Новости за 21.12.2022

Story at a glance The Bay Area is the worst place for package theft, according to a new report. A SafeWise report released Wednesday ranks cities across the country based on the frequency that residents reported parcels and packages stolen from their front porches or stoops. The home security analysis website said in a...

Climate change may represent a crisis, but that isn’t how college biology textbooks depict it, according to a new study. The amount of textbook real estate devoted to climate change has continually expanded since the 1990s, according to the paper from researchers at North Carolina State University, published Wednesday in PLOS. But since then, the material has...

I came to Congress to create economic opportunities for all working families. In total, I have spent over four decades lifting up and advocating for the rights of working people. As our country experienced the greatest economic crisis in a century, I fought for investments to create a stronger and more inclusive economy than the one...

Protecting millions of airline travelers is neither easy nor cheap.

Faculty at Purdue University Northwest are asking that Chancellor Thomas Keon resign because of remarks he made at a commencement speech that mocked Asian languages. Keon in the commencement address earlier this month did an impersonation of an Asian language after the speaker before him told the audience they liked to use made up languages...

A South Dakota ethics board dismissed a complaint against Gov. Kristi Noem (R) on Tuesday over her use of a state airplane to attend political events, according to The Associated Press. The Government Accountability Board, a panel of retired judges that investigates allegations of misconduct against state officials, unanimously voted to dismiss the ethics complaint...

Unlike museums, halls of infamy can provide important context for history lessons.

Nursing homes in California located in higher-risk wildfire exposure zones tend to be less prepared for emergencies than facilities without such risk, a new study has found. Despite being located in fire-prone regions, these nursing homes demonstrate poorer compliance with Medicare’s emergency readiness standards, according to the study, published on Wednesday in the Journal of the...

Prominent Pennsylvania political figures are sharing their condolences for Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris, who died on Wednesday at the age of 72.  “Deeply saddened by the loss of Franco Harris,” outgoing Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) wrote in a tweet on Wednesday. “Franco was a @steelers legend, on and off the field,” Wolf...

The main tax committee in the House voted Tuesday night to release six years of tax returns belonging to former President Trump as part of an investigation into the presidential audit program at the IRS. The vote was 24-16 and fell along party lines, with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans voting against. The returns include...

Despite improvements in the quality and delivery of health care in America, few in Washington comprehend the barriers to care rural Americans still suffer. Across the board, rural Americans face distinct health challenges compared to folks living in urban areas and are often sicker, spend more money on health care costs, and have access to...

The San Francisco home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), where her husband Paul Pelosi was violently assaulted by an intruder in late October, had not received a security assessment by Capitol Police since 2018, Chief Thomas Manger said on Tuesday. The Pelosis’ California residence has since received an updated assessment and will continue to...

The Biden administration on Wednesday said it is making additional doses of the prescription flu medicine Tamiflu available from the Strategic National Stockpile so states can respond to the sharp, early rise in influenza cases this year. Flu season has hit especially hard this year, though it may be peaking in some parts of the...

In the 2022 midterm elections, voters reported that inflation was the most important issue to them, but no politician can expect to make headway against inflation without addressing the cost of one basic human need: housing. Because rising housing costs are the biggest driver of inflation and one-third of Americans rent their home, we cannot...

The House Jan. 6 committee recommended prosecution on four criminal charges.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) this week announced a lawsuit against paper manufacturer Domtar, alleging the company’s defunct Port Huron operation contaminated the community with “forever chemicals.” In the complaint, Nessel’s office alleged Domtar disposed of waste from production that it knew to be contaminated by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), falsely representing the...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said simultaneous surges of COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have created an “extremely challenging” health situation for the city. The city indicated flu cases are already higher than they were during the peak each of the past four years, also noting increases over the past month...

Formula One (F1) drivers will now have to seek permission from their sports’ governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA), to make “political statements” in the 2023 season, according to an update to the body's code.  The new clause in the International Sporting Code issued by FIA on Wednesday forbids “the general making and display...

Retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in an interview that too many politicians in Washington “don’t care” about the country, only about their “political ambitions.” In an interview with The Associated Press published Wednesday, Leahy said when he first joined the Senate in 1975, senators found ways to get things done regardless of differing views. ...

Almost three years ago, the United States Marine Corps adopted a new, unproven concept to guide future combat developments. The overarching vision for the approach was codified in Force Design 2030. The path chosen focused almost entirely on a single threat — China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). The strategy embraced was defensive, essentially arguing...

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who’s up for reelection in 2024, said in an interview published on Wednesday that “I’m convinced that if I run, I win.” In the interview with Politico, Romney didn’t say whether he would seek a second term as senator but projected confidence that he would win if decided to do so....

Thousands of residents in Northern California remained without power on Wednesday morning, one day after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit the area. Pacific Gas and Electric indicated in a Tuesday night update that the company has restored power to about 40,000 customers who originally experienced outages, more than half of impacted residents. The company’s outage map...

A few months ago, we celebrated the signing of the CHIPS and Science Act. This landmark bipartisan legislation will supercharge U.S. semiconductor production and boost the next generation of technological research to maintain our competitive edge over authoritarian adversaries such as China. But our country’s work was not finished on that August morning. To fulfill...

To say that times were not normal at the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency is an understatement worthy of some award.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers aging to be a natural process. This makes it difficult to get FDA approval for drugs that seek to slow or reverse the biological process of aging. Instead, drugs intended to target aging must target a disease that often results from the aging process in order to demonstrate...