Новости за 02.09.2022

Hillary Clinton says she has “no regrets” about choosing to stay in her marriage to former President Bill Clinton. The 42nd president’s affair with then-White House intern Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s ignited a media firestorm and launched the already heavily scrutinized Clinton marriage back into the spotlight. Asked about previous comments she’s made that...

Jane Fonda says she refuses to let a cancer diagnosis “interfere” with her climate and political activism. The “Grace and Frankie” actor shared with her nearly 2 million Instagram followers on Friday that she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has begun chemotherapy treatment. “This is a very treatable cancer,” Fonda, 84, said. “I’m also...

President Biden on Friday announced plans to nominate environmental law expert Richard Revesz to lead the small but powerful White House office in charge of overseeing federal regulations. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which sits within the White House Office of Management and Budget, has been without a permanent occupant since...

Voters in the Grand Canyon State see through Kelly’s masquerade.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that the recent decline in monkeypox cases that has been observed in North America and Europe is evidence that the current outbreak can be stopped or eliminated outright. Tedros made note of how monkeypox has quickly grown in prominence from being a little-known virus...

For whatever India intended to signal by making solar tariffs out of whole cloth, the move was too clever by half.

Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, has given less in donations to the Republican Party since her husband’s death last year, according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data.  Sheldon Adelson spent much of his fortune promoting Republican candidates and pro-Israel conservative causes before he died in January 2021 at age...

How does a crisis causing the deaths of so many people go unaddressed?

The few minutes of an execution that witnesses are allowed to see cannot give them — or us — an adequate understanding of the process and its meaning.

Story at a glance Asian food importer Thai Phat Wholesalers is pausing the sale of four types of its “Three Coins Dried Mushrooms” in 15 states including Maryland and Virginia. The products have been recalled after the Maryland Department of Heath conducted a routine test on the product and found the bacteria in packages. Everyone...

Former Attorney General William Barr suggested the Department of Justice (DOJ) likely has a strong case that former President Trump improperly took classified documents from the White House when he left office amid an ongoing investigation into the matter. "Is there any legitimate reason for those materials to be in the former president’s possession?" Barr...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other House Republicans on Friday called for Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to discuss the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago. McCarthy was joined by Reps. Mike Turner, Jim Jordan and James Comer — who serve as the leading...

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) on Friday said that it will provide access to abortions to pregnant veterans in limited circumstances. In a statement, the department said it submitted an interim final rule in the federal register to allow it to provide access to abortion counseling, as well as the procedure itself for people...

President Biden will host a summit later this month with leaders from Pacific island nations, the White House announced Friday. The U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit will take place Sept. 28 and 29. The White House did not immediately provide a list of attendees, but said the gathering will focus on collaboration on climate change, the...

The owner of the social media site OnlyFans, which is known for featuring adult content, has been paid more than $500 million in dividends from the company since the end of 2020. Owner Leonid Radvinsky received $517 million in dividends over 2021 and 2022, according to an annual report released Thursday and acquired by Bloomberg....

The more we forget about the importance of skin in the game, the more we ensure that taxpayer funded bailouts will beget even more taxpayer funded bailouts.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Thursday recommended that tech giant Amazon’s objections to votes by the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) be blocked. “I conclude that the Employer’s objections be overruled in their entirety,” wrote the NLRB hearing officer according to documents posted by ALU President Christian Smalls. The report continues: “The Employer has...

Reports of an imminent return to the Iran nuclear deal have reached a fever pitch once again. Washington and Tehran are going back and forth over the European “final text” for reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The Biden White House and State Department have launched an intensive round of news briefings to...

As Congress raced to pass long-stalled health, climate and tax legislation this summer, Democrats advanced the country's latest update to U.S. tax laws, giving the IRS $15 million to design a free "e-file" tax return system. However, over the course of several months working on the legislation, on no occasions were working Americans asked in...

Republicans are blasting President Biden’s prime-time address Thursday evening, which portrayed former President Trump and his supporters as a threat to democracy, casting the speech as condescending and at odds with uniting the country. “Divider-in-Chief at his finest tonight,” Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) wrote on Twitter. “President Biden took to the airwaves tonight to divide...

White House officials on Thursday pushed back against criticism that President Biden’s prime-time speech, in which he warned that former President Trump and his ideology pose a threat to democracy, was overly political in nature, arguing that Biden was simply recognizing the urgency of the issue. Biden delivered a speech from Independence Hall in Philadelphia...

Passenger complaints have soared as airlines canceled and delayed flights this year, but reliability has varied between airlines. The Department of Transportation (DOT) released its latest air travel consumer report late last month, noting that roughly 24 percent of commercial flights between destinations in the United States did not arrive on time in the first...

On Aug. 9, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act. The bill  provides  $52 billion to support semiconductor manufacturing through subsidies and tax credits while providing $200 billion to support scientific research in emerging technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence. The bill is the final product in a long line of negotiations  designed...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called on President Biden to use a prime-time speech to apologize for a remark calling "MAGA" philosophy “semi-fascism.” “President Biden has chosen to divide, demean and disparage his fellow Americans. Why? Simply because they disagree with his policies. That is not leadership,” McCarthy said in a prebuttal speech to...

We explain what’s happening to the water in Jackson, Miss., plus a study says the federal government is underestimating the cost of climate change. Meanwhile, California passed a slew of climate legislation. This is Overnight Energy & Environment, your source for the latest news focused on energy, the environment and beyond. For The Hill,...