Aug 27 Prosecutor seeks Trump lawyer testimony on voting system breach in Georgia election probe By Kate Brumback, Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press The prosecutor investigating whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia is seeking information about the alleged involvement of a Trump ally in the breach of voting equipment at a county roughly 200… Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch 6:46 Why the Fed plans to keep aggressively fighting inflation even if it leads to job loss By William Brangham Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered a stark message Friday on inflation, warning that more interest rate hikes are coming and they're going to take a toll. Those statements came during the Fed's annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Continue watching
Aug 26 Watch 3:15 News Wrap: Moderna sues Pfizer and BioNTech, nuclear plant in Ukraine reconnected to grid By PBS NewsHour In our news wrap Friday, Moderna announced it's suing Pfizer and BioNTech accusing them of copying its technology for their COVID vaccine, workers at a nuclear plant in Ukraine began reconnecting it to the power grid, Britain says the war… Continue watching
Aug 26 Watch 6:39 What we know about newly unsealed documents used in the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home By John Yang An affidavit supporting the August search of the former President Trump's Florida estate was made public on Friday. The U.S. Justice Department released a heavily redacted copy of the 32-page document. Among other things, it says 15 boxes of material… Continue watching
Aug 26 Watch 9:12 Sen. Thune on why he opposes Biden’s student loan plan, the affidavit in Mar-a-Lago search By PBS NewsHour President Biden's plan to cancel thousands of dollars in student loan debt for millions of borrowers has raised criticism from the Republican ranks. Many have called the plan unfair and believe it could worsen inflation and does little to address… Continue watching
Aug 26 Watch 5:32 Afghanistan sinks deeper into crisis as sanctions take heavy toll on civilians By Jane Ferguson, Zeba Warsi Afghanistan has been a country in chaos since the U.S. withdrawal last August. One year on, nearly half of its people are facing hunger, 6 million of them are at risk of famine. The freeze on assets and international sanctions… Continue watching
Aug 26 Watch 11:57 Brooks and Marcus on the Mar-a-Lago affidavit and Biden’s student debt plan New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week’s political news, including the newly unsealed documents that led to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, President Biden's plan to eliminate student… Continue watching
Aug 26 Secret Service recovers $286 million in stolen pandemic loans By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press An investigation initiated by the Secret Service's Orlando office found that alleged conspirators submitted Economic Injury Disaster Loan applications by using fake or stolen employment and personal information. Continue reading
Aug 26 Dow Jones drop 3 percent after Fed Chair Powell warns interest rates to stay high By Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise, Alex Veiga, Associated Press Stocks closed sharply lower after the head of the Federal Reserve dashed Wall Street's hopes that it may soon ease up on high interest rates in its effort to tame inflation. Continue reading
Aug 26 WATCH: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defends student debt forgiveness plan By Associated Press The White House defended the new plan announced by President Joe Biden that would give many Americans up to $10,000 in federal student loan debt forgiveness. Continue reading