Новости за 19.09.2022

LIV Golf CEO and Commissioner Greg Norman visited Capitol Hill on Monday in an effort to discuss with lawmakers the future plans and initiatives of the controversial new golfing league backed by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. Politico first reported on Monday that Norman was visiting with lawmakers. LIV Golf, publicly launched last...

Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), two members of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, introduced a bill on Monday to reform the Electoral College Act, offering a number of provisions to protect elections from interference by state and federal lawmakers. The Presidential Election Reform Act would make clear...

University of South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer reportedly apologized after he yelled at a group of female athletes being honored during a Title IX ceremony to get off the field. The ESPN broadcast of the game showed Beamer appearing to shout at the athletes during the school’s Saturday game against the University of Georgia...

President Biden is enjoying what looks like an enduring bump in approval polls, a shift that is linked to a number of factors that could help Democrats in the midterm elections.  Here's what's behind it: Legislative wins Biden and his party’s ultra-narrow congressional majorities have notched a series of legislative successes over the past year-and-a-half....

A group of House GOP lawmakers is pushing President Biden to address concerns that his student loan forgiveness plan could kneecap military recruiting by making the GI Bill seem less valuable.  In a letter led by Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas), the 19 House Republicans said they worry about the “unintended consequences” of Biden’s decision last month to...

Story at a glance WalletHub compared all 50 states and Washington, D.C., along 24 metrics regarding opportunity, competition and academic and work environment to determine the most teacher friendly places in the U.S.  New York holds the top spot. The Empire State ranked highest in teacher salaries and public-school spending per student. New York is...

When authorities arrived at the home, they say they found a 3-year-old locked in a cage that was secured with zip ties and had bugs inside. A 2-year-old was then seen walking inside the house holding a meth pipe, law enforcement said.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) in a new interview predicts that GOP lawmakers will demand a vote to impeach President Biden "every week" if Republicans take control of the House in the midterms. Kinzinger, a frequent critic of former President Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill, compared previous efforts by congressional Republicans to what he...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) is headed to Arizona next month to stump for Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Youngkin's office confirmed to The Hill the governor is traveling to Arizona to boost the Trump-endorsed Lake, a prominent supporter of the former president's false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, in her race...

What’s happening in Ithaca and New York City can be done anywhere.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has widened his lead to 9 percentage points over his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, according to a new poll released on Monday by The Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler. The poll found that Abbott garnered the support of 47 percent of respondents, compared to 38...

Traffic deaths on U.S. roadways saw a dip in the second quarter of 2022, the first decline since 2020, when fatalities began to climb. Estimates released Monday from the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) project that a little over 20,000 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the first half of...

Ana Navarro, a political pundit and newly minted co-host of ABC's daytime talk show "The View," slammed major television networks for their wall-to-wall coverage of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral on Monday, amid the devastation of Hurricane Fiona in Puerto Rico. "Folks, I respect the Queen as much as the next person. I offer my condolences...

Queen Elizabeth II’s corgis welcomed their late owner back to her royal residence, as they stood by during the monarch’s funeral procession. The pair of beloved dogs, Muick and Sandy, were seen Monday as Elizabeth’s hearse made its way to St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle as part of her state funeral. Barks were heard...

Former President Obama is remembering Queen Elizabeth II as a “kind” but “no-nonsense” grandmotherly figure who had a “clear understanding of her role as a symbol for a nation” in a message shared the same day as the late monarch’s state funeral in London. “She could not have been more kind or thoughtful to me...

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday attended the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London. The Bidens arrived just after 10 a.m. British Standard Time on Monday morning, about an hour before the start of the service. Both were dressed in black, entered the abbey holding hands and were...

President Biden’s approval has hit 45 percent in an NBC News poll, giving the president a boost just ahead of November’s crucial midterm elections. The 45 mark is the highest the president has seen in the poll since last October and comes from key parts of his base. He reached a 52 percent approval rating among...

A state lawmaker representing Martha’s Vineyard has called for a federal investigation into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) relocation of migrants to the island last week. Massachusetts state Rep. Dylan Fernandes (D), who has repeatedly attacked DeSantis for chartering two planes to transport the migrants, made the request on Sunday. “We are requesting that the...

Publishers may have made an uneasy peace with contradiction.

Mark Frerichs, an American hostage held by the Taliban for more than two years, was freed on Monday, multiple news agencies reported. Frerichs, a veteran and civilian contractor, worked in Afghanistan for a decade as an engineer before being abducted in early 2020. His release appears to be part of a swap that included the...

It isn’t often that a government agency sandbags a program that Congress has entrusted it to execute. But that’s the case with the Department of Education (DOE) and the federal Charter Schools Program. Instead, DOE has radically upended its own process to make it harder, if not impossible, for most would-be charter schools to receive...

Senate Democrats are bracing for the possibility for life under a divided government, with President Biden in office and a strong possibility of a Republican-controlled House. Democrats hope they can retain their majority in the Senate, where a number of political handicappers say the party is favored. That would give Democrats more leverage and congressional...

Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), both members of the Jan. 6 select committee, will introduce legislation this week to reform the Electoral Count Act, a 1887 law that outlines how electoral votes are cast and counted following presidential elections. The legislation has been highly anticipated since the Jan. 6 panel began its...

Social media companies have weak policies on misinformation and have failed to enforce them consistently ahead of the 2022 midterms, according to a new report released Monday. The report, from New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, faults Meta, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok for not taking a proactive approach to address misinformation,...

Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-S.C.) proposed legislation to ban abortions after 15 weeks on a national level has cleaved the Republican party less than two months out from a high-stakes election. At least 15 GOP lawmakers have signaled opposition to the legislation, with a majority saying abortion decisions should be handled on the state and local...