Новости за 27.12.2022

The chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee said on Tuesday that he is “deeply disappointed” in the recent revelations about Rep.-elect George Santos’s (R-N.Y.) background. “Congressman-Elect George Santos has broken the public trust by making serious misstatements regarding his background, experience and education, among other issues,” Nassau County GOP Chairman Joseph Cairo said in...

The funding increase is only a modest 6 percent of the EPA budget —less than the current inflation rate.

With the end of 2022 in sight, it is time to look forward to 2023, when the members of the 118th Congress will be making their New Year’s resolutions. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has five ideas for them. Stop spending the trillions of dollars that have caused the worst inflation in 40 years and increased...

An Arizona judge on Tuesday rejected a request to sanction Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake (R) over her lawsuit challenging her defeat. Maricopa County and Katie Hobbs (D), in her capacities as both governor-elect and secretary of state, had asked the judge to require Lake and her legal team to pay all parties' attorneys' fees,...

2022 also demonstrated that abortion rights are popular, and political progress is possible.

More than 6,000 children were hurt or killed by gunfire in the U.S. in 2022, according to the nonprofit data collection and research group Gun Violence Archive (GVA). The data showed 6,032 children 17 years and younger were injured or killed due to gun violence this year, the highest number recorded in a single year...

Southwest Airlines stock price plunged more than 4 percent after the airline company canceled thousands of flights on Monday and Tuesday. The public company's stock price had fallen about 4.75 percent to $34.27 per share as of Tuesday afternoon. Several airlines canceled and delayed flights on Monday and Tuesday as a winter storm continues to...

Pac-12 Conference football referee Michael Mothershed missed working the last game of his career after his flight was canceled due to inclement weather over the holiday weekend.   Mothershed was scheduled to referee his last game, the Quick Lane Bowl in Detroit, Mich., before beginning retirement on Monday, according to OutKick.   But the nearly...

President Biden on Tuesday said his administration will hold airlines accountable after mass flight cancellations snarled travel after Christmas Day. “Thousands of flights nationwide have been canceled around the holidays. Our Administration is working to ensure airlines are held accountable,” Biden tweeted, urging customers who were affected to visit the Department of Transportation’s website to...

Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chief Jonathan Greenblatt on Tuesday called out actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg for what he called “offensive” remarks on the Holocaust. “Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust and race are deeply offensive and incredibly disappointing, especially given that this is not the first time she had made remarks like this,” Greenblatt said...

The right-wing extremist who federal authorities say led the failed plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced to 16 years in prison — dodging what could have been a life sentence that federal authorities had sought in the rare domestic terrorism case. Adam Fox,...

Local officials are extending a driving ban in Buffalo as more snow falls in hard-hit western New York, where more than two dozen people have died in the winter storm. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said Tuesday that Buffalo's driving ban will remain in effect while a driving advisory is active for the rest of...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) staff gifted her a flamethrower for Christmas. Real Clear Politics White House reporter Philip Wegmann tweeted a video and photos of Noem using the flamethrower on a pile of cardboard boxes. Ian Fury, Noem’s communications director, said the staff added a plate to the device bearing the state’s motto,...

The drug trade continues to evolve, and the U.S. must continue to evolve with it.

The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) on Tuesday said Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) "deceived" the organization and "misrepresented" his Jewish heritage, adding the incoming lawmaker is no longer welcome at its events. CEO Matt Brooks said he was "disappointed" in Santos after the congressman-elect admitted to embellishing key facts about his life in two separate interviews...

"This is the largest scale event that I’ve ever seen," Southwest CEO Bob Jordan told the Wall Street Journal Monday.

Iranian soccer legend Ali Daei said that authorities removed his family from an international flight amid his support of the anti-government demonstrations in his native country. An Iranian state-run news agency reported on Monday that Daei’s wife, Mona Farrokhazari, and his daughter were removed from their flight, as their plane rerouted to land at Iran’s...

Home prices fell for the fourth straight month as high interest rates and stubborn inflation dampen the housing market, according to data released Tuesday. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index, a gauge of home prices across the country, fell 0.3 percent in October from September after seasonal adjustments.  It was the fourth...

Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. is recalling four lots of its blood pressure medication, Quinapril Tablets, because of an impurity known as Nitrosamines being found in recent testing of the product, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA stated that no illness related to the medication has yet been reported and that the marketing...

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday ruled that U.S. employees who work overseas for companies based in the U.S. are not protected by a federal law prohibiting retaliation against workers who report securities violations. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously rejected a bid by former top Asia-based...

Three good Samaritans boarded kayaks and rescued a pilot on Monday after he crashed a small plane into a frozen creek in Edgewater, Md. Steve Couchman, 71, of Frederick, Md., took off from Lee Airport in Edgewater around 10:30 a.m. on Monday in his Piper Cherokee single-engine plane, according to a release from Maryland State...

Defeated New York congressional candidate Robert Zimmerman (D) on Tuesday called on his former opponent, Rep.-elect George Santos (R), to resign and run in a new election after Santos admitted to lying about his professional and educational background. Santos in an interview with the New York Post acknowledged discrepancies in his background, which were previously...

A record number of Nicaraguans fled their country to the U.S. this year, escaping violence, poverty and authoritarian rule, according to a New York Times report. More than 180,000 Nicaraguans crossed into the U.S. this year through the end of November, about 60 times as many as those who entered in the same period two...

The U.S. Department of Transportation said it would look into whether Southwest Airlines' high rate of flight cancellations and delays "were controllable" and in compliance with the company's service plan following the freezing winter storm that swept the nation over the holiday weekend. "USDOT is concerned by Southwest’s unacceptable rate of cancellations and delays &...

The U.S. Department of Labor fined a North Carolina Chick-fil-A franchisee after managers paid employees with meal vouchers and allowed workers under the age of 18 to operate heavy machinery intended for adult use only. In a news release last week, the Department of Labor announced a $6,450 fine against the Hendersonville, N.C., Chick-fil-A store...