Новости за 31.08.2022

A new study published on Wednesday found that the expanded use of telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic was associated with a reduced risk of opioid overdoses. Researchers from multiple federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) looked...

Lyft passengers and drivers who say they were sexually and physically assaulted during Lyft rides sued the ride-hailing company Wednesday, alleging it fails to ensure user safety.  Seventeen new lawsuits were filed against the company from drivers and passengers across the country, including from 13 sexual assault survivors and four physical assault victims. “Part of the reason that we're filing...

Afghan women and girls have become a high-stakes bargaining chip for the Taliban as it seeks international recognition and legitimacy.

Story at a glance Some high school students will get the chance to take a new AP course this fall on African American Studies.   The College Board, which oversees college-level classes in high school, is offering the course at 60 high schools this fall. If all goes well, more schools will get the chance to...

President Biden sought to assure Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday that the U.S. would not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, as talks about reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran show signs of progress. “The President underscored U.S. commitment to never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” the White House...

An instrument the size of a lunchbox has proven it can do the work of a small tree by successfully generating oxygen on the dusty surface of Mars. The instrument — called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) — has been making oxygen from Mars’s carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere since last year, according to the Massachusetts...

After almost five decades, the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has allowed conservative state legislatures to dictate when, where and whether safe, legal abortion is available. While eliminating this right may have shocked some people, for many Black women abortion already was a right that could not be fully exercised. Because of...

Story at a glance The rising interest in commercial space travel, in addition to recent high-profile NASA projects, raise questions about the long-term safety of space exploration. To better understand how spaceflight affects individuals, researchers assessed blood samples from 14 healthy astronauts. A total of 34 mutations in 17 genes were identified, which may indicate...

Mortgage applications dropped last week as interest rates on home loans spiked higher, according to data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MBA’s market composite index, which measures mortgage lending among the trade group’s members, fell 3.7 percent last week after seasonal adjustments. The drop came as the average 30-year fixed mortgage...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will speak at a right-leaning policy group’s event recognizing the adoption of the Constitution next month. Cheney will give the annual Constitution Day Lecture for the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy think tank, on Sept. 19. The Wyoming Republican will speak on why President Lincoln’s call for patriotism grounded in “reverence...

President Biden on Wednesday spoke by phone with Jackson, Miss., Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (D) about emergency response efforts to the water crisis in the state’s capital. A White House aide said that Biden phoned Lumumba “to hear firsthand from the mayor about the urgent situation with access to clean and safe water.”  ...

ASPEN, COLO. — A group of Latino artists, communicators, politicians and advocates are congregating in Colorado this week for the Raizado Festival, a gathering that seeks to address issues affecting the community in media, organizing and politics. Organizers of the Raizado Festival — the name is Spanish for "rooted" — purposely chose Aspen, a place...

Vice President Harris has hired Megan Jones, a former top aide to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), to join her team ahead of the midterm elections, a White House official told The Hill. Jones will start her role in Harris’s office as a temporary special government employee this week, Politico first reported....

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a press briefing Wednesday afternoon. The event is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. ET. Watch the live video above.

A documentary that paints a picture of former President Obama and Michelle Obama’s legacies through their famed pair of portraits will premiere next month on the Smithsonian Channel. “Picturing the Obamas” will debut on Sep. 10, the cable network announced Wednesday. In the two-hour special, viewers “will learn from curators, journalists and art critics about...

Ashley Judd is opening up about her family’s efforts to seal police reports and recordings related to her mother’s death, saying the “profoundly intimate personal and medical information” doesn’t belong in the public domain. Naomi Judd died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in April at her home in Tennessee. The country music singer was 76....

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that a staffer who works for him received a call from a man who threatened to come to Swalwell's congressional office with an assault rifle and kill him. “A staffer of mine—who’s 1 month into her job—received a call from a man saying he’s coming to our office w/...

The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a handful of actions aimed at addressing the teacher shortage in the United States, including by partnering with job search firms to make it easier to fill openings in the education field. The White House announced that ZipRecruiter would launch a new web portal to showcase K-12 school...

President Biden’s midterm message is taking shape around framing November’s elections as a “continued battle for the soul of the nation,” echoing a similar notion that propelled him to the White House in 2020. But this time, Biden is further sharpening his attacks on former President Trump and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party,...

Former Secretary of State James Baker on Tuesday paid tribute to former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at 91 earlier in the day, calling the former world leader a “giant who steered his great nation toward democracy.”  In a statement published through his self-named Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Baker applauded...

Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida, is resigning from the House and leaving his term early as the heads into the height of campaign season. Crist’s resignation will be effective at the end of the day on Wednesday, according to the Tampa Bay Times. In a statement to the Tampa Bay Times,...

A former New York Police officer claims he was booted from the department for his right-wing political views and his interpersonal relationships with former Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone and "Manhattan Madam" Kristin Davis.

President Biden and the Democrats are setting up the IRS as the next three-letter intelligence agency, with the rapid expansion of the service’s power and payroll. Changes resulting from the improperly-named Inflation Reduction Act have positioned the Internal Revenue Service as a potent political weapon — one that Democrats may not be the only ones...

Americans are divided on how they view the Biden administration’s new student debt cancellation initiative, according to a new MorningConsult/Politico poll. The new poll, published Wednesday, found that 48 percent of respondents agree with Biden's move to cancel $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who earn less than $125,000 annually and households...

President Biden declared an emergency in Mississippi on Tuesday, freeing up federal resources to assist local and state officials in responding to a water crisis in the state’s capital. The water system in Jackson, Miss., has failed in recent days, leaving residents with little to no drinking water. Officials have blamed flooding along the Pearl...