Новости за 16.07.2022

Former NBA star Charles Barkley said “if you’re gay and transgender, I love you!”, with footage of the remark rapidly spreading on Twitter. “I want to say this: If you’re gay and transgender, I love you! Hey and if anybody give you sh–, you tell them Charles said ‘F–k you!’” he said, according to a...

Under the proposed climate risk disclosure rule, the SEC is seeking to create a new regulatory requirement for detailed disclosures by public companies on climate matters.

A county Republican party in Kentucky has taken down a Facebook post from its page that said the confirmation of President Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) demonstrates the “Jewish junta” is getting stronger. The Bracken County Republican Party page made the post on Friday, calling the new...

The San Francisco International Airport (SFIA) was evacuated on Friday night due to a bomb threat, according to a public information officer for the city’s police department. “Tonight @SFPD officers received bomb threat at @flySFO. Offs located suspicious package,” wrote Officer Robert Rueca of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) on Twitter. Rueca said that...

The social sciences are essential to designing strategies that involve science and technology that will be effective in the real world.

Lawyers for the family of Andrew “Tekle” Sundberg, a 20-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by Minneapolis police early Thursday morning, are calling on the department to release footage and other details of the incident. “No information has been provided as to why Tekle, who officers had isolated for hours, suddenly needed to be...

Of the 240 million calls made to 911 each year, only one-quarter relate to an actual crime in progress.

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of The New York Times’s 1619 Project, has reached a settlement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) following controversy over her tenure status. UNC confirmed in a statement to The Hill that the settlement resolves a legal dispute that arose after she was denied tenure last year...

Big Lie proponents have presented us with an ethical dilemma: Do we have a right to support democracy abroad when we don’t react to those who are seeking to suffocate it here at home?

A U.S. district judge denied former President Trump's lawyer John Eastman's motion to implement a temporary restraining order preventing the Department of Justice (DOJ) from accessing his phone. In an opinion issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Robert C. Brack said that Eastman failed to show "a clear and unequivocal right to relief from an immediate,...

Anyone who works with and cares for victims of abuse and human trafficking knows that the overwhelming majority of those on the streets are not there by choice.

In yet another installment of the quixotic crusade against the secret ballot in union organizing elections, congressional Democrats have inserted language to the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill. They are seeking to give the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) at least $1 million to create a system and procedures for...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection issued a subpoena to the U.S. Secret Service on Friday following reports that the agency deleted texts messages dated back to Jan. 5 and 6, 2021. Committee Chairman Benny Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a release that the committee is seeking the relevant text messages...

President Biden is dropping his plans to nominate a conservative Kentucky attorney as a federal judge in the state following opposition from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), according to The New York Times and USA Today. The White House said the Biden administration learned that Paul will not return a “blue slip” on Chad Meredith, so...

A former Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors on Jan. 6, 2021, to Capitol Hill in an effort to get them to former Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the Senate that day, two people familiar with the matter told Politico. The sources told Politico Friday that Mike Roman, who served...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) introduced a bill on Friday that would ban federal funds from covering travel costs for people who obtain out-of-state abortions. The new legislation would ensure taxpayer money would not go to anyone seeking to travel to a state with less restrictive abortion laws to get the procedure, according to Cawthorn. "Ensuring...

The House will vote next week on a bill aimed at protecting access to contraceptives, a direct response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas saying the court should reconsider the landmark decision in Griswold v. Connecticut. Thomas — considered by some to be the most conservative justice on the court — wrote a concurring opinion...

Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has been appointed to be a professor at Harvard Law School, the school announced in a release on Friday. Breyer graduated from Harvard Law School in 1964 and taught there for more than a decade, from 1967 to 1980. His professorship was previously held by former Supreme Court Justice...

Across its trailblazing 75-year history, the U.S. Air Force’s place as the world’s most capable and most respected source of airpower is well-established. The U.S. Air Force is undeniably proud of that history. Nevertheless, it is a fact that today the Air Force must accelerate change or lose. Current and emerging threats demand nothing less than...

Tiger Woods missed the cut at the British Open, but received a thunderous ovation from the crowd at his final hole — possibly his final time playing competitively at the iconic St. Andrews course. Today we'll look at President Biden's call for senators to pass a health care-only reconciliation bill after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) once again...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) trails her main challenger in her bid to win reelection to her House seat by more than 20 points, according to a poll released Friday. A poll from the Casper Star-Tribune shows attorney and Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman leading Cheney, 52 percent to 30 percent. Other candidates did not surpass 5...

Two Republicans on Friday voted against legislation suspending tariffs on imports of baby formula. The measure, titled the Formula Act, cleared the House in a bipartisan 421-2 vote. It comes in response to the nationwide baby formula scarcity, which Americans have been grappling with for months. The two Republicans who voted against the measure were...

House Republicans are urging TikTok to release information regarding the access that its Chinese employees have to data from U.S. users.  Meanwhile, a new Congressional report reveals that several leading cryptocurrency miners have the electrical capacity equivalent to nearly every residence in Houston. This is Hillicon Valley, detailing all you need to know about tech...

Former Vice President Mike Pence will give a speech to the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation later this month, one day before former President Trump returns to Washington, D.C., for the first time since the end of his presidency last year.  Pence will speak about the policies he believes will “save our great nation”...

Story at a glance Medical experts have challenged claims from Florida health officials that treatments for gender dysphoria “are not consistent with generally accepted professional medical standards.” A team of scientists and a law professor from Yale Law School, the Yale School of Medicine, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC) and the University...