Новости за 24.10.2022

Yeshiva University on Monday announced the creation of a new LGBTQ student group amid an ongoing legal battle with the YU Pride Alliance, an existing LGBTQ club the university has refused to recognize over its religious beliefs. The new university-approved club, the Kol Yisrael Areivim Club, which roughly translates to “all responsible for each other,”...

Story at a glance Beyond Meat launched its newest fake meat product on Monday, Beyond Steak. Like all other Beyond Meat products, the plant-based steak substitute is meant to mimic beef in taste and texture. Beyond Steak comes amid decline sales for the company which recently let go of 19 percent of its workforce....

Incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes are neck-and-neck in Wisconsin’s Senate race, according to a new CNN poll. The new survey found Johnson up just one percentage point among likely Wisconsin voters, with 50 percent saying they’d learn toward the Republican if the election were held today and 49 percent saying the same of...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced charges against 10 alleged Chinese government spies and three other Chinese nationals in three separate cases, including a matter in which two intelligence officers sought to recruit a U.S. double agent in order to damage prosecution of tech company Huawei. The sprawling activity described by DOJ includes...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is sounding the alarm about voter suppression even amid a record-breaking week of early voter turnout in Georgia. “In 2018, we had record turnout,” Abrams said in a press conference Monday. “We had record turnout that shattered records for Democrats among communities of color and in that same election … we know...

A U.S. trade group representing more than a thousand tax-paying hospitals issued a letter to congressional leadership on Monday listing its legislative priorities for Congress during its upcoming lame duck session. The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) specified several policies where it would like to see movement in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.),...

President Biden on Monday shared what he dubbed his “closing argument” for Democrats ahead of the midterms, contrasting Democratic and Republican policies to frame next month’s election as a stark choice that would shape the country’s future for decades. “I’m here to deliver what I believe is a closing argument about what we need to...

Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s (R) campaign is rolling out a new ad aimed at the Latino community as part of his final two-week sprint to the finish line to unseat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.). Laxalt’s camp unveiled a new ad, shared first with The Hill, as part of its multimillion-dollar TV buy that features the...

Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is reportedly no longer representing Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, after he drew a storm of controversy this month for making a series of antisemitic comments. CAA — a leading talent agency that represents musicians, actors, athletes and more — dropped Ye sometime this month, the Los...

President Biden on Monday afternoon will address the Democratic National Committee at the party's headquarters. The event is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET. Watch the live video above.

Three people were killed during a shooting at a St. Louis high school on Monday, including the gunman, police said. St. Louis Police Commissioner Michael Sack said at a press conference that a teenage female was pronounced dead at the scene at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, while an adult female and the...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) have reached across the aisle to endorse each other, just two weeks ahead of the midterm elections. Murkowski reportedly praised Peltola, the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, at the state’s Federation of Natives convention Friday, saying she plans to rank the Democrat first on...

First Lady Jill Biden will be joined by Mary J. Blige for an event to mark the start of the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) National Roundtables on Breast and Cervical Cancer. The event is scheduled to begin at 11 am ET. Watch the live video above.

A Michigan teenager pled guilty on Monday to 24 charges, including terrorism and first-degree murder, for killing four students and injuring seven others at Oxford High School last November in a shooting that drew national attention and raised questions about his parents’ alleged role. Ethan Crumbley, 16, during a court appearance on Monday repeatedly said...

Ebola is not airborne — it cannot be transmitted through the air like COVID-19.

The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report on Monday shifted its rating of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Sean Patrick Maloney's (D-N.Y.) House seat from “lean Democrat” to “toss up.” "When Republicans' top Super PAC announced an ad buy against Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-17) in April, many assumed it was a gambit...

Ohio Senate candidates J.D. Vance (R) and Tim Ryan (D) are separated by just 1 percentage point in a new Marist poll, a dead heat within the survey's margin of error. The poll released Monday found Vance garnered the support of 46 percent of registered voters, compared to Ryan’s 45 percent, the same figures the...

A progressive group on Monday laid out a list of nearly two dozen potential Republican presidential candidates it is targeting as it builds out its opposition research team with the 2024 race expected to take center stage as soon as the midterms are over. American Bridge 21st Century, a liberal super PAC, listed 21 Republicans...

President Biden in an interview that aired Sunday said it’s a “legitimate thing” for voters to be concerned about his age, but argued they should judge him on his energy and passion for the job. “I think it’s a legitimate thing to be concerned about anyone’s age, including mine. I think that’s totally legitimate,” Biden,...

Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday won leadership of the Conservative Party and is set to become the United Kingdom’s prime minister, the country's third this year. His last standing competitor, Penny Mordaunt, dropped out of the race on Monday. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had ended a brief bid to reclaim...

Georgians are breaking records in early voting with turnout on Saturday, surpassing the 2020 election's sixth day of early voting by 20 percent. The 79,682 voters who cast ballots on Saturday also marked a 159 percent increase from the first Saturday of early voting in the 2018 midterm elections, according to the Georgia secretary of...

President Biden is set to receive an updated COVID-19 vaccination shot on Tuesday in an effort to encourage Americans to get their latest booster shots amid the ongoing pandemic. "The President will receive his updated COVID-19 vaccine and will deliver remarks on the ongoing fight against the virus," the White House said in an email...

With election day just over two weeks away, Democrats are ramping up attacks on Republicans over their plans to change Social Security and Medicare.   GOP leaders have said the programs need to be reformed or risk going bankrupt, though they have avoided specifics about proposed changes, and have said they will play hardball with...

The head of voting systems company Dominion said Fox News knew allegations against the company being made by former president Trump and his associates following the 2020 election were untrue but decided to air them anyway. "We told them. We told them in real time. Others told them. Government officials told them. Partisan government officials...

Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said on Sunday that he considers former President Trump “dangerous” and a threat to both democracy and the presidency. Woodward is promoting a forthcoming audiobook titled "The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump," which includes the full audio of his 20 one-on-one interviews with the former...