Новости за 05.05.2023

Former President Trump, during his deposition over writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit, defended the comments he made on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape that emerged ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Video of the deposition was shown to jurors earlier this week in the case stemming from Carroll’s claim that Trump raped her in the...

Unfortunately, his proposal undermines some of the values he claims to protect.

Distributor Novo Nordisk has decided to limit low doses of obesity medication Wegovy in the U.S. as demand outpaces supply. Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare and pharmaceutical company based in Denmark, is limiting the supply of Wegovy to conserve doses for patients already using the drug, the company said Thursday. The company is still supplying...

The Supreme Court has put on hold the ordered execution of man whose case has received widespread attention over whether he received a fair trial. The court placed a stay on the death sentence for Richard Glossip, who had been set to be executed by lethal injection on May 18 in the 1997 killing of...

The Labor Department delivered another crackerjack jobs report on Friday, flashing another signal of an economy that has powered through fears of a recession. The national unemployment rate dropped April to 3.4 percent as the U.S. economy added 253,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department, far exceeding economists' expectations. Shaky ground? First Republic Bank collapse...

Former Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) pleaded guilty on Friday to bringing a loaded gun through airport security at Charlotte Douglas International Airport last year. Cawthorn pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for having immediate access to a dangerous weapon on city property and was fined $250, his lawyer Missy Owens said. “Mr. Cawthorn accepted responsibility for this...

In 1961, President Eisenhower warned of the threat posed by the military industrial complex—the private industry that’s cropped up around the U.S. armed forces. But since then, a new juggernaut has appeared that is holding young Americans financially hostage. Fueled by misguided government policies, the “university industrial complex” is pushing a generation of college students...

Florida’s annual legislative session came to a close Friday, ending a 60-day period that saw Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) score a critical series of policy wins ahead of a likely 2024 presidential bid. The governor had a busy two months; DeSantis enacted new abortion restrictions, navigated an ongoing fight with Disney and passed a...

Rep. Joseph Morelle (D-N.Y.) has unveiled a bill to make the sharing of deepfake pornography without consent illegal, a response to the accelerated advancement of artificial intelligence and digitally manipulated content.  Morelle’s office said in a release Friday that technological progress has allowed for rapid growth of deepfakes, with a 2019 report finding 96 percent...

President Biden and Vice President Harris took a quick jaunt to Northeast Washington to pick up tacos for Cinco de Mayo on Friday. Their surprise and unplanned trip outside of the White House was to Taqueria Habanero, a Mexican restaurant in the Bryant Street shopping mall. The president ordered a chicken quesadilla, churros and an assortment...

On July 4, 2013, Hanna Harris of Lame Deer, Mont., went out with friends to celebrate Independence Day. But she never returned home.  Her family reported her disappearance to local law enforcement but felt not enough was being done, so they organized their own search party. Three days later, Harris’s body was found — she...

Rochelle Walensky is departing her role as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the White House announced Friday. Walensky’s exit comes days before the federal government is set to end the public health emergency around COVID-19. She has led the agency since the start of the Biden administration in January 2021....

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday is speaking at a press conference in Brownsville, Texas, as the end nears for pandemic-era Title 42 immigration restrictions. President Biden earlier this week ordered 1,500 troops to the southern U.S. border to assist in patrolling areas bracing for the policy change, which many expect will add further...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a government agency like no other. Not only is the agency responsible for enforcing consumer financial protection laws, it also oversees the practices of bank and non-bank consumer financial institutions alike. With such a wide purview to regulate the economic lives of all Americans, one would assume that the...

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic vowed to disarm the country on Friday, as Serbia reels from its second mass shooting in two days. “We will carry out an almost total disarmament of Serbia,” Vucic said, according to The Washington Post. “We must make a decision to confront this evil.” Eight people were killed and 14 were injured...

We Americans have always considered our country exceptional. Today, we are exceptionally well-armed.

Homeowner equity declined modestly for the second straight quarter as home price growth fell across the country, according to new data from ATTOM. But it remains near historic highs.  First-quarter results from ATTOM’S 2023 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report showed 47.2 percent of mortgaged residential properties nationwide were considered equity rich — down from 48 percent...

President Biden announced Friday that Neera Tanden will be his new domestic policy adviser, replacing outgoing adviser Susan Rice. Tanden, who has served as assistant to the president and staff secretary, will be replaced by Stefanie Feldman. Feldman, a longtime Biden adviser, is deputy assistant to the president and senior adviser to the White House...

The latest New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey illustrates the massive toll that COVID-19 took on the city since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. According to the data, about one in four New Yorkers, or nearly 2 million residents, lost at least one person — defined as a friend, family member, colleague...

On Saturday, the U.K. will hold a coronation ceremony to formalize the reign of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla, an affair filled with pomp and pageantry that will draw a crowd of notable political and societal figures. The U.K. is the only European country to hold a coronation ceremony, a tradition that dates back...

Netanyahu has unleashed a whirlwind that has bitterly divided Israel in a way never seen since its creation.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced it was ending its declaration of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern, more than three years after it was first declared. "For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a downward trend, with population immunity increasing from vaccination and infection, mortality decreasing...

A marketing expert testified on Thursday that former President Trump’s alleged damage to author E. Jean Carroll’s reputation could cost between $368,000 and $2.7 million to repair, according to ABC News. Carroll, who has accused the former president of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s, is suing for sexual battery over...

State legislators have the power to make a difference immediately by reducing the cost of higher education and showing residents that there is still value in pursuing postsecondary education.

In a recent live demo, OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman showed how the GPT-4 large language model could take some scribbles from his notepad and turn it into a webpage. And, not for the first time in recent history, many skilled workers had a fearful glimpse of an automated future in which they were...