Новости за 23.03.2023

Doctors are assuring the public that it’s not going to take over the world and kill us all, but it is something we need to be aware of.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) on Wednesday signed into law two bills that will restrict the rights of transgender young people in the state. One of them, Senate File 538, prohibits doctors from providing gender-affirming health care, including puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries, to transgender minors. The other, Senate File 482, bars transgender students from using school...

Singer and rapper Afroman is being sued by several members of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio after he made music videos using footage from a raid on his home last year. Seven members of the Ohio sheriff’s office filed suit against Joseph Foreman, better known as Afroman, earlier this month for using their...

A shortage of air traffic controllers will lead to a large uptick in flight delays this summer, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned in a memo on Wednesday. Delays could increase by 45 percent at New York City-area airports, the FAA said, noting that staffing levels at those hubs are at just 54 percent of...

A U.S. regulator issued a warning regarding data security during the TikTok congressional hearing Thursday, saying that it will not approve transactions that have "unresolved" national security concerns. The Committee of Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), an interagency housed under the Treasury Department, said in a statement during TikTok CEO's testimony that some transactions...

A federal judge has ordered an anonymous jury in former President Trump’s sexual battery civil trial next month, citing in part Trump's call for protests as an indictment looms in a separate probe. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled on Thursday that the jurors need protection from harassment, referencing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack...

The Michigan Appeals Court has ruled that the parents of the gunman who shot and killed four students at a Michigan high school can stand trial for manslaughter. The court said in an opinion published Thursday that there is enough evidence for the parents of Ethan Crumbley to stand trial, explaining that if Jennifer and...

Most transgender adults in a new survey say their overall life satisfaction improved after they began living as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth. In a wide-ranging poll released Thursday by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), 78 percent of transgender adults living as a gender different from the...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) denied authorizing force-feeding — a practice that international groups have said amounts to torture — during his time at Guantanamo Bay, according to a new interview. In an interview airing Thursday on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," DeSantis said the allegations that he authorized force-feeding at Guantanamo Bay were "absolutely" wrong, saying...

The Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee displayed a subpoena to Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Thursday hearing, demanding documents surrounding the chaotic and deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) described the State Department’s reasoning for withholding a document as “bullshit.” McCaul views a dissent...

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) slammed TikTok at a House committee’s hearing on the platform on Thursday, telling CEO Shou Chew that “you damn well know” that the platform is unable to protect its U.S. users. Cammack’s panning of the platform and Chew came after she had a video that had been posted on TikTok shown...

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) for the first time on Thursday addressed a claim by former President Trump that he would be arrested in connection to an investigation into a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, calling it the creation of a “false expectation.” Bragg, in response to demands by...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a Thursday interview on The Hill’s Rising said he wouldn't vaccinate his own children for COVID-19 out of concerns about the risk of heart inflammation. Paul, a vocal critic of pandemic policies who frequently battled with former White House adviser Anthony Fauci during the Trump and Biden administrations, said the...

The need to do something to control the pandemic may have blinded well-meaning policymakers to the costs of the policy

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) criticized the Justice Department Thursday for not moving quick enough into its investigation of former President Trump regarding his attempts at overturning the the results of the 2020 election. "I do share the concern that the Justice Department should have moved on this case — if they are going to move...

As pressure builds for a national ban on the video-based social media platform TikTok, the company’s leadership is in a full court press to persuade lawmakers against taking sweeping action to restrict access to the application. And as Congress weighs security concerns with the Chinese-linked social media company, its CEO Shou Zi Chew is being...

The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence in an ongoing probe into former President Trump's role in a hush money payment made to an adult film star is no longer expected to weigh the case Thursday, multiple outlets report. The move pushes the grand jury's next consideration of the case until Monday, delaying a possible indictment...

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser said Wednesday evening that recent bank failures aren’t a sign of broader trouble in the financial system. Her remarks come after Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Credit Suisse collapsed. Some fear that San Francisco-based First Republic Bank could be the next to fall. “The banking system is pretty sound,” Fraser...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is eying new regulations to make cancelling free trials and subscriptions easier for consumers. The FTC said in a release on Thursday that its “click to cancel” proposal would require sellers to make cancelling an enrollment more straightforward to help consumers with “seemingly never-ending struggles” in ending subscriptions. FTC Chair...

Former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said he thinks it is “inevitable” the former president is indicted on charges from the Manhattan District Attorney's office, though he said he is unsure how any potential arrest would play out. "I do think he’s going to be indicted,” Mulvaney said Thursday on CNN, citing...

Defending parental rights in education has become a fan favorite state-level policy move among Republicans, and the GOP-majority House is set to shine a national spotlight on the issue this week with a vote on the "Parents Bill of Rights Act." The measure will receive neither time nor attention in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but Republicans...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) expanded his investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) handling of a hush money probe into former President Trump, requesting testimony from two prosecutors who resigned from the New York case over disagreements with Bragg. Jordan on Wednesday sent letters to Mark Pomerantz, former New York County Special...

The public’s trust in the banking industry sharply dropped in the aftermath of the collapse of two prominent banks earlier this month and their effects on the market, according to a new poll. A poll released Wednesday from The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago found only...

Seven progressive House Democrats voted against a bill on Wednesday that would require periodic reviews and updated reports pertaining to the State Department’s guidelines for U.S. engagement with Taiwan, marking the only opposition to the bill. The House approved the measure in an overwhelming 404-7 vote, with all opposition coming from Democrats: Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.), Greg...

The House Oversight Committee is distancing itself from a push by Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to bring Tara Reade, who has accused President Biden of sexually assaulting her, in for an interview after Gaetz announced the panel's chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) had given the green light. But Greene on Wednesday...