Новости за 27.03.2023

Click in for news from The Hill {beacon} Evening Report Monday, March 27   © AP Three adults, three children dead in Nashville school shooting Three children and three teachers were killed in a shooting at a private Nashville elementary school on Monday morning. Police responded to a call of a shooting at...

A 28-year-old woman shot and killed three children and three adult staff members at a school in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday before being killed by police. Authorities are continuing to investigate the shooting, which marks the 17th school shooting in the United States since the start of the year, according to a Washington Post analysis....

Only one in four Democrats want President Biden to run for reelection in 2024, according to a new Monmouth University Poll.  The poll, published Monday, found that 25 percent of Democrat respondents said they want Biden to run for reelection in 2024, while 44 percent of those surveyed believe that Biden should step aside and...

President Biden on Monday called the latest school shooting, which left at least three children dead in Nashville, “sick” and lamented that such a tragedy was “a family’s worst nightmare.” “We have to do more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart. It’s ripping at the very soul of the nation. We have...

Idris Elba says Kamala Harris would make a good commander in chief, as the “Luther” actor appeared alongside the vice president at a stop during her tour of Africa. The British performer visited a community recording studio in Ghana with Harris on Monday, along with “Abbott Elementary” star Sheryl Lee Ralph. Elba, whose production company...

A Los Angeles Chargers player says he was sexually assaulted by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent at a California airport.  “I really just got sexually assaulted by TSA at @JohnWayneAir. After I asked the gentleman to please stop BC I’m uncomfortable and I feel that this part of the check is unnecessary (After he felt...

A variety of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods have already been proposed.

US financial authorities are considering expanding the line of credit they extended to banks earlier this month to prevent the collapse of First Republic Bank, which had received a $30 billion bailout from a consortium of its own competitors, according to Bloomberg News. Bloomberg reported over the weekend that the expansion of the Fed’s lending...

A coalition of influential lobbying groups called on Congress to act on the energy permitting reforms championed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) by the end of the summer in a letter Monday. While the letter is led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the oil and renewable energy industries are also represented in the letter,...

Philadelphia officials say the city’s water supply is safe after a chemical spill in a tributary of the Delaware River over the weekend.  The Philadelphia Water Department announced Sunday that it’s “now confident” tap water from the Baxter Drinking Water Treatment Plant will remain safe to drink at least through 11:59 p.m. Monday. “This updated...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is holding a daily press briefing Monday. Over the weekend, President Biden declared a state of emergency in Mississippi, which was struck by multiple tornadoes Friday, killing at least 25 in the state, along with one person in Alabama. Public safety policy also factored into the withdrawal of Biden’s...

Several cars on a Canadian Pacific freight train derailed in North Dakota late Sunday, spilling hazardous material in the area, the railway said. Some of 31 rail cars involved were carrying hazardous materials, and an initial assessment found a liquid asphalt leak at the derailment site in rural Richland County, southeast of Wyndmere, a Canadian...

In “Back to the Future II,” Biff uses a sports almanac of future results to gamble his way to wealth at major societal costs. Is our nation headed down a similar path?

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A majority of Americans think that the slate of state and federal investigations into former President Trump are fair, according to a new poll, despite Republican attempts to frame the probes as a left wing witch hunt of the former president. A 56 percent majority of respondents think the investigations into Trump are fair, according...

A key ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to delay plans to push through a controversial judicial overhaul that has drawn unprecedented public, government and military opposition and raised alarm from the U.S. Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir has agreed to delay until May discussions surrounding the...

The U.S. Army has pulled recruiting ads featuring actor Jonathan Majors after he was arrested over the weekend on allegations of strangulation, assault and harassment of a woman. The Army's Enterprise Marketing Office said in a statement the advertisements would be suspended while the investigation into the charges is pending. "We are deeply concerned by...

President Biden on Monday issued an executive order to prohibit the use of commercial spyware across the U.S. federal government that poses a risk to national security or targets U.S. personnel. The order will apply to all departments and agencies and bans use of commercial spyware that a foreign government or foreign person used to...

The White House on Monday threatened a veto of a House Republicans’ energy package, known as H.R. 1, if it makes it to President Biden's desk. “H.R. 1 would take us backward. Therefore, if presented to the President in its current form, he would veto it,” according to a White House statement. The package, which...

The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will not take up a challenge to Kansas’s GOP-drawn congressional map. The justices in a brief, unsigned order rejected an appeal from a group of Kansas voters, who argued that a lower court used the wrong legal standard in upholding the map. A state trial court had initially struck down...

Steven Van Zandt is showing off his similar style alongside Rep. Jamie Raskin, after gifting a head cover as the congressman battles cancer. The E Street Band member posted a photo on Monday of himself smiling alongside the Maryland Democrat, saying the duo share a special connection beyond their coordinating head gear. “My brother from another mother!”...

Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time and moved their clocks one hour forward this weekend for the very last time.

A woman was arrested after she allegedly shot and killed a man on Facebook Live in Mississippi on Saturday.

Like the governments of many American cities, the District of Columbia apparently has embraced the notion that the government should provide benefits to people based on their skin color. Under the banner of providing “equitable outcomes,” the District has abandoned the principle of equality under the law in favor of a race-based approach. The latest...

Editor's note: The first part of a 2-part series on the politicization of fentanyl overdoses. The Republican takeover of the House shifted congressional oversight of the border, with GOP lawmakers using their new powers in efforts to link the fentanyl crisis to migration. Fentanyl has increased the stakes in the decades-long drug war, inflaming the...