Новости за 09.05.2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) severed ties with his state political committee ahead of an expected White House run that could be announced in the upcoming weeks. The move was necessary for DeSantis to be able to declare a presidential campaign if he chooses to mount one. The committee’s website was updated to list that...

A federal jury on Tuesday found that former President Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and later defamed her by denying her claims, marking the first time Trump has been found liable for sexual misconduct at a trial. He was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages. Read the jury's verdict here.

Educators across the country are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week amid a bevy of challenges facing their profession, some long-standing and others lingering from recent struggles with COVID-19. While teachers take advantage of the discounts and deals from companies and occasional gifts from students this week, they are also using the extra attention to highlight problems...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said on Tuesday that GOP megadonor Harlan Crow is in for “a cold dose of reality,” after refusing to comply with the panel’s requests for information about his gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “Unsurprisingly, Harlan Crow has refused to respond to my...

The U.S. nuclear regulatory agency on Tuesday announced it has issued an interim license for a facility in New Mexico to store spent nuclear fuel. In the announcement Tuesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorized New Jersey-based Holtec International to construct the facility in Lea County, in the southeastern part of the state. The NRC...

Title 42, a pandemic-era policy used to block asylum seekers at the border, expires Thursday, returning migrant processing to the system used under Title 8 that allows for expedited removals. Here's what to know about the end of Title 42 and the refocus on Title 8. Why is Title 42 going away? A group of...

{beacon} Evening Report Tuesday, May 9   © Kaplan Hecker & Fink via AP/John Minchillo, AP Trump found liable for sexual abuse, defamation in civil case The jury in writer E. Jean Carroll's case against former President Trump found that Trump sexually abused Carroll and later defamed her by denying her claims. Trump was ordered to...

A federal court on Tuesday tossed out a decision from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not to regulate a chemical used in rocket fuel in drinking water. The Trump administration decided in 2020 not to regulate a chemical called perchlorate that can interfere with thyroid function and may harm fetal brain development. The Biden administration...

NewsNation, the upstart cable news channel owned by local news provider Nexstar Media Group, has signed former top White House aide Mick Mulvaney as a contributor. Mulvaney, a former congressman from South Carolina and top aide to former President Trump, most recently served as a contributor to CBS News and has emerged as a critic...

The Texas state House voted unanimously Tuesday to expel a lawmaker who had been accused of sexual misconduct, just a day after he resigned from his seat. The chamber voted 147-0, with no abstentions, to expel state Rep. Bryan Slaton (R), according to unofficial totals from the House legislative tracker. A House panel over the...

Shortly after being found liable for sexual battery and defamation in the E. Jean Carroll civil trial Tuesday, former President Trump called the verdict a "disgrace." "I have absolutely no idea who this woman is," Trump wrote in all capital letters on Truth Social shortly after the verdict was announced. "This verdict is a disgrace...

The family of a survivor of the Texas SUV crash that killed eight people at a bus stop near a migrant shelter on Sunday pleaded for President Biden’s help in reuniting their family.  Yuleissi Andreina Quintero, the wife of 27-year-old Gabriel Gallardo, who survived the crash in the border city of Brownsville, said in a...

Steve Cortes, who served in the past as an advisor to former President Trump, announced on Tuesday that he’ll endorse Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential election.  “Governor Ron DeSantis represents the best possible option to win the presidency in 2024 and to govern as a highly capable,...

Former President Trump is claiming he was silenced during the trial involving author E. Jean Carroll, who is suing the former president for sexual battery and defamation, saying that he will appeal the case over its "unconstitutional silencing." "Waiting for a jury decision on a False Accusation where I, despite being a current political candidate...

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) will appear alongside President Biden on Wednesday when he travels to the GOP lawmaker’s district for a speech focused on the debt limit. Lawler told The Associated Press, which first reported on his attendance, that he accepted the White House’s invitation “maybe to their surprise,” adding “he’s coming to my district,...

A clause in the 14th Amendment is being cautiously considered as a possible emergency fix as the U.S. economy hurtles toward the looming threat of default. The U.S. passed its borrowing limit earlier this year, and the Treasury Department has now said it could run out of ways to stave off a default by as...

The Congressional Black Caucus spent Tuesday morning discussing voting rights, preserving Black history and the fight for equity ahead of 2024 as part of a larger summit on race and democracy. The summit discussed voting rights and redistricting, affirmative action and book bans, and race relations and civic engagement. “We will not stand back and...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday shot down the idea of moving a short-term debt ceiling hike to prevent a government default. Just hours before McCarthy is scheduled to meet with President Biden on the issue, the Speaker said the sides should come together to negotiate a compromise — combining a debt ceiling increase with sharp...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) is set to become the 12th member of Congress to give birth while in office after announcing that she is expecting her first child in late August. “We are very excited to welcome our son later this summer,” the first-term member said in a statement, first reported by Time magazine. “Children...

An expert said that artificial intelligence could replace up to 8 in 10 jobs "in the next few years." Researcher Ben Goertzel, the founder and chief executive officer of SingularityNET, said in a new interview with AFP that he does not believe artificial intelligence (AI) is a threat to jobs, but rather a benefit. He...

Harlan Crow rebuffed a request from the Senate Finance Committee to turn over a list of gifts he gave to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a letter obtained by The Hill. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) demanded the information after a ProPublica investigation revealed undisclosed luxury gifts and trips that Crow,...

The term “manufactured housing” often comes with negative connotations: poorly maintained homes, sub-par quality, and aesthetically unappealing. This unfavorable stereotyping belies the fact that today’s HUD Code manufactured homes are not unlike the ugly duckling flourishing to a refined adulthood. Before the Code’s adoption in 1976, what were then called “mobile homes” were built to...

A large group of mating manatees were spotted in Blue Springs State Park last weekend.

The Defense Department on Tuesday officially renamed Fort Hood to Fort Cavazos, honoring the nation's first Hispanic four-star general who served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars. The U.S. Army held a ceremony at the base in central Texas to commemorate the official change, part of an effort to rename nine bases in the...

Robert Kennedy Jr., who recently launched a long shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, said his father’s “first instinct” was that the CIA killed former President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy Jr. said the first call his father, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, made after learning his uncle had been shot was to a...