Новости за 09.06.2022

Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that the progress LGBTQ people have made in equality over the past decades is now at risk of being overturned by the Supreme Court. The congressman pointed to Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion last month that would effectively overturn Roe v. Wade, in which the justice references decisions...

The Biden administration targets requires increasing wind energy generation by a staggering 700 times.

President Biden on Thursday called the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 a "clear, flagrant violation of the Constitution" hours before the House committee investigating the assault holds its first public hearing. Biden, speaking at the beginning of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, acknowledged that many Americans would be watching the...

Lovers of sriracha-style chili sauce could soon be suffering as bottles of the sauce have become harder to find on shelves.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot will hold its first public hearing tonight on what led to the uprising at the U.S. Capitol, looking to paint a narrative of a concerted effort to overturn certification of the 2020 election with former President Trump at the center. One of the key witnesses called...

The president of the NAACP has called for the firing of Washington Commanders coach Jack Del Rio over the long-time coach’s remarks regarding the upcoming hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.  "It is time for Jack Del Rio to resign or be terminated,” NAACP president Derrick Johnson said...

The Jan. 6, 2021, House select committee is holding its first prime-time hearing on Thursday regarding its investigation into the Capitol riot, which led to the deaths of multiple people and injuries for scores more.  The Hill will have its own link to watch the hearing, which is set to be livestreamed. The highly anticipated...

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Thursday railed against the idea of arming teachers to combat school shootings in the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Cardona blasted the proposal while appearing on "The View" in response to a question from co-host Sunny Hostin, who referenced a piece of proposed legislation in...

For the first time, a Broadway theater will be named in honor of a Black woman. The Nederlander Organization said Thursday that it would rename its Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York's famed theater district after Lena Horne. The singer and dancer, who was also a Broadway performer and Civil Rights activist, died in 2010...

More Americans believe it is more important to control gun violence than it is to protect gun rights, according to a poll released on Thursday.  A new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll found that 59 percent of respondents said it is more important to control gun violence, compared to 35 percent who believe gun rights should be...

Five House Republicans and one Democrat broke with their respective parties Thursday in a vote to nationalize red flag laws, which would allow courts to seize firearms from individuals deemed a threat to themselves and others. The bill, titled the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order, cleared the House in a 224-202 vote that mainly broke...

The House will vote next week on legislation to expand security for the families and staff of the Supreme Court justices, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced Thursday. The Senate approved the legislation unanimously last month, and House Republicans have fumed that House Democrats have delayed the vote in the lower chamber — anger fueled by...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Thursday accused Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of attempting to blackmail President Biden to include nondemocratic governments in the guest list for the Summit of the Americas. Menendez's comments come as López Obrador skipped the U.S.-hosted summit and has taken to his daily press conference to criticize Cuban American...

The Grammys will soon add an award recognizing the "best song for social change," saying winners of the honor will encourage “peacebuilding and empathy.” The best song for social change will be a special merit award determined by a Blue Ribbon Committee, the Recording Academy announced on Thursday. “Submissions must contain lyrical content that addresses...

Bars and restaurants in the nation’s capital are getting ready for a prime-time event that screams “only in Washington” — hosting watch parties for the Jan. 6 hearing. Several watering holes around the District say the House select panel hearing on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot will be front and center at their establishments...

The National Park Service (NPS) said on Wednesday that mallard ducklings at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were found to have the H5N1 bird flu virus, but added the risk to the public remains “low.” The report is D.C.'s first confirmation of bird flu, which is highly contagious among some wild birds and can be...

Three-quarters of adult Americans support the idea that the minimum age for an individual to purchase an AR-15 style rifle should be 21 years old, according to a new Survey Monkey poll.  The poll, published on Thursday, found that 75 percent of adult respondents agree that the minimum age to buy an AR-15 style rifle...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is criticizing the Jan. 6 committee's public hearing set for prime-time Thursday as an unnecessary, "Hollywood-paid political advertisement." In an interview Wednesday with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Rubio said that most Americans won't tune in to watch "this garbage" and that "people already know what happened" in the deadly Capitol riot last year. “From day one, I...

Unlike the Capitol riot, they plan to undermine the elections without breaking the law.

Well, apparently there are limits to what even woke progressives will tolerate, even in a woke, progressive city such as San Francisco. Just ask Chesa Boudin, the city’s progressive district attorney whom voters just threw out of office in a special recall election. San Francisco voters had had enough — enough of crime, enough of...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told Politico in an interview published Thursday that enthusiasm within the Democratic Party is “extremely low" and warned of low turnout from the party’s base in this year’s midterm elections. Sanders argued that Democrats won’t clinch victories in the midterms even after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that...

The Biden administration on Wednesday evening announced new standards to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout the U.S. The standards will be laid out formally in a proposed rule from the Federal Highway Administration, Energy Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters on a press call Wednesday. The rule will require EV charging stations every 50...

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) make a friendly wager as their respective teams, the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics, who are currently facing off in this year’s NBA Finals.  In a tweet on Wednesday, Markey, rocking a Celtics jersey, told his fellow Democrat lawmaker that he will send him some...

The CEOs of more than 220 U.S. companies are pressing the Senate in a new letter to take action on gun violence.  The letter, first obtained by Axios, calls for the senators to “take bold urgent action to address our gun violence epidemic.” Citing recent deadly mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas and, Buffalo, N.Y., as...

President Biden said in an interview broadcast late Wednesday that he has no plans for an executive order on guns amid an outcry for increased restrictions following several mass shootings across the U.S. “Can’t you issue an executive order?” host Jimmy Kimmel asked the president during Biden’s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “Trump passed those...