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NEWS
Thursday, July 18, 2019
1) From ABC News, I’m Daria Albinger. Just moments ago, the
House voted to table Democratic Texas Congressman Al Green’s resolution to impeach President Trump with a majority of
Democrats, joining Republicans in killing the measure. “On this vote, the yeas
are 332 and the nays are 95 with one answering “Present.” The motion is
adopted.” The resolution was proposed in the wake of President Trump’s tweets
suggesting four Democratic congresswomen should go back to their home
countries. Speaking outside the White House on his way to a rally, the
President says the political fighting this week has benefited them. “I am not relishing
the fight. I’m enjoying it because I have to get the word out to the American
people.” The President says he has no regrets about the tweets.
2)
Prosecutors in Massachusetts have dropped a felony sex assault charge against actor
Kevin Spacey. “The accuser’s
attorney said his client has shown an enormous amount of courage under
difficult circumstances, but when the accuser refused to testify at a recent pretrial
hearing about missing evidence, prosecutors had little choice but to drop the indecent
assault charge against Kevin Spacey. The actor had been accused of touching the
young man’s genitals for three minutes in a Nantucket restaurant several
summers ago. He had pleaded not guilty but the accusation and a number of
others paralyzed Spacey’s career. Police in London recently interviewed Spacey
about allegations in the U.K. Aaron Katersky,
ABC News, New York.
3)
Stocks extended losses into the second day on Wall Street, the Dow fell 116
points, the S&P fell 20, the NASDAQ dropped 37.
4)
Republican Senator Rand Paul has blocked
a bipartisan bill that would ensure a victims’ compensation fund for September
11th first responders never runs out of money. “We need to address our massive
debt in this country. We have $22 trillion debt. We’re adding debt at about a
trillion dollars a year.” Another vote on the standalone measure will wait
until August.
5)
The Trump Administration has stopped sending kids to a controversial homestead
migrant facility in Florida. You’re listening to ABC News.
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From
the Fox Business Network; stocks falling as investors digested mixed earning
results with the Dow dropping 116 points, the NASDAQ down 38, S&P 500 down
20. // And shares of Netflix plunging
in the extended trading session as the video streaming company badly missed projections
for new paid subscriptions in the second quarter, only adding 2.7 million paid subscribers
internationally compared with analysts’ estimates of over 5 million. Netflix is
facing heightened competition particularly from Disney, Apple, and HBO owner
AT&T which are all launching their own streaming services. // And Bill Gates has been dethroned as the
second richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index that entered Bernard Arnault, Chairman of LVMH
with a net worth of $108 billion. Gates was in the second place for seven years
since the list was created. The LVMH chair is the richest person in Europe and his
total worth is equivalent to more than 3% of France’s economy. With the Fox
Business Report, I’m Hilarie Barsky.
