according to the professor of finds, this biological reactor made by washington state university researchers can produce white blood cells that kill cancer with an amazing statistic of 95% of the maximum growth rate, which is approximately 30%. it is more than the speed of existing technologies. in this refrigerator-sized bioreactor , researchers use centrifugal force to influence growing cells, which ultimately inhibits the body's immune system from fighting cancer cells . scientists have developed new electrodes for continuous monitoring of the heart in a simpler way. these ultra-thin electrodes are used in addition to being more anti-freeze and gel-free. according to new atlas , australian researchers say that these light electrodes with gold nanorods are better than conventional devices. now they irritate the skin less because they are chemically inert, very media and biocompatible. according to the researchers, this technology is also ideal for elderly care patients. doctors believe that dry electrodes can be used in remote ambulatory health care or as a medical device. used specialists

rodgers: i rise in support of my amendment to recognize washington state university and celebrate the success of their assent program -- ascent program. it's a primary university based research vehicle for the f.a.a. and is laser focused on developing new and exciting technology we need to meet the challenges of the 21st century. by working with stake holders and industry leaders, students and fact all at w.s.u. are showing the world what's possible. their work is re-losic how we think about sustainable aviation fuel and is helping secure a cleaner future. today we have the opportunity to ensure the work continues. we can fully fund the program and make sure america continues to lead the way. to usher in a new era of innovation and win the future. this program will help america keep its competitive edge and i strongly support -- urge my colleagues to support this amendment. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from oklahoma. the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. quigley: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from misk, ms. -- from wisconsin, ms. moore. the speaker pro tempo

eliminate nuclear weapons because make head of the nucleus studies as to choose at american university in washington state. the last thing the world needs is more atomic weapons. now the world certainly doesn't need any more nuclear weapons. the world needs to get rid of the nuclear weapons. we already have to what the a b, $6113.00 does. it's more of a political deal that's being made. but in terms of actual mission, this is nothing new and nothing different. it has, it's a very accurate weapon. it can, uh, they think it can get destroy deeply embedded and target tar hard in targets. and so it's what would be useful in that regard. as you know that in the past they've talked about such targets inside a ron, especially so they would have certain uses, but it doesn't really add anything new to the american arsenal. how many, thanks to your company here, and i'll see international is always appreciated. keep an eye on all the latest news on the dates funds and our website on the .

took place in washington in the rain, and several dozen gathered at the entrance, this is the entrance to the state department of the united states of america in washington george town universityic world is seething, christian communities in jerusalem are praying for gaza, the west bank , in nazareth, in israel, the israeli police arrested three former knesset members who tried to organize a demonstration against the war. in italy, in genoa, dockers protest against the murder of children, protests in istanbul. take a variety of forms, sit-ins, student protests, well, in jordan, let’s see, the neighboring a country where the majority of the population, refugees from palestine, are holding a solidarity rally, of course, the situation is acute, the protests are also obviously very serious, but tomorrow a significant event will take place, namely the summit... of the organization of islamic cooperation, headquarters in jeddah, this is saudi arabia, and russia is also present there as observers, so let's listen to what the organization of islamic cooperation itself reports about this. summit of the organization of islamic cooperation of countries participants, this extraordinary me

demonstrations are happening at universities across the united states in support of terrorists. a student group at my alma mater, the george washington university, caused for the destruction of israel and the jewish people. the liberal ideology is emanating from our universities and spreading throughout our corporations and tainting the world view of the next generation of americans. this is dangerous. and it must be rejected. that's why i'm an original sponsor of representative owens' resolution condemning the support of terrorists at our institutions of higher education. i urge all americans to join me and my colleagues in stating in no uncertain terms that we support our jewish students and affirm the statehood of israel and the right of her people to live and to thrive. i urge my colleagues to support h.res. 739 and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. owen: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized. ms. manning: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. owen: mr. speaker, i yield three minutes t

university school of law. she graduated with honors in 2017, but soon after hit a major snag. the washington state ruled that she couldn't take the exam to be a lawyer because of her criminal background. tarra: the volunteer character and fitness board thought that i felt too entitled to take the bar exam and that i was too proud of my accomplishments. cat: they actually said those things? tarra: yes. cat: how did that feel? tarra: well, at the time, it felt completely traumatizing. i had taken out, you know, over $200,000 in loans to go to school. i had done everything right. cat: simmons appealed the bar association's decision to the state supreme court. >> if rehabilitation is the touchstone of present character, which i think this court should hold, then ms. simmons, really makes her record of rehabilitation an easy case for the court. cat: she was represented by shon hopwood, himself a formerly incarcerated lawyer, and within hours of hearing the case, the court unanimously ruled in her favor. tarra: i just started crying. i could not believe it. and the fact that they did it so quickly. and

>> over the weekend the university of washington defeated state rivals washington state with that field goal from kicker grady gross. it was tied and there were five seconds left. he launched it winning it for the huskies. after the game the coach awards him with one of the best gifts you can give a student athlete. >> you know what i hope grady gross is thankful for this the scholarship he's earned. >> tears immediately. the coach rewarded the sophomore with the scholarship, so well deserved. he's helped washington finish regular season with a 12-0 record. i am sure his parents were crying tears of joy as well like, yes, retirement early. >> good on the huskies for two reasons. so well deserved. they're smart. they want to keep him around. he obviously delivers. congrats to him. >>> i usually don't know what fruits or vegetables are in season and this helps me. >> a simple initiative but helping in a big way. we take you to santa rosa where volunteers are reaching out to the sight impaired. >>> it was scary and it's scary for the customers. >> this was [narrator] covered california is

>> university of washington defeated state rivals washington state with this field goal from the kicker five seconds were left and he launched it from 42 yards winning it for the huskies. the best partafter the game, his coach awards him with one of the best gifts you can give a student athlete. >> you know what he is thankful for, the scholarship he's earned. >> oh that is so wonderful. that's right, washington coach gave him a scholarship, well deserved. gross has five field goals from at least 40 yards and he's helped washington finish regular season with a 12-0 record. you saw the raw emotion. the whole team was rooting for him. >> i am sure his family was super excited. congrats and good for washington for doing that. that's very cool. >> yes. >>> still ahead on the morning edition. >> usually whatever fraught or vegetables are in season, it helps me. >> a simple initiative that helps in a big way. volunteers are reaching out to the sight impaired. >>> it's scary for the customers. >> caught on camera, terrifying armed robbery in oakland. >>> i am live in the mission where city lea

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universities rework admissions policies, one kentucky school stands behind free tuition. >> this is "pbs newshour." from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona statersity. >> u.s. supreme court heard arguments today in a major case looking at whether people with domestic violence court orders should be barred by federal law from owning guns. the case u.s. versus where heb is the first involving gun rights to come before the nation's highest court since the ruling at issue last year loosening gun restrictions. demonstrators gathered outside the court today stressing the impact the ruling could have on protections for victims of domestic abuse. we're joined by our supreme court legal analyst, marcia coyle. the justices talked about the history and tradition of gun rights. how did the two sides navigate that test during the arguments today? >> as you recall, in 2022, the court, the conservative majority not only ok'd open carry but did announce a new test in the test says that in order to become -- to be constitution, gun regulations have to be consistent with the historical tradition of gun regulation. they are really looking at pre-1904 either a co

who is the vice president of the united states and where did she attend college? how are the university in washingtonhbcu? can you say james clyburn, south carolina state. can you say subject richmond? morehouse. those who are leading this country have flipped the dynamic from the ivy leagues to our black ivy league, hbcus. many of these hbcus were born out of the massacre in slavery times, they wanted to make sure that the slave understood how to read christian books, the bible, okay? and they started out as many of these schools did as bible colleges, like my alma mater, morgan state university. and it grew into a college and then to a university. this is a big deal. hbcus are in their prime right now and it makes a big difference to show all america and it needs to be at a time, for this setting and this venue, when people are talking about all of these anti-woke movements, all of these anti-, the book bans, et cetera, et cetera. >> and affirmative action, and other issues that will be issues in the 24 campaign. >> exactly. >> the only thing i'm going to be watching for is, will donald trump show

>> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and pbs from the waller con kite school of journal african-american arizona state university ftx founder sam bankman fried has been found guilty for fraud and his role of the collapse of the crypto currency exchange. john yang looks at the significant of this case. jonathan: geoff, it took a jury four hours to convict sam bank man fried. investors lost nearly $10 billion. damien williams said crooked financier should take note. >> tas warning this case to every single fraud center out there who thinks they're untouchable. that their crimes too complex for us to catch, whether they're too powerful to execute or that they could talk their way out of it when they get caught. those folks should think again. and cut it out. and if they don't, i promise we'll have enough handcuffs for all of them. >> maximum prison time in the seven concerns that bankman fried was convicted of totals 110 years. kim covered the five-week trial. the big moment was when sam took the stand. always gamble for a defendant to testify on his own defense. he was on the stand for three days. how kiddo? did h

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>> this is "the pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityzens of people in atlanta are facing racketeering charges in connection with protests over what they call "cop city" -- a proposed training center for police and firefighters. william brangham has the story. protests against this proposed -- william: protests against this proposed 85 acre training center have been going on for more than two years. in january, protestor manuel terÁn was killed in a gunfight with police, as they were clearing out a site where activists were camped. this summer, the state's attorney general, chris carr, obtained a sweeping indictment using the state's anti-racketeering law, charging 61 protesters, characterizing them as "militant anarchists." this week, hundreds of marchers were met with flash bangs and tear gas. and today, more crowds gathered near the proposed training site, again calling for a halt to the project. chamian cruz is a reporter for wabe who is covering it all. welcome back to the program. these protests have been going on a long time and t

state solution. my kind of, i'll just say era, washington, joining us on assess, again, is college they do. and he's a little profess at arizona state university and a specialist on national security. thank you for joining the program again. do you think the full school knows that we're seeing a spot in the defense be, is really ministry is out of step with recent remarks by senior us officials who are now talking more about the humanitarian situation in gaza. yeah, yeah, i think it's kind of a strategic double speak if you will, were biting the sort of like seeking to see, you know, kind of like demonstrating his full fledged legions to design a subjective to expand its, you know, expand its territory because the people i blanking are talking about humanitarian pauses, but what an essence or humanitarian pauses, they rhetorically sound good. but in essence, there, there are functional sort of inroads and devices that you know, falls in line with what israel wants to do in terms of, you know, accelerating its land, grabs in the north and visit, but also the south domestically the poles. recent polls are showing that domestic support full best

. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington, and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityfive republican presidential candidates took the stage in miami last night for the third debate of the primary. missing from the stage once again was former president donald trump. political correspondent lisa desjardins takes a deeper look at the divides in the party over policies abroad and at home. lisa: perhaps it was the moderators. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the republican presidential debate. lisa: or perhaps the smaller number of candidates -- five -- who made the stage. >> and to our audience, please hold your applause. lisa: but in miami, republican presidential candidates cut down the interruptions and raised the substance level, especially on foreign policy. >> we will stand with israel in word and in deed, in public and in private. lisa: candidates echoed support for israel, and calls to wipe out hamas. >> i said, "finish them. finish them." >> as president of the united states, my foreign policy is simple. you cannot negotiate with evil. you have to destroy it.

>> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism from arizona state university following the 2021 u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan and subsequent taliban takeover, hundreds of thousands of afghans sought safe haven in pakistan. many had spent years working with the u.s. and afghan government, and fled a taliban crackdown. but as nick schifrin reports, today they are on the run again, after pakistan began implementing its threat to deport more than a million undocumented afghan refugees. nick: it was supposed to be the refuge. an afghan family's home in the pakistan capital. this week it was torn down by the government they hoped would keep them safe. afghans and pakistan bear the burden of again being uprooted. 100,000 have loaded everything they own onto buses, forced to return to their home country. many are resisting this move that would be far too dangerous. >> the taliban arrested my mom and someone wants to kill my mom. nick: he was a human rights activist in afghanistan under the u.s.-backed government. last year, she even protested the taliban after thei

. >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west, from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university: the nine justices of the supreme court handed down a surprise unanimous decision today, binding themselves to a new code of ethics, explaining, "the absence of a code has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the justices of this court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules. to dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this code." to unpack the court's new rules, we welcome kathleen clark, a law professor with washington university in st. louis specializing in legal and government ethics. professor clark, put this moment in context for us. for the first time in the court's 234 year history, it's adopting a code of ethics. how big a deal is this? >> this is not a very big deal. it does show that the supreme court can read the room. it knew that it had to do something to address the political and ethics crisis that it finds itself in. but in terms of substance, this new code does very little. and it provides no new

this is the pbs newshour, from w eta new studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitygeoff: the shooting of three college students this holiday weekend has added more fear and concern about a rise in bias, discrimination and violent attacks against arab americans and muslims in the u.s. william brangham has the story. william: 48-year-old jason eaton was arraigned today in connection with the shooting of three college students of palestinian descent in burlington, vermont over the weekend. he is charged with three counts of attempted murder in the second degree. authorities say he shot the men without saying a word and, while no motive has been determined, the shooting is being investigated as a possible hate crime. the uncle of kinnan abdal-hamid, one of the victims, spoke today at a news conference. >> kinnan grew up in the west bank. we always thought that that would be more of a risk in terms of safety, and sending him here would be the right decision. we somehow betrayed in that decision here. william: in addition to abdal-hamid, families identified the other vict

>> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityoday has brought news on both sides of the u.s. capitol. new house speaker mike johnson passed $14 billion in aid to israel, but the bill faces problems ahead. and senate republicans took on one of their own over top military promotions. congressional correspondent lisa desjardins is live on capitol hill to unpack the latest on the domestic policy. so, lisa, let's start with the debate over aid to israel and ukraine. what's the latest on those two issues? lisa: this is a fiery debate, but, just in the past few minutes, geoff, the house did in fact pass that $14 billion aid package to israel. it was largely a partisan vote. the way republicans in the house did it, they would fund that money by cutting money to the irs. now, the cbo and others have said that that actually would increase the deficit because less money for the irs means less revenue for the united states. republicans dispute that. but the point is that republican speaker mike johnson has really passed his first at least in

♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university the last two months, hundreds of thousands of americans have come together in both pro-israel and pro-palestinian rallies and vigils. the vast majority have been peaceful, but some have turned violent or included antisemitic and is homophobic threats. laura barron-lopez reports. correspondent: last night, protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza and police clashed outside the democratic national committee headquarters in washington d.c. lawmakers, including top house democrats, were evacuated from a fundraiser after protestors blocked exits to the building. according to u.s. capitol police, one person was arrested for assaulting a police officer and six officers were injured. yesterday, law enforcement said on social media that 150 people were illegally and violently protesting but rally goers -- led by a coalition of groups including jewish voice for peace action and if-not-now movement, another american jewish organization -- say police initiated the confrontation. >> we were met

states and korea, as well. so how to continue this legacy in the future to make this washington declaration and agreement sustainable and universal. i think that is one key for us. >> thank you, for mister. you got us off to a fast start. let me turned over to ambassador stevens to cover these themes you laid out. i heard from the foreign minister that there are stronger institutions as a result of the good work of many of the individuals online in this room. second, the relationships become globalized. third, there is a strong push to work together in and around the indo pacific from southeast asia come all the way up to our friends in tokyo. kathy, the charge the foreign minister laid out is making it more sustainable. making this more palatable. the reason i put these themes to you is for two reasons. one, you are ambassador at a time when a lot of people -- new parts of the relationship and alliance were maturing. it was a turning point in terms of this alliance becoming a full partnership, so a critical inflection point. second, you have a very distinct record as a peace corps volunteer, someone who knows the korean people v

states postal service. delivering for america. >> at my george washington university, we've seen anti-semitic hate fests, ralliesg murders of israelis. unconscionable insults projected on to our library. our building broken into, our kidnapped posters torn from the inside. >> martha: very powerful yesterday at the rally in washington. the march for israel where they believe there were two to 300,000 people that showed up. overwhelming moment on the mall. that was a george washington university student telling her story in front of all of those gathers in support of jewish people. she said the phrase "glory to our martyrs" was plastered to the side of the building. we showed you this. the group that did it is facing a 90-day suspension. a similar group was suspended at columbia. the school tells fox that sjp refused to supply with the university officials directives to end the projectives on the wall and the university prohibited that group on campus because they're not following the rules. nice to see somebody is trying to enforce the rules on the books. men while, nyu now facing a lawsuit from three students th

>> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityr corporate shakeup in the world of artificial intelligence. microsoft announced today that it has hired sam altman, the co-founder of chatgpt maker openai, after he was unexpectedly fired from that company days earlier. microsoft is a financial partner in openai. altman had kicked off a global race for artificial intelligence supremacy, and was the face of the ai boom, often drawing comparisons to tech giants like bill gates and steve jobs. mike isaac is covering all of this for the new york times. mike, as best i can piece together from your great reporting and a couple conversations i had with tech industry watchers, the openai board which is influenced by the interests of scientists, was worried that the company's expansion was out of control, might even call a dangerous. and sam altman was arguing that he was trying to grow the business out of a necessity. do i have that right? mike: you are totally right. part of the fascinating dynamics of this company is that it is a very small

from our studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitye war rages between hamas and gaza -- israel, some palestinians are trying to save their homes. some israeli settlers have been clashing violently with their neighbors. >> they are packing up and leaving. the pressure has become unbearable. they live in the house closest to the settlement. it sits atop the next hill. >> every day settlers come to us. they shoot at us. the children are terrified. the kids cannot sleep and neither can we. when the dog howells, we know the settlers are at it again. >> for jitters -- the vigil -- the villages hearsay their resources have been cut out. >> they destroyed our spirit. even the school is closed. >> more than half of the residents have already fled. by the end of the week, it will be empty. there is no place for the flock to go. in despair, they have finally given up. >> they will displace the rest of these villages. >> they grew up in this quiet farming community. most of their friends and neighbors have left. now their family is packing up as

♪ >> this is the pbs newshour from our studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university israel-hamas war has led to the deadliest weeks for journalists in over three decades. we spoke with the committee to protect journalists to understand what this means for people covering the war. >> the war has taken a heavy toll. almost daily, there are reports of journalists and their families killed in the conflict. this is the moment a veteran journalist covering decades of conflict stopped reporting to warn his own family. they were killed in an israeli airstrike. this has been the deadliest war for journalists ever documented among countless conflicts in the past two decades. i want to put to you and share it with our audience your numbers as of the river seven -- november 7. eight journalists reported injured. but these numbers and this war into context for us. what does this say about journalist access and safety? >> this is the deadliest conflict for journalists that we have ever documented. and we have been doing this for over 30 years. last year we documented the killings

university of washington. his team was tied with washington state at 21 with five seconds left. the kicker launch this field-goal . 42 yards, winning the game for the huskies. after the game, washington's head coach said he is thankful for him and rewarded him with a scholarship in front of all of his teammates. pretty exciting moment. gross now has fired field goals from four yards out the season and help washington finish that regular season with a 12-0 record. >>> coming up. an update on the present stabbing that seriously injured a former police officer convicted in the killing of george floyd. the complaints from an attorney for derek chauvin's family. >>> protester turnout in los angeles to call attention to the recent arrest of a disabled man. what they say officers did that amounted to an excessive use of force. >>> from cbs news bay area, this is the morning edition. >>> welcome back. it is 6:29 on the sunday morning. thank you for joining us, i am max darrow. >>> it was a chilly start to the morning. let's start with what you can expect heading out the door with first

universities rework admissions policies, one kentucky school stands free tuition. >> this is the pbs newshour from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona stateniversity. geoff: the u.s. supreme court heard arguments today in a major case looking at whether people with domestic violence court orders should be barred by federal law from owning guns. the case is the first involving gun rights to come before the highest court since a ruling last year loosening gun restrictions. demonstrators gathered outside the court, stressing the impact the ruling could have on dems of domestic abuse. we are joined by legal analyst marcia coyle. they talked about the history of gun rights. how did the sides navigate that? >> in 20, the conservative majority not only ok'd open carry but announced this new test. the test says to become constitutional, gun rights have to be consistent with the historical tradition of gun regulation. we are looking at pre-1900 for either a comparable regulation -- doesn't have to be a twin, or a regulation that's a close analog to the regulation being challenged. amna: before the 1900s. >> history and tradition, yeah. the biden a

. >> this is the pbs newshour, from our studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityltman's back as the chief executive of openai, the hot tech startup behind chatgpt. they are overhauling the board who fired him with new directors, dream ending -- ending a five day standoff. he was ousted by the board on friday. by monday, microsoft announced that they had hired him, which is when we last spoke. in the late yesterday openai says he is coming back as chief executive. what is going on? >> i do know how much i slept. it has been a whirlwind. over the past five days. the subtext here is essentially microsoft, which has a strong partnership with openai, is using their hiring of him and his executive team as a kind of bargaining chip to basically keep open i i -- openai alive. a lot of investors have a lot of money tied up in it. they would have rather used an independent openai in partnership with microsoft rather than use microsoft. essentially it was a are getting negotiation between the small board of directors and his allies. we will see what the board looks like in t

my kind of, i'll just sierra washington. meanwhile, the president binds being briefed about the shooting of 3 palestinian american universities justice and the state of vermont on saturday to order an intensive care. the police are investigating further. it was a hate crime. she had time to pause. of the 3 pallets in an american university. students weren't both in terms of moms. so the thanksgiving holidays visiting the relatives of one of the 20 year olds. this photos reported to have been taken just before they went for a walk to learn because they are the traditional policy and head dress scarves. police say they have new information as to a motion of the government didn't say anything before shooting. but among the avenues of investigation, whether this was a hate crime, the fact of the government did not even shout, then it makes matters even worse. because at that point, somebody just walking up to individuals wearing because the and then shooting up for no apparent reason is even though more clear that it is a hate crime. they were not robbed. it wasn't a domestic violence situation. and it's not somebody that they know or somebody that co

>> this is "the pbs newshour" from w eta studios in washington and in the west from walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. nick: this has been the season of organized labor's discontent but also big labor gains from hollywood to the united auto workers, and picket lines continue, including hundreds of aces employees planning to strike in washington state tomorrow on black friday and the ongoing teachers union strike in portland, oregon. john yang examines what it all means. john: there have been a number of high-profile strikes this year. autoworkers, hollywood writers and actors, and health care workers. other actions have been averted by last-minute deals. why do you think the unions are on such a winning streak at the bargaining table these days? >> there are a lot of things happening. i want to highlight two. one is that we have historically a very tight labor market right now. coming out of the pandemic for much of the past two years, then two job openings available for every unemployed worker. this means workers have a lot of leverage over employers right now, which makes it more likely that they f

state cross washington, dc based think tank in though. hi mirand. come bravo, a professor of government at georgetown university in contact and author of the book impossibility of palestine, history, geography, and the road ahead and in london. far uh, mostly me, research fellow on a young man at the gulf, a chatham house. he joins us from london. thank you all for being with us on inside story. i'm iran in the hi fi can start with you with the whole fees. i believe, as we've heard, have launch ms side and drone attacks against israel since october, the 7th. how much of an escalation does this, the seizure of this congo ship in the southern red sea represent? one of the represents a significant development in that um, the so called resistance front made up of the wrong. it's for axis who sees moss and hezbollah would like to engage in a relatively low intensity conflict with, in, in which there's a standing war arrive, christian, and the cost of the complex for is a part increasingly right. so that so it's, it's a significant development of course, we have to wait and see what the next set of circumstances and

from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitythe u.s. government remains open this thanksgiving week thanks to a temporary funding deal congress passed last week. but that deal starts to expire in january. conservatives are signaling they won't pass another funding deal without addressing a bigger issue. the swelling u.s. national debt. this as what the u.s. pays in interest cost is soaring. geoff is with lisa desjardins to make sense of the trillions involved. geoff: it is good to see you. we know the topline number appear the total national debt is almost $30 trillion but economists have noted something is changing so what is it? lisa: it is the cost of the debt. to fight inflation, the federal reserve has been increasing interest rates. that means what the u.s. is paying for its loans is also going up. i wanted this to be understandable so i went to look at interest cost, what we pay on our national debt today. i catch litter these numbers thanks to some help from the joint economic committee. $1 billion is how much we were pa

>> this is the pbs newshour, from weta studios in washington, and in the west, from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityoff: this week is an important moment in the strained and often tense relationship between the u.s. and china. president biden and chinese president xi jinping will meet face to face in san francisco on wednesday as part of the asia pacific economic conference or apec summit. treasury secretary janet yellen is there already and has been meeting with officials. i spoke with her short time ago. welcome back to the newshour. president biden has repeatedly frame his vision of the world as a struggle between autocracies and democracies, and he has placed u.s. in opposition to countries like russia and china. my is engaging with china now the right strategy? secretary yellen: even if we disagree that something -- about something as fundamental as democracy versus autocracy, we need to have constructive relationships with one another. we have a deep economic relationship and financial relationship that is generally beneficial, both to china and the united states, although we insist that it be

>> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university the texas supreme court today heard arguments in a case brought by a group of 20 women who say they've been denied emergency care because of the state's abortion laws, some of the nation's most restrictive. they argue that the medical exceptions in the state's abortion bans are too narrow to protect patients who face pregnancy complications. the case marks the first time patients denied abortions have sued a state since roe was overturned. taylor edwards, who is one of the plaintiffs, and molly duane, their lead attorney, join us now. thank you both for being with us. taylor, tell us your story about why you had to leave texas and go to colorado to receive care. taylor: thank you so much for having me. i guess i can start my story back -- i went through a long ivf journey to get pregnant in the first place. it was our third embryo transfer that worked. we were highly monitored throughout the pregnancy and everything was going really smoothly until we got to our anatomy scan. at our an

>> this is the "pbs newshour" from weta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityth u.s. allies embroiled in wars overseas, members of congress face a pivotal decision on whether to green light more aid. congressional correspondent lisa desjardins spent the day on capitol hill, where a deal could hinge on u.s. border funding. lisa, good to see you. help us understand this. how are aid to israel and ukraine tied at all to what is happening at the u.s. southern border? lisa: let's try and make it clear. one is from current president biden himself and his proposal for national security funding. let's look at what he has requested from congress. you will see all of these bundled together. ukraine with the biggest request, about $60 billion more than that. israel about $14 billion. for the u.s. border he has added almost another $14 billion in humanitarian aid. already he is saying i want these things together. politically he is saying essentially, i want ukraine, money for allies, but i also understand there is need for work on our own border. the other reason this is