Новости за 05.07.2022

Singer and actress Macy Gray said that the remarks she made on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on gender-affirming surgery were “GROSSLY misunderstood.” “I got nothing but love for lgbt+ and transgender communities,” the “I Try” singer wrote in a since-deleted tweet on Tuesday. “I've been a supporter since day one and never a fake one. my statement...

Story at a glance The 47-year-old, who played from 1996 through 2011, joins the organization three months after the departure of Doug Wilson.  Grier played in a total of 1,060 games, including 101 in the Stanley Cup playoffs.  Grier most recently spent time with the New York Rangers as the organization’s hockey operations advisor. San Jose...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Arizona, seeking to block a law that would force residents to provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in federal elections. The DOJ argues the requirement, part of H.B. 2492 slated to take effect in January, is “a textbook violation of the National Voter...

Maryland State Police (MSP) arrested 14 climate protesters on Monday after they shut down a highway in the Washington, D.C., area amid Fourth of July traffic. MSP and Montgomery County Police responded to the scene around 12:30 p.m. on Monday and found several protesters sitting on the ground on the inner loop of I-495 in Montgomery...

Story at a glance Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed into law the Safer Streets for All Act, which decriminalizes loitering in a public place with the “intent” to engage in sex work. Newsom clarified that prostitution in California is still illegal and warned that the state must be “cautious” in how the new measure...

Twitter filed a lawsuit against the Indian government on Tuesday, pushing back against orders to censor content on its platform. The lawsuit, filed in the Karnataka High Court against the Union Government of India, listed Twitter Inc. as the petitioner. The news, first reported by Reuters, cited a source familiar with the matter and added...

A Trump-backed candidate for Michigan secretary of state made comments in 2020 comparing abortion to "satanic practice” and “child sacrifice,” CNN’s KFile reported on Monday.  Kristina Karamo, a community college professor and former poll worker who claimed to witness election fraud during the 2020 presidential election, made the comments during an episode of her podcast...

President Biden on Tuesday awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, to four Army veterans for their bravery in the Vietnam War, upgrading previous awards given to each man for his service. The president held a ceremony in the East Room of the White House the day after Independence Day, which Biden...

Story at a glance Researchers evaluated 2014-16 crime data for 595 census block groups in Columbus, Ohio.  They then measured 2013 data from a marketing firm that asked residents if they were dog owners. The final step used data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study, where one question asked if residents agreed with the...

DENVER (KDVR) – A new report released from the New York Times on Tuesday morning says that former Denver Broncos great Demaryius Thomas had Stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died in December. Thomas died at 33 on Dec. 9, 2021 from what is believed to have been medical complications stemming from a 2019 crash. His official cause of...

A Chicago-area synagogue has identified one of the victims in the Highland Park July 4 shooting as a member of its staff. The North Shore Congregation Israel (NSCI) synagogue in a statement said Jacki Sundheim, a lifelong congregant and staff member, was among the six people killed in Monday's shooting. “Jacki’s work, kindness and warmth...

Overall confidence in U.S. institutions hit an all-time low in a Gallup poll released Tuesday, with only 27 percent of Americans expressing "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in 14 major U.S. institutions.  Gallup noted that the finding is 3 points below the prior low in 2014, adding that trust in major...

White Sox closer Liam Hendriks said “something needs to be done” after a shooting in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Ill. left six people dead on Monday  “[I]n this day and age, it's becoming all too commonplace. I think the access to the weaponry that is being kind of used in these things is...

A house divided cannot stand, and at today’s prices, it can’t be afforded either. That is especially true in California, where the dream of homeownership has failed to materialize for individuals of all backgrounds. Home prices are undeniably prohibitive for many Golden State residents; California has the second-highest median home price and one of the...

Democrats are reviving their efforts to shutter the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, but the push faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Republicans are already writing it off as doomed. In the past month, House Democrats have advanced legislation seeking to close the facility in Cuba as part of a larger annual defense spending...

Lobbying both for and against legislation to crack down on U.S. tech giants is intensifying as the Senate enters a critical month for the antitrust bills. All eyes are on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who will need to decide whether to prioritize measures to regulate Google, Apple, Amazon and Meta over other key...

The battle for control of the House is heating up as more and more general election matchups are set. Republicans are favored to win back the majority in the lower chamber given both the national mood and historical precedent of a first-term president’s party losing seats in the administration’s first midterm election. However, a Morning...

The political damage suffered by Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 hearings, which journalist Bob Woodward says has written the former president’s "political obituary," is giving Senate Republicans eyeing the White House new hope for 2024. Presidential hopefuls including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) have largely steered clear...

A federal judge ruled in favor of three drug companies on Monday in a lawsuit accusing them of being responsible for the opioid epidemic in certain communities in West Virginia.  Judge David Faber rejected arguments from the city of Huntington, W.Va., and the Cabel County Commission that AmerisourceBergen Drug Co., Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson...

Harry Styles has canceled an upcoming Copenhagen concert following a mall shooting that left three people dead and three others critically wounded, he announced Sunday on Twitter. A 22-year-old Danish man who reportedly opened fire in a shopping mall in the capital city on Sunday has since been arrested, reports the Associated Press. Organizers of...

Multiple celebrities are protesting the Fourth of July this year in the wake of the bombshell Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which had protected women's right to abortion for nearly 50 years. Reality star mogul Kim Kardashian was one of those who took to social media to boycott America's birthday. "4th of...

Actress Rachel Brosnahan and singer-songwriter Richard Marx, both of whom grew up in Highland Park, Ill., each condemned the shooting there that took at least six lives and injured at least two dozen others on Monday.  Brosnahan, the star of the Amazon Prime series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” said in a tweet that the Fourth...

President Biden encouraged the public to keep working toward a better America on Monday, saying in an address from the White House lawn that “there’s nothing guaranteed” about the future of democracy on a Fourth of July marred by the latest mass shooting. “Each day, we’re reminded there’s nothing guaranteed about our democracy, nothing guaranteed...

The Chicago White Sox canceled their July 4 postgame fireworks and announced plans to hold a moment of silence on Monday after a shooting in Highland Park, Ill., killed at least six people during an Independence Day parade. “Our hearts are with the Highland Park community,” the team wrote in a statement. “The entire Chicago...