Новости за 08.04.2022

We are facing an historic opportunity in Congress to finally reform our rigged prescription drug pricing system that has forced Americans to pay almost four times what other nations pay for the same drugs and has left one out of four patients unable to afford the medications they need. Last fall, one of us, Rep....

Will Smith is reportedly banned from attending any Academy events for 10 years after slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars over a joke the comedian made about the “King Richard” actor’s wife. The Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the decadelong ban on Friday, according to multiple reports, roughly...

Dolly Parton says that the world’s inhabitants need to take better care of the environment and stop “mistreating” it. “We should pay more attention,” the “Jolene” singer told National Geographic in an interview published this week about her native eastern Tennessee. “We’re just mistreating Mother Nature — that’s like being ugly to your mama,” Parton...

Maybe it’s just coincidence, but the news Monday that Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz is suspending its stock buyback program to focus on investment in workers and stores comes right on the heels of President Joseph Biden’s proposal to discourage the pace of stock buybacks, which are on track to reach record levels this year. The vote...

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel blasted real estate tycoon Warren Buffett in remarks at a conference in Miami this week, calling him bitcoin's top enemy. “Enemy No. 1,” Thiel said during the conference, according to CNBC, is “the sociopathic grandpa from Omaha," referencing Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway corporation is based in Omaha, Neb. Thiel argued the...

Late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel fired back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday after she said she had reported him to the Capitol Police, citing a "threat of violence," after he made a joke about her in a monologue that referenced Will Smith. In his opening monologue for his show on Thursday, Kimmel mocked the...

Jill Biden will honor children in military families during an appearance at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards. The first lady is poised to “speak to the resilience of today’s youngest generation, especially children of military members and veterans,” during remarks at Saturday’s kid-centric awards show, Nickelodeon announced Friday. Biden, a community college professor who first launched her...

Trust in the American federal government to do the right thing is at a dismal 24 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Congress ranks even lower, with just 5% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” of confidence in the legislative branch. And it’s easy to see why. This year, it took us five months to pass the...

Washington, D.C., health officials on Thursday said that three fox kits recovered on Capitol grounds in a den had been humanely euthanized after possibly being exposed to rabies by their mother.  “Three fox kits were recovered from the den site of the female fox who tested positive for rabies,” the D.C. Department of Health said...

President Biden, who has battled low poll numbers all year, scored a big and much-needed win on Capitol Hill Thursday when the Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Democratic lawmakers heading into a tough midterm election hope the...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama praised the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the Supreme Court's first Black female justice on Thursday, thanking Jackson for giving Black girls and women "a new dream to dream." In an Instagram post Thursday, Obama said she was moved to see Jackson confirmed. "Like so many...

Former President Trump released a statement Thursday claiming that he is being investigated “​​more than Billy the Kid, Jesse James, and Al Capone, combined” in “the greatest Witch Hunt of all time.” The statement comes after New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) earlier Thursday asked a state judge to hold Trump in contempt for...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday the indictment of a Kentucky man who allegedly shot at a Louisville mayoral candidate in February. A federal court in Louisville indicted Quintez Brown for using and discharging a firearm for a crime of violence by shooting at and attempting to kill a candidate for elective office,...

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled to uphold the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal workers, ordering that a preliminary injunction issued against the requirement be eliminated. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’s 2-1 ruling reversed a ruling by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Brown in Texas, a Trump appointee, who in January blocked the...

As Congress focuses on soaring inflation, banks and their surrogates have recently claimed lawmakers want to set a cap on the billions of dollars in credit card “swipe” fees Wall Street banks charge Main Street merchants each year. Nothing could be further from the truth. Merchants have complained about the fees for two decades, but...