Новости за 29.06.2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising parents and caregivers not to use neck floats for babies after one child died and another was hospitalized.

Former President Trump will travel to Alaska this weekend to stump for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s congressional bid and a GOP challenger to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The rally is set for Saturday afternoon. Trump will rally for Palin, Governor Mike Dunleavy and Kelly Tshibaka, who is looking to oust Murkowski. Earlier this month,...

We should expand collaboration, particularly academic exchanges and research collaborations, between the United States and China.

Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in Thursday to formally become a Supreme Court justice, officially making her the nation's first Black woman to serve in the role. She will fill the seat being vacated by the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, whose previously announced departure after nearly 28 years on the bench will take...

Story at a glance A new report from moveBuddha found that New Jersey has the highest proportion of residents moving away. The state with the second highest proportion is California. New Jersey has ranked number one for most “move outs” for the past several years, as the pandemic causes people to rethink where they want...

Vice President Harris on Wednesday sought to clarify recent comments she made about President Biden’s reelection plans after she told CNN earlier this week that the president was definitively running again in 2024.  Harris told a reporter on Air Force Two before departing for California that “the president intends to run and if he does,...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) avoided a question on Tuesday night over whether she would be interested in running for president in 2024. “Listen, I think that we need to focus on keeping a democracy for anybody to be president in the next couple of years, and that's my central focus is helping [the] people of...

Story at a glance Researchers gathered data on more than 1.5 million deaths in California between 2014 and 2019 using death certificate information from California’s Department of Public Health and data on temperature levels and air particulate matter. The team then used the data to link deaths with individuals home addresses and placed conditions into four categories: no...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) urged Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday to impose fines on airlines for significant delays, becoming the latest lawmaker to step up their pressure on the industry as consumers raise complaints after airlines received tens of billions in pandemic aid. Sanders's letter asks the Department of Transportation (DOT) to impose fines...

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued 10 "ghost gun" manufacturers on Wednesday, alleging the companies sold tens of thousands of parts to New Yorkers that were used to create illegal, untraceable guns. The lawsuit, filed about a month after a mass shooting at a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery market left 10 people dead, accuses...

Delta Air Lines is waiving its fee for rebooking during the upcoming holiday weekend as demand for air travel is likely to reach at least near its highest level since before the coronavirus pandemic. Delta said in a statement on its website that it will issue the waiver from Friday through Monday, allowing customers to...

A group of abortion clinics and abortion rights organizations filed a lawsuit in the Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking to block the state's six-week abortion ban, which went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood and the WilmerHale law firm have filed a...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that Oklahoma authorities can prosecute certain crimes on Native American lands, narrowing a landmark victory that tribes in the state had won from the court just two years ago. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the decision for a 5-4 majority, ruling that both state and federal law enforcement have jurisdiction...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a U.S. Army Reservist who was injured during the Iraq War can pursue a lawsuit against Texas for alleged job discrimination. The justices voted 5-4 to reject Texas’s claim that states should be immune from lawsuits brought under a federal statute that gives returning veterans the right to...

Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, says the Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade sends a message to women that they “don’t matter.” The former “Suits” actor spoke out about last week’s ruling, which overturned the landmark 1973 decision that had granted a constitutional right to an abortion, in a Vogue article published Tuesday. “This...

Story at a glance California will offer state-subsidized health insurance to all undocumented immigrants starting 2024. The state recently began expanding its Medi-Cal program, offering state-subsidized health insurance to those younger than 26 and over the age of 50. The expansion is expected to cover an additional 700,000 undocumented Californians. California will become the first...

A member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over concerns about data harvesting.  FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who was appointed by former President Trump, said the app poses national security threats, adding to the growing backlash from Republicans after BuzzFeed reported earlier this month...

Indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal ended in Qatar on Wednesday without any breakthroughs, according to Iranian reports. The meetings in Doha were aimed at reviving indirect talks between the two sides that had stalled in Vienna to bring Washington and Tehran back to the terms of the...

Medal of Honor Recipient and World War II Veteran Hershel “Woody” Williams, 98, died on Wednesday.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Wednesday renewed her calls for former White House counsel Pat Cipollone to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol following testimony detailing his alarm over inaction that day. “As we heard yesterday, WH counsel Pat Cippollone had significant concerns re. Trump’s Jan 6...

NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde said the network hopes a pivot by Rachel Maddow, one of the company's top talents, away from her daily show to focus on other projects will serve as a case study in the industry on what he called the "proliferation of platforms." The network announced this week that Maddow...

Nissan is recalling hundreds of thousands of Pathfinder SUVs after identifying an “issue involving the hood opening while driving,” the automaker says.

A former counsel for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot is running for an open Senate seat in Missouri as an independent. John Wood, a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 select committee, announced in a release...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says any of her Republican colleagues in Congress who sought pardons over Jan. 6 “should be expelled” from the House. In seeking a pardon from former President Trump, the New York Democrat told Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show” on Tuesday “you are admitting to committing a crime.” The House select committee...

Chris Pratt says tiny bands of vocal “wackos” on both the right and the left are fueling the political division across the country. “There’s an illusion of that we’ve gotten more partisan, but the truth, if you’re looking at it from my understanding, is there’s a very small group of wackos on the right and...