Новости за 28.06.2022

The American public’s views of the economy are declining as gas prices rise, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. Two-thirds of Americans surveyed in the poll conducted earlier this month said that gas prices are causing a moderate or severe financial hardship on their household. That figure marks an increase of 15 percentage points...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) urged Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to “indefinitely postpone” the implementation of the department’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for Army National Guard Troops in a new letter obtained by The Hill on Tuesday. The letter, which was also signed by Republican Virginia Reps. Bob Good, Rob Whittman, Ben Cline and Morgan Griffith,...

George Washington University officials have confirmed the first case of the Monkeypox virus on its campus. In an email Tuesday, GW officials told the school community that the individual who tested positive for the virus has been isolated off-campus, where they are receiving treatment from medical professionals. School officials also said that three close contacts...

New York authorities have arrested an R. Kelly fan and charged him with threatening three federal prosecutors who helped convict the disgraced R&B singer for sexually abusing young girls. In court documents unsealed on Monday in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York, federal prosecutors said Christopher Gunn, of Bolingbrook, Ill.,...

Sports journalist Jemele Hill shared her experience of having an abortion more than 20 years ago in an article in The Atlantic on Tuesday, responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. "I’ve never shared my abortion story publicly until now," wrote Hill, a contributing writer for the magazine. "I know that...

E-cigarette giant Juul argued in court documents filed on Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had overlooked a mountain of data that it had included in its application that demonstrated its products' benefit to public health and said the decision to ban them was based on "deeply flawed reasons." In the court documents,...

Jodie Sweetin, the actress best known for her starring role in "Full House," was pushed to the ground by police during a protest over the weekend against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Footage posted to Twitter showed Sweetin being pushed by two officers and then falling to the ground. She slid...

John Hinckley Jr., who shot former President Reagan in 1981 in a failed assassination attempt, said on Tuesday that he is remorseful for his actions following his full, unconditional release earlier this month.  Hinckley told Major Garrett, CBS News’s chief Washington correspondent, that he is now a “completely different person in mind and spirit” from...

An al Qaeda- affiliated militant leader was killed Monday in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, officials said. In a statement, U.S. Central Command said its forces conducted “kinetic strike” targeting Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, a senior leader of the al Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Din. Al Yemeni was traveling on a motorcycle at the time of the...

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard on Tuesday confirmed that President Biden will meet with his Mexican counterpart President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in July. Ebrard confirmed the news on Twitter and added that the meeting between López Obrador, also known by his initials AMLO, and Biden will take place on July 12. He shared that the...

Story at a glance The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) denounced the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.  The group warned eliminating abortion access would harm adolescents nationwide and could result in delayed health care and limited pregnancy options.  In 2020, the U.S. teen birth rate was 15.4 births for every 1,000 females...

Story at a glance The Oracle Happiness Report released earlier this month shows the pandemic has left people across the globe feeling deprived of happiness and looking for ways to find it. Nearly 90 percent of those surveyed looked to shop their way into happiness through online ordering, and almost half said this made them happy. Others...

Story at a glance Respondents said they’ve quit smoking cigarettes, started shopping at discount stores and have taken on side jobs to bolster their income. Others say they have canceled vacations, visited family less frequently or have postponed or delayed travel until the price of gas drops.  Some respondents polled in the survey revealed they...

The chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Tuesday said there is “an energy and an activism” among people, especially women, that he hasn't seen since former President Trump's election in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights. DNC Chair Jaime Harrison during an appearance...

Story at a glance COVID-19 took a disproportionate toll on Black populations in the United States. New research on societal stressors in Louisiana underscores the role structural racism played in these poor health outcomes. The data can help policy makers better tailor interventions to improve health outcomes and address disparities for future public health crises....

Wanda Sykes says the United States is “no longer a democracy” following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. “I’m a Black, gay woman and I have a daughter. So I’m not doing so well right now,” the comedian said Monday during an interview with Stephen Colbert on CBS’s “The Late Show.” Sykes ripped...

Peggy Shepard, an environmental activist whose work has seen her get arrested at protests, now finds herself giving guidance to the White House. Shepard, whose work focuses on environmental injustices against disadvantaged communities, is the cofounder of a New York City-based nonprofit that seeks to remedy such inequalities locally. She’s also the co-chair of the...

The nation’s largest companies are pledging to cover employees’ travel expenses to access abortion services, deciding an additional benefit for workers in a tight labor market outweighs the threat of legal action from states that have criminalized abortion. Walt Disney, Comcast, PayPal, Nike and other major employers announced those benefits on Friday, shortly after the...

The Biden administration is set to hold lease sales for new oil and gas drilling on public lands starting this week and, for the first time, it will implement new regulations for producers. The oil auctions will effectively be the administration’s first, since the only other lease sale it has held was tossed in...

Democratic attorneys general and candidates are zeroing in on abortion access as a campaign issue after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and left decisions on abortion access to the states.Abortion bans went into effect in the GOP-leaning states of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota — though at least one...

Seven states are holding primaries and runoff elections on Tuesday, but the spotlight will focus on three states: Colorado, Illinois and New York. Democrats have sought to intervene in the top Republican primaries in Colorado and Illinois, hoping that GOP voters will choose conservative hard-liners who could prove easier to defeat in November. In New...

Progressive frustration with President Biden and the Democratic leadership in Congress is at a boiling point, just days after the Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion. Left-wing Democrats are fuming about what they see as a lackluster and vague response from party leaders to a literal life-and-death crisis afflicting millions of Americans. “This...

The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was a culture-altering event for the United States, ending almost five decades of precedent that allowed people across the country the right to an abortion. But the ruling will affect people in drastically different ways, depending on where they live.Because the high court did not ban...

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, is the mystery guest that will speak at a last-minute hearing organized by the Jan. 6 committee, according to multiple reports. Hutchinson has already provided a wealth of information to the committee, sitting with its investigators over the course of three separate...

At least 46 migrants were found dead in a refrigerated tractor-trailer near San Antonio, Texas, on Monday night, according to local officials. Another 16 migrants were taken to the hospital for critical care, including four children, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said at a Monday night press conference. A majority of the migrants transported to...