Новости за 26.09.2023

The National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday released a digital ad targeting House Democrats over a wave of new migrants arriving at the southern border and in New York City. “An unmitigated crisis,” a narrator says against a backdrop of clips depicting migrants traveling together en masse. “Not just at the border, but in the...

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the chairman of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, joined the growing chorus in the party who are calling for Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) resignation following his indictment on federal bribery and corruption charges. "As elected officials, the public entrusts us to serve in their best interests and in the best interests...

A New York judge on Tuesday found former President Trump liable for fraud, handing a major legal victory to New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) in her sprawling civil case over Trump’s businesses. New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron granted James’s request to find Trump liable for the first of seven causes of action she...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said on Tuesday that she plans to put forward a proposal to reinstate net neutrality rules that were repealed under former President Trump. The proposal would bar broadband providers, like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, from blocking or throttling internet traffic to some websites and speeding up access to...

Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie on Tuesday announced he’s challenging San Francisco Mayor London Breed for her seat in 2024. “I am running for Mayor of San Francisco to bring a new era of leadership that this moment demands,” Lurie, a Democrat, said on X. He's the heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and a prominent...

Target announced Tuesday it will be closing nine stores across four states in October because of theft and crime. The company said they tried taking “meaningful steps” to improve guest experience and business performance but made the “difficult decision” because certain locations saw theft and organized retail crime threatening the safety of employees and consumers. ...

MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough on Tuesday criticized Republican senators for not condemning comments by former President Donald Trump that accused the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of treason. Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, said the remarks were putting Gen. Mark Milley and his family in danger, and Republicans should have held...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said it would be “very important” to meet with President Biden amid discussions over averting a government shutdown and addressing the situation at the southern border. “I think it would be very important to have a meeting with the president,” McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol. The comment came...

The rating agency Moody’s Analytics warned Monday that a government shutdown could have a negative impact on the U.S.’s credit rating, as Congress struggles to reach a deal before funding runs out on Saturday. A shutdown would be “credit negative” for the country, even if it is short lived and results in limited disruption to...

Most Hispanic voters expressed frustration with the economy and the direction of the country in a new poll, though a minority of those respondents pinned the blame on President Biden. The poll from Noticias Univision found 54 percent of Hispanics said soaring prices and the cost of living are the most important issues facing the country,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed measures on Tuesday to raise taxes on guns and ammunition to improve school safety in the state. The new law will double the taxes on guns and ammunition and will use that revenue to pay for more security at public schools and to support numerous violence prevention programs. The...

A California man accused of organizing a group of Jan. 6 rioters, participating in the riots and attempting to destroy evidence of his involvement was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Tuesday, the Justice Department announced. Edward Badalian was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding in April. He was...

Robert Panton's life sentence was cut short after 30 years when a federal judge declared him "fully rehabilitated" and reduced his sentence to time served. But Panton's good turn in the criminal justice system didn't help him with immigration authorities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in August denied Panton's request for a stay of removal...

Political commentator Ana Navarro said she thinks as many as 99 senators could call for Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) to resign and he still wouldn’t do so. “Whether I think he should or not, I think there's a moot point because I don't think he ... will,” Navarro said on CNN on Tuesday. “I think...

Farmers and ranchers in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico will be eligible to receive compensation for water conservation over the next year, following a recent agreement among these Upper Colorado River Basin states. Officials from the four states voted last week to revise and extend what’s known as the System Conservation Pilot Program (SCPP)...

Democratic strategist James Carville is warning his party that President Biden could lose to former President Trump in 2024. “Let's say the election was November the third of this year. And they said the candidates are Joe Biden the Democrat, Donald Trump the Republican, Joe Manchin and Larry Hogan No Labels and Cornel West. Trump...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s official portrait was unveiled Tuesday at the State Department, accompanied by glowing remarks from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.  “The walk to the secretary’s office on the seventh floor is a little bit awe-inspiring … down that wood-paneled mahogany row, surrounded by portraits of our predecessors, most of them...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) joined striking United Auto Workers (UAW) members on the picket line Tuesday in Tappan, N.Y. “We’re gonna fight until we win,” Schumer said in a video posted to the UAW’s account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “My father, who was a union guy taught me ......

A new poll has found that nearly half of Black Americans feel news coverage of them and their community is “racially problematic.” In a survey of nearly 5,000 Black adults, the Pew Research Center found that 49 percent of Black Americans said they often see news that in some way is racist or racially insensitive,...

A group of Jewish leaders published a letter warning of the rise in antisemitic rhetoric on X, formerly Twitter, and placed responsibility largely on owner Elon Musk — who they claimed has “facilitated and enabled” its growth.  “X has become a breeding ground for antisemitism and represents one of the largest dangers to Jews in...

Some people during the pandemic learned to bake a killer sourdough or binged on TV shows, but Major Garrett had a few other things in mind. “One of the things that I had to do during lockdown was to find myself ways to be useful in the information space when a global pandemic did not...

Whistleblowers in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) case have vowed to not give up their legal fight, just days after he was acquitted on 16 articles of impeachment in a Texas state Senate trial earlier this month. “We are not going away,” Blake Brickman, former Texas deputy attorney general for policy and strategy, said...

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says he isn't confident in the government's explanation of what happened in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, continuing his penchant for entertaining conspiracy theories. “I don’t know what happened on 9/11,” Kennedy said in a podcast interview with journalist Peter Bergen released Tuesday. “I know there’s strange things that...

We’ve seen this movie before. Every time there are changes proposing to improve child nutrition programs, food industry interests cry foul and seek special treatment.

A judge dismissed all charges Tuesday against a Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a driver last month. Mark Dial shot 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry through the rolled-up driver’s side window of Irizarry’s sedan during a traffic stop on Aug. 14. Dial and his partner, Officer Michael Morris, say they had been pursuing Irizarry for driving...