Новости за 25.02.2023

Florida Democrats tapped former state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried as their new chair on Saturday, tasking her with revamping a once-formidable state political party that has struggled to stay competitive in recent years. Fried, a lobbyist who unsuccessfully challenged former Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.) for the Democratic gubernatorial nod last year, beat out three other...

Do car headlights seem higher and brighter now?

As we approach a busy summer travel season, airlines are faced with a growing problem, a four-wheeled problem: wheelchairs.

The critical flaw with the NPVIC concept — that it would elect the winner of the most votes nationwide even if it’s not a majority of voters — might play to Trump’s advantage.

A majority of Americans now favor life without parole sentences for people convicted of murder.

Michigan and Texas officials are complaining that they were not told in advance about the shipment of contaminated soil and water from East Palestine, Ohio, — where a train derailment earlier this month has caused a public health and environmental crisis — to their states. Officials said they had not heard about the plan until after...

There is being destitute, oppressed, exploited or crushed — and then there is America’s inner-city student population, most of them minorities. “Lives thrown away by society” is a vapid cliché that has lost its shock value. Why should anyone get worked up when one more nameless, faceless and hopeless nothingness of a human being stumbles...

Democrats got a shot in the arm this week with Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-Mont.) decision to seek reelection. His announcement hands Democrats a real chance at retaining a seat in GOP territory and puts them on Joe Manchin-watch as the West Virginia Democratic senator weighs his own future in a ruby-red state. Tester, who announced...

Around the world, we are opening a path into new territory around mental health and public life

Where are the majority of U.S. norovirus outbreaks reported?

Rushdie has risked his very life to support that principle.

A group of news outlets are demanding that they receive access to tens of thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) gave to Fox News host Tucker Carlson earlier this week. Attorney Charles Tobin sent a letter on Thursday on behalf of 10 media...

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) falsely told a judge in 2017 that he worked for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, multiple outlets reported Friday based on audio of a hearing they obtained and published. Politico first obtained the audio recording of the Seattle bail hearing for a “family friend” of Santos named Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha....

More than 450,000 Michigan locations remain without power Saturday following an ice storm that brought freezing temperatures to the state. The power-outage tracking website poweroutage.us reported that more than 470,000 customers, mostly in the southeastern part of the state where the storm hit, are experiencing outages as of Saturday morning. Wayne County, which is home...

The new tax filing season has started, and I can’t wait to do my taxes. As a tax professor, every year I look forward to spring break, when I can put some basketball games on television in the background and start working on my tax return. Of course, the games are often interrupted by commercials...

An extensive legal battle is brewing after the Biden administration declined to veto an International Trade Commission (ITC) import ban on the Apple Watch. The ITC ruled in December that Apple infringed on wearable heart monitoring technology patented by California startup AliveCor. Apple currently uses an electrocardiogram sensor in question in its high-end Apple Watch...

Former President Trump is doing something shocking — he’s running a campaign that is starting to look quite conventional. This week alone, Trump has issued several policy proposals. He has announced the hiring of seasoned senior staff in the first-caucus state of Iowa. And he has visited East Palestine, Ohio in the wake of the...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced on Friday that it is proposing rules to make many flexibilities for telemedicine that were established amid the COVID-19 pandemic permanent, with certain safeguards. The DEA said in a release that the rule will give patients access to virtual therapies beyond the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency,...

Former Vice President Mike Pence told NBC News' Ali Vitali that he believes that by spring his "family expects to have a very clear sense of [their] calling," hinting at an announcement for a 2024 election bid. Pence also took aim at former President Trump, telling NBC that "the times call for different leadership, and...

Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon}   Health Care     Health Care      The Big Story  FDA faces new abortion pill lawsuit  Another lawsuit has been launched against the Food and Drug Administration over access to the abortion medication mifepristone — this time seeking to lift restrictions. © AP A...

The rental home where four University of Idaho students were found dead in November will be demolished, school officials said. University President Scott Green said in a post on the school's website Friday that the owner of the house, located in the nearby city of Moscow, offered to give it to the university, which will...

President Biden issued an order Friday directing federal agencies to check-in with residents of East Palestine, Ohio, after a train derailment earlier this month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency will go door-to-door, visiting homes to see how families are doing and connect them any resources...

According to recent reports, President Biden’s decision on the 2024 Democratic National Convention host city is imminent, with three finalists remaining in the running: Atlanta, Chicago, and my home, New York City. While there are arguments for each of these cities, only one of them is adequately prepared to send the Democratic base a strong...

Carlos Watson, the CEO of the digital media company Ozy Media, denied wrongdoing on Friday as he faces fraud charges, saying “I am not now and never have been a ‘con man.’”  Watson said on Twitter that he has been a “hard-working entrepreneur” who helped build the company from scratch and he plans to “fight...

Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon}     Energy & Environment     Energy & Environment     The Big Story  Ohio town grapples with toxic spill fallout A class-action lawsuit in East Palestine, Ohio — the site of a major train derailment and toxic spill this month — hopes to...