Amna Nawaz:
Pentagon officials have denied earlier complaints from the Biden team that they were not getting cooperation.
The U.S. House of Representatives moved this evening to try to override President Trump's veto of the annual defense policy bill. It totals $740 billion in spending, including pay raises for the military. Mr. Trump had demanded an unrelated provision that would strip social media companies of liability protection. The Senate votes tomorrow on overriding the veto.
In Saudi Arabia, a criminal court has sentenced a leading women's rights activist to nearly six years in prison. Loujain Alhathloul was charged with undermining the kingdom. She protested the ban on women driving and called for repealing male guardianship laws. She had been jailed since 2018. And today's verdict suspended part of her sentence and backdated her term, meaning she could be released in March.
A white policeman in Columbus, Ohio, was fired today after body-cam footage showed him killing a Black man and then refusing to give first aid for several minutes. The victim, Andre Hill, was fatally shot last Tuesday as he came out of a garage holding a cell phone. A police union official says the officer was fired after a disciplinary hearing.
Back in this country, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the first regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from airliners and large business jets. They apply immediately to planes of new designs and to earlier models starting in 2028. The rules don't apply to military aircraft.
Some environmental groups, plus 11 states and the District of Columbia, have said the rule does not go far enough.
And on Wall Street, major indexes all finished at record highs, after President Trump signed the COVID relief bill. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 204 points to close near 30404. The Nasdaq rose 94 points, and the S&P 500 added 32.
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