Trump chief of staff Meadows to cooperate with Capitol attack panel – live | US

On Nov 30, 2021

5.58pm EST

17:58

Federal prosecutors began their aggressive cross-examination of the Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday, in Silicon Valley’s highest-profile trial in decades.

Holmes entered the federal courthouse in San Jose, California, flanked by her partner, Billy Evans, and her mother for her fifth day on the stand fighting charges that she lied about the company’s core blood-testing technology. She faces 11 counts of fraud and up to 20 years in prison.

Assistant US attorney Robert Leach targeted Holmes’s assertions that she did not know about the failures of the company’s proprietary tests, zeroing in on methods she used to quash whistleblowers and investigations into the company.

Holmes previously testified she believed Theranos’s technology to be more accurate than it was due to successful early trials. She cited studies conducted by Schering-Plough (a pharmaceutical firm that later became Merck) and Pfizer, saying that at the time the numbers meant “our system was working well”.

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5.05pm EST

17:05

Joe Biden is speaking to widespread applause in Rosemount, Minnesota, but it appears not everyone was happy to see him.

A pool report noted that about 100 anti-Biden people gathered near the location, one person waving a “Build Back Broke” sign playing on the Build Back Better Act. Others waved Trump flags and wore shirts with the coded “Let’s Go Brandon” message that translates to “Fuck Joe Biden” – while others waved signs just flat-out reading “Fuck you, Joe Biden”.

Anthony Zurcher
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Some lovely color from the pool report on Biden’s trip to Minnesota today. pic.twitter.com/M1bTvoBR6W

November 30, 2021

4.54pm EST

16:54

Joe Biden is addressing the nation’s infrastructure now. He noted that in 2007, Minnesota was one of the first to sound the alarm over the country’s infrastructure when the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed, killing 13 and injuring 145.

“Our infrastructure used to be rated the best in the world,” he said. “According to the World Economic Forum, we now rank 13th in the world. We’re turning things around in a big way now, and it starts with roads and bridges.”

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Trump chief of staff Meadows to cooperate with Capitol attack panel – live | US

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