Новости за 19.08.2022

Story at a glance The Education Department is getting $8 million to put towards the Augustus F. Hawkins Centers for Excellence. It’s a program aimed to fund teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities that primarily serve minorities, like historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Those institutions prepare a disproportionate share of the country’s teachers...

Voters in California would prefer their governor, Gavin Newsom (D), in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary over Vice President Harris, according to a poll from the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies released on Friday.  The poll, which was co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Times, found that 25 percent of surveyed voters eligible to participate...

Paradoxically, it might be younger people who are least familiar with telemedicine.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in an interview aired Friday that she did not think House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) should be Speaker of the House, saying he had been “unfaithful to the Constitution.” “My views about Kevin McCarthy are very clear. [The] Speaker of the House is the second in line for the...

With the out of control price of groceries, gas, and the rumblings of a coming recession, the last thing we need from Congress is a new regulation that will destroy cost saving digital services like Amazon Prime. Unfortunately for our wallets, the misleadingly named American Innovation and Choice Online Act would do just that —...

The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it would provide a total of $35.7 million in grants to help states provide support to victims of sexual assault. The Sexual Assault Services Formula Grant Program (SASP), run by the Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), will include 56 awards, one for each state...

The Federal Reserve is rapidly raising interest rates in order to fight inflation, announcing another sharp upward bump July 27. While no one likes inflation, Congress and the president must recognize the harm this sudden rise in rates can do in our already troubled housing market. That harm won’t be distributed equally, but there are things we can do...

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Ohio) is the latest Democrat to distance herself from the president, saying in a new campaign ad that she “doesn’t work for Joe Biden. She works for you.” “Joe Biden's letting Ohio solar manufacturers be undercut by China. But Marcy Kaptur’s fighting back, working with Republican Rob Portman. Protecting our jobs. Communist...

There’s long been a disconnect between employers and employees regarding work-life balance. Well before WFH became an acronym we no longer needed to spell out, countless studies found that the lack of personal time was a major concern for the average worker. One particular study in 2015 – so, BC-19 (Before Covid-19) – found 67%...

House Democrats asked social media platforms to turn over information about threats to federal law enforcement officials and how they combat the violent posts, according to letters sent to eight companies Friday. House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) demanded Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Truth Social, Rumble, Gettr, Telegram...

House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) introduced two bills on Friday targeting the firearm industry, setting new restrictions for supplying firearms to gun distributors and retailers and imposing a tax on certain guns. One of the pieces of legislation would make it illegal for a firearm importer or manufacturer to sell guns...

It is a communicable disease transmitted when people are in close physical proximity for extended periods

Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Florida Democrat running in a contested primary for a House seat, released an ad Friday in unabashed Spanglish. The ad features Frost speaking a mix of Spanish and English, with subtitles in either language. “What we found is increasingly Latinos are in a place where their first language is Spanish but...

Story at a glance As of 2017, approximately 5.4 million U.S. adults have autism spectrum disorder. Results of the large study may help drive future treatments for the condition. Researchers also hope findings will spur genetic testing to identify those at risk. An analysis of over 150,000 people, 20,000 of whom have autism, revealed over...

The Washington, D.C., public school system announced Thursday evening during a town hall that it would relax COVID-19 measures ahead of the 2022-2023 school year. D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) announced that it will no longer be conducting daily health screenings on students upon arrival to school. However, DCPS is asking parents to screen their children...

The one year anniversary of the Biden administration’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan has provided the occasion for Congressman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and his fellow Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee to issue an interim report entitled “A ‘Strategic Failure’: Assessing the Administration’s Afghanistan Withdrawal.” Even before the report appeared, however, the White House launched...

Story at a glance Low-income student parents need to work at least 50 hours on average per week at minimum wage to cover both childcare costs and tuition. The number of hours was calculated after applying grants, scholarships and 10 hours of minimum wage work. Researchers found that student parents are disproportionately single, students of color and...

Alec Baldwin says the fatal shooting of a crew member on the set of his movie “Rust” has “taken years off” his life, and the actor is vowing never to use real guns again in films. “There is just this torrent of people attacking me who don’t know the facts,” Baldwin said in an interview...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced on Friday that it’s launching a seven-figure ad buy to tout the recently signed Inflation Reduction Act, which is tackling issues such as lowering drug prices and going head to head with special interest groups. The ad campaign includes advertisements at gas stations and on digital platforms, a national...

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) on Friday said in an interview that he and the delegation that traveled to Taiwan with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are “not going to allow Beijing" and Chinese President Xi Jinping to dictate the actions taken by Congress. “We're not going to allow Beijing and Xi to tell members of Congress...

President Biden plans to host a summit in mid-September focused on stamping out the effects of hate-fueled violence in the United States in furtherance of his campaign pledge to unify the country. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement on Friday that the “United We Stand” summit would be held on...

A Louisiana judge issued a permanent injunction against the Biden administration’s moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands Thursday night, a day after another court tossed an earlier injunction against it. In the Thursday ruling, Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana, a Trump appointee, permanently blocked the January 2021...

A group of 92 House lawmakers wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday asking it to reconsider its proposed rule decreasing allowances for a widely used herbicide. EPA Administrator Michael Regan has taken aim at the use of atrazine, commonly used to protect corn, sugarcane and other crops from weeds, as...

The Biden Administration announced the allocation of over $300 million in funding for water reuse projects across the country Thursday as the West faces its driest period in human history. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton announced that $309.8 million will be allocated to the "design and...

What do you think of America? Why do you want to live in America? What are your hopes for your family in America? The answers to these questions provide insights into why many Hispanics are increasingly identifying with the Republican Party. They’ve seen how leaders who arrogantly think they know better than them actually weaken individual...