Новости за 30.09.2022

President Biden on Friday called for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women’s History Museum to be built on the National Mall in Washington. Speaking at the White House's official Hispanic Heritage Month reception, Biden endorsed the push to include the museums in the country's most-visited national park, lending his...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) late Thursday night signed two bills that will ban cancer-linked “forever chemicals” from cosmetic products and textiles in the state beginning in 2025. The same evening, however, the governor vetoed a third bill that would have created a publicly accessible database of consumer items that contain these toxic compounds. The...

We need to drive innovation by adding an input to the financial aid calculation: total cost per student at the destination institution.

The Federal Reserve Board will enlist six major U.S. banks in a pilot climate risk analysis program, officials announced Thursday.  Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo will participate in the pilot as part of the Federal Reserve’s attempt to determine the financial risk associated with natural disasters and climate change....

President Biden on Friday signed a bill to honor the late Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.), days after the president asked if the congresswoman, who died in an August vehicular accident, was in the room during an event this week. The bill designates the clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Mishawaka, Ind., as the...

Climate chaos is here, and drilling for more oil will quite literally fuel the flames.

Conservative commentator and former Trump White House adviser Sebastian Gorka on Friday said House Republicans should form a select committee to investigate Hunter Biden's business dealings — and offered his services to be a staff director for such a body. House Republicans, anticipating taking control of the chamber and preparing to lead investigations into the...

Anger is boiling over at House Democratic leadership for failing to deliver on a bill to ban members of Congress from trading stocks — a key priority for voters on both sides of the aisle — ahead of the midterm elections. Democratic leaders unveiled draft legislation to tackle the issue Tuesday, just days before Congress...

President Biden on Friday said it would take “years” to rebuild from Hurricane Ian, which dealt a serious blow to Florida and is now approaching the South Carolina coast. Biden said the largest search and rescue team in recent U.S. history has been deployed and 117 people have already been rescued along the southwest Florida...

A 25-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), who served as a first responder at the World Trade Center on 9/11, was fatally stabbed on Thursday while on duty. Emergency Medical Services Lt. Alison Russo-Elling, 61, was stabbed multiple times in what acting Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh described as a “barbaric and...

A majority of Americans say that the U.S. Supreme Court is "out of touch," according to a poll released Friday by Monmouth University. About 60 percent of Americans surveyed say that the high court is out of touch with the "values and beliefs" of the public, compared to 34 percent that said the court is...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a press briefing Friday afternoon. The event begins at 2:45 p.m. ET. Watch the video above.

A new poll released on Friday found that half of U.S. adults say they know little to nothing about the recently authorized bivalent coronavirus booster doses almost one month after they were made available. The data from the Kaiser Family Foundation's (KFF) COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor found that a minority of people said they knew "a...

Former President Trump will hold back-to-back rallies in Arizona and Nevada next week, the latest sign that he’s ramping up his political activity ahead of the November midterms. Trump is set to appear in Minden, Nev., to campaign for GOP Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt and gubernatorial nominee Joe Lombardo on Oct. 8, before jetting off...

Story at a glance California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday signed into law a bill to safeguard transgender minor and their families from out-of-state legal acton if they travel to California to receive gender-affirming health care. The new law is a response to dozens of measures introduced this year that restrict or outlaw gender-affirming...

Story at a glance New data from nearly 450,000 individuals show an association between daily coffee consumption and lower risk of death from any cause. The link was the strongest among drinkers of ground, decaffeinated and instant coffee, compared with non-drinkers. Drinking coffee was also associated with lower risks of cardiovascular disease. For daily coffee...

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), opinion contributor The U.S. Department of Labor Consumer Price Index (CPI) report shows that Americans are facing the highest food price inflation since 1979. Grocery prices are up 13.5 percent over the past 12 months—bread prices have risen 16.2 percent, chicken costs have increased by 16.6 percent, and eggs have jumped...

Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller said Thursday that President Biden should be in “assisted living” after he asked if a congresswoman who died earlier this year was in the audience at an administration event. “It documents … that President Biden is not cognitively present,” Miller said in an interview on Newsmax on Thursday...

A North Carolina sheriff was caught on tape using racist language about his fellow officers amid an election dispute in 2019, a local TV station reported on Wednesday. “I’m sick of these Black bastards,” Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene said in a recorded phone call, reported by Wilmington’s WCET. “I’m going to clean house and be done with...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took her seat on the bench ahead of the court’s new term on Monday at a formal investiture ceremony attended by President Biden, Vice President Harris and others. Biden, who nominated Jackson to serve as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court earlier this year, joined other government...

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) on Friday called for new Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill after top House Democrats scrapped plans to vote on legislation banning lawmaker stock trading. The scathing statement from Spanberger, a two-term congresswoman in a tight reelection race, came one day after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said a bill prohibiting...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) says that he has received whistleblower reports of sexual misconduct at the FBI, comparing the agency to the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. "It sounds like Sodom and Gomorrah up there," Gohmert said on the House floor Thursday. "We got complaints this week about sexual harassment, about sexual improprieties on...

A top Latino voting rights group on Friday launched a scathing ad attacking Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott timed to land on the day of a crucial gubernatorial debate between Abbott and Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke. Mi Familia Vota, a national group that promotes Latino voter participation, will run the ad multiple times Friday on...

Across Europe, as in the Republican Party, rightwing nationalists are converging with mainstream conservative parties.

President Biden late Thursday approved an emergency declaration for South Carolina, as Hurricane Ian barreled toward the state with increasing strength. Ian, which was briefly downgraded to a tropical storm after tearing through Florida on Wednesday, was upgraded to a hurricane once again on Thursday night. It is expected to make landfall in South Carolina...