Новости за 10.05.2023

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told reporters on Wednesday that he will not resign despite facing a 13-count criminal indictment. Federal prosecutors charged Santos earlier on Wednesday with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House...

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, on Wednesday signed into law legislation hailed by LGBTQ rights groups as one of the nation's most comprehensive transgender and reproductive health care packages.  Together, Vermont’s House Bill 89 and Senate Bill 37, both of which were signed into law Wednesday by Scott, establish a slate of protections for both providers and seekers of...

The office of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has sought to clarify the senator’s recent comment that the military shouldn’t try to block ideological groups like white nationalists from service. "Do you believe they should allow white nationalists in the military?" the senator was asked in an interview with WBHM radio. “Well, they call them that,"...

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said being arraigned on Wednesday was an experience potentially for writing a book or "something that like." Santos, who was talking to reporters after he pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges during his arraignment, said he tried to “keep my composure” as he sat in a federal courthouse in Central...

A leading progressive group is calling on Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to issue subpoenas in investigations into Supreme Court corruption after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to the Senate on Wednesday. Durbin has said that “everything is on the table” when it comes to ethics reforms for the...

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and the panel’s Republicans on Wednesday dug in on their attacks on President Biden, unveiling new details alleging that more than $10 million flowed from foreign entities to companies associated with the Biden family and family members themselves. But the 36-page report released by the panel’s Republicans on Wednesday...

A group of Republican-led states have filed a motion with a federal regulator to block BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, from imposing sustainable investing practices on utility companies. The states, led by Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R), appealed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to keep BlackRock from laying down...

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday ripped into his Republican colleagues for postponing a mark-up of the annual defense policy bill over the debate on the debt limit. Ranking member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) accused the GOP of taking the debt ceiling increase “hostage,” which he said will jeopardize national security. “There...

A bipartisan railway reform bill, written in the wake of the February train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, cleared a key Senate committee Wednesday. The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted 16-11 to advance the Railway Safety Act of 2023, sponsored by Ohio Sens. Sherrod Brown (D) and J.D. Vance (R). Vance and Sen. Eric...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to the Capitol on Wednesday, marking her first time back since February after a bout with shingles. Feinstein, who arrived and was put in a wheelchair, was greeted outside by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and was led into the chamber for a late afternoon vote. She told reporters upon...

President Biden warned Wednesday that if the United States defaulted on its debt, it would spell trouble internationally, after his latest meeting with congressional leaders to raise the country's borrowing limit hardly made a dent in the debate. The president, during remarks in Valhalla, N.Y., said that world leaders are wondering about the looming risk...

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal charges on Wednesday, hours after federal prosecutors formally accused him of misleading donors and misrepresenting his finances to the public and government agencies. Santos entered his not guilty plea at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, and was released on a $500,000 bond. His...

Inflation continues to moderate, bolstering hopes that the U.S. is on track to restore price stability after years of painful price hikes. Prices rose 4.9 percent annually in April, the slowest annual rate in two years, according to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) released Wednesday. Annual inflation has now fallen for 10 straight...

A tweet from former Fox News host Tucker Carlson announcing plans to launch a new show on Twitter is racking up tens of millions of views online. Carlson's three-minute video message captioned "we're back" had amassed a total of 100 Million views in less than 24 hours, with the video included netting 21 million watches...

A bipartisan group of House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders introduced a resolution calling on Russia to release Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in the country since March. The lawmakers, including Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the committee chair, and Reps. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), Thomas Kean, Jr. (R-N.J.) and William...

A Texas Senate panel has advanced a measure that would ban race-based hair discrimination, sending the bill to the full Senate for approval. The Senate State Affairs Committee passed the bill, known as the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act, on Tuesday in a 9-1 vote. The legislation passed the...

A panel of outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted Wednesday that the benefits of making a birth control pill available over the counter outweigh the potential risks. The vote represents a major step forward in the decades-long push to make birth control pills available without a prescription for the first...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) criticized former President Trump for his response to the jury verdict this week in the E. Jean Carroll case that found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. "His response yesterday to me was ridiculous, that he didn’t even know the woman. I mean, you know, how many...

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan said Wednesday that former President Trump has "absolutely zero" grounds for an appeal after a jury found that he defamed Carroll and is liable for sexual abuse of her. "Judge Kaplan is one of the most-respected, fairest judges," she told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America." "He gave...

The Biden administration is set to dramatically limit asylum in the wake of the expiration of Title 42, rolling out a new rule Wednesday that mirrors a Trump-era policy requiring migrants to first seek and be denied asylum in another country before attempting to do so in the U.S. The rule comes as Title 42,...

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday warned migrants about smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of the Thursday expiration date for the pandemic-era immigration policy Title 42. “Smugglers have long been hard at work spreading false information that the border will be open after May 11. It will not be. They are lying,”...

The Georgia Bulldogs, the reigning national champions of college football, have declined an invitation to visit the White House, citing a scheduling conflict. “The University of Georgia first received on May 3 an invitation for the Bulldog football team to visit the White House on June 12,” the University of Georgia (UGA) athletic association said...

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) called for the expulsion of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday after the New York Republican was indicted on over a dozen federal charges. "The people of New York’s 3rd district deserve a voice in congress. George Santos should be immediately expelled from Congress and a special election initiated at the...

Elon Musk has a suggestion for former anchor Don Lemon now that he's out at CNN: Start a new show on Twitter. Musk, the eccentric billionaire who purchased the social media platform last year, replied to a weeks-old tweet from Lemon on Tuesday urging him to serve as a content creator on Twitter. "Have you...

President Biden on Wednesday will deliver remarks about the debt ceiling and why Congress must avoid a default from New York. Wednesday's speech follows a Tuesday meeting at the White House with the top four congressional leaders, including Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who came away from the meeting with no path forward to avoid the nation defaulting...