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Democrats Spotlight Workers, Abortion Rights on First Night of Convention

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Aug. 20. President Biden rallies support for Vice President Kamala Harris in Chicago, and several union leaders take the stage. Our Luke Vargas reports from the convention and asks the WSJ’s Sabrina Siddiqui about Democrats’ efforts to recapture the working-class vote. Plus, Israel recovers the bodies of six Gaza hostages. And, Edgar Bronfman Jr. makes a $4.3 billion bid for National Amusements and a stake in Paramount. Kate Bullivant hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tn B. Tech Minute gives you the day's top tech headlines, from the big names in Silicon Valley to the

0:05.9

halls of power. If it's making news in tech, we've got it. Check out Tn B. Tech Minute in the

0:11.4

tech news briefing feed from the Wall Street Journal.

0:14.0

Israel's military recovers the bodies of six Gaza hostages.

0:22.0

Plus President Biden's swansong the bodies of six Gaza hostages.

0:23.0

Plus President Biden's swansong

0:25.2

at the Democratic National Convention.

0:27.5

You got the sense that he wanted to be giving

0:29.7

a much different speech of this convention,

0:31.8

a speech on Thursday night accepting the

0:33.6

nomination instead of a speech on Monday night where he'd kind of be

0:37.0

disappearing as the days went on. And Edgar Bronfman Jr. makes his play for

0:42.0

Paramount's parent.

0:43.4

It's Tuesday, August 20th, I'm Kate Bullevent for the Wall Street Journal filling in for Luke

0:48.9

Vargas, who's in Chicago reporting from the DNC.

0:52.4

Here is the AM edition of

0:54.6

what's news, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

1:02.3

We begin in Israel whose military said this morning that it recovered the bodies of six

1:07.6

hostages taken by Hamas in the October 7th attack. Five of the hostages were over 50 years old when they were captured

1:16.0

while three had family members that were released during a ceasefire in November.

1:21.0

The bodies were recovered during an overnight operation in southern Gaza.

1:26.0

The mission came as the United States, Egypt and Qatar are working to mediate a new ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that would include the release of the remaining captives held by the militant group.

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