
Trump Says NBC Should Lose Broadcast License
He accuses the US broadcaster of biased reporting
President Trump has said that US television networks have become so partisan and distorted their licenses should be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. He's been angered by a report on NBC news which claimed he had told security officials and generals he wanted an almost tenfold increase in the country's nuclear arsenal.
The organisation that runs the Oscars is to consider the future of one of its most successful members, Harvey Weinstein -- the producer at the centre of numerous sex allegations.
And we get the latest about a 30-meter-long asteroid that is to shoot past Earth. The US space agency, NASA, says there is no risk of an impact with our planet - but the near miss is providing them with a chance to track the rocky object to test their asteroid warning network.
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