Новости за 01.12.2022

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Ala. for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. A critical moment in the fight for civil rights, Parks went down in history books as a revolutionary.  Now, 67 years after her arrest, members of the Congressional Black Caucus...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is blocking the Senate from voting on a bill aimed at providing close to $3 billion to victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, calling for victims of the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon to share in the compensation. The Republican senator opposed efforts by...

New York City announced plans to hire a new leader for what it dubbed its “rat pack” to keep the city’s ongoing rodent problem “in check and on notice.”  The city posted a job listing titled “Director of Rodent Mitigation” on Wednesday, saying that the desired candidate must have experience in urban planning, project management,...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Thursday announced it will be expanding eligibility for the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps to include people who have chronic hepatitis B and HIV, individuals with these conditions having been previously disqualified. "The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps, a uniformed service of...

The Senate voted on Thursday to reject a proposal to give railway workers seven days of sick leave, a benefit that was left out of a labor deal brokered by the presidential emergency board between freight rail companies and unionized workers. The proposal to give workers seven days of sick leave, which was championed...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday as lawmakers head into the home stretch of the current Congress. “Argh. ... I tested positive. I'm asymptomatic and feel totally fine. Downside: I will follow CDC rules and isolate. Upside: maybe now I can finally finish shingling the backyard shed,” Murphy wrote on Twitter. The senator...

Global spending on protecting nature must double by 2025 in order to meet the challenges of climate change, land degradation and the loss of biodiversity, a new United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report has found. Public investment into projects that destroy nature and biodiversity are currently 3 to 7 times higher than spending on projects that...

Journalist Chris Cillizza and a number of staffers at HLN are among the employees affected by sweeping layoffs and job cuts being implemented by CNN this week, according to multiple reports. Cillizza, a former Washington Post reporter who wrote a blog on politics for CNN.com and appeared frequently on the channel's various shows to give...

Today marks the 34th observance of World AIDS Day. Approximately 650,000 people died of AIDS last year. That’s an AIDS death every minute, even though effective HIV treatment exists. While we remember those we’ve lost, we cannot and must not forget the policy decisions that led to our deep mourning. More than four decades into...

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review the Biden administration's effort to reinstate its student debt relief plan, but the justices declined to immediately revive the program. In a brief unsigned order, the court indicated it would hear arguments in the case in February. The move comes after the administration urged the Supreme Court...

Nearly three dozen survivors of the May massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, filed a class action suit against various law enforcement agencies on Tuesday, seeking $27 billion in damages. The lawsuit scorches law enforcement’s response to the tragedy, arguing that agencies “fundamentally strayed” from protocols as 19 children and two teachers were...

President Biden on Thursday said he supports increasing paid leave accommodations for rail workers, but that it should be addressed separately from a congressional bill to avoid a work stoppage that he warned could cause a recession. “I think we’re going to get it done, but not within this agreement,” Biden said when asked if...

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, went on an antisemitic rant during a Thursday appearance on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars program, including praise for Nazis and Adolf Hitler. "You're not Hitler, you're not a Nazi, you don't deserve to be called that and demonized," Jones told Ye, who was appearing on his...

A coalition of civil rights groups led by the ACLU on Thursday called on the outgoing Democratic House majority to pass a resolution recognizing equal constitutional rights for residents of all U.S. territories. The resolution, introduced in 2021, would repudiate the so-called "Insular Cases," a series of Supreme Court decisions that decreed limits to the...

Public trust in the U.S. military remains below 50 percent, according to a new survey released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. About 48 percent of Americans say they have a great deal of trust in the military, slightly up from 45 percent last year. Confidence in the U.S. military has plummeted in...

A group of eight high-profile Democrats are backing Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) for a battleground leadership position responsible for helping win the toughest House races in the country. A letter sent to the House Democratic Caucus obtained by Politico states that Spanberger was first elected in 2018 to represent a district that had not sent...

Mortgage rates fell for the third straight week after the chairman of the Federal Reserve indicated on Wednesday that the U.S. central bank could slow interest rate hikes. Mortgage rates have soared in recent months as the Federal Reserve has consistently raised interest rates to slow inflation. The 30-year rate recently peaked above 7 percent,...

India plans to shake up global climate goals in its new position as head of the Group of 20 (G20) on Thursday. In particular, the world’s second-most populous nation (soon to be the first) intends to use its new position to secure green investment and shift global governance to the benefit of the "Global South,"...

Story at a glance Naples, Fla. is the top city for snow-birds in the United States, according to a new ranking from FinanceBuzz. Overall, nine of the top 10 cities for these travelers are located in the state. Other cities in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas made the top 25 slots. Many snow-birds flock to southern...

The father of JonBenét Ramsey has sent a letter to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis with a plea to let a private company test the DNA evidence.

Trading in gasoline-powered lawn equipment for electric and battery-operated models could help curb the ozone pollution plaguing Colorado’s Front Range, a new report has found. Making such a switch could achieve nearly one-fifth of the reduction needed to address the region’s unhealthy levels of this atmospheric contaminant, according to the report, released on Thursday by the...

The rural-urban divide, is cultural as well as political.

The Congressional Black Caucus announced its new leadership for the 118th Congress on Thursday.  Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) is the new chairman; Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) is first vice chair; Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.) is second vice chair; Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) is secretary; and Rep. Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.) is the caucus’s new whip. “Over...

Gisele Fetterman, the wife of Senator-elect John Fetterman (D-Pa.), said that their children were “appalled” with Republican challenger Dr. Mehmet Oz’s campaign mocking her husband’s recent stroke. In an interview with NBC’s “Today” published Thursday, Fetterman said that her children were aware of the tactics Oz’s campaign accused to attack their father’s health condition, adding...

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to 11 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of a minor and other charges. Joel Greenberg, a former tax collector in Florida's Seminole County, had faced more than 20 years in prison. But prosecutors requested a lighter...