Новости за 26.08.2023

Sherri Papini, who faked her kidnapping and lied to the FBI, has been released from federal prison and will be overseen at a community confinement center. The 41-year-old mother of two from Redding, Calif., reportedly went missing in November of 2016. She was found three weeks later, on Thanksgiving, approximately 145 miles from where she...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) issued an executive order Saturday declaring a state of emergency for the state’s Gulf Coast in preparation for an expected tropical storm. “I signed an Executive Order issuing a state of emergency out of an abundance of caution to ensure that the Florida Division of Emergency Management can begin staging...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen warned that there's a serious risk to the former president that his co-defendants could cooperate with Georgia prosecutors. Trump and 18 other defendants were charged in a broad racketeering case in Georgia this month, alleging that the former president led a scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in the...

The monopolization of fundamental scientific information and tools prior to the Myriad decision stymied innovation growth in the health diagnostics space.

The Mayor of Maui County announced the hiring of a new head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency on Friday. Darryl Oliveira will become interim administrator for MEMA on Monday, according to a release from Maui County. The new hiring of Oliveira, a former administrator of the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense Agency, comes in the...

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been jailed in Russia on espionage charges since March, has appealed the extension of his pretrial detention, court documents showed Saturday. Gershkovich's detention was extended Thursday and is now scheduled to last until November, eight months after he was detained during a work trip to Yekaterinburg, in...

Bob Barker, the suave elevision game show host most famous for his 35-year stint as the face of “The Price is Right,” died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99 years old. “It is with profound sadness that we announce that the World’s Greatest MC who ever lived, Bob Barker has left...

Four astronauts from four different countries launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station in a SpaceX spacecraft Saturday. The Dragon spacecraft is transporting “NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov,” to the...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced Saturday that he ordered the flags at the U.S. Capitol to be put at half-staff in honor of 13 American service members who died in Afghanistan during attempting to help allies flee the country during the U.S.’s exit two years ago. “Two years ago today, we tragically lost 13...

As people in Hawaii grapple with what could become the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history, we’re once again forced to confront the tragic effects of climate change. As evidenced recently by hurricanes, wildfires, devastating floods, and record-breaking heat waves, our environment is in a constant state of distress. The battle to save our planet is...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) called on Republican presidential candidates to go on the offense against the GOP frontrunner, former President Trump. “I think they have to take it to him,” Sununu said in an interview on The Hill on NewsNation Friday. “They don’t have to go nuclear, like Chris [Christie] does... but everyone...

The Democratic Party’s progressive wing has been through many iterations – from the upstart insurgency of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in 2016 to the 2018 primary upsets inspired by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the expanding Squad of 2022. Now, at the start of the 2024 election cycle, the movement has seen even more promising...

As one of the wealthiest countries in the world, we have the tools and resources to put an end to hunger and Americans waiting in food lines — the real question is whether we choose to use them.

The need for additional transmission capacity to ensure that we can both connect more clean energy and ensure existing renewable generation isn’t curtailed due to transmission congestion is obvious.

The White House told New York Gov. Kathy Hochul that it cannot send more assistance to the state to help with the influx of migrants, placing the blame on a lack of Congressional action. Hochul announced Thursday that she wrote a letter to President Biden requesting executive action to help the state. She estimated that...

Alina Habba, legal spokesperson for Donald Trump, said the former president's mugshot was unnecessary in an interview on Newsmax Friday. “They didn't need the mugshot. It was, I guess to her, probably a trophy, but thank you, because now the trophy actually became ours,” Habba said, referring to the district of Fulton County, Ga. and...

Just as Trump was blind to the realities of the election, these prosecutors and pundits are blind to the implications of this indictment.

Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said Friday that housing assistance for people displaced by the state’s deadly wildfire will be extended month to month. Victims of the fire, which killed over a hundred people with nearly 400 still missing, have been able to stay in subsidized hotels and Airbnbs. That program will be extended via...

The historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will celebrate its 60th anniversary on Saturday, August 26. Activists will replicate the march in order to commemorate the anniversary. Organizations such as the NAACP, the Drum Major Institute run by Martin Luther King III and his wife, Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and...

Former President Trump and his allies are readily fundraising off of the former president’s historic booking photo, taking advantage of the unprecedented image to bank capital for their causes. Trump surrendered to Fulton County jail on Thursday for charges involving racketeering and his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. He —...

One of the defendants in the Georgia election fraud racketeering case was denied bail on Friday and will now remain at the Fulton County Jail pending further proceedings. Harrison Floyd, the leader of Black Voices for Trump and the only Black defendant in the case, was deemed a flight risk by a state judge after...

On Aug. 28, 1963, more than a quarter million people walked in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom – the same march that saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his seminal “I Have a Dream” Speech. Now, 60 years later, the march is being recreated as advocates highlight the fight still...

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s promotion blockade will have a dire ripple effect on our nation’s recruitment and retention crisis.

Former President Trump lashed out against Fox News on Friday, criticizing the network’s first GOP primary debate on Wednesday night, which he chose to skip. “The Debate on FoxNews had a hard time with the proverbial RATINGS. It was one of the lowest rated EVER, if not THE LOWEST. It showed that many of those...

High-level policy debates seem painfully distant and removed from the intimate and grinding day-to-day realities of student debt on campus.