Новости за 22.05.2023

President Biden is slated to deliver remarks Monday evening following deliberations with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on the nation's debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday warned lawmakers the nation will run out of funds to pay its debts by “early June, and potentially as early as June 1.” In a letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)...

A federal jury on Friday convicted an American man on charges of torture and conspiracy to commit crimes against the U.S. Ross Roggio of Stroudsburg, Pa., was convicted on numerous charges that include conspiring to commit an offense against the United States, exporting weapons parts and services to Iraq without the approval of the Department...

Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen warned lawmakers Monday that the nation will run out of funds to pay its debts by "early June, and potentially as early as June 1." In a letter to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) sent a little more than an hour before his scheduled White House meeting with President Biden to...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez are engaged after five years together, People reports. A source reportedly confirmed the couple's engagement to People after Sanchez was spotted rocking a large diamond ring in photos from their current vacation in the South of France for the Cannes Film Festival. Sanchez and Bezos have went...

A record share of Americans in a new survey from the Federal Reserve Board say they’re worse off financially than they were a year earlier. According to the “Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households” report, the 35 percent of adults who reported they were worse off in 2022 than they year prior is the highest share...

Advocates hailed the environmental legacy of Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) Monday after the four-term senator announced he will retire in 2025. Carper has served on the environmental panel since his first term in 2001, becoming chair in 2021. He has had a generally moderate record in the chamber, fending off...

American AI firms will have to steel themselves, as these looming EU regulations threaten to reshape the very foundation of their existence.

More than 10 percent of U.S. counties are experiencing “persistent poverty,” according to U.S. Census data released this month. A recent census report found 10.9 percent of the country’s 3,142 counties — 341 of them — “experienced high poverty rates for an extended period.” More than 80 percent of the counties determined to have persistent...

Just under 11 percent of the agency’s 2020 budget went to diseases and illnesses that affect the health of women.

The Supreme Court’s decision to dodge weighing in on a controversial liability shield for internet companies has punted the issue back to Congress. Expectations had run high that the justices would be the ones to significantly narrow the provision, known as Section 230, when the court agreed to directly take up the question of how...

Actor Jon Hamm is narrating a campaign ad for Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R) Democratic opponent in the Missouri Senate race, saying, “You can’t fake courage.” “Manhood, you hope that means courage,” the former “Mad Men” star said in an ad for Lucas Kunce released Monday. Kunce, a Marine veteran, jumped into Missouri’s 2024 Senate race in January...

A judge on Monday entered not guilty pleas for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death last year. Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the November 2022 deaths. He declined to enter pleas on his own, and the judge...

Dozens of transgender children, teens and their families from more than 17 states gathered in Washington on Monday to celebrate their identities at a prom organized specifically for trans youth. Chase Strangio, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and one of the prom’s organizers, described the event as a “needed disruption”...

Congress and the White House have just 10 days to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling before the Treasury Department estimates the nation risks default. But major sticking points have emerged in the past week. Friday's negotiations snagged on disagreements over spending but resumed over the weekend as pressure mounts on both sides...

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on Friday announced that a Georgia school district may have violated students’ civil rights by removing books that contained characters who were people of color or LGBTQ. The office said it concluded its investigation into Forsyth County School District after the school put restrictions on more than...

The White House on Monday threatened to veto a Republican-led bill in the House that would block the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program. In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House expressed its concerns with a House resolution to disapprove of the student loan forgiveness plan, which provides up to $20,000 in relief...

It has been 50 years since Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and a clear philosophical difference has emerged in those monitoring its enforcement. Some believe the goal of the ESA should be to protect listed species by affirmatively taking actions to recover them and get them off the list. And those people are...

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) says he will “stay as far away ... as possible” from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after a contentious exchange between the two stemming from an encounter outside the Capitol last week. “My next move is to stay as far away from her as possible,” Bowman said of Greene in an...

President Biden on Monday nominated telecommunications attorney Anna Gomez to serve as a commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Biden nominated Gomez at the same time he renominated current FCC commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Adam Starks, who have served in those roles since 2017 and 2019, respectively. Gomez spent 12 years in various...

Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) is the most recent Republican to throw his hat into the ring for the party's 2024 White House nomination, challenging former President Trump, who holds a commanding lead in primary polls. Scott, who officially launched his campaign Monday, had launched an exploratory committee for a presidential campaign. Scott already has the...

The U.S. on Monday signed a new security agreement with the island nation of Papua New Guinea, as Washington seeks to counter China's ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region. The Defense Cooperation Agreement both enhances and modernizes an old security pact between the nations, increasing bilateral and multilateral exercises and improving the capabilities of the U.S....

Former President Trump on Monday welcomed Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) to the 2024 Republican presidential primary, using Scott's entry into the race as an opportunity to chide a rival who's considered a more realistic contender: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). "Good luck to Senator Tim Scott in entering the Republican Presidential Primary Race," Trump posted...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) formally announced Monday that he will seek the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, jumping into a primary battle that has so far centered around former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Scott announced his decision at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University, in a speech drawing on his biography of growing...

The White House on Monday signaled support for legislation led by two House Republicans that would toughen penalties for fentanyl trafficking and provide greater resources to the government to combat the drug. In a Statement of Administration Policy, the White House welcomed provisions of the HALT Fentanyl Act, introduced by Reps. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) and...

Bernice King — lawyer, minister and the youngest child of civil rights revolutionary Martin Luther King Jr. — on Monday criticized Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-Texas) remarks about the NAACP’s travel advisory for Florida, which argues the state is “hostile to Black Americans.” Cruz called the advisory “bizarre” and “utterly dishonest.” “In the 1950s & 1960s, the NAACP did...