Новости за 20.04.2022

The Biden administration is thankfully taking action to address the serious challenges facing our nation’s critical minerals supply chain and its link to batteries, which are critical to the clean energy transition. President Biden released plans to use the Defense Production Act (DPA) to encourage the domestic production of battery materials, and the Department of...

Art and other items belonging to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are up for auction, including her fur coat and a vase she received during the Obama administration. The auction, featuring the late justice’s modern art and memorabilia collection, will be held on April 27 and 28. The items are from Ginsburg’s Supreme Court...

Former President Trump told a judge that he doesn't have any documents that were subpoenaed by the New York attorney general as he fights an effort to initiate contempt proceedings in state court. In a court filing submitted Tuesday, Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, said that the records a state court judge ordered to be turned...

Authorities have detained Rakim Mayers, better known as rapper A$AP Rocky, in connection with a November 2021 shooting. In a statement on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said that authorities arrested the “Peso” singer after he arrived at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). According to NBC News, the LAPD arrested the rapper with...

Retail fuel prices are at an all-time high, and as we move toward summer, we can expect them to continue to rise. This is an overwhelming problem for my constituents in Wyoming and for people across the country. We are paying record prices at the pump, and because fuel is an input cost into nearly...

The annual Congressional Soccer Match is set to return next week after a two year absence owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 8th annual soccer match will be held for the first time since 2019 this year after being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The match will be held on April...

(WKBN) – The U.S. Product Safety Commission announced on Thursday that GE Appliances would be recalling six types of its stainless steel refrigerators. The products, GE-brand Free-Standing French Door Refrigerators in Fingerprint Resistant Stainless Steel, have freezer door handles that are detaching. There have been 71 reports of the error, which has caused 37 injuries, including three...

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will both attend this month’s White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner, a tradition in Washington, D.C., that is attended by reporters and administration officials.   “The @WHCA is pleased to host President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden as we honor the First Amendment at our dinner on April 30,” the...

A $50 million defamation trial between actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife, Amber Heard, is underway after starting earlier this month. At the crux of the trial is whether Heard committed libel against her former husband in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed she wrote, in which she describes herself as “a public figure representing domestic...

Vice President Harris will officiate the wedding of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) and her fiance in Washington next month, according to a spokesman for the governor.   Lujan Grisham will marry her fiance, Manny Cordova, at a small ceremony after the two were forced to postpone their original wedding due to the...

Basketball legend Jerry West has demanded an apology and retraction over his portrayal in the HBO show “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” alleging “a baseless and malicious assault" on his character in the series. In a letter obtained by The Hill on Wednesday, the Los Angeles-based Miller Barondess LLP law firm made...

New Jersey is set to begin marijuana sales Thursday, as residents and visitors 21 years and older will be able to legally purchase recreational cannabis and cannabis products at 13 dispensaries across the state. Recreational cannabis customers will be able to buy up to 1 ounce of dried flower, up to 5 grams of concentrates,...

After living in England nearly his entire life, Prince Harry says he now considers the United States “home.” “Home for me, now, for the time being, is in the states,” the 37-year-old British royal family member told Hoda Kotb in a Wednesday interview on NBC's “Today” focused on his Invictus Games. “And it really feels...

A federal judge in Florida stirred controversy Monday by striking down the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public travel in a ruling that critics derided as overly formalistic and divorced from the health imperatives of a global pandemic. In a 59-page decision, Tampa-based U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a Trump appointee, ruled that the...

Hawaii police on Tuesday arrested Ezra Miller, known for playing The Flash in "Justice League," after the actor allegedly threw a chair at a woman. Miller, who uses they/them pronouns, was arrested around 1:30 a.m. for second-degree assault in the town of Pāhoa in Hawaii County, according to a press release from the Hawaii Police...

The U.S. House of Representatives took a major step recently toward helping millions of Americans whose retirement savings have been impacted by the double hit of COVID and inflation. The Securing a Strong Retirement Act, a bill that targets student loan borrowers, military spouses and low-income earners, among others, for help planning and saving for retirement, passed by...

Fifty years after Watergate, a new limited series is revisiting the scandal that birthed "a lot of this widespread conspiracy theorist sentiment in the country," its showrunner said in a panel discussion Tuesday.  Based on the first season of Slate’s “Slow Burn” podcast, “Gaslit” centers the perspective of Martha Mitchell (Julia Roberts), the wife of former...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A task force created last year to research the most effective ways to keep concertgoers safe released its final report Tuesday, according to Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) office. The Texas Task Force on Concert Safety was created in November 2021 after the Astroworld Festival in Houston, which left 10 people dead and over 300 injured after a...