Новости за 26.08.2022

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), a member of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, is urging the Department of Labor to monitor and regulate how companies are using invasive technology to monitor their employees during work hours. In a letter addressed to Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Casey called for the agency to push for more oversight,...

The White House on Friday offered a cost estimate of President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, saying it would cost $24 billion annually over 10 years, or $240 billion. Deputy director of the White House National Economic Council Bharat Ramamurti told reporters at a White House briefing that the estimate assumed that 75 percent of...

Story at a glance Plasmalogens are lipids that are found in cell membranes. The amount of plasmalogens found in the body may diminish with age. Researchers are examining whether plasmalogens taken as a supplement could have positive health and anti-aging effects. Scientists have long been interested in studying aging: how it happens, why it happens,...

Story at a glance The U.S. Bureau found 16.3 million Americans have long Covid today.  Anywhere between 2 to 4 million are out of work because of the condition.  If no policy interventions are taken to address long Covid, the economy could suffer greatly.  Up to 4 million Americans may be out of work due...

The Democratic National Committee rolled out a digital ad buy in four states hitting Republicans on abortion following bans on the procedure going into effect in Idaho, Texas, and Tennessee.  The five-figure ad buy, which was first reported on by The Hill, is slated to run in Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Colorado. The spots will...

Timing is everything, as they say, and Biden’s attempt to improve maternal health in America could not have come at a worse moment.

The race for the top Democratic seat on the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee got more crowded on Friday when Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) entered the contest to replace the outgoing chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). Maloney lost her primary race on Tuesday to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), ending a 30-year career on Capitol...

A grand jury indicted 14 Maryland police officers on Thursday after prosecutors alleged that they secretly double-dipped shifts, simultaneously working as both private security and at the police department. Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy announced the indictments against 13 current and one retired officer on charges of misconduct in office and felony and...

Federal prosecutors will seek a 17 1/2 year sentence for a former Marine and New York Police Department officer convicted on six counts related to his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a sentencing memorandum on Thursday recommending the 210-month sentence for Thomas Webster for violently assaulting...

Just because low-carbon products are better, does not mean that climate change has been solved.

Former President Trump on Friday bashed the Department of Justice and a federal judge following the release of a heavily redacted affidavit that provided several new details on the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. “Affidavit heavily redacted!!! Nothing mentioned on ‘Nuclear,’ a total public relations subterfuge by the FBI & DOJ, or...

Two people were killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a homeless shelter in Kentucky on Thursday. Police responded to a report of multiple people being shot at the Harbor House men’s shelter in Henderson, a city located along the Ohio River near Indiana, around 7:40 p.m., according to a news release. Officers found...

The White House monkeypox response team will hold a briefing with public health officials on Friday afternoon. The event is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET. Watch the live video above.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business estimated the price tag of President Biden’s student debt plan could grow to more than $1 trillion over the next decade if certain conditions take hold. The study found the plan would cost $605 billion over the next decade under strict assumptions, but the price...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a press briefing Friday afternoon. The event is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET. Watch the live video above.

President Biden on Friday morning is meeting with state and local officials to observe Women's Equality Day as the administration continues to address access to reproductive health services. The event is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET. Watch the live video above.

President Biden on Friday marked the anniversary of the “heinous” terrorist attack amid the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan that killed 13 American service members and dozens of civilians. Biden issued a statement in which he recognized each of the 13 American service members by name. They died in a suicide bombing outside the airport in...

A golf course in New York City that former President Trump’s business manages will host a Saudi-backed women’s golf tournament in October, according to The New York Times. The Times reported that the tournament, which is part of the Aramco Team Series, will be held at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx....

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday will deliver a keynote address from the economic symposium in Jackson, Wyo. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET. Watch the live video above.

Jared Kushner called model and television personality Chrissy Teigen a “nasty” troll for her attacks on his wife, Ivanka Trump, in a clip from a radio interview that was released Friday. Kushner said while speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that many people in the media praised Ivanka for pursuing a business brand of...

The Biden administration will meet with state and local officials on Friday about protecting and expanding access to abortion, as the White House marks an official abortion "day of action" on Women's Equality Day. In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services is sending a letter to governors inviting them to design and apply...

Moderna said Friday it is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, alleging patent infringement over the COVID-19 vaccine. The move sets up a showdown between two major vaccine makers that together have helped blunt the impacts of the pandemic in the United States and other countries. "We believe that Pfizer and BioNTech...

Consumer prices fell in July and wages rose even when adjusting for inflation, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index — the Federal Reserve’s preferred gauge of inflation — fell 0.1 percent in July and rose just 0.1 percent when stripping out food and...

Former President Trump has been receiving legal advice related to his retention of presidential records from the head of Judicial Watch, a conservative legal activist group, CNN reported Friday. Trump began taking calls from Tom Fitton, the president of the group, soon after the National Archives confirmed it obtained 15 boxes of records from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago...

We should have been able to contain monkeypox.