Новости за 25.10.2023

Republicans overwhelmingly backed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.)'s bid for House Speaker on Wednesday, ending a chaotic, 22-day stretch without an elected leader in the chamber. Johnson secured 220 votes, compared to 209 for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). The fourth Speaker candidate in three weeks, Johnson won the conference's nomination on Tuesday night. Johnson,...

Democrats and abortion rights groups are seizing on the anti-abortion record of new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and appear ready to use it as a cudgel against the GOP conference ahead of the 2024 elections. Throughout the day Wednesday, as Republicans coalesced around Johnson, Democrats were quick to point out what they called extreme...

An Australian court has found Carnival Cruise Line and its cruise ship operator negligent for failing to cancel a trip from Sydney that led to a major COVID-19 outbreak Wednesday. The Ruby Princess ship left Sydney on March 8, 2020, with 2,671 passengers aboard for the 13-day cruise to New Zealand. The ship returned in...

Bitcoin has surged nearly 15 percent since Monday amid speculation that BlackRock’s proposed exchange-traded fund (ETF) for bitcoin could be nearing regulatory approval. The often-volatile cryptocurrency jumped to just shy of $35,000 on Monday night and has hovered around $34,000 for the last two days, reaching its highest price in nearly a year and a...

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) after the chancellor of the State University System of Florida ordered several pro-Palestinian student groups to be deactivated. "My view is that the answer to bad speech is not less speech, it is more speech. And I think it is wrong for us to silence...

Lina Khan is not attacking small businesses. Rather, she aims to realize the intentions of the Bureau of Corporations.

A host of Black lawmakers have banded together to create a new congressional caucus meant to educate policymakers about and uplift the needs of Predominantly Black Institutions.  Democratic Reps. Robin Kelly (Ill.), Danny K. Davis (Ill.), Jonathan Jackson (Ill.) and Yvette D. Clarke (N.Y.) introduced the Congressional Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Caucus Wednesday. PBIs are...

Newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who won the gavel Wednesday after three prior Republican nominees failed to reach a majority, is a longtime ally of the oil industry and will be perhaps the most vocal skeptic of the scientific consensus on climate change ever to hold the speakership.  Johnson, whose district includes the...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday urged the judge overseeing former President Trump’s federal 2020 election criminal case in D.C. to reevaluate her gag order, arguing it is unconstitutionally over-broad and vague. “Former President, and now Defendant, Donald Trump has said many things,” the ACLU and its D.C. affiliate wrote in court filings....

Several environmental groups have urged a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of an international meeting in Jamaica where members of the United Nations (UN) will debate the issue amid fears over the first-ever license to harvest minerals from the ocean’s floor. Monaco joined the growing list of 20 countries that have called for the moratorium...

President Biden on Wednesday called for a “concentrated effort” on the part of world leaders to work toward a two-state solution to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, as Israel’s war with Hamas looks to reshape the region and leaves open questions to the future for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.  Biden, since entering office, had...

President Biden on Wednesday said he did not demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold off on a ground invasion into Gaza until Hamas releases hostages. Biden met with Netanyahu last week in Israel and has been speaking to him regularly since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400...

The hospital debacle is just one example of knee-jerk anti-Israel instincts, or at least extreme skepticism, we’ve seen from the corporate media.

The campaign arm for Senate Democrats is increasing its investments in two states where it will look to go on offense in 2024: Texas and Florida. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said in a Wednesday release that it will step up funding for communications and research staff in the states. The expansion, which was...

President Biden on Wednesday brushed off the possibility of newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) attempting to overturn the 2024 election results should Biden win reelection, following Johnson's challenges to the 2020 election. During a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a reporter asked Biden about Johnson's actions after the 2020 election, when...

Honda and General Motors are no longer working together on a plan to develop electric vehicles (EVs). “After studying this for a year, we decided that this would be difficult as a business, so at the moment we are ending development of an affordable EV,” Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe said, according to Bloomberg. “GM and...

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo finds Huawei’s ability to market a cell phone built around an advanced 7 nanometer (nm) chip produced in China to be “incredibly disturbing.” In theory, the Biden administration’s restrictions on exporting semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China were supposed to prevent that type of technological advancement. In Raimondo’s Oct. 4 testimony before the...

A recent outbreak of salmonella has been linked to bagged pre-cut onions, the U.S. Center for Disease and Prevention (CDC) announced on Tuesday. Gills Onions of Oxnard, Calif. recalled certain lots of fresh diced yellow onions, mirepoix, and diced red onion after they were linked to dozens of reported illnesses and hospitalizations. The recalled products...

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would make a great president of the United States in recent comments. “I feel like I would make a great president,” Schwarzenegger said in a recent interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). “But I feel that, at the same time, everything I’ve accomplished was because...

Like dominoes falling in a row as they knock each other down, each guilty plea makes it more likely there will be others.

A bipartisan alliance of more than 30 health care groups and policy experts are calling on Congress to pass another 5-year reauthorization of the U.S. global HIV initiative, which expired last month. The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was launched in 2003 by former President George W. Bush. In its 20-year history, the...

Differing parties and governing philosophies do not have to stop elected officials from working together — the two of us are proof of that. In fact, we introduced our very first piece of legislation together: the American Growth, Recovery, Empowerment, and Entrepreneurship Act, or AGREE Act, a pragmatic approach to putting politics aside and creating...

Joy Behar, a co-host of ABC's "The View," compared Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) to former President Trump as she criticized the congresswoman's rhetoric on the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. "And it’s right, left, center. I’ve called it out when it’s on the right. So I’m going to call it...

Some two dozen service members were wounded in drone and rocket attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria last week, U.S. Central Command confirmed Wednesday. Twenty American personnel “sustained minor injuries” from multiple one-way attack drones launched against U.S. and Coalition forces at al-Tanf Garrison in Syria on Oct. 18, a CENTCOM spokesperson told The...

We don’t throw away government because it’s spoiled — we reform it.