JUDY WOODRUFF: In the day's other news: Iran
dismissed President Trump's claim that it
is planning an attack on U.S. targets in Iraq.
On Twitter, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote:
"Iran starts no wars, but teaches lessons
to those who do."
Mr. Trump said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence
believes Iran and its proxies mean to strike
in Iraq, but he gave no details.
A court in Pakistan has rejected the murder
conviction of the accused mastermind in the
Daniel Pearl killing. The Wall Street Journal
reporter was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan
in 2002. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh has already
served 18 years in prison, and could now be
released. Prosecutors say they will appeal.
The top Democrat in the U.S. Congress called
today for strict oversight of some $2.2 trillion
in economic emergency relief spending during
the pandemic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced
plans for creating a bipartisan committee.
She said it would have subpoena power to guard
against waste and price-gouging.
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): We think that it
would be very important, with transparency,
bipartisanship, accountability, that we proceed
all together in a way that unifies our country,
addresses the concerns that we all have about
the health and well-being of the American
people, the safety of our workers who are
meeting their needs, as well as the impact
on our economy.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
said this evening he doesn't believe that
a new oversight committee is necessary.
Polio eradication efforts are being halted
globally amid the coronavirus pandemic. The
World Health Organization and its partners
announced today that they have suspended vaccination
campaigns for the next six months. Polio remains
a problem in about a dozen countries.
Videoconferencing on the technical app Zoom
has mushroomed during the pandemic. But its
CEO had to apologize today for a series of
security lapses. The FBI has warned of hackers
invading school sessions on Zoom, and NASA
and SpaceX have now banned all use of the
service.
Zoom says that daily usage has jumped from
10 million people in December to 200 million
now.
And the COVID-19 crisis claimed three music
figures of note in the last 24 hours.
New Orleans jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis died
at 85. His sons Wynton and Branford are also
acclaimed musicians.
Emmy and Grammy winner Adam Schlesinger was
a musician and songwriter. He was 52.
And jazz guitarist Adam Schlesinger backed
musical legends from Benny Goodman to Paul
McCartney. He was 94.
Still to come on the "NewsHour": from the
front lines, how racism and inequity are magnifying
the pandemic's fallout; on the "NewsHour"
Bookshelf, a White House reporter's new memoir,
"Front Row at the Trump Show"; and what to
watch on television with almost all of our
time now spent indoors.
