Новости за 27.02.2023

At least half a dozen current and prospective Republican presidential hopefuls are set to speak at the Club for Growth’s annual donor retreat this week, a list that includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley — but not former President Donald Trump. In additional to DeSantis and Haley, the Club...

Former NBA star Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union-Wade called for increased visibility and advocacy to protect the rights and lives of Black transgender people while accepting the President’s Award at the 2023 NAACP Image Awards. The couple dedicated the award – which recognizes outstanding achievements in public service – to their teenage daughter, Zaya,...

Virginia Rep.-elect Jennifer McClellan (D) is poised to make history when she is sworn into Congress, becoming the first Black woman to represent the commonwealth on Capitol Hill. The nature of her historic win wasn’t lost on her. McClellan told The Hill that during her campaigning, she was “very aware” of what a win would...

The FBI on Monday arrested a man who allegedly stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots while wearing a panda costume over his head, according to court records. Authorities arrested Jesse James Rumson on several charges, including obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or...

As young people work to get back on track after years of inconsistent schooling, it’s critical we have the best educators in schools.

U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services officials on Monday announced interagency initiatives to combat child labor law violations after it was revealed that child labor violations have been on the rise since 2015. The Labor Department will increase scrutiny of companies that do business with entities that violate child labor...

A centrist House Democrat spoke out in favor of the Biden administration’s controversial asylum plan over the weekend, adding support to a policy proposal that's garnered harsh criticism from immigrant advocates. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the longest-tenured member from a Texas border district, pushed back against comparisons between President Biden’s asylum plan and former President...

The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after a stop by Memphis police officers shines a bright light, once again, on the deep cultural defects of too many police forces. The persistence of unjustifiable police violence has understandably sown deep doubt about whether policing can ever be fixed. Fortunately, local and state-led solutions to policing’s culture...

President Biden on Monday announced Stephen Benjamin, former Columbia, S.C., mayor, will join the administration as head of the Office of Public Engagement, replacing former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Lance Bottoms joined the administration last June, and she frequently traveled back to Atlanta to be with her family during her roughly nine months on...

Bryan Cranston says former President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” 2016 campaign slogan could be considered a “racist” expression. “When I see the ‘Make America Great Again,’ my comment is: Do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?” the former “Breaking Bad” star asked in a Sunday interview on CNN’s “Who’s Talking...

The distributor of the comic strip “Dilbert” has severed its relationship with creator Scott Adams, saying the cartoonist's comments about race "do not align with our core values." Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) announced it was cutting ties with Adams and the satirical cartoon of office life because of incompatible “vision and principles” after the creator’s...

Government officials went door-to-door over the weekend to check on families in East Palestine, Ohio, in the wake of a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals in the area, reaching roughly 350 households, according to a White House official. President Biden directed staffers on the ground in East Palestine from the Environmental Protection Agency, the...

President Biden this week will talk to congressional Democrats about pushing back on Republican policies, as well as building on their own work. Biden will deliver remarks at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Baltimore on Wednesday, and on Thursday he will attend the Senate Democratic Caucus lunch in Washington, D.C. “The President will...

The Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding mechanism. Lower courts have split on the issue of whether the CFPB’s funding through annual transfers by the Federal Reserve violates the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause, which establishes Congress’s power of the purse. In a brief, unsigned order on Monday, the...

Elon Musk blasted the media as “racist” after hundreds of newspapers around the country dropped the comic strip “Dilbert,” whose creator unleashed a rant last week, which many saw as racist. Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic, said on an episode of his YouTube that Black people were part of a “hate group,”...

An indictment might help him with many Republicans.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Monday announced she’s running to represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate. “Today, I’m announcing my run to be Michigan’s next U.S. Senator. We need a new generation of leaders that thinks differently, works harder, and never forgets that we are *public servants,*” Slotkin wrote on Twitter alongside a campaign video....

China is dismissing new reporting that the Department of Energy has concluded a lab leak was most likely behind the COVID-19 pandemic, with a foreign ministry spokesperson saying the issue should not be politicized. “Certain parties should stop rehashing the ‘lab leak’ narrative, stop smearing China and stop politicizing origins-tracing,” Mao Ning said at a...

Former President Trump leads Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) by 15 points among GOP primary voters in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, new polling from Fox News shows. The survey released on Sunday found Trump, who launched his reelection campaign back in November, in the lead among potential Republican primary challengers with 43 percent. DeSantis, who...

This week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two legal challenges to President Biden’s student loan cancellation plan. If allowed to continue, the administration’s proposal will deliver as much as $20,000 in student loan forgiveness to borrowers. The parties challenging the White House’s plan will have two distinct arguments to make: first, that...

Marty Hierholzer is a service-disabled veteran with a simple request: that the government look to his individual qualifications, rather than his skin color. The Small Business Administration (SBA) runs a program called 8(a), which helps small business owners who face social disadvantage. The federal government sets aside a percentage of government contracts for a sheltered...

The White House and some of its allies are shrugging off angst and chatter about whether President Biden will really run for reelection in 2024 at the age of 81. Biden looks like a president who plans to run for a second term regardless of his age. Look at the State of the Union address...

Weeks before Ketanji Brown Jackson was tapped as a Supreme Court nominee last year, the White House knew the confirmation process would be a political fight for the ages. Republicans were already attacking the would-be nominee before Biden had even selected Jackson or publicly uttered her name. It was then that Biden turned to Ben...

John Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, said in a new interview with The Boston Globe that he told President Biden that he will serve in his role through at least the United Nations climate summit in November. "There’s sufficient unfinished business that I felt it would be inappropriate to walk away from...

A new poll found that a large majority of Americans support Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's proposal to require competency tests for politicians over the age of 75. The Fox News Poll found that 77 percent of Americans are in favor of competency tests for politicians over 75, compared to just 20 percent who oppose...