Новости за 15.11.2023

A top Federal Reserve official is warning that interest rates may not yet have reached their apex in the current tightening cycle despite pauses at its last two meetings. Mary Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, told the Financial Times in an interview published Wednesday that the central bank needs to...

One of the keys to addressing the ongoing recruiting struggles of the U.S. military is to provide better housing, Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) argued Wednesday. Speaking at The Hill’s Completing the Mission: Supporting Veterans & Military Families event Wednesday, the co-chair of the Servicewomen and Women Veterans Caucus said that for the armed forces to...

The Social Security Administration announced 2024's cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) just over a month ago, confirming a 3.2% bump in benefits for retirees. Here's what you need to know.

Advocates in Nebraska are officially launching a campaign to put abortion protections on the ballot in 2024, joining activists in other red states seeking to expand access more than a year after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Nebraska’s measure would establish a right to abortion prior to fetal viability and when needed to protect a...

The U.S. on Wednesday shot down a drone launched from Yemen as it was headed toward a Navy destroyer, according to the Pentagon. The USS Thomas Hudner, an Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, was transiting international waters around the Red Sea when the drone was spotted in the direction of the ship, the Defense Department said, and the...

While a new poll shows former President Trump narrowly beating President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup, half of voters are not satisfied with the current candidates and want to see new faces join the race. Quinnipiac University’s latest poll released Wednesday showed Trump with 48 percent of support for the White House — a slight edge...

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas)'s office confirmed to the Hill he will seek reelection for his House seat in 2024, after reports he would launch a bid for the Texas Senate earlier this week. A spokesperson for Fallon confirmed the Texas Republican did previously launch a campaign for the state seat, he did not provide further...

The United States is in a heightened threat level since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, which has “sharpened the focus” of terrorist threats to the country, Biden officials told a House Homeland Security committee hearing Wednesday.   “I feel very strongly that we are in a heightened threat environment,” Christopher Wray, director of the...

A panel from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) blames the rising risks of flying on the “recurring gridlock” and politically motivated government shutdowns in Congress. The FAA said incidents at the beginning of the year prompted a team to review its operations, finding “an increase in the most serious type of runway incursions." In its...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), who went viral this week after challenging Teamsters head Sean O’Brien to a fisticuffs during a hearing, said Wednesday he's felt bullied during his life and was in a reactionary mode during the outburst. "He needs to be called out for his actions," Mullin said during an appearance on CNN just...

Media outlets around the world are showing dead and dying Palestinian babies in hospitals — but what they are not showing is who murdered these babies. The answer is clear. American intelligence has now revealed that Hamas has built its command centers and its tunnels underneath hospitals. It has also revealed that Hamas has been...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) got heated on the House floor Wednesday afternoon, tearing into his Republican colleagues and GOP leadership over their approach to funding and policy battles — and grilling them for not being willing to force a shutdown in order to try to coerce Democrats into giving them policy concessions. In a fiery,...

Scott Bolden, a prominent trial attorney, white collar defense lawyer and former chairman of the D.C. Democratic Party, is hosting a fundraiser Wednesday evening for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who indicted former President Trump in August on 13 charges. The event will be held at Bolden’s K Street law office and attendees are...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, called on federal lawmakers on Wednesday to pass legislation requiring parental approval for app store downloads by teenagers, as the company faces pressure to strengthen protections for children on its social media platforms. Antigone Davis, Meta’s global head of safety, said in a blog post that the...

There are many implications for a warming climate, melting icebergs, increasing temperatures, coral bleaching, and water scarcity. Each of these impacts is devastating in their own right, and while water scarcity may not receive the same attention as the above ground implications of climate change, it is still just as troublesome. There are two types...

An attorney for one of former President Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia admitted to providing proffer videos of defendants to a media outlet, a stunning revelation that came during an emergency court hearing Wednesday afternoon. Attorney Jonathan Miller, who is representing former Coffee County election supervisor Misty Hampton, did not name the outlet and said he...

New Hampshire Secretary of state Steve Scanlan announced on Wednesday that the state’s presidential primary would be held on January 23rd ahead of South Carolina’s contest.  The news comes as tensions have ramped up between New Hampshire Democrats and the Democratic National Committee over the committee’s decision to make South Carolina’s primary the first in...

In a letter Wednesday shared exclusively with The Hill, five Democrats who sit on the Senate Banking Committee urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require companies to disclose more details on their corporate lobbying strategy to shareholders. The senators want the SEC to develop a new rule that would “require registered companies to...

How would you like to live in a country where people who criticize the nation’s leader end up in jail? Sounds more like Putin’s Russia than the United States. Last week, Donald Trump said that if he is returned to the White House, he would like to unleash the federal law enforcement apparatus on his...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) says that he would “absolutely” consider a presidential run, just a week after he said he wouldn’t seek reelection to the Senate.  “Are you considering running for president?” NBC's "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker asked Manchin in an interview aired Wednesday. "I will do anything I can to help my...

The judge overseeing former President Trump’s Georgia 2020 election subversion case will hold a hearing Wednesday afternoon after media outlets published recorded statements made by four defendants — including Trump-aligned attorneys Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis — as part of their plea deals. Prosecutors are demanding a protective order, which would place restrictions on how defendants...

President Biden is slated to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (APEC), as The Hill reported. Biden will go into the meeting in with some key goals, including resuming direct military-to-military lines of communication as a way to lower the temperature between Washington and...

A London-based theater company will stage a new musical production centered around actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow’s skiing accident trial. Pleasance Theatre announced on Wednesday an Awkward Productions musical, “Gwyneth Goes Skiing.” It is a satire musical based on the actress' ski course collision with a retired optometrist at a Utah resort in 2016 and...

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New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) is set to announce the Granite State’s presidential primary on Wednesday, his office said, solidifying another piece of the presidential nominating calendar as 2024 heats up. Iowa and New Hampshire have long kicked off the process, but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is reshuffling its primary calendar —...