Новости за 05.11.2022

Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey apologized on Saturday to Twitter staff being laid off amid Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company, saying that he is responsible for the current situation. “I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too...

With the midterm elections just days away, both political parties’ final push to get out the vote will likely dominate this week’s Sunday talk shows circuit. This year’s midterm elections have seen impressive early voting numbers, particularly in key states that could determine control of the Senate. While polling indicates that the House is poised...

Congress is increasingly sounding the alarm over cyber threats targeting the health care sector. Several congressional lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to protect the industry amid a rise in cyberattacks by introducing policies and recommendations aimed at addressing and mitigating such threats. “Over the past decade, the American public has witnessed increasingly brazen and disruptive attacks on its health care sector...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a dispute over a longstanding federal law that gives preference to Native American families and tribes over non-Native couples when deciding where to place Native children in custody proceedings. Although overshadowed by the court's more politically charged cases, legal experts say the dispute could prove hugely consequential for...

Tens of thousands more young voters in Pennsylvania are voting early this year compared to the 2018 midterm elections, according to an online tracker of early voting. TargetEarly, a dashboard for the Democratic political data and data services firm TargetSmart, found that more than 80,000 Pennsylvanians aged 18 to 29 have voted early so far...

The real problem is that our current approach to daylight saving time doesn’t give us time to adjust.

Time is running out for the House to pass legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent in the U.S., after the Senate shocked the nation earlier this year and unanimously approved the measure. The bill, titled the Sunshine Protection Act, skated under the radar for months following Senate passage, but it is back in the spotlight this weekend...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Saturday said President Biden's comments on the coal industry had been "twisted" after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) earlier in the day criticized the remarks. “The President’s remarks yesterday have been twisted to suggest a meaning that was not intended; he regrets it if anyone hearing these remarks took...

President Biden on Saturday said people holding signs calling him a socialist were idiots, while warning that Republicans want to cut health care benefits for Americans three days before Election Day. “Social security and Medicare are more than government programs, they’re a promise. They’re a promise. Work hard and contribute and when the time comes,...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) slammed President Biden for making “offensive and disgusting” comments about shutting down coal plants at any event in California on Friday. Biden gave remarks at the corporate headquarters of Viasat, a global communications company, to promote the CHIPS and Science Act, which he signed into law in August to provide $50...

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) on Thursday failed to confirm that he will accept the 2022 midterm election results, alleging that Democrats might attempt to cheat in this year's contest. During interactions with press on Thursday, a reporter asked the incumbent if he would concede if the vote count showed that he lost. Johnson responded: “I...

The pandemic appears to have awakened a new form of worker consciousness that social media is tapping into and helping to amplify.

Six in 10 Americans say they are worried that disinformation will influence people’s midterm voting decisions, according to a new poll.  A poll released on Thursday from the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit that invests in journalism and the arts, and Ipsos found that only a quarter of respondents said they are concerned that they themselves...

America’s competition with authoritarian powers has intensified; it can only prevail if aligned with allies.

Twitter chief Elon Musk defended his choice to cut half of the company’s workforce on Friday, saying that his newly acquired business is losing large sums of money fast. “Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day,” Musk wrote on Friday evening. Musk officially closed his...

Is it all luck of the draw, or can you really sway your odds of claiming the largest Powerball jackpot in history?

The president's attacks do not appear to be gaining much traction.

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel released an ad Friday backing Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) in her bid for reelection against former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R), slamming him as unfit to serve in the Senate. “If there’s one thing I think we can all still agree on, it’s that unbalanced people don’t belong...

The Biden administration’s new National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy highlight how competitors are undermining the U.S. military’s operational, logistical and information advantages. The leading technological risks the United States faces are the ongoing need to develop national cyber resiliency, such as employing zero-trust architecture and quantum systems; building secure technological supply chains that...

State legislatures, sleep scientists and the public all seem to agree that the annual rite of springing forward and falling back has got to go. But the nation has not found consensus on what should replace it. Nineteen states have passed laws or resolutions in the past five years to make daylight saving time permanent...

Voters head to the polls in a matter of days and only one thing is for certain: The battle for the Senate is anyone's ballgame as both sides look to sprint through the finish line with the majority at stake. The political winds are firmly at the backs of Republicans, but Democrats are continuing to...

Nike has suspended its relationship with NBA player Kyrie Irving after he promoted a film that includes antisemitic conspiracy theories last week and refused to say he does not have antisemitic beliefs. The multinational shoe company said in a statement on Friday that it decided to suspend its relationship with Irving and cancel plans to...

A New York City man on the run from authorities for almost a year is in custody after a spectacularly ill-timed trip to the "most magical place on Earth," authorities say.

Former President Trump must begin turning over documents related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection next week, according to a statement from the leaders of the House select committee investigating the attack. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement Friday that they have informed Trump’s counsel of...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) released a new campaign ad on Friday ahead of Election Day next week that depicts him as a “fighter” for God.  DeSantis’s wife, Casey, posted the ad on her Twitter account, saying to her husband, “On behalf of millions of people, never stop fighting for freedom.” The narrator’s lines in...