Новости за 01.04.2023

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran for president in 2016, questioned the indictment that the Manhattan grand jury issued against former President Trump on Thursday, saying the jury in deciding the case should be “the voters.”  Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, tweeted on Saturday that the case against Trump over...

After news broke on Thursday of former President Trump’s indictment over a 2016 hush money payment, Republicans and Democrats alike rushed to offer their two cents on the history-making decision to charge a former president. While Democrats largely celebrated the indictment as a win for justice, most Republicans denounced the charges as an “unprecedented abuse...

A new survey, drawing notice in academia, shows that 1 in 4 applicants decided against applying to a college this year solely because of the politics in its state. The finding, long rumored in college admissions circles, has dire implications for some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Tulane University in Louisiana, Stanford in California,...

The indictment of former President Trump in the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the hush-money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels will likely dominate the conversation on this week’s Sunday news shows. The political world shook on Thursday afternoon after the news broke that a grand jury approved charges against Trump following an...

Interestingly, it’s not safe today for students, or faculty, to express themselves in class or elsewhere in the academic environment.

The Food and Drug Administration's move to make a version of naloxone available without a prescription marks a major milestone in the fight against opioid addiction, and anti-addiction advocates hope it will break down barriers and help expand access to the drug. The agency approved Narcan, the brand-name nasal spray manufactured by Emergent BioSolutions. But...

With coordinated global reform, we can fight climate change while mining as sustainably as possible.

The woman whose hush money payment sparked the Manhattan District Attorney's investigation into former President Donald Trump called his indictment "poetic" but "bittersweet" in her first comments since the district attorney's office announced the decision Thursday. Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress, alleges she had an affair with Trump in 2006. While Trump denies the...

The data collected on `Oumuamua in late 2017 was not sufficient to conclusively test whether it was a technological artifact.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a previous finding that Tesla and CEO Elon Musk violated labor laws by firing an employee involved in union organizing and making an apparent threat to rescind stock options if employees unionized. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) determinations in Friday’s ruling,...

Most of today’s Republican leaders seem bent rather on doing further injury to America’s already damaged institutions.

At least as far as many Republicans are concerned, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has two major obstacles to overcome if he hopes to become the GOP nominee for president in 2024 and then win the general election. Those obstacles are former President Donald Trump and many of America’s media outlets. Of course, with the announced...

Severe storms slammed the South and Midwest on Friday, leaving at least 10 people dead and injuring dozens more. Five people were killed in a series of tornadoes in Arkansas, with four deaths occurring in the hard-hit city of Wynne alone, the county coroner told KAIT-TV. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R), who declared a state of emergency and...

Story at a glance California ranks highest for gun safety among the states, while Arkansas ranks the lowest, according to an annual gun law scorecard. The Giffords Law Center, founded by former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), provides an annual ranking of all 50 states based on the strength of their gun laws. California and New Jersey sit...

Americans are split on the biggest issues facing the country, according to a new Marist poll. 30 percent of Americans see the economy as the most important issue facing the nation, while 20 percent say the problem lies more with threats to democracy, the poll found. All other options polled in the single digits. The...

A member of the pro-Nazi group White Lives Matter of Ohio was arrested Friday after he allegedly threw molotov cocktails at a church planning to hold a drag event. Aimenn Penny threw molotov cocktails at the Community Church of Chesterland, outside Cleveland, on March 25, according to investigators. The attack left scorch marks on the...

Since January 2021, 44 states have introduced bills or taken other steps to restrict discussions of race, gender, and sexuality in U.S. history. In 2022, proposed educational gag orders attempting to restrict teaching about race, gender, American history, and LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 and higher education increased by 250 percent compared to the previous year. Further, according to a new...

After SVB’s failure, it would be inexcusable if markets are caught by surprise by renewed European banking system troubles later this year.

Pope Francis was released from the hospital on Saturday, after being treated for bronchitis, the Vatican said. The pope, who is 86 years old, was hospitalized for a pulmonary infection earlier this week, after experiencing “respiratory difficulties.” Pope Francis greeted the leadership of Gemelli Hospital in Rome, as well as the medical team that treated him, before...

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is not a plan to make presidential elections more democratic. It’s a plot that would disenfranchise voters at the state level. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have signed on to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, representing 195 Electoral College votes. The compact would take effect when...

Former President Donald Trump and his team are projecting confidence in the wake of his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury as his third White House campaign enters uncharted territory. Trump allies were reassured as members of Congress, potential 2024 presidential rivals and prominent Fox News hosts uniformly went on the attack against Manhattan District...

An ObamaCare requirement that health insurance must cover preventive services for free is at risk of ending, after a federal judge in Texas — who previously held that the entire Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional —  invalidated it.  The ruling from U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor wasn't entirely unexpected, but his decision to impose a...

Some prosecutors called it a “zombie;” other legal observers said it was a “sleeper case.” But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) probe into Donald Trump is the first to initiate history-making criminal charges against a former president. Among the dizzying array of ongoing criminal probes into former President Trump, he faces investigations by both...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are amping up their defense of former President Trump in the wake of his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, promising congressional action against the New York district attorney and intensifying their rhetoric with tinges of violence. Trump’s indictment on Thursday capped off days of anticipation after the former president predicted he would...

Trump attorney Joe Tacopina on Friday denounced the indictment of former President Trump as a “double standard,” suggesting that the filing of criminal charges against the former president “endangers all of us.” “I don’t understand how double standards are so accepted, as long as you have the right target,” Tacopina told John Catsimatidis and Rita...