WEBVTT 00:01.433 --> 00:03.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: A bill to block a threatened railroad strike 00:03.466 --> 00:06.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% is headed to President Biden for his signature. The U.S. Senate gave final 00:06.900 --> 00:11.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% approval today to imposing a settlement on freight railroads and labor unions. 00:11.733 --> 00:16.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The five-year deal includes 24 percent pay raises. It passed 80-15. Senators 00:18.800 --> 00:23.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% rejected a separate measure to grant seven days of paid sick leave for rail workers. 00:24.500 --> 00:27.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% The U.S. Supreme Court says that the Biden administration's plan 00:27.166 --> 00:32.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% for sweeping student debt forgiveness will stay on hold for now. Instead, 00:34.166 --> 00:37.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the court agreed today to rule on whether the program is constitutional by early next 00:37.700 --> 00:42.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% summer. In the meantime, a presidential pause on loan repayments will continue. 00:44.633 --> 00:47.833 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And a U.S. federal appeals court has halted a special master's review of 00:49.833 --> 00:53.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% classified documents that the FBI took from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago 00:53.666 --> 00:58.633 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% home. It marked a victory for the Justice Department, clearing the way for it to use 00:58.633 --> 01:02.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% all the records seized in the August search for its criminal investigation. 01:04.700 --> 01:07.966 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% President Biden welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House today 01:07.966 --> 01:12.966 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% amid antagonism over a newly minted climate law. The French leader had charged that subsidies for 01:14.800 --> 01:19.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% American-made electric vehicles and other technology will hurt European companies. 01:20.666 --> 01:22.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% But, at a joint news conference, 01:22.733 --> 01:26.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Mr. Biden said that was never the bill's intention. And he offered reassurance. 01:26.266 --> 01:28.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JOE BIDEN, President of the United States: There's obviously going to 01:28.733 --> 01:33.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% be glitches in it and need to reconcile changes in it. But the essence of it is, 01:35.700 --> 01:39.700 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% we are going to make sure that the United States continues, and just as I hope Europe 01:39.700 --> 01:43.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% will be able to continue, not to have to rely on anybody else's supply chain. 01:43.933 --> 01:47.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: Mr. Biden also said that he is willing to speak with Russia's 01:47.766 --> 01:52.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% President Vladimir Putin, if Putin shows an interest in ending his war in Ukraine. 01:54.733 --> 01:58.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% More cities across China loosen COVID-19 restrictions today after mass protests 02:00.200 --> 02:04.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% last weekend. In the south, traffic flowed again in the city of Guangzhou, 02:04.233 --> 02:09.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% as workers took down road blocks and dismantled outdoor testing sites. Reuters reported Chinese 02:11.766 --> 02:15.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% authorities plan to allow some -- or, rather, to allow home isolation and to reduce mass testing. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% The United Nations is appealing for a record $51.5 billion in humanitarian aid for 2023. Now, 02:26.400 --> 02:31.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% that is up 25 percent from this year. The world body estimated today that nearly 340 02:33.400 --> 02:37.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% million people worldwide will need help. That's roughly the population of the United States. 02:39.433 --> 02:41.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% MARTIN GRIFFITHS, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator: The needs are 02:41.400 --> 02:44.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% going up because we have been smitten by the war in Ukraine, by COVID, by climate. 02:46.266 --> 02:50.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% And I fear that 2023 is going to be an acceleration of all those trends. 02:53.100 --> 02:58.066 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: The U.N.'s aid appeal is more than five times the amount it needed just a decade ago. 03:00.666 --> 03:03.533 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% Back in this country, closing arguments began in New York in the criminal tax fraud trial against 03:05.533 --> 03:09.666 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% the Trump Organization. Defense lawyers told the jury that a longtime finance chief, and not 03:12.233 --> 03:15.900 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% the company, was to blame for executives evading taxes on company perks. Prosecutors rejected that 03:18.033 --> 03:23.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% claim and said the company is still liable. Jury deliberations are expected to begin next week. 03:25.433 --> 03:28.866 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% A top financial regulator pressed Congress today for stronger oversight of cryptocurrency, 03:31.400 --> 03:35.100 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% now that the FTX exchange has collapsed. Rostin Behnam chairs the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading 03:37.033 --> 03:41.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Commission. He urged senators to act soon on a bill establishing a regulatory framework. 03:43.933 --> 03:45.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% ROSTIN BEHNAM, Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission: Strengthening 03:45.166 --> 03:46.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% the bill and filling the gaps is one thing. 03:48.133 --> 03:50.933 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% We need to move forward as soon as possible. We don't want this to happen again in the next few 03:50.933 --> 03:54.500 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% months and have the risk of customers losing money because of these gaps. 03:54.500 --> 03:57.200 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% JUDY WOODRUFF: The Securities and Exchange Commission is 03:57.200 --> 04:00.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% also pushing to be the prime regulator of crypto. 04:00.333 --> 04:05.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% On Wall Street, stocks came back to earth after yesterday's big rally. The Dow Jones industrial 04:07.800 --> 04:11.833 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% average last 194 points to close at 34395. The Nasdaq rose 14 points. The S&P 500 slipped three. 04:17.500 --> 04:22.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% And Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Gaylord Perry died today at his 04:24.566 --> 04:27.600 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% home in South Carolina. He played from 1962 to 1983 and was the first to win a Cy Young Award 04:30.233 --> 04:35.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% as outstanding pitcher in both leagues. For years, Perry befuddled opponents and 04:37.166 --> 04:41.300 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% umpires with his spit ball, doctored was saliva or another substance. He later said 04:43.400 --> 04:47.400 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% he would touch his head or jersey just to get hitters worried. Gaylord Perry was 84 years old. 04:50.433 --> 04:54.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% Still to come on the "NewsHour": former President Obama tries to 04:54.000 --> 04:57.000 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% give Senator Warnock a boost in Georgia's run-off; 04:59.533 --> 05:02.600 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% Turkey complicates the fight against ISIS with attacks against Kurdish military bases; the mayor 05:04.833 --> 05:09.433 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% of New York City orders some homeless people to be involuntarily hospitalized; plus much more.