13.49 BST Biden to announce new measures addressing heat as America roasts Prosecutors appear to have evidence to charge Trump with obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States based on the target letter, two statutes that the House select committee examining the January 6 Capitol attack issued criminal referrals for last year. The potential charges detailed in a target letter sent to Trump by prosecutors from the office of special counsel Jack Smith, who also charged Trump with retaining classified documents last month, was the clearest signal of an imminent indictment.
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We will find out what the final lineup of charges is if and when any indictment is made public:įederal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results have evidence to charge the former president with three crimes, including section 241 of the US legal code that makes it unlawful to conspire to violate civil rights, two people familiar with the matter said. In his address from the White House, Biden will also announce at $7m infusion of funds to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration so it can improve weather forecasting, including of heatwaves, as well as $152m allocation for California, Washington and Colorado to pay for new water infrastructure.Īs the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reported last week, federal prosecutors told Donald Trump they may charge him with three crimes – one of which involves violating civil rights. “Additionally, the Department of Labor will ramp up enforcement of heat-safety violations, increasing inspections in high-risk industries like construction and agriculture, while OSHA continues to develop a national standard for workplace heat-safety rules.”Įarlier this week, 112 Democratic lawmakers asked Biden to direct OSHA to issue standards for protecting workers from extreme heat, in reaction to Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott’s signature of legislation stopping local ordinances that mandated water breaks for construction workers. As part of the alert, the Department of Labor will provide information on what employers can and should be doing now to protect their workers, help ensure employees are aware of their rights, including protections against retaliation, and highlight the steps the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is currently taking to protect workers,” the White House announced. “The hazard alert will reaffirm that workers have heat-related protections under federal law. Joe Biden will soon speak on his administration’s efforts to protect workers from extreme heat, including by asking the labor department to issue a “hazard alert” as swaths of the US struggle with scorching temperatures. 16.54 BST Biden to ask labor department to issue 'hazard alert' over extreme heat
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