Новости за 04.10.2023

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) unveiled a 20-year needs assessment, including a list of initiatives to address New York City’s aging transit system. The upgrade intends to address the city’s aging infrastructure, evolving rider needs and climate change impacts, MTA said in its release. The new assessment provides a "comprehensive, unconstrained view of the system’s...

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) brought Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) sushi to his Washington office Wednesday, after the Texas Democrat said his sushi was stolen during a carjacking Monday.  “Don’t let ‘em get you down, @RepCuellar. We got your sushi back,” Gonzales wrote Wednesday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. Gonzales included a...

Interior Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau, the No. 2 official at the department, will leave the Biden administration, the Interior Department confirmed Wednesday. “Tommy’s impact on the Department can be seen in every aspect of our work,” Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement. “He has been a valued counselor and friend. His legacy will...

Facing a pileup of spending bills and a possible government shutdown, 20 Republican senators led by Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.) say they will delay any legislation moving on the Senate floor that does not relate directly to funding the government. Scott circulated a letter at the Senate Republican lunch Wednesday warning Senate Majority Leader Chuck...

Labor unrest following high inflation and an increased cost of living hit a new high point Wednesday, as more than 75,000 health care workers with hospital chain Kaiser Permanente went on strike in multiple U.S. states. Unions said it’s the biggest health care strike in U.S. history, but they also expect it to last just...

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story California weather whiplash blows in October heat Interrupting a bout of cool and wet weather, an unseasonable October heat wave is expected to scald much of California through Friday. © AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes “The heat up begins today!” the National Weather...

More than 6 in 10 registered Republican voters in Pennsylvania said in a new Quinnipiac University poll that they’ll support former President Trump in the state’s presidential primary, widening his lead over other GOP candidates.  The poll, published Wednesday, found that 61 percent of registered GOP voters in the state said they’ll vote for Trump...

GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie is raising funds off his now-cancelled joint Fox News appearance with rival Vivek Ramaswamy. “Voters need more information, not less. That’s why I agreed to go one-on-one with Vivek Ramaswamy on Fox News,” Christie wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. “But Trump allies in the [Republican National Committee...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said he thinks Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) or Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) would be a “monumental upgrade” over former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday "I know this — if it's Speaker Jim Jordan or Speaker Steve Scalise, there will be very few conservatives in the country who don't see...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will lie in state Wednesday at San Francisco City Hall, giving city leaders and residents a chance to pay their respects to the trailblazer ahead of her funeral on Thursday, as The Hill reported. Feinstein’s body will lie in state in the rotunda of the San Francisco City Hall, where the...

Former President Trump on Wednesday appealed a court ruling that found he committed fraud and ordered his New York business certificates be stripped. Trump’s trial in the civil case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), is ongoing. Just prior to the trial, the judge ruled that James had already proven the core of her...

Republican extremists have destroyed the last three Republican Speakers.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) holds an early 6-point lead over Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania’s Senate contest, according to a Quinnipiac University poll. Less than a month after McCormick jumped into the race to challenge the incumbent, Casey leads with 50 percent of registered voters in the state to McCormick’s 44 percent, according to the...

More than a dozen Senate Republicans called on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to cancel the Senate's October recess and get the body to work on passing appropriations bills before the Nov. 17 deadline. The Senate is scheduled to take the week of Oct. 9 off as a period for members to do work in...

Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio) said in a Wednesday interview that he would support a theoretical vote to remove from the GOP conference the eight colleagues who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the historic Tuesday vote. “If it was up to me, I'd vote for it,” Joyce said in an interview on...

Former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D) is under fire for a social media post about former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that some have called "antisemitic." Jones, who is running to reclaim his former New York House seat, posted a photo of McCarthy and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) meeting with Jewish leaders in Rockland County, N.Y. in...

A blaring alarm interrupted the White House briefing, Capitol Hill pressers and courtroom processes Wednesday, as a nationwide emergency test hit devices.  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued the alert at roughly 2:20 pm Eastern, setting off sirens on phones and sending a notification about the system test. “Well,...

The Trump campaign sent a fundraising email blast Wednesday criticizing the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its request to place a gag order on former President Trump — a separate attempt to bar him from intimidating witnesses and those overseeing the case than the one a judge in New York placed on all parties a...

President Biden on Wednesday called for Congress to "stop seeing each other as enemies" after the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the role of Speaker. Biden, in remarks from the White House, bemoaned the "poisonous atmosphere" in Washington, D.C., as the House is without a Speaker after Democrats and eight Republicans voted to...

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani laughed aloud in a press conference Wednesday when asked about the recent New York Times report that pinpoints his drinking as a new centerpiece in former President Donald Trump’s federal case. “If I have an alcohol problem, I should be in the 'Guinness Book of World Records,'” Giuliani said....

President Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Michael Whitaker, was pressed during his nomination hearing on Wednesday over several challenges, including staffing shortages at the agency and a potential government shutdown.  The stopgap measure passed over the weekend offers some temporary relief, funding the agency until mid-November and reauthorizing it until the end...

A nationwide test of the country's Emergency Alert System Wednesday went out to TVs, radios and phones – at least most phones.

Rudy Giuliani sued President Biden for defamation Wednesday over his comments calling the former New York City mayor a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 presidential debate. The 16-page lawsuit, filed in New Hampshire state court, names Biden, his campaign and several fundraising committees as defendants, taking aim at two statements Biden made during the final...

A mad dash is kicking off in the House GOP to elect a new nominee for Speaker after the House ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the post Tuesday, and he declined to seek the gavel again. Republicans expect to hold an internal candidate forum Tuesday and an election Wednesday. Here are the top GOP...

It may be a hard sell, but the president is right: “For all its faults, though, American democracy remains the best pass [path] forward to prosperity, possibilities, progress, fair play, equality.”