >> at 52, jeffries ascension marks a generational change for from 82-year-old outgoing house speaker nancy pelosi. >> >> jeffries became democratic caucus chair in -- 2019 and has long been known for his advocacy around for four double housing, and criminal justice reform, working across the aisle in 2019 to get the first step act passed. >> we look forward to finding opportunities to partner with the other side of the aisle, and work with them whenever possible, but we will a...

Welcome back. china is looking to punish users for liking social media posts they deem harmful or illegal. chinas cyber watchdog stemming enforcement as they protest over the draconian covid restrictions. lets go to anna coren. >> reporter: its important to note they were published last month before the mass protests swept across china. theyre expressing their angst over the draconian policy. sensory and cracking down is part of the communist partys playbook but in the next two weeks any likes o...

Com comments. users must be vetted and on top of the government censorship already in place, all online platforms must deal with their own censorship. it means nothing can get online unless it has been signed off. now the problem for authorities is the massive amount of manpower and resources that it will take to implement the stricter guidelines. china already has the most is he physician at this dated censorship in the world. while its hunted down and deleted accounts, plenty have slipped thro...

>> i did. i think both elmer stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, and one of his top lieutenants, kelly megs, their language in text messages and posts, social media, and even in some videos, it was so violent, it was so inflammatory. lets call it what it is. it was seditious and the other defendants werent quite as vocal or as enthusiastic. you know, i think its important for people to recognize that coconspirator liability can reach really far. a jury can hold all conspirators respo...

8,000 followers and democrats lost 4,000. they also analyzed data from propublicas represent tool which tracks congressional twitter activity. as an example, they had senator elizabeth warren, adam schiff and bernie sanders all lost about 100,000 twitter followers. marjorie taylor greene, jim jordan, congress persons from ohio and georgia respectively, gained more than 300,000 each. does that surprise you? what does it say? >> not really because i think two things are happening. one, conservativ...

Documents at trumps mar-a-lago resort and the broader parts of the january 6th insurrection investigation. trump is repeatedly speaking out against smith in a litany of posts on his truth social, social media website, attacking smith as a trump hater and a hitman for obama. this is a typical tactic that trump has used for the host of investigators through the years. cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid joins me now. weve seen this before, right? >> many times. >> investigated by anybody, n...

Weird, as soon as we knew there was a runoff, we got on the bus tour, and we started hitting the road again. we started letting the people know how important it was to get out the turn out, and have your vote counted because it is very very important. this election here is about controlling the senate. were not going to let them take the senate away. right now we can have everyone, have the different committees, now the committee can be even, whereas if the republican lose that senate seat, then...

Tonights other group b game. the other of tonights group b games saw iran take on the usa. there has been a lot of attention on the iranian team because of protests against their participation around the world, in solidarity with the demonstrators back in iran. lots of people wanted them to boy cot on show they were shoulder to shoulder with demonstrators. and tonight we did see the team singing the national anthem, they didnt do that in the first match. and anger in iran when the us soccer fede...

Iranian crowd that is so fascinating and really speaks to the pressures that these people are under. for example, im sure you heard about the situation with the iranian flag. this is the official iranian flag with the emblem of the islam inrepublic on it and this was the emblem that the united states soccer federation controversially removed briefly during one of their social media posts which enraged the iranian government and they did that because they said they were supporting the protesters ...

Peoples hands when they need it. >> reporter: congress last passed an assault weapons ban back in 1994, but allowed to it lapse ten years later. and house democrats have passed similar bans repeatedly since, as recently as this july. and they want to do it again next month, but that ban has never been able to pass through a closely divided senate. jericka? >> a very complicated and complex issue, nancy. thank you very much. the u.s. soccer team is showing solidarity with protesters in iran ahe...