Новости за 19.12.2022

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged House leadership to bring up a chamber vote on proposed legislation that would require athletes representing the U.S. to receive equal compensation and benefits regardless of gender. In a letter sent Monday to the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House...

The White House on Monday stressed that the southern border is not open, despite the end of the Title 42 immigration policy expected in coming days. The Trump-era border management policy is expected to be repealed on Wednesday following a ruling from a federal judge. The policy had allowed officials to block migrants from seeking...

House Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said Monday he expects the Justice Department will ultimately charge former President Trump after the panel approved multiple criminal referrals for Trump. “If the evidence is as we presented it, I'm convinced the Justice Department will charge former President Trump. No one, including a former president, is...

Former White House aide Hope Hicks said former President Trump shrugged off concerns from advisers and officials in his orbit that his claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential election could damage his legacy. “I was becoming increasingly concerned that we were damaging — we were damaging his legacy,” Hicks said of the election fraud...

Former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) will be appointed the U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs, the State Department announced Monday. The role will involve focusing on advancing economic development and investment opportunities in Northern Ireland. It will also focus on “strengthening people-to-people ties between the United States and Northern Ireland,” according...

The House select committee exploring the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Monday released the executive summary of its findings. The panel during its last public hearing unveiled criminal referrals against former President Trump and launched ethics complaints against House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other top Trump allies for their...

ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from OpenAI, has caused much amazement and apprehension. An exemplar of generative AI, ChatGPT combines powerful text generation capabilities and state-of-art conversational AI, to startling effect. This is made possible by advances in AI such as language processing, transformer neural networks, and reinforcement learning. ChatGPT has been trained...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol escalated its clash with Republican lawmakers on Monday, recommending a formal ethics inquiry into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) and other top allies of former President Trump for their refusal to cooperate with the probe. The recommendations to the House Ethics...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol unveiled criminal referrals on Monday targeting former President Trump, recommending that the Department of Justice investigate the ex-president for inciting an insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and obstruction of an official proceeding. The...

Story at a glance Expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is linked with better survival outcomes for young Americans newly diagnosed with cancer, research shows.  The two-year survival benefit was most pronounced among individuals who identify as Hispanic or Black and those with breast cancer or stage IV cancers. Writing in the...

Raw meat on rye, a polarizing holiday delicacy in Wisconsin and the Midwest is sometimes referred to as "Tiger Meat" or "Cannibal Sandwiches."

According to TSA, about 6,600 firearms will be detected at airport security checkpoints in 2022.

A proposed Department of Energy rule would phase out the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs as part of the Biden administration’s efforts to remove less energy-efficient bulbs from the market. Current standards require light bulbs to be at least 45 lumens, the unit used to measure brightness, per watt. Under the proposed update, first...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has sent a letter to the chairman of Tesla’s board raising concerns that CEO Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is hurting shareholders and creating serious conflicts of interest that may violate the law.   Warren’s letter comes after Tesla stock lost almost a third of its value after Musk completed his...

Epic Games, the developer behind the hit video game "Fortnite," will pay $520 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to resolve allegations the company violated child privacy protection laws and duped consumers into paying for products they didn't ask for. In a Monday release, the FTC said Epic Games will pay a $275 million...

Should religious values justify deviations from profit-making goals while secular values should not?

Story at a glance Cost concerns prevent over 20 percent of Americans between the ages 50 and 80 from seeking emergency medical care even when they think they may need it, according to a new study.  Of the more than 2,000 older Americans surveyed, most reported concerns about the costs of emergency department visits. Individuals...

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Monday urged the Justice Department against indicting former President Trump ahead of a House panel's expected announcement to refer Trump on criminal charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol. "I hope the Justice Department understands the magnitude, the very idea of indicting a former president...

Former national security adviser John Bolton called the political philosophy of former President Trump "performance art" as Bolton mulls a potential 2024 presidential bid. Bolton, who served in the Trump administration from 2018 to 2019, told NBC's Ali Velshi on Saturday that the "fundamental point in politics is philosophy." "Everything else flows from that. Donald...

Last week was historic for the people of Puerto Rico.  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill—H.R. 8393, the Puerto Rico Status Act—that could move Puerto Rico away from its current status as a U.S. territory toward a new political future. The current era for the island could finally see its long overdue end,...

A top adviser to President Biden says the White House believes it is heading into the new year with the wind at its back thanks to several legislative successes and a strong midterm elections showing for Democrats. “As we come to the end of the Biden-Harris Administration’s second year in office, we see the President’s...

Harry and Meghan are savvy communicators successfully controlling the narrative.

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are debuting a new Netflix documentary series focused on leaders — including late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, climate activist Greta Thunberg and feminist activist Gloria Steinem — who “fight for change.” Netflix announced the series, “Live to Lead,” in a trailer released Monday....

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is holding its final public meeting on Monday.  The panel has heard from more than 1,000 witnesses, gone over millions of pages of documents and held nine public hearings as part of its year-plus investigation into what happened when supporters of former President Trump...

Story at a glance The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed many Americans’ lives, but new research shows mothers were especially susceptible to symptoms of traumatic stress following the crisis’ transformation of daily routines. Higher pandemic-associated hardships, coping mechanisms, and behavior changes were linked with greater significant symptoms of pandemic-associated traumatic stress in mothers from a diverse...