Daily Alerts for Significant News Events
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Donald Trump
personThe daily transcript is a written version of each day's "Hannity" program. Use this transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary. Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on "HANNity"
Hillary Clinton
personThe daily transcript is a written version of each day's "Hannity" program. Use this transcript to help students with reading comprehension and vocabulary. Use the weekly Newsquiz to test your knowledge of stories you saw on "HANNity"
Eric Adams
personNYC Mayor Adams to lift vaccine mandate for pro athletes, performers. Unvaccinated Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving allowed to play at home. Lifting of restrictions comes in time for Major League Baseball's opening day.
NATO
organizationNATO to deploy four new combat units in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. Jens Stoltenberg will remain in his role for an extra year. Ida Wolden Bache will be appointed to a full six-year term as head of Norges Bank.
Peter Hebblethwaite
personPeter Hebblethwaite told MPs that the average hourly pay of the new crew is only £5.50. Minimum wage in UK for people aged 23 and above is £8.91 per hour. Firm sparked outrage when it sacked 800 seafarers with no warning using a video message.
Ash Barty
personTennis star Ash Barty quits saying she is ‘spent’ Barty had initially withdrawn from Indian Wells and Miami, saying she would be back in action next month for Australia's Billie Jean King Cup. The 25-year-old won all 11 matches she had played this year, including her third Grand Slam title at the Australian Open.
Supreme Court
organizationSupreme Court threw out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor. Republicans had complained that Gov. Tony Evers’ maps moved too many people to create more districts with a majority of Black and Hispanic voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Supreme Court declines to say whether 73-year-old Justice Clarence Thomas remains in the hospital.
Taliban
organizationTaliban have gone back on their decision to allow girls in Afghanistan to return to secondary schools. They say the reversal is down to a decision that needs to be made on the uniform girls will wear.
Donald Trump
personFormer president Donald Trump withdrew his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R) in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama. Brooks is a Freedom Caucus firebrand and one of the GOP's most vocal supporters of overturning 2020 election results. Trump accused Brooks of making a 'horrible mistake' by abandoning talk of the 2020 election.
Erik ten Hag
personErik ten Hag was the first manager to hold a formal interview with United. The Ajax boss is now the clear favourite to be handed the Old Trafford reins. United will speak to other candidates, including Paris Saint-Germain’s Mauricio Pochettino.
Madeleine Albright
personAlbright was born in Prague and repeatedly visited her homeland after the 1989 anti-Communist Velvet Revolution. President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996.
Ketanji Brown Jackson
personKetanji Brown Jackson is President Joe Biden's nominee to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., brought up transgender issues in her questioning and asked Jackson, "Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman?’" GOP strategist Greg Price noted the irony of Jackson's response.
Rishi Sunak
personRishi Sunak announced on Wednesday that fuel duty would be cut by 5p per litre. He also pledged to cut the lowest rate of income tax by 1%. VAT on energy-saving materials will be reduced from 5% to zero for five years. Green technology will also be exempt from business rates.
Madeleine Albright
personAlbright, born Marie Jana Korbelova, migrated from Prague to the U.S. in 1948. For decades Albright believed she was Catholic. In fact her family was Jewish and dozens of relatives were killed in the Holocaust.
Ash Barty
personAsh Barty has announced she will retire from tennis at the end of the season. The 25-year-old won the Australian Open in January, her third Grand Slam singles title. Barty earned $32million from her 11 year playing career plus an estimated $15million from endorsements and sponsorships.
Ted Cruz
personRon Perlman sent a video message to Ted Cruz on Twitter in which he slammed the Texas senator for his questions at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown Jackson. Cruz asked Jackson about her role as a board member of the Georgetown Day School. Cruz: “Babies are taught to be racist or anti-racist — there is no neutrality.”
Moderna
organizationModerna says it will ask the FDA for emergency use authorization for its low-dose COVID vaccine. Company also is seeking to have larger-dose shots cleared for older children and teens. Construction on a new manufacturing plant to be built in Victoria is expected to begin by the end of the year.
Mo Brooks
personTrump said Brooks tanked a '44-point lead' after he hired new campaign staff who 'brilliantly' told him to'stop talking about the 2020 election. Brooks advised rallygoers in August to put 2020 'behind you,' as Trump said, and was heckled by the crowd who shouted 'no' and booed. Brooks is one of the most Trump-aligned members of Congress.
Brian Houston
personReview found he behaved 'inappropriately' with two women in 2013 and 2019. Found he sent text messages while 'under the influence of sleeping tablets' Also knocked on the door of a non-church member's hotel room.
Rishi Sunak
personSenior Tories unhappy that he rejected calls to axe NI rise altogether. Follows opposition to the 1.25% increase by Cabinet ministers and senior MPs. VAT rate on hospitality, food and non-alcoholic beverage sales was already set to rise to 20%. Businesses were hoping Mr Sunak was going to change his mind and keep it at the lower rate.