critic of former President Trump has her job on the line. Wyoming

representative Liz Cheney is vice chair of the congressional January

6th. Committee. Polls have shown her trailing a trump backed challenger

in Alaska. Another trump critic, US Senator Lisa Murkowski, is hoping

to hold on.

And former governor Sarah Palin is running for Alaska's lone U. S.

House seat. With Mr Trump's backing. We'll get a closer look at all

this after the news summary.

President Biden signed landmark legislation today. The bill dubbed

the Inflation Reduction Act. It includes record spending on climate

change provisions to cap Medicare, drug costs and new taxes on corporations.

The president celebrated the legislation as a victory delivered by

Democrats over solid Republican opposition.

We have not wavered.

We have not flinched and we have not given in. Instead we're deliveries.

Sulzberger, the American people, we didn't tear down, we build up.

We didn't look back. We look forward.

Well look at the state of the Biden agenda later in the program,

First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for Covid 19. Days after

the president recovered from his case the White House had. Mrs Biden

began having mild symptoms on Monday while vacationing in South Carolina.

She remained there today when the president returned to Washington.

Former president Trump called today for the release of an affidavit

supporting the search of his estate in Florida. FBI agents recovered

classified material in the search, but the U. S. Justice Department

says that releasing the affidavit would impair the investigation.

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing on the issue for Thursday.

In the Ukraine war explosions and fire tore through another military

site in Russian annexed Crimea today. Moscow charged that saboteurs

blew up an ammunition depot week after an attack on an air base in

Crimea. Meanwhile, Ukraine's president Zelensky called again for

new sanctions on Russia over shelling near a nuclear plant will return

to that story later in the program.

Kanye could face weeks of uncertainty after the opposition presidential

candidate rejected election results. The elections commission chairman

has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner by a narrow

margin, but losing candidate Raila Odinga vowed today to go to court.

What we saw yesterday.

Was a travesty and the blunt and disregard of the constitution.

And the laws of Kenya.

Our budding democracy suffered a major setback.

Result.

Kenya faces a grave legal and political crisis. Bingo also urged

his supporters to remain calm. Back in this country. Federal officials

announced that Arizona and Nevada will face new cuts and how much

Colorado River water they receive. It's due to another year of extreme

drought. The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people across

the West and in Mexico. We'll explore this in detail later in the

program.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule today to

let millions of Americans buy hearing AIDS without a prescription

online and over the counter retailers will be allowed to sell a new

class of devices for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss. The

rule takes effect in October and on Wall Street stocks ended mostly

higher. After an up and down day. The Dow Jones industrial Average

gain 239 points.

To close at

1 34,052. The NASDAQ fell 25 points. The S and P 500 added eight

still to come on the news hour how Congress has managed to pass major

legislation despite deep differences.

Federal water cuts to Western states underscore the severity of the

climate crisis.

Journalist David Bornstein gives his brief but spectacular take on

countering the bad news bias plus much more.

This is the PBS news hour from W. E to studios in Washington and

in the West from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona