Новости за 26.05.2022

The husband of one of the teachers killed Tuesday in the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting has died of a heart attack. Joe Garcia, who was married to Irma Garcia for almost 25 years before she was killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School, suffered a heart attack Thursday. The couple leaves behind four children...

The nation's infant formula shortage likely won't be fully resolved until late July, the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told senators Thursday. During a Senate Health Committee hearing, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said it will take time to get to the point when store shelves are fully stocked but that eventually there...

President Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to meet with community members and families in the aftermath of a school shooting that left 21 people dead, including 19 children. Biden will be accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, the White House said. The two will "grieve with the community that lost twenty-one lives...

Outraged by the inaction of lawmakers on gun violence, students across the country held walkouts on Thursday in the wake of a brutal massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down at an elementary school.  From Meridian High School in Virginia to El Camino Real Charter High School in California,...

Ellen DeGeneres aired the final episode of her long-running daytime talk show on Thursday after 19 seasons, focusing her monologue on attitude changes toward the LGBT community since the show began in 2003. “Twenty years ago when we were trying to sell the show, no one thought that this would work,” DeGeneres said. “Not because...

The Supreme Court is rebuffing an attempt from red states to block the Biden administration from using a key climate accounting metric in its decisionmaking. In a new order on Thursday, the high court denied the states’ request to review a ruling that enabled the Biden administration to use the climate impacts measurement. The order...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday gave the greenlight to bipartisan talks on legislation to curb gun violence, revealing that he has asked Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), one of his advisers, to negotiate with Democrats. McConnell said he is hopeful of reaching a bipartisan agreement to respond to the recent mass shootings...

A group of GOP senators on Thursday sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to express their concern about the proposed acquisition of Forbes by an entity they say is linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the letter, the senators urged Yellen to investigate Hong Kong-based Magnum Opus Acquisition Limited's acquisition of...

Transgender advocates and activists have responded with outrage to a rumor perpetuated by ultra-conservative Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) that a gunman who killed more than a dozen children in Uvalde, Texas this week was a transgender woman. The baseless claim first appeared on the forum website 4chan, where infrequent moderation has made the website a...

Messages of condolences have been rolling in after a gunman shot and killed more than a dozen children at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday. That includes Sen. Ted Cruz (R), who represents the state where the shooting occurred, and he’s receiving sharp backlash for his comments that critics thought seemed to prioritize gun rights...

Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead has rattled the nation and reignited calls for lawmakers to take action on gun reform. The shooting, which came just 10 days after a shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., took the lives of 10 people, marked...

Bipartisanship is as rare in Washington these days as a lunar eclipse. But it is front and center in a powerful legislative push aimed at addressing weaknesses in our nation’s curbside recycling system, for the benefit of both our environment and our manufacturing supply chain. A Senate panel recently unanimously approved two measures that would bolster rural...

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) announced Thursday that he would back President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a significant win for the White House. King, who previously indicated he would support Steve Dettelbach for the position, made it official in a statement Thursday that cited the importance...

A small group of Democratic and Republican senators have formed a bipartisan negotiating group in hopes of reaching a modest deal on gun control legislation, but they don’t have much time to hammer out their differences. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a leading advocate for expanded background checks, hosted seven colleagues in a basement office...

The FDA has announced several more recalls with the recent outbreak of salmonella involving Jif peanut butter.

Ray Liotta, the actor best known for his roles in "Goodfellas" and "Field of Dreams," has died, multiple outlets reported Thursday.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill to create domestic terrorism offices within federal law enforcement agencies in response to a mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that left 10 people dead. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) framed the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act as an opportunity to vote on Republican and Democratic amendments to...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) an “absolute fraud” in remarks from the Senate floor regarding the governor’s response to this week's mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. “Yesterday, after Beto O’Rourke confronted Texas Gov. Abbott’s press conference, the MAGA governor gave some empty platitudes about healing and...

ESPN personality Elle Duncan urged viewers on Wednesday to not “grow numb” to the recent string of mass shootings in the U.S. and to look at the victims and imagine they are their own loved ones. During her nightly “SportsCenter” broadcast on Wednesday, Duncan described the “sense of dread” she felt dropping her own 4-year-old...

Former President Trump and two of his adult children must provide testimony in the New York attorney general's probe into his business practices, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, rejecting his challenge to a subpoena. A four-judge panel for the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Trump's appeal in the...

Late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel said his monologue was cut short by a Dallas ABC affiliate channel following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two adults dead. “To my friends in Dallas who are asking: I do not know whether our ABC Network affiliate WFAA cut away from my monologue...

Nine mallard ducklings that fell down a sewer drain just outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., were rescued by Capitol workers Wednesday. A duck was spotted, seemingly in distress, wandering near a sewer grate around the Capitol building before the workers got into action to save the baby ducks. After being scooped up by...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told colleagues Thursday morning that they should be prepared to vote on gun control legislation when they return to Washington next month after the Memorial Day recess, promising a showdown with Republicans after mass shootings in New York and Texas this month left 31 people dead. Schumer said he’s...

Kevin Spacey is facing sexual assault charges against multiple men in the United Kingdom. The U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced Thursday that it is authorizing "criminal charges against Kevin Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men." The former "House of Cards" star is accused of “causing a person to engage...

Quinta Brunson, the creator and star of the hit ABC sitcom “Abbott Elementary” said she has shut down suggestions from fans to do a school shooting episode in the wake of this week’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.  “Wild how many people have asked for a school shooting episode of the show I...