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repercussions for the election this year and also for the future of american democracy. it is arguably the most important election case to reach the supreme court since bush v gore nearly a quarter century ago. the question before the court is pretty simple actually. does section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars, quote, an officer of the united states who, quote, engaged in insurrection from holding public office actually apply to the man who incited the january 6th riot, who tried ...

fireworks as they investigate into elon musk and his purchase of twitter. >> live, president biden will be holding a news conference with the president of the finland that is natos newest member. >> cocaine in the white house how it got there and who is to blame, congress looking for answers in a closed-door briefing by the secret service as a biden administration to insist while questions from the news media. welcome to a brand-new wall as americas newsroom. i am dana perino. >> linda...

and how its transforming the world around us. yeah, that includes in health care, where we meet the ai helping radiologists to diagnose cancer. you can see these little white dots. the ai is highly suspicious. and in the fast moving game of ai artwork, who owns what? and can artists protect their work? for some time artificial intelligence has been all around us. you might not have noticed it, but your video streaming services, social media feeds, the maps on your smartphones, theyve a...

southwest, from texas to florida, too. just a short time ago, phoenix hitting 110 degrees for a 12th day in a row. in california, meanwhile, at this hour, all eyes on a massive landslide, destroying or condemning at least 12 homes already. they are now worried about 16 more homes. the ground shifting. whats driving this? matt gutman live on the scene. the urgent manhunt right now in the northeast across state lines for that dangerous murder suspect. tonight here, the new image. the...

thats going to do it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts now. hi everyone. its 4:00 in new york. im ali velshi in for nicolle wallace. an incredibly important question looming over democracy, can presidents be held accountable for crimes committed in office. a unanimous ruling by the d.c. court of appeals rejected donald trumps claims of immunitity in the federal election case. the decision by the judges is a stinging rebuke of the ex-president in what has become a months lo...

alliance, and its good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. >> but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen...

sexually abused a woman and publicly defamed her even after he was ordered by a court of law to stop. now, another jury is deciding not just how much he should be held liable for the damage his words have done, but how much he should be punished for those words as well. in other words, how much money he should pay e. jean carroll in punitive damages, just like yesterday, the courtroom was wild again today, judge kaplan, again, admonished alina habba for arguing with his rulings, this t...

stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around us any more if they did not. they wouldnt be around us any more if they didnt. the mouse that didnt care about surviving wouldnt pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep goi...

which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. one of the key drivers of human thought and behaviour throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science all wrestle with that fact and have in different ways embraced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave, director of the cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing deba...

weve got our own show to make, so lets get on with this episode of newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, its james here in the studio in westminster. and its chris in westminster, too. here we are, and one story thats dominated this week, chris, hasnt it, which has been this post office scandal? but theres one story going to dominate next week, i think, quite likely, in so much as we can forecast. whats that? it is rwanda. so its the return of the conversation about how you...