Новости за 07.06.2023

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The White House and Senate Democrats are refocusing their efforts on Julie Su’s nomination to become Labor secretary and are pushing for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to break party lines and support her as they struggle to win over a group of Democratic moderates. For months, Su and Democrats have been unable to win over...

The White House is attacking House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s (R-Ky.) credibility ahead of proceedings to hold FBI director Christopher Way in contempt of Congress over a document related to President Biden. Comer has been demanding a document from the FBI, saying it outlines an unverified and unspecified “alleged criminal scheme” involving a foreign...

President Biden on Wednesday announced he will nominate former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for U.S. representative to the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Crist, a former congressman, unsuccessfully ran for Florida governor again to unseat Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in 2022. The ICAO spot, which requires Senate confirmation, is a representative to...

Rory McIIroy, an outspoken critic of Saudi-backed LIV Golf, isn't changing his tune now that the league is set to merge with the PGA Tour. "I still hate LIV," McIlroy told reporters ahead of the RBC Canadian Open at Oakdale Golf and Country Club this week. "Like, I hate LIV. I hope it goes away,...

Most Americans support the continuation of birthright citizenship following former President Trump’s promise to try to end it if elected president, according to a new poll. A poll from The Economist and YouGov released Wednesday showed that 60 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said the country should continue to provide citizenship to all who are...

Florida officials are facing potential legal peril over GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis's migrant relocation moves. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and Bexar County (Texas) Sheriff Javier Salazar, whose jurisdiction encompasses San Antonio, are focusing their criminal and civil investigations on whether migrants were lured onto flights under false pretenses. Salazar's office filed charges with...

Nearly half of independent voters in a new poll say President Biden’s health and age “severely” limits his ability to be president, as he runs for reelection to the White House in 2024. A The Economist-YouGov poll, released Wednesday, found that overall 45 percent of U.S. adults think Biden’s health and age “severely limit his...

The White House on Wednesday said that the Canadian wildfires, which have caused poor air quality in areas around the U.S. including a large swath of the eastern seaboard, is an example of another way that the climate crisis is impacting lives. Air-quality warnings worsened on Wednesday and residents across the East Coast and in...

New York City is set to receive $104.6 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support the care of asylum seekers in the city. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) announced the additional funding in humanitarian aid in a joint statement on Wednesday. The leaders noted that...

Kellyanne Conway said it’s “very likely” that progressive scholar Cornel West, who recently announced his third-party presidential campaign, poses more of a threat to President Biden’s reelection prospects than does Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In an interview on Fox News, the former senior counselor to then-President Trump laid out a case that West’s...

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General Joseph Cuffari and his May audit on law enforcement staffing challenges at the border quickly became the target of Democratic scrutiny at Tuesday’s House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs hearing. Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and colleagues questioned...

A man who allegedly sprayed wasp repellent at police during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection has been charged with multiple felonies, including assaulting an officer, over his conduct during the attack. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a release on Wednesday that 58-year-old Peter Moloney from Bayport, N.Y., was part...

Former President Trump’s campaign claimed he is being attacked by “rabid wolves” ahead of a possible indictment in the probe into the classified and sensitive documents taken from the White House.  Trump’s campaign released a video Tuesday stating that the “radical left” hates the former president because of his role in appointing justices to the...

Batman foiled an Italian retailer Wednesday as DC Comics successfully defended its trademark in the European Union. Reuters reported that the Luxembourg-based General Court, Europe's second top court, ruled in favor of Warner Bros. Discovery's DC Comics more than two decades after it registered its Batman logo with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. Commerciale...

A white woman in Florida was arrested Tuesday in connection with the shooting of her Black neighbor last week, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office announced. The office arrested Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, for allegedly shooting and killing neighbor Ajike Owens, 35, a mother of four. The charges are manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery...

Amanda Gorman is speaking out against book bans, which caused the poem she recited at President Biden’s inauguration to be restricted at a Florida school, saying that it takes a single complaint from a parent “to render that book inaccessible for everyone.” “What I think is important to really absorb is there were thousands of...

Canadian wildfires are causing harmful smoke to drift across the U.S., leading to air and health warnings across the country. According to airnow.gov, a number of locations throughout the Mid-Atlantic and eastern part of the U.S. have reported air quality categorized as “unhealthy”, with cities like Philadelphia and a few areas in upstate New York citing...

Homebuyers paying with cash purchased more than a third of homes sold in April – the highest share in nearly a decade, according to a new report from real estate brokerage Redfin. The share of cash purchases has risen alongside mortgage rates that have pushed up monthly payments outside of the budgets of many prospective buyers. Buyers who...

President Biden on Wednesday named two nominees to fill federal judge vacancies from Louisiana, a reliably red state. Jerry Edwards, Jr. was nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and Brandon Long was nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Edwards is the first assistant U.S....

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is joining the growing 2024 primary field, making him the latest Republican to challenge former President Trump for the party's nomination. Burgum announced his candidacy in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. "We need a change in the White House. We need a new leader for a changing economy....

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Ahead of his expected 2024 presidential campaign launch, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) wrote in an op-ed that fixing the country’s economy is his number one priority. “We need a change in the White House. We need a new leader for a changing economy. That’s why I’m announcing my run for president today,”...

In the grand scheme of things, what happens in Iowa means almost nothing.