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Senators, including senator joe manchin of west virginia. the bill is an updated version of a framework released by senator manchin earlier this year. the legislation is split into three sections. voter access and election administration. election integrity and civic participation and empowerment. democrats want to act fast. majority leader chuck schumer said hell call a vote by next week. >> republican-led war on democracy has only worsened in the last few weeks. most notably, the governor of t...

Justice department and by the white house, saying, look, we are sick of asking, we are now telling you get vaccinated. >> gloria, i expect were going to hear from and see the governors of florida, texas, south dakota, a spate of republican senators come out soon. the president has shied away from these broad mandates for private sector, but now is seeing this is something that he thinks he has to do. >> as you were pointing out earlier, hes gone from the carrot to the sticks, because they feel t...

Person has been killed. spains prime minister, pedro sanchez, is to chair an urgent meeting of the countrys commission against hate crimes on friday following widespread anger over a brutal homophobic assault on a 20—year—old spaniard in central madrid. a spate of similar attacks and killings in recent months has led some of spains lgbtq community to fear openly displaying their sexuality, as mark lobel reports, with some distressing details from the start. in this part of central madrid on ...

Some breaking news from russia. it is regarding russia�*s interior minister who has died, it appears, in the line of duty at an interagency exercise to do with protecting the arctic zone against emergencies while saving a person�*s life. it is the emergencies minister, i should say. more details as soon as we have it. spain�*s prime minister will chair an urgent meeting of the country�*s commission against hate crimes on friday. it follows widespread anger over a brutal homophobic assaul...

Spains prime minister will chair an urgent meeting of the countrys commission against hate crimes on friday. it follows widespread anger over a brutal homophobic assault on a 20—year—old spaniard in central madrid. a spate of similar attacks and killings in recent months has led some of spains lgbtq community to fear openly displaying their sexuality. mark lobel reports, and there are some distressing details from the start. in this part of central madrid on sunday, eight hoooded, knife—wi...

>> martha: so more cities and states are mandating that their state workers get the covid vaccine to come to work. but the requirement has caused a lot of uproar among some city employees like in chicago, for example, already struggling to fill vacancies among first responders and teachers. the city is seeing a spate of bus drivers quit over this mandate as one example. grady trimble from fox nice is live in chicago today. hi. >> the mandate has already led to dozens of workers quitting. many mo...

Muslims would come over the border and kill us, and so we need a total revamping here, and this is the most important point at this hour that the veterans of the last 20 years of war are channeling the incredible competence and pate terrorism to help afghans in peril, and right now they are in transit and in third-countries at this point that need to be in completed that unfinished business. >> shannon pettypiece, there is a part of the obama administration saying that we heard from nancy pelosi...

People at risk at the airport. you were dismissed _ people at risk at the airport. you were dismissed in march of this year by ashraf ghani who was not happy with the security situation following a spate of taliban attacks at the time. do you, when you speak of failings, to include yourself in that? i think everyone had a plan. i mean, talk particularly about the evacuation plan failure, but certainly what is going on in afghanistan, there is a role for everyone to play and president ghani remov...

We have some more breaking news. vice president kamala harris visit to vietnam delayed by three hours because of concerns about what the embassy called a health incident. has what they call havana syndrome. its a spate of health issues that have hit officials. one or more diplomats had to be medically evacuated after reporting symptoms over the weekend. joining me now is nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. what more can you tell us about these incidents in vietnam? >> w...

Center college of public health. this new study sure explains a lot. the effectiveness of the vaccine because of the darin has dropped from 91% to 66%, is that why were seeing this spate of breakthrough cases? >> thank you, alisyn. always a pleasure. so this study is consistent with three or four other studies the cdc has recently presented. the bigger point here is the vaccine is still two third protected against infection. and still in the 90s for severe disease. so the vaccine still works rea...