Новости за 16.05.2023

The restaurant chain Taco Bell filed a petition on Tuesday to end the chain Taco John’s trademark of the phrase “Taco Tuesday,” arguing that it should be available for all who sell tacos. Taco Bell said in a release that the trademark, which has been in place since 1989, has put companies at risk of...

Abortion rights groups have jumped on board the Democrat-led push to expand the Supreme Court. Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, two of the country’s leading abortion rights groups, appeared in front of the Supreme Court along with lawmakers on Tuesday for the reintroduced the Judiciary Act, which would expand the court by four justices and...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday left a meeting on the debt ceiling with President Biden and other congressional leaders saying the structure of negotiations had improved and held out hope a deal would be possible in the coming days. While the two sides are still working through key differences, McCarthy told reporters that Biden...

For far too many learners, college does not pay off.

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story What to watch in Tuesday’s primaries It’s Election Night in America. Kentucky Republicans are competing in their gubernatorial primary as they look to oust Gov. Andy Beshear. Philadelphia Democrats are facing off in their mayoral primary. And Jacksonville voters head...

The Secret Service is investigating a late-night home intrusion of President Biden’s national security advisor, which occurred two weeks ago, according to the Washington Post. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confronted an unknown man who entered his home around 3 a.m. in late April, according to the Post, which cited three government officials. Sullivan instructed...

The world’s top fossil fuel firms may be responsible for more than a third of the acreage scorched by wildfires in Western North America over the past four decades, a new analysis has found. About 19.8 million acres — or about 37 percent of the total area burned in the Western U.S. and Southwest Canada since...

Sliding sales at the home improvement giant Home Depot in the first quarter of the year mark the end of a three-year boom for the company led by consumers taking on home improvement projects amid pandemic lockdowns and leading into the remote work era. The company reported $37.3 billion in sales for the first quarter of fiscal...

Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) argued with GOP lawmakers over violent crime and voter representation during her testimony before a House committee Tuesday. Bowser testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Tuesday to answer questions about about crime and safety in D.C. and the management of the city, according to Oversight Committee Chair James...

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said on Tuesday that President Biden has ‘mental challenges,’ citing what he’s seen from the president on television. The congressman argued during an interview on CNN that Biden and former President Trump are equally qualified to run for president in 2024, citing challenges on both sides. “I think that Joe Biden...

Former President Obama said in a new interview that what most worries him is that Americans are occupying "different realities." "The thing that I'm most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, a splintered media," Obama told "CBS Mornings" host Nate...

President Biden is cutting short an international trip and returning to the U.S. on Sunday in order to resume in-person debt talks with congressional lawmakers, a source familiar told The Hill. The president will leave as planned for Hiroshima, Japan on Wednesday for the Group of Seven (G7) summit, which runs until Sunday. He was...

Pop musician Kim Petras is one of the four cover models for Sports Illustrated (SI) swimsuit editions, becoming the second openly transgender model to appear on the cover. In an interview with Sports Illustrated published Monday, Petras explains that she felt pressure to represent the trans community due to the climate the U.S. is currently...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she will move to introduce articles of impeachment against Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, over his focus on prosecuting cases arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Greene said on Tuesday during a hearing from the House Oversight Committee on crime in Washington, D.C....

A group of Democratic lawmakers reintroduced a bill on Tuesday that would create an additional four seats on the Supreme Court. The move comes in the wake of a series of recent reports into the justices’ financial disclosures and the court's landmark abortion decision, which has only added to Democrats’ scorn of the conservative-majority court....

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is backing former U.N. ambassador Kelly Craft in the Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary as voters head to the polls on Tuesday to choose the Republican nominee to take on Gov. Andy Beshear (D). The Florida governor's endorsement sets up a proxy war against former President Trump, who has backed another...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper is earning scorn from the left and praise from the right over his commentary on John Durham, a Trump-era special counsel, and a report reviewing the investigation of the former president’s ties to Russia. "Regardless, the report is here, it has dropped," Tapper said Monday during his nightly newscast on CNN....

Many types of soft contact lenses available in the U.S. could contain toxic “forever chemicals,” new research has found. All 18 sets of soft contacts evaluated in a recent consumer study came back with various levels of organic fluorine — an indicator for the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The 18 sets, from three major brands,...

Famed musical group the Village People has sent former President Trump a cease-and-desist letter over his usage of their hit song "Macho Man." Karen Willis, the band's manager and wife of lead singer Victor Willis, sent Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, the letter on Monday, calling into question a recent performance at his Mar-a-Lago estate in...

Americans' positive views of childhood vaccines have remained steady since the coronavirus pandemic, a new survey says. The poll, published by the Pew Research Center, found that 88 percent of Americans say that the benefits of childhood vaccines for the protection of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) "outweigh the risks." This percentage is equivalent to...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday a Russian national has been charged and sanctioned for allegedly using three ransomware variants to conduct cyberattacks on critical U.S. infrastructure. According to the DOJ news release, Russian national and resident Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev was charged with conspiring to transmit ransom demands, conspiring to damage protected computers, and...

The head of the House Democrats said this week that tougher work requirements for social benefits won't fly with members of his caucus, setting the stage for a drag-out fight with GOP leaders who are insisting on those provisions as a condition of raising the debt ceiling. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is opening up about his wife’s miscarriage, saying he “found it difficult to grieve” during the “surreal” experience. “My wife and I lost our first child in a miscarriage just a few days after Erin watched the baby’s heartbeat for the first time,” Hawley writes in his book “Manhood: The Masculine...

The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) knocked outgoing Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday for comparing Democratic megadonor George Soros to the “Jewish supervillain” Magneto. Musk tweeted Monday that “Soros reminds me of Magneto,” referring to the primary adversary in Marvel’s X-Men comics who is also portrayed to be a Holocaust survivor. “You assume they...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is giving a daily briefing Tuesday afternoon. President Biden is again this week working to find a workable compromise on the federal budget ahead of a predicted day of reckoning for the debt limit — June 1, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. A memo circulated by the White...