Day: December 18, 2024

AP Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports on the House Ethics Committee investigation of ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz.

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on the first severe bird flu case in the U.S.

The Supreme Court will take up TikTok’s bid to avoid a US ban. The House Ethics Committee has secretly voted to release a report on former Congressman Matt Gaetz. Experts are skeptical that New York prosecutors will make Luigi Mangione’s first-degree murder charge stick. Police are speaking to students as they try to find a motive in the Wisconsin school shooting. We’ll tell you why some of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans might sound familiar. Plus, a Hawaii woman who was missing for weeks speaks out.
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Since Syria’s President Assad fell from power, the full horror of his regime has begun to be revealed. Mass graves have been discovered around the country. And a vast amount of documentation confirming many of the crimes is emerging. We hear from Canadian lawyer Bill Wiley who has been gathering evidence of atrocities by the Assad regime for years. He believes many of the perpetrators could now be brought to justice. Also on the programme: how a novella by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky has become a TikTok sensation; the Russians say they’ve detained the man who carried out the assassination of a senior general in Moscow; and the polar bears bearing down on a town in northern Canada. Photo by BILAL AL HAMMOUD/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (15014794bq)

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on the Supreme Court evaluating a ban on TikTok.

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports Israeli settlers have briefly crossed the border into Lebanon.

AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports on California’s attempt to ban gas car sales by 2025.

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