Новости за 16.09.2022

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former White House press secretary and now the Republican nominee for governor of Arkansas, announced Friday that she had undergone surgery to remove her thyroid after being diagnosed with cancer. Sanders said in a statement that her doctor ordered a biopsy on an “area of concern” earlier this month during a...

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is joining a group of liberal House members in opposing Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) push to pass changes to the environmental review process in a stopgap funding bill. Markey became the second Democratic-caucusing senator to call for the issues to be separated. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has previously expressed opposition to the...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday criticized the transport of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., calling it “literally human trafficking.” “Some politicians would rather not only have an issue, but exacerbate it to the extent of literally human trafficking,” the former Democratic presidential nominee told host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC’s "Morning...

The Office of Head Start (OHS), the federal program within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides preschool and child care services to low-income families, announced today that it will soon be dropping its universal masking rule for its grant recipients. In a statement provided to The Hill, an HHS spokesperson said,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a sweeping package of climate legislation into law on Friday, aiming to accelerate the Golden State’s transition to clean energy. Among the long list of initiatives to receive gubernatorial approval were measures to cut air pollution by 60 percent and reduce state oil consumption by 91 percent over the...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday compared the actions of two Republican governors who sent migrants to Democrat-run cities to that of smugglers, the latest jab in an increasingly fraught back-and-forth over the issue of migration and the southern border. Jean-Pierre took aim at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Texas Gov. Greg...

Without permitting reform, projects will be delayed for years, costs will skyrocket and billions in taxpayer dollars will be wasted.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) signed an abortion ban into law on Friday that will only permit the procedure in cases of rape, incest or medical emergencies. Justice said in a tweet announcing his signature that the legislation is a “bill that protects life.” “I said from the beginning that if WV legislators brought...

President Biden will travel to Florida later this month to rally with Democrats, with leading Senate and gubernatorial races on the ballot there in November. Biden will travel to Orlando on Sept. 27, the White House announced Friday. He will attend a Democratic National Committee rally while there, the latest instance of Biden addressing a...

The Georgia prosecutor investigating attempts by former President Trump and his allies to challenge President Biden’s victory in the state in 2020 said she expects prison sentences for those convicted of crimes related to the investigation. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) told The Washington Post this week that her team has heard credible...

What has the government done for you lately? In spite of the many billions of dollars that our government has in its coffers and the outsized influence that it holds over our nation, many of us scratch our heads when this question is posed. In addition to police, fire and other emergency services, we have...

Cedric Richmond, a former Biden White House official, definitively said this week that President Biden will run again in 2024 amid questions about his political longevity. “He’s running and we’re building an infrastructure for him to run and win,” Richmond told NBC. “Right now, it’s all an early investment in 2024 while we’re helping 2022.” Richmond,...

Former President Trump suggested to his aides that the United States could trade Puerto Rico to Denmark for Greenland while he was president, according to a new book from two reporters. The New York Times journalist Peter Baker and The New Yorker magazine journalist Susan Glasser revealed in their book, “The Divider: Trump in the...

Actor Ilana Glazer says the current partisan political battles aren’t between Democrats and Republicans, they’re versus “far-right extremists, and it’s not normal.” “Most Americans, Democrat or Republican, want the same thing — a country that is the most safe for the most people,” the former “Broad City” star wrote in an essay published Friday by...

A man confronted Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on an airplane flight on Thursday about the senator not supporting stricter gun legislation in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers in May. A video posted on the man’s Twitter account shows Cruz getting his belongings after the flight...

Michelle Obama’s voter registration and engagement initiative is making a push to get Black voters to the polls for this November’s midterm elections. The former first lady and Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul teamed up for a video released Friday — timed to coincide with National Black Voter Day, which was launched in 2020...

A majority of Americans are in favor of a national law protecting same-sex marriage, according to an Economist-YouGov poll released Thursday. The poll found that 51 percent of Americans back a congressional effort to codify protection for same-sex marriage into federal law, while 34 percent oppose it. The results came on the same day that...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted a video on Thursday of an exchange with young gun control activists in which the congresswoman appears to kick a woman walking in front of her whom Greene's staff accuses of impeding her movement. “These foolish cowards want the government to take away guns & the rights of parents...

Model and television personality Chrissy Teigen revealed that the miscarriage she reported in 2020 that could have been her third child with husband John Legend was actually an abortion. Teigen announced the miscarriage in an Instagram post in September 2020, writing that she and Legend lost their son — who they named Jack — at...

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles sent a letter on Thursday to George Floyd’s lawyer rejecting her application for a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug offense. “The members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (Board) have reconsidered their initial decision concerning your client’s application for a Full Pardon and/or Pardon for...

Uber is investigating a possible breach of its network after a hacker gained access on Thursday to the company’s internal system. The transport company shut off a number of its internal services, including messaging and engineering services, during the investigation, according to The New York Times. The person claiming responsibility for the hack told the...

As the 2022 midterms season becomes increasingly competitive, Latinos are poised to play an especially decisive role in determining control of Congress and statehouses from coast to coast. It is past time for both Democrats and Republicans to accept that this voting bloc matters. Despite the growth of diverse Latino communities around the country, Latino...

Senate Democrats are seething over what they say was a “political stunt” by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who have sent planeloads and busloads of Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Democratic lawmakers have grown increasingly frustrated with DeSantis and other GOP governors for...

The funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will take place on Monday, the culmination of a 10-day period of mourning for a monarch who was on the throne for 70 years. Questions about the United Kingdom’s identity — and the future of the monarchy itself — are rushing in to fill the void left by...

Story at a glance The popularity of social media has led to increasing numbers of parents and caregivers sharing photos or videos of their children, a practice dubbed “sharenting.” But companies and predators are waiting to jump on these posts to harvest kids’ data for monetary purposes, or worse. What’s more, the only bill protecting...