Новости за 29.05.2022

Lawmakers and advocates are pressing the Department of Defense to protect access to abortion for servicewomen as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The Army and the Air Force have made policy changes aimed at making leave for pregnancy termination easier. But advocates say the Pentagon itself should...

Sixteen people were injured at the Barclays Center in New York City on Sunday morning after false reports of an active shooter spread through the crowd at a boxing match. A stampede occurred around 1:05 a.m. as the Gervonta Davis-Rolando Romero boxing match was wrapping up, according to a New York City Police Department (NYPD)...

The husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was arrested late Saturday night for driving under the influence in Northern California. A public booking report by the Napa County Sheriff's Office lists Paul Pelosi as being arrested just before midnight on Saturday and booked early Sunday morning on charges of driving under the influence. The arrest...

White House officials and Senate Republicans declined invitations to appear on Sunday news shows, coming days after the devastating shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two teachers dead. On Sunday’s broadcast of “Face the Nation,” CBS’s Margaret Brennan said: “The White House did decline our invitation for a member of the...

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday met with survivors of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, as well as families of the victims of the massacre. The Bidens traveled to Uvalde on Sunday, five days after a gunman entered Robb Elementary School and killed 21 people, including 19 children. The meeting with families...

Commentators and politicians are frightening Americans about inflation without understanding and explaining why it burst on the scene last summer as COVID-19 receded. A growing consensus among inflation hawks says that the surge in prices is the result of the Federal Reserve’s failure to raise interest rates and slow the economy soon enough. Worse, the...

Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) counterterrorism chief John Cohen said on Sunday that law enforcement’s response to the active shooter situation at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas was a “failure”. “I mean, John, it was a failure,” Cohen told ABC’s “This Week” moderator Jonathan Karl. “I've been in law enforcement almost 40 years...

The World Health Organization said on Sunday said that 650 cases of severe hepatitis cases have been reported in 33 countries between April 5 and May 26, noting its latest assessment is that the disease poses a “moderate” global risk. The organization added that 99 additional cases were pending classification. Of the 650 cases, 58...

Officials on Sunday weighed in on how the U.S. can best address mass shootings plaguing the country with some expressing optimism that a bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers could come to some consensus to help curb gun violence. But others offered skepticism on whether the latest tragedy, which killed 19 elementary school children, would result...

America’s electric grid is being mismanaged and consumers will pay a heavy price for that mismanagement. More evidence of that came with the recent closure of the Palisades Power Plant in Michigan. The 811-megawatt nuclear plant was shut down on the same day that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) issued a report saying...

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) said on Sunday that he would refuse to testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol if it is in private or before his Senate primary runoff election next month. Earlier this month, the Jan. 6 committee announced that it had subpoenaed Brooks along...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Sunday that he has seen more of his Republican colleagues take an interest in crafting some semblance of gun legislation following the massacre at a Texas elementary school.  During Murphy's appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked the lawmaker whether there are 10 Republican senators who...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday announced it would review the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting after officials spent days following the tragedy giving conflicting accounts of how local police and federal authorities handled the situation. A Justice Department spokesman said in a statement that a request for a review...

Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) said on Sunday that she wants an investigation into local and federal authorities' initial response to the shooting at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. During an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Demings told moderator Margaret Brennan that since the Columbine massacre in Littleton, Colo., in 1999, law enforcement officers...

Voter registration is a tool that Democrats have never systematically deployed at scale in the state legislative battleground.

Republicans and gun rights advocates are calling for measures to boost school security in response to this week’s massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a rebuttal to those seeking to restrict firearm purchases and possession. But the calls to toughen security come as Texas officials and media reports reveal that some of the...

California finds itself home to two of the most powerful and disruptive voices on the right.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday to pay their respects to the 21 people killed in the tragic mass shooting at an elementary school there last week. The Bidens, who were met by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his wife, Cecilia Abbott, visited a memorial constructed outside Robb...

More flights were canceled on Sunday, following thousands of other air travel cancellations and delays at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend. About 1,065 flights were canceled on Sunday, with 283 of those cancellations in the U.S., according to flight-tracking website FlightAware. More than 7,000 other flights were delayed, including 1,109 in the...

Ronnie Garza, a county commissioner in Uvalde, Texas, said on Sunday he would welcome an FBI investigation into Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead. When asked by moderator Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” if security failures led to Tuesday’s massacre, Garza said he supported...

The president for gun control activist group Stand With Parkland criticized the U.S. for "pandering to folks on the far right and folks on the far left" as he pushed for tighter gun control laws on Sunday after a deadly mass shooting in Texas last week left 19 children and two teachers dead. Tony Montalto,...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said on Sunday that he is “open to” an assault weapons ban after a gunman killed 21 people in Uvalde, Texas, with an AR-15-style rifle. “I have opposed a ban fairly recently. I think I'm open to a ban now,” Kinzinger told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Sunday said he was "not that hopeful" Congress would pass any gun reform-related legislation in the wake of a spate of mass shootings despite a bipartisan group of lawmakers who are discussing the possibility. Booker told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd there was plenty of "common sense" reforms...

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) on Sunday said he is "hopeful" that bipartisan negotiations between Republicans and Democrats could lead to a bill to address the rise of mass shootings in the country. Cardin told "Fox News Sunday" guest host Sandra Smith that he believes negotiators could reach a consensus on a bill to tackle gun...

The Boeing Commercial Crew Starliner rose into the evening sky over Florida in a perfect launch on May 19.