Новости за 05.12.2022

Nearly a decade after releasing the business-friendly instant messaging platform Slack, founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield is leaving the company. A spokesperson for Salesforce, which purchased the platform in 2021, confirmed Butterfield is departing and will be replaced by Lidiane Jones. “Stewart is an incredible leader who created an amazing, beloved company in Slack,” the...

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Monday that he “couldn’t disagree more” with former President Trump’s call to terminate parts of the Constitution in order to be reinstated president and said such comments present “a golden opportunity” for Trump’s rivals in 2024. Thune, who was just reelected to a fourth Senate term, noted...

The Georgia Senate runoff election between incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and GOP hopeful Herschel Walker is laying bare the challenges Republicans continue to face in courting Black voters. Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) felt a candidate like Walker would inspire more Black Americans to vote Republican. Former President Trump called the former football...

The White House on Monday called on Republican lawmakers in Congress to reject former President Trump’s rhetoric saying parts of the Constitution should be disregarded to allow him to return to power. “Every President and every member of Congress swears to ‘defend’ the Constitution of the United States,” deputy White House press secretary Andrew Bates...

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said that Elon Musk still has not replied to his request for transparency into Twitter’s verification process, after the senator allowed a Washington Post reporter to impersonate him using Twitter Blue. Markey sent Musk a letter on Nov. 11 asking the new Twitter owner to explain how the company would combat...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has hired a former senior Justice Department official to work on the office’s “most sensitive and high-profile white-collar investigations,” which comes as the office probes former President Trump. Bragg announced on Monday that Matthew Colangelo, who acted as the Justice Department’s No. 3 official last year and previously investigated the...

Story at a glance New research released by international investment bank Cowen Inc. shows that younger consumers are cutting back on drinking. The study shows that 60 percent of cannabis users have cut back on drinking. That decline mostly comes from younger cannabis users. A recently released according study from international investment bank Cowen Inc. found...

One-party systems do have some advantages over democracies, but crackdowns come with a cost.

ABC News has taken a pair of daytime news personalities off the air after reports of a romantic relationship between the two anchors surfaced. Colleagues Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes, who are both anchors of ABC's "GMA 3" afternoon show have been taken off the air by network President Kim Godwin while the outlet decides...

Unless you live in one of four states, the flu situation looks to be growing dire near you.

When Congress wrapped up its work on the so-called Inflation Reduction Act this summer, it left more than a few questions about the new law for others to answer. One such question, which Congress referred to the Treasury Department, is whether redemptions of preferred stock are subject to the law’s new 1 percent excise tax on corporate stock buybacks. Treasury’s answer to this question will...

Former President Trump on Monday insisted he does not want to “terminate” the Constitution, responding to broad backlash after he said over the weekend its rules and laws should be disregarded so he can return to the White House. Trump, in a pair of posts on Truth Social, responded to the fallout from his comments...

Retired Army general Don Bolduc is running to be vice chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party after losing his bid for U.S. Senate.  “I was humbled by the outpouring of support during my Senate run and the encouragement of the grassroots to stay involved in the political process,” Bolduc said in a statement announcing...

In 2020, almost 3.4 million Americans died from heart disease, cancer and COVID-19. Where do firearm deaths fall in the mix?

Record home prices and rising rents are hurting the ability of Americans nationwide to secure housing, and they are hitting one vulnerable group especially hard. LGBTQ Americans in nearly half of the U.S. can already be evicted, denied home loans and turned away from rentals due to their sexual orientation or gender identity — including in states like Idaho, Montana and Arizona, where...

Conservative members of the Supreme Court on Monday signaled support for a Colorado web designer who claims the First Amendment shields her from having to provide services for same-sex weddings in violation of her conscience. For more than two hours of argument, the court explored whether Colorado's anti-discrimination law would violate the free speech rights...

Story at a glance Data from a Bankrate survey released Monday shows that 31 percent of Gen Z workers have not saved anything for retirement over the past two years. Survey crafters fear that decision could cost some younger workers hundreds of thousands of dollars in retirement savings. The survey also found that...

The White House opposes using the annual defense spending bill to repeal a vaccine mandate for military service members, national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Monday. President Biden is in agreement with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin that the mandate should remain in place, Kirby said. Republican lawmakers have threatened to delay passage of...

If Congress fails to enact the PASTEUR Act, routine medical care, preparedness for future public health emergencies, and people's lives are at significant risk.

Tampa Police Chief Mary O'Connor has resigned after an internal affairs investigation into a traffic stop, according to a release from the city.

Former President Trump trails Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) in a new Utah poll of possible GOP contenders for the 2024 presidential race. A Deseret News-Hinckley Institute of Politics poll of Utah voters found DeSantis with a decisive lead in a hypothetical Republican presidential primary, at 24.2 percent, followed...

Story at a glance Millennial and Gen Z workers are known to switch jobs, and many took advantage of the heightened labor demand earlier this year. However, similar rates of young workers tend to stay in the same job for around the same amount of time today as they did in the 1980s and 1990s....

Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have submitted an application asking the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization of their omicron-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine as the third shot in a three-dose series for children ages 6 months through 4 years, the companies announced Monday. If authorized, the children would still receive two doses...

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday pushed back on former President Trump’s assertion that the Constitution should be disregarded to allow for him to return to the White House in the wake of new revelations about Twitter’s handling of a controversial story about Hunter Biden. “I must tell you that I think that everyone...

Wondering 'How much will my tax refund be this year?' — the IRS says to possibly expect less than last year.