Новости за 15.11.2022

A group of nine House Democrats on Monday asked President Biden to reopen the immigration cases of migrants who were deported for marijuana-related offenses. The lawmakers lauded the White House announcement last month that Biden will pardon federal marijuana possession convictions, a move that will affect thousands and has been celebrated as a step toward...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called for Ticketmaster and Live Nation to be broken up on Tuesday as Taylor Swift fans faced highly publicized technical difficulties in obtaining tickets to the singer’s latest tour. "Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned...

House Republicans elected Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the chief of their campaign team,to be House majority whip in a closed-door conference vote on Tuesday, ending a closely-fought race with Reps. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.). The conference separately voted to elect Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) as majority leader by voice vote. Scalise had...

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.) announced during a closed-door Senate Republican Conference meeting Tuesday afternoon that he will challenge Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for his job as top Senate GOP leader. Scott’s spokesman, McKinley Lewis, confirmed the leadership challenge, which caught many Senate Republicans by surprise. Scott had...

Story at a glance Heart disease is the leading cause of death around the world. Regular exercise has been proven to improve heart health. Whether the timing of exercise influences stroke or heart disease risk was previously unknown. Exercising in the morning is associated with the lowest risk of heart disease and stroke, according to...

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A Georgia judge on Tuesday found the state's six-week abortion ban to be "plainly unconstitutional" and has barred it from being enforced. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney granted a motion filed by plaintiffs in a civil suit against Georgia to block the ban, which has been in place since July. The Living Infants...

Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) on Monday night announced he’ll challenge House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) to become the Republican conference’s nominee for Speaker of the House. “We have a new paradigm here, and I think the country wants a different direction from the House of Representatives. And it’s a new world, and, yes, I’m...

University of Virginia (UVA) head football coach Tony Elliott said the three football players on his team who were killed in an on-campus shooting on Sunday were "incredible young men" with "extremely bright futures.” “I cannot find the words to express the devastation and heartache that our team is feeling today after the tragic...

Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) says he has some “Bad Blood” with Ticketmaster, saying he tried and failed to get Taylor Swift concert tickets as part of an oversight mission. The New Jersey Democrat shared that he was one of oodles of Swifties scrambling to try to snag seats at stops on Swift’s “The Eras Tour” as tickets...

House Republicans nominated Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) to be Speaker in a closed-door conference meeting on Tuesday after he faced a last-minute protest challenge from Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), a former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. McCarthy won easily, 188 to 31, in the internal conference meeting. But in the eyes of Biggs and...

Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar (Texas) on Tuesday revealed more details about the GOP effort to have him jump parties, saying a handful of Republicans — including a sitting member of Congress — were part of the pressure campaign to have him join the GOP following his easy victory in last week's midterm elections. They did...

A trio of high-profile figures from across the political spectrum are coming together to address what they’re calling a “crisis in the classroom.” Political commentator Armstrong Williams, former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson and famed civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump have joined forces to write “Crisis in the Classroom.” Carson said the...

Conservative groups pressed Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) staff at a meeting Tuesday morning to delay the Senate GOP leadership elections that are scheduled for later this week, signaling they are not letting up pressure after last week’s election results disappointed many in the party.   The effort to delay Wednesday’s leadership election also...

President Biden is under pressure to extend the pandemic-era student loan payment pause into next year while the administration faces legal challenges to its forgiveness plan, which is currently no longer accepting applications. Over 50,000 borrowers have signed a petition, organized by the advocacy organization Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC), to urge Biden to extend...

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos urged Americans to wait on making big-ticket purchases ahead of the holiday shopping season amid growing concerns of a possible economic recession.  During a sit-down interview with CNN, Bezos told CNN Entertainment reporter Chloe Melas that he advises consumers to slow down on huge purchases such as new vehicles, televisions and...

Prosecutors will seek a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the 16-year-old boy who pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism charges after he killed four students at a high school in Michigan. Ethan Crumbley pleaded guilty last month to 24 charges for killing four and injuring seven at Oxford High School last November after...

Former President Trump appears to be at “substantial risk” of criminal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. The think tank suggested that based on the publicly available evidence, Trump and his allies could face several election-related and other criminal charges in Fulton County’s...

The father of the University of Virginia (UVA) shooting suspect said his son was “real paranoid” during the last time he visited about a month ago. Christopher Darnell Jones Sr., the father of the suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., said his son visited home to do laundry, and they discussed the son’s experience at school,...

Actor Kevin Costner said he was "OK" with losing fans over his political views, saying he "didn't really care how the cookie crumbles" when he backed Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) earlier this year. In a new interview with USA Today upon the season five premiere of his hit Paramount show "Yellowstone," Costner said he has...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the impact of money from billionaires on the midterms was "disgusting," and is not getting enough attention.  In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine published Tuesday, Sanders noted how Summer Lee, a Progressive Democrat he campaigned for, faced massive spending from a super PAC affiliated with American Israel Public Affairs...

A new report from the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) is warning of an "immediate crisis" because police officers are being trained too quickly and improperly, calling for an overhaul of how recruits are trained across the country. PERF, an independent research organization that focuses on policing, released the report to more broadly identify how...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on “non-MAGA Republicans” to work with Democrats to pass legislation in the next two years as each party is likely to control one house of Congress. Schumer told The New York Times in an interview on Monday that he plans to reach out to Senate Minority Leader Mitch...