Новости за 30.06.2022

The U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday arrested 181 abortion rights demonstrators who protested outside of a Senate office building less than a week after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. In a Twitter thread on Thursday, Capitol Police sent out a travel advisory, warning that activists were blocking the intersection of...

Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) was arrested on Thursday at a pro-abortion rights rally on Capitol grounds. The rally, which was organized by Planned Parenthood, came less than a week after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that made access to abortion a constitutional right. Chu said...

A federal grand jury has indicted Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, one of the stars of “Tiger King,” on charges of wildlife trafficking and money laundering after he was arrested earlier this month.  Antle — who is the owner of Myrtle Beach Safari, a wildlife preserve in South Carolina — gained national attention from his appearances in...

Without PBMs, prescription drugs would be unaffordable for millions of patients.

President Biden on Thursday pledged to carry on with climate action despite a Supreme Court ruling that restricted how his administration can respond to worsening global warming. The president called the ruling curbing the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) power “devastating” but said his administration would continue to look for ways to mitigate global warming. “The Supreme Court’s ruling...

Four individuals have been charged in connection to the deaths of 53 migrants who were found inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday a fourth arrest in the case, that of 45-year-old Homero Zamorano Jr. Zamorano is facing one count of alien smuggling resulting in...

A judge on Thursday was set to temporarily block Florida's 15-week abortion ban one day before it was set to go into effect. The law, which is not a trigger law like other states have set into effect, is modeled after Mississippi's own 15-week abortion ban that was heard in front of the Supreme Court...

As a growing monkeypox outbreak has spread throughout the U.S., the White House this week outlined a plan to send out tens of thousands of vaccine doses to quell the rise in cases. The Biden administration will send out 296,000 doses of the Jynneous vaccine, the only Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccine for monkeypox. The...

The Latino Victory Fund on Thursday endorsed two Hispanic House candidates, Patrick Branco in Hawaii and Annette Taddeo in Florida. “At a time when our democracy, civil rights, and reproductive rights are all on the ballot in November, we can’t give one single inch in congressional races because there’s so much at stake," said Nathalie...

It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but there are some pictures where words do not suffice. Take as an example the cache of photos from the Xinjiang police files recently published by an international media consortium. The faces of Uyghurs who have been detained by the Chinese Communist Party...

The FBI has added Ruja Ignatova, known as “CryptoQueen,” to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives, offering up to $100,000 for information that leads to her arrest. Ignatova has been facing five charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and securities fraud since 2018 after she allegedly defrauded investors who invested in...

Story at a glance The AHA announced Wednesday it has updated its widely used metrics to measure a person’s cardiovascular health to now include sleep. The AHA first defined the seven health behaviors and factors in 2010, but added the sleep metric after 12 years of robust research showing sleep plays a key role in...

LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace has investigated how staff handled allegations of bullying made against Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex — but the findings will remain private. Palace officials told reporters Wednesday that the details of the independent review were not being released to protect the confidentiality of those who took part. Current and former...

One of the co-creators of the hit '90s show "Friends" is apologizing for the lack of diversity on the show and says she's "putting [her] money where [her] mouth is" to make a difference in improving racial justice issues. Marta Kauffman, who co-created the show with David Crane about a group of six close friends...

The Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ability to regulate climate change, setting limits on how the agency can deal with power plants. In a 6-3 decision, the majority ruled that Congress did not authorize the EPA to induce a shift to cleaner energy sources using the approach that an Obama-era...

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review an effort by Republican lawmakers in North Carolina to advance a sweeping legal theory that, if successful, could hand state legislatures broad new powers over how voting maps are drawn and federal elections conducted. Viewed narrowly, the case is an appeal from a state court’s ruling that...

The NFL has announced it has partnered with rapper and actor Ice Cube’s Contract with Black America Institute to enhance the league’s efforts to increase economic equity and partnerships with Black-owned businesses. In a news release on Thursday, the league said its collaboration with Cube, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson, will focus on ways...

Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he’s “frustrated” by the pace of indictments coming from the Justice Department related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. “I’m frustrated at the speed,” the Illinois Republican, one of two GOP lawmakers on the House select committee investigating last year’s attack, told Stephen Colbert during a Wednesday appearance on...

Societal legends are born out of challenging times. The Great Recession bore out not only the difficulties of American capitalism, but provided a myth among millennials of living through uniquely bad times. The current crop of young adults has known the comfort and ease their parents’ work afforded them. A serious recession is something for...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) said on Wednesday that President Biden may see a primary challenge if he chooses to run for reelection in 2024. Pritzker made the comment in an interview with NBC News, saying he would not support a primary challenge, but one might happen. “That’s not something I’m encouraging, but it’s certainly...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in her first interview since Cassidy Hutchinson's appearance before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol that she is “absolutely confident” in the credibility of the former White House aide. Cheney, a member of the panel, made the comment after ABC News Chief Washington...

Some will see medical debt wiped from their credit reports Friday. Here's why.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said late Wednesday that former President Trump poses a “domestic threat" that the nation has "never faced before." “At this moment, we are confronting a domestic threat that we have never faced before. And that is a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our Constitutional Republic,” Cheney said...

President Biden on Thursday will deliver remarks on the final day of the NATO summit from Madrid. The event is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. EST. Watch live in the video above.

The Supreme Court’s just completed 2021 term marked a distinct turn toward the constitutional right and vision of the Federalist Society. There is no turning back, at least not in the near term. This is one of the youngest courts in over 100 years; its major constitutional decisions are likely to endure for a decade...