Новости за 20.10.2022

President Biden is getting behind the wheel to promote electric vehicles (EVs) in an appearance on Jay Leno’s auto-centric CNBC show. CNBC released a preview of the season seven finale of “Jay Leno’s Garage” on Thursday. On the show, Biden and the former “Tonight Show” host visit a Secret Service training facility to talk cars...

Community colleges fared better this year than other higher education institutions in attracting students following an enrollment nosedive over the pandemic.  Compared to fall 2021, enrollment rates fell the least at community colleges this year — 0.4 percent — compared to other undergraduate institutions, according to a new National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report. The...

Former President Trump is using the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena to fundraise. Trump’s Save America Joint Fundraising Committee sent an email to supporters on Thursday, urging them to donate in the face of the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena of the former president. “PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOTHING WRONG,” the email claims. “The January 6th Unselect Committee...

Former President Trump and Ye, the actor formerly known as Kanye West, have made antisemitic comments on social media recently, which have “shattered” a general feeling of safety among U.S. Jews, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Oren Segal. “Jews generally feel safe in the United States despite the rise in antisemitism online and...

The lettuce has won. A 68-cent head of iceberg lettuce outlasted British Prime Minister Liz Truss's tenure in the top post after the leader's economic plan plunged the U.K. into chaos. British tabloid The Daily Star late last week began a livestream of the lettuce and a picture of Truss on a table, to determine...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Wednesday voted to roll out new mandatory safety standards for dressers and other clothing storage units after determining the furniture currently poses an unreasonable risk of injury and death. The new standards for clothing storage units, which include dressers and wardrobes, will significantly change how such furniture is...

The family of one of the victims who died during the crowd crush at an Astroworld concert last year has settled a lawsuit filed against rapper Travis Scott, entertainment company Live Nation and other defendants. Tony Buzbee, who is representing the family of 21-year-old Astroworld victim Axel Acosta, announced the news in an Instagram post...

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think President Biden isn’t paying enough attention to the issues most important to them, according to a new Monmouth University survey.  The poll found that 63 percent of Americans wish Biden would give more attention to their top issues, up from 49 percent who reported feeling the same way about the...

A coalition of congressional Democrats on Thursday called on President Biden to reverse a Trump-era change to the regulation of 3D-printed ghost guns and return oversight to the State Department as munitions. “[I]t is far too easy for anyone to download from the internet the computer code to 3D-print unserialized, untraceable, plastic ‘ghost guns,’” the...

Fourteen Senate Democrats on Tuesday sent a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) asking the agencies to strictly enforce a new law on ghost guns because companies are dodging the rule through a loophole. The "Ghost Gun Rule," which went into effect in August,...

Law enforcement agents on Wednesday said they seized 12,000 fentanyl pills hidden inside candy boxes in a major drug bust at Los Angeles International Airport. A suspect attempted to move through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint with the drugs, which were packed inside Skittles and Whoppers boxes, according to a release from the L.A. County...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is calling on Democrats in safe seats to increase donations to the party’s campaign arm, as the caucus works to retain its majority in the final stretch to the midterm elections. In a letter to colleagues on Thursday, Hoyer implored members to pay their dues to the Democratic Congressional...

Former Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) and actor Tom Hanks honored “Today Show” co-host Savannah Guthrie at an event Thursday celebrating caregivers of military veterans. Hanks and Dole traded lighthearted banter at the Elizabeth Dole Foundation’s annual Heroes and History Makers gala. Hanks, who is the chairman of the Hidden Heroes campaign, emceed this year’s event,...

President Biden said he would support a federal fund to help women pay for abortion procedures while calling on companies to also help their employees pay for reproductive care. “The answer is absolutely,” Biden told NowThis News when asked in a recent interview if he supports a federal fund for individuals who need to take...

Google users will be able to choose if they want to see more or less ads based on specific categories and decide what personal data is used to target ads to them, the tech giant announced Thursday. The new control settings are part of Google’s “My Ad Center,” which will roll out globally to users...

Republicans are holding double-digit leads over their Democratic counterparts on a slew of economic issues as November’s midterm elections inch closer, according to a new CNBC All-America Economic Survey. The poll, published on Thursday, found that 42 percent of respondents believe that the GOP is better suited to handle the issue of inflation, while 27...

As the nation braces for a recession, North Carolina will be in a better place than most states.

The Senate Democrats’ campaign arm is launching its latest ad targeting Nevada Senate hopeful Adam Laxalt (R) over abortion in a new ad on Thursday. The 30-second ad, called “Girls” and released by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), suggests that Laxalt would strip away abortion rights in the state if he were elected to...

Trump’s name is not on the ballot, but his hand-picked acolytes are stand-ins for MAGA Trumpism.

Story at a glance A new study carried out by PSE Healthy Energy, a nonprofit research institute, highlights different levels of benzene found in gas stove leaks measured when the appliance is turned off. Benzene is a known human carcinogen that has been linked with leukemia and other blood cancers. Ninety-nine percent of the samples...

In the fight against modern-day slavery, four distinct anti-slavery approaches have emerged: faith-based, secular abolitionist, feminist, and human rights. While some have argued for one approach over another, each of these traditions is unique and plays an important role in combating human trafficking. They play off one another, strengthen one another, borrow language, concepts, advocacy...

A New York gun control law that prohibits firearms in Times Square, Yankee Stadium, the subway and other sensitive places is on shaky legal ground after a judge found these provisions violate the Second Amendment, though the ruling is paused while the case is appealed. The ongoing court battle over New York's gun control measure...

President Biden on Thursday will return to the site of a major bridge collapse in Pittsburgh to highlight investments through the bipartisan infrastructure law that are helping to improve bridges in disrepair nationwide. Biden will speak at the Fern Hollow Bridge in the city’s East End neighborhood, a White House official said. The 52-year-old bridge...

Alligators exposed to “forever chemicals” in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River may be experiencing adverse clinical and autoimmune effects, a new study has found. In addition to showing genetic indicators for immune system impacts, the animals had many unhealed or infected lesions, according to the study, published on Thursday in Frontiers in Toxicology. “Alligators rarely suffer...

International convenience store chain Circle K will team up with marijuana company Green Thumb Industries to sell cannabis at gas stations in Florida next year. Green Thumb, a national cannabis company that owns dispensaries selling marijuana products under the name Rise Dispensaries, said the rollout will start with 10 select locations in 2023 before potentially...