Новости за 24.12.2022

At least 17 people have died and more than one million reports of power outages have been made as Winter Storm Elliott barrels down across the country. Officials have attributed at least 17 deaths to the storm, due to situations including a massive car pile-up in Ohio and emergency responders not being able to properly respond...

The Jan. 6 committee’s final report and its massive trove of accompanying witness transcripts are likely to dominate a relatively quiet Christmas morning on the Sunday talk shows. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol released its final report on Thursday, just three days after unveiling several criminal referrals against former...

Former President Trump railed against the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Friday following the release of the committee’s final report on the attack. Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social that the American people have been “deceived with lies” about the attack from the committee. The committee released...

President Biden is expected to announce another bid for the presidency sometime in the early months of the new year. Officially, Biden is still considering whether to run for a second term, and the president’s age and approval ratings — he is 80 and more people in polls generally hold a negative than positive view...

Immigration should be a priority for Congress. Yet, this year, migration management has defaulted to the hands of the courts as Congress stalls to legislate. All the while, the communities at the heart of these turbulent fluctuations in U.S. immigration policy (or lack thereof) face oppression and inhumanity daily. In October, the 5th U.S. Circuit...

With a little planning, a budget and smart shopping, you too can have a happy holiday and not regret it come 2023.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, urged the public not to forget the role that Republican members of Congress played in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Schiff said in an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times that...

An Arizona judge on Saturday ruled against Kari Lake in her challenge of Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs’s (D) victory, dismissing the highest-profile case challenging the midterm election results. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson following a two-day trial found that Lake had not proven that election officials committed intentional misconduct sufficient to change the race’s...

Every country except the United States and the Holy See agreed to 23 biodiversity commitments.

At a certain point, all decisions and election chances in politics come down to basic math. No matter how some consultants, pollsters or campaign managers may attempt to complicate the process to justify their fees or salaries paid by a candidate or company, it still comes down to this: Does the math finish on the...

A pileup of at least 46 vehicles on a highway in Ohio has left four people dead and many more injured, officials said, amid a massive winter storm that has pummeled the region with blizzard conditions and dangerously cold temperatures. The Ohio State Highway Patrol tweeted on Friday afternoon that it was on the scene...

The Mega Millions jackpot is entering record territory once again after yet another drawing with no grand-prize winners.

Today’s typical middle-age and older workers will, we estimate, leave over $182,000, present valued, on the table by not collecting the right benefits at the right time.

Thousands more flights have been delayed or canceled on Saturday amid a massive winter storm that has brought blizzard-like conditions, high winds and sub-freezing temperatures to much of the country.  More than 1,700 U.S. flights have been canceled and more than 3,000 have been delayed as of Saturday morning amid the storm, according to the...

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has mobilized the National Guard to Erie County as a massive winter storm batters the Buffalo region. "New Yorkers are experiencing a life threatening and dangerous winter storm, with freezing temperatures and coastal flooding statewide, and snow and ice particularly in Western and Northern New York," Hochul said in a Friday statement....

Even unusual temperatures are sometimes just the ordinary wild and annoying thing we call weather.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, mocked conspiracy theories about who was responsible for the attack on the Capitol. “This is not an Agatha Christie novel, we know exactly whodunnit,” he told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle in an interview on Friday. Raskin referred to unfounded...

The IRS announced on Friday that it will delay the rollout of a new rule that was set to lower the tax reporting threshold for transactions businesses make through third-party payment platforms like Venmo and Cash App.  The IRS said in a release that it chose to delay the lowering of the threshold to $600...

Graduate student workers at the University of California (UC) have approved contracts that will increase pay and benefits and ended a strike that has been ongoing since last month.  UC said in a release on Friday that graduate student researchers and academic student workers voted to approve the new contracts this week, concluding a six-week...

And there, down a hall, sat an anguished McConnell. His majority lost on endorsements by Donald.

The government’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic was controversial and unprecedented, and it deserves thorough scrutiny. Welcome, then, is a new report published by a congressional committee that examined the U.S. response. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), who chairs the committee, claims the report’s recommendations would “ensure our nation can prevent the next crisis … from...

When Doug Emhoff made history as the first second gentleman, he knew another title — first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president — was just as significant. Emhoff has been at the epicenter of the White House response to the recent rise in antisemitism around the country. During a Hanukkah party at the vice...

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Republicans are struggling to navigate an increasingly complicated relationship with former President Trump, who has emerged from the midterms in arguably the weakest position he has been in but who remains deeply influential among the GOP’s conservative base. After a midterm election that many Republicans saw as a rejection of Trump and his slate of...