Новости за 06.09.2023

{beacon} Evening Report Wednesday, September 6   © AP Trump looking 'forward' to taking stand at trial Former President Trump says he would "absolutely" take the stand to defend himself if asked to testify in any of his impending trials. “That, I would do. That, I look forward to," Trump told conservative radio...

Special counsel David Weiss will seek to indict Hunter Biden before the end of this month, the prosecutor said in a court filing updating a judge on his investigation into the president's son's failure to pay taxes. “The Speedy Trial Act requires that the Government obtain the return of an indictment by a grand jury...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Wednesday said 2024 will be the last election “decided by ballots rather than bullets” if former President Trump doesn't win that year's presidential race because of his various legal battles.  In the latest episode of his show on TBN, Huckabee argued the legal woes now facing Trump are...

Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal, a Navy veteran and former small-business owner, launched a bid for the House seat in Virginia currently held by first-term GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans. Kiggans, who unseated former Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) in the 2022 midterms, represents one of the 18 House districts in the country that voted for President Biden...

Rates of COVID-19 are rising as the summer ends, with new variants compounding concerns about the virus heading into the fall. Hospitalizations and deaths are both rising by double digit percentages, according to Centers for Disease Control data, though rates remain far below pandemic-era levels. The change in season also means cooling temperatures, cold season...

A Mar-a-Lago IT worker struck a cooperation deal with prosecutors investigating former President Trump’s handling of classified records at his Florida home, according to a filing from his former attorney. It was already known Yuscil Taveras had flipped in the case after prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith pushed the IT worker to speak...

Our nation is still reeling from another Supreme Court term with a number of cruel decisions — issued by justices, many of whose ethics are compromised — that rolled back our fundamental rights. There is reason to worry about what comes next for our democracy. What is certain, however, is that the work we and...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed an executive order Wednesday directing the state to study the potential uses and risks of generative artificial intelligence (AI) — a subset of AI, like ChatGPT — that generates novel text, images and other content. “This is a potentially transformative technology — comparable to the advent of the internet...

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story Conservation groups sue Utah for neglecting Great Salt Lake Community and conservation organizations on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the state of Utah, accusing the government of failing to ensure that sufficient amounts of water reach the Great Salt Lake. © AP...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed Wednesday to keep his job as Senate Republican leader at least through 2024 and to finish his seventh Senate term, which runs through 2026, despite recent health problems.  “I have no announcements to make on that subject,” McConnell, who is 81, told reporters when asked about calls from fellow conservatives...

Researchers are seeing a surge in the number of people under 50 diagnosed with cancer, according to a recent study. Globally, new cancer cases among people younger than 50 increased by 79.1 percent from 1990 to 2019, according to a new study published in BMJ Oncology. The number of early-onset cancer deaths also increased by 27.7 percent...

U.S.-based streaming company Roku is planning to cut hundreds of positions in its workforce and slow down its hiring process in an effort to boost profits after a series of quarterly losses. In a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing Wednesday, Roku, which specializes in audio and video manufacturing, said it plans to lay off...

Wisconsin Democrats are launching a $4 million effort aimed at defending a newly elected liberal justice on the state Supreme Court from a potential impeachment push by Republican state legislators. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin and other aligned groups rolled out a multi-million dollar initiative on Wednesday called Defend Justice that aims to "to hold...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lead attorney Tony Buzbee berated a key prosecution witness during the Republican's impeachment trial on Wednesday. Jeff Mateer, a conservative lawyer who formerly served as the first assistant Attorney General, had told Buzbee that he and other deputies in the AG's office met in late 2020 to report Paxton to...

Congress needs to increase dam safety, boost clean energy deployment and enhance ecological systems across the nation.

Google will require verified election advertisers to disclose when their ads have been digitally altered, including through the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the company said Wednesday. The update to Google’s policy will go into effect in November, one year before the 2024 presidential election. The new rules come as the use of AI in...

A judge denied a request Wednesday from attorneys representing former President Donald Trump, his family and his business to delay a business fraud trial in New York scheduled for Oct. 2 in New York. Judge Arthur Engoron's ruling came a day after the aforementioned attorneys’ request. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) brought the...

President Biden on Wednesday hailed the West Coast dockworker union contract as a "big deal" as automakers have a week left to make a deal with autoworkers in order to avert a strike. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) finalized a new contract covering the West Coast ports...

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) is pushing back on the argument that election officials should remove former President Trump from the ballots in their states for violating the 14th Amendment. “Invoking the 14th Amendment is merely the newest way of attempting to short-circuit the ballot box,” Raffensperger wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday....

Former President Trump holds a wide lead over the rest of the GOP presidential field among California Republicans, while support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has fallen in the state, new polling shows.  A new poll from University of California Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies found Trump ahead with 55 percent of likely Republican primary...

A state judge denied Kenneth Chesebro’s attempt to sever his charges in the Georgia election interference case from Sidney Powell on Wednesday. But Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee signaled he is skeptical of prosecutors’ request to try alongside them the other 17 co-defendants, including former President Trump, though McAfee has not yet made...

A group of Democrats is appealing to party leaders in the House to restore funding to a grant program that helps immigrants prepare for naturalization. In a letter led by Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), 26 members called on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) to support funding for the Citizenship...

A judge in California issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday against a school district policy that would require parents be informed if their child requests to go by different pronouns or gender identity.  The Chino Valley Unified School District had issued a new policy under its conservative-majority board that would mandate parents be told if...

Every week we get new proof that China is penetrating our borders and violating our national sovereignty. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tempo for such operations is increasing and the scope of its activities is broadening. A black market Chinese-owned biolab in California, where officials found more than 200 infectious agents including E. coli, coronavirus, malaria,...

New York state will provide COVID-19 tests and masks in school districts amid a recent spike in cases over the summer, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Tuesday. The announcement also comes after the recent discovery of the BA.2.86 subvariant in New York City's sewage, according to city officials. Hochul’s office Wednesday said the...