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administration down playing the recession call. there s semantics. what is a recession, how do you technically define it. no matter what, there s widespread agreement no matter who you talk to. that is that economic growth is slowing. the treasury secretary, janet yellen acknowledges as much. but then she maintains that that does not mean a recession is inevitable. this is not in an economy that is in recession. but we re in a period of transition in which growth is slowing. and that s necessary and appropriate. we need to be growing at a steady and sustainable pace. yellen says the job market is still strong. she says a recession would have to be a broad-based economic contraction. consumers are still spending. household balance sheets are still in good shape. all of that said, the economy did contract the first quarter. economists think at beast we ll see slow growth when the numbers release thursday. the white house insists even if that number does go negative an ....
georgia voters are mortified than ever with the primaries just two days away, we ve got new numbers from georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger s office, and it shows early voting in the peak state surged ahead of tuesday s primaries. 2022 s total is up to 112% from 2020. and 2020 was a presidential election year, so that s pretty good. now let s look at the party lines, we ve got republicans who cast nearly 500,000 early ballots, while democrats cast just over 368,000. so, what insight can early voting numbers and the primaries actually tell us about how things will shake out in the general? i m so glad you asked, because we have nbc news correspondent ellison barber, on the ground in hot land to break it down, welcome ellison. okay, so nearly 900,000 people voted early in a primary, in a midterm here. what is happening and what can this mean for november? yeah, i, mean it s a really big deal for me when i look at those numbers and think, what does it mean as ....
Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland. This is how well begin sunday morning. Some showers feeding in towards the south, but also some sunshine. Blustery conditions. That rain perhaps moving further northwards, as we head through the day on sunday. Temperatures again generally between ten and 15 degrees celsius for most, but staying very unsettled, possibly turning stormy too through the middle part of next week. Bye bye. This is bbc news. The headlines. A source tells the bbc that negotiations are accelerating to agree on a ceasefire and reach an Exchange Deal on hostages between hamas and israel. Israels military says its carried out more air and ground attacks in gaza, hitting dozens of hamas targets and killing a senior commander. A senior un official warns that many more will die in gaza from catastroph ....
The new center here in los angeles. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Weber getting with the Breaking News of that deadly attack on israel. Hamas militants, launching a surprise, simultaneous rocket and ground attack. This, at the break of dawn, killing 70 people, according to israeli Emergency Services. Israeli officials say, hamas has fired 2500 rockets. The Rocket Fire Serving as cover for an unprecedented multipronged infiltration of hamas fighters crossing into israels borders. Israels military said that palestinian fighters penetrated at least three military installations. Those being at the eras border crossing, the zakim base, and the Gaza Division headquarters and at rhame. Now at one point, israels police chief said, forces were engaging gunm ....