Новости за 13.12.2022

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed state and local election officials in Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico and Pennsylvania as part of the Justice Department’s wide-ranging investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The newly appointed special counsel, who was brought in last month to oversee several Department of Justice (DOJ) cases related to...

The first House hearing on the collapse of FTX didn’t have the company’s disgraced founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested on the eve of his highly anticipated testimony. But lawmakers still drew crucial revelations about the company’s demise from John J. Ray III, a veteran of corporate bankruptcies tapped to clean up...

Progressive organization RootsAction launched its first television ad in New Hampshire as part of its "Don't Run Joe" campaign urging President Biden not to seek reelection. The 60-second ad is airing statewide on local evening new channels and on Jimmy Kimmel Live through the local ABC affiliate. In the spot, several New Hampshire Democratic voters...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is granting Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) another stab at getting his effort to speed up approvals for the country’s energy projects into a defense spending bill. Schumer earlier this year promised Manchin that he’d support his energy approval efforts, known as permitting reform, in exchange for Manchin’s vote on...

Reflecting on lessons from the Republic of Ireland, there’s room to be cautiously optimistic about the question of future political violence in the United States.

House Democrats on Tuesday rejected a change to the party’s internal rules designed to facilitate more turnover among committee heads. The closed-door vote was not close — the ratio was roughly two-to-one against the measure — indicating that despite some grumbling about the long tenure of many committee heads, there remains little appetite within the caucus to...

The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its final event on Monday, during which it will release publicly its list of criminal referrals and vote to publish its final report two days later. Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters Tuesday that the committee has escalated its timeline for...

Retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy has made appearances in five different Batman movies, and he says one of them was opposite one of the worst depictions of the Dark Knight. “George would be the first one to say,” the Vermont Democrat said of 1997’s “Batman and Robin” star Clooney, “he was not the best Batman.” “His...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday blamed the power former President Trump exerted in GOP primaries for the “candidate quality” issues his party struggled with in key races. Speaking to reporters a week after Republicans lost the Senate runoff in Georgia, which expanded the Senate Democratic majority to 51 seats, McConnell said his...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday that negotiators are “very close” to a deal on a year-end omnibus spending package and set a deadline of Dec. 22 for getting it done. “I think we’re very close to getting an omnibus appropriations bill,” McConnell told reporters after the Tuesday Republican conference lunch. McConnell said...

The House is racing to pass a one-week government funding bill to buy time for negotiations into a broader budget package as a shutdown deadline looms on Friday. House negotiators on Tuesday afternoon released text of the continuing resolution (CR), which will allow the government to remain funded through Dec. 23. The House Rules Committee is...

A pair of Democrats are pressing Pfizer about the company's plans to raise the price of its COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), a senator-elect, slammed the move as "pure and deadly greed" and expressed concern it could result in other vaccine...

President Biden on Tuesday will host a ceremony at the White House to sign the Respect for Marriage Act, a bipartisan bill that will codify same-sex and interracial marriages. The legislation passed both chambers of Congress, with 12 Republican senators and 39 Republican House members siding with the Democrats to support the bill.  The bill...

The way the FDA has been approving these drugs needs to change to get better evidence for patients.

Linda De La Rosa says her time at Federal Medical Center, a minimum security prison in Lexington, Ky., was a “living hell.” In 2019, De La Rosa was one of three women to be sexually abused by a federal correctional officer at the facility. It took three years to arrest, prosecute and convict her attacker,...

Former Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen (Ill.) is often credited with (originally) saying, “A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” Dirksen privately confided to a friend that he never said that, but wished he had. He came close, though, when he said at a March 8, 1962, press conference, that...

Pharmaceutical giants CVS and Walgreens will collectively pay more than $10 billion to several states in the latest settlement to help relieve communities burdened by the ongoing opioid crisis. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), who led a multistate coalition in negotiating a settlement with the pharmaceutical companies, announced on Monday that CVS will...

The head of one of the largest teachers labor unions in the country is declining an invitation from Republicans to testify before a House subcommittee's last hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic.  Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, told Politico that she is declining the invitation to testify at the hearing on...

U.S. officials on Tuesday promoted their work with African governments and industry to create space-based “early warning systems” to address the impacts of climate change. The collaboration, touted as President Biden welcomes various African heads of state to Washington, D.C., this week for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, builds on $33 million in broader funding to help forecast...

Adam Sandler is poised to receive one of the country’s top comedy awards in front of a Washington crowd. The 56-year-old “Billy Madison” star is the 24th winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced on Tuesday. The award from the D.C. performing arts institution “recognizes individuals who have had an...

President Biden on Tuesday said he thinks prices will return to normal at the end of 2023 while touting the November slowdown in inflation as welcome news ahead of the holidays. “I hope by the end of next year, we’re much closer,” he said on when to expect prices to go back to normal. “But...

Story at a glance The percentage of patients diagnosed with heat stress, heat exhaustion or heatstroke was consistently higher in 2021 compared to 2016, according to a new report published by FAIR Health. This finding may be especially important in the context of rising average temperatures and increased extreme heat events due to climate change. ...

Mike Leach, the head football coach at Mississippi State University, has died at the age of 61. In a statement through the school on Tuesday, Leach’s family said the longtime college football coach died Monday night due to complications from a heart condition, noting that Leach participated in an organ donation as a “final act...

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) are set to introduce legislation on Tuesday to require federal agencies to address supply-chain issues as the country fights the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic.  The legislation, which is entitled the National Development Strategy and Coordination Act of 2022, would require Cabinet-level agencies to identify...

Fear of a rare side effect overcomes reasoned reassurance every time.