Новости за 27.07.2023

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The House on Thursday voted to overturn two Biden administration Endangered Species Act (ESA) rules, sending the resolution to the president, who has vowed to veto them. The two rules apply to federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken and the northern long-eared bat, respectively. The Senate voted in favor of both resolutions in May,...

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) is in hot water after he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages in the Capitol rotunda early Thursday morning.  According to a transcript written by a page minutes after the incident and obtained by The Hill, Van Orden called the pages “jackasses” and “pieces of s---,” and told...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) yelled at House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the House floor on Thursday, calling Republicans’ funding bills “racist,” after GOP lawmakers passed the first of 12 annual appropriations bills. “Your bills are racist,” Bush yelled out, as Scalise touted the passage of the legislation allocating funding for military construction, the Department...

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) led Democrats in introducing legislation Thursday to end solitary confinement in federal prisons, jails and detention centers.  The End Solitary Confinement Act would cap the time incarcerated people and detainees are alone at four hours and require prison or jail staff to meet with the inmate within one hour. The separation...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) had a back-and-forth with a reporter on a campaign stop in Iowa Thursday over his state’s newly passed controversial school curriculum, which indicates that students should be taught that enslaved people “developed skills” for personal benefit. A reporter posed a question to DeSantis about whether he believed there were beneficial...

July 27 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but it does not celebrate that Black women earn what they are owed. We are far from that. Indeed, at our current pace of reform, we will have to wait over a century before Black Women’s Equal Pay marks wage justice for Black women. This year, Black...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Tim Scott gains momentum Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is starting to see some momentum in early state polling and increased donor interest, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign has shown signs of faltering. © Greg Nash As The Hill's...

Congressional Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation that would immediately cut interest rates to 0 percent for all 44 million student loan borrowers in the U.S. While the Student Loan Interest Elimination Act, introduced by Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) and Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), would cover current borrowers, future ones would still be on the hook...

A court in France sentenced a United Airlines pilot to a six-month suspended prison term and one-year suspended license for showing up to work intoxicated Tuesday, local media outlets reported.  The pilot, reportedly a 63-year-old American referred to only as “Henry W.” in French media, showed up to work at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) is likely saying hallelujah that her pastor and colleagues in Congress have a sense of humor, after telling a suggestive “joke” in front of them at a prayer breakfast. “When I woke up this morning at 7 — I was getting picked up at 7:45 — Patrick, my fiancé, tried to...

A bipartisan group of House members introduced a bill Thursday to designate space as a critical infrastructure sector, a move aimed at ensuring the rapidly evolving industry gets adequate resources and future security protections. The Space Infrastructure Act would direct the Homeland Security secretary to designate space systems, services and technology as a sector of...

The White House is highlighting praise of the economy from an anchor on Fox Business Network, which is owned by conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch. Anchor Cheryl Casone noted on Thursday the better-than-expected GDP growth so far this year. “2.4 percent ... the estimate was only for 1.8 percent, talk about a strong economy,” Casone said....

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday sharply rebuffed the notion of President Biden pardoning his son Hunter Biden who is working out another plea deal with the Justice Department over an investigation of evading taxes. When asked by a reporter if there is any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his...

Brian Fallon is stepping down as executive director of Demand Justice, he announced Thursday, leaving his post atop the influential progressive group focused on court reform. Fallon, in a letter first reported by Politico, wrote to the group’s board of directors to share his plans to step down in the fall. “Our mission from the...

The CAP Act walks back progress made towards equity since the 1972 passage of Title IX.

The Biden administration is launching a new initiative aimed at helping surgeons to distinguish and remove cancer cells without damaging surrounding tissue, in an effort to improve health outcomes for cancer patients. The initiative is the first cancer-focused program under the administration's multi-billion-dollar Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), and just its second program...

The European Union will soon require incoming foreigners to fill out an online application before they enter popular tourist destinations like France, Italy, Spain and Greece.

A bipartisan duo of lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday that would help turn the site of Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium into a new multipurpose development, which could greenlight the eventual return of the NFL’s Washington Commanders to the district. According to a news release, the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it is investigating the Memphis Police Department over potential constitutional and civil rights violations in the wake of Tyre Nichols’s death earlier this year. The probe will examine whether the police department engages in a pattern or practice of making unlawful stops, searches and arrests, using excessive...

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney shared her “trauma” amid the ongoing Bud Light controversy in a new social media post celebrating her 500th day since coming out as a woman. “Today would be day 500 of being a girl if I was still keeping up with that series, but I found myself in kind of an...

You may not have heard of Medley, Fla., or Moonachie, N.J., or Huntingtown, Md. They are unsung suburbs of expensive cities: Miami, New York and Washington, D.C. A new analysis by Point2, the online real estate marketplace, ranks hundreds of suburbs with more affordable housing than the cities they adjoin. The report considered 777 suburbs...

Capitol Hill is buzzing about the serious problems within our federal criminal justice system. The Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Justice, and other agencies are under the microscope because of actual and alleged abuses of power, all while Congress begins its yearly appropriations process. But there is another problem hiding in plain sight,...

The legendary jewelry house Tiffany and Co. has once again partnered with Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, this time for a special collection paying homage to the superstar’s Renaissance World Tour and Black students. The "Return to Tiffany x Beyoncé" collection will be released July 29, when Beyoncé hits the stage in East Rutherford, N.J., and features...

Black Americans are under attack, said members of the Congressional Black Caucus on Thursday, arguing a slew of efforts from Republicans across the country are an assault on their rights. “Black people are under attack in America, but we are not victims and we are not powerless,” CBC Chairman and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) said...