Новости за 16.11.2023

Forty percent of Americans say they are afraid to walk alone at night within a mile of their home, the highest number in three decades, a new poll found. The last time this many Americans were concerned about crime was in 1993, during “one of the worst crime waves in U.S. history,” Gallup, who conducted...

Tech scholars and scam victims told lawmakers artificial intelligence (AI) is driving more sophisticated scams during a Senate hearing Thursday morning. “AI amplifies the impact of scams, enhancing their believability and emotional appeal through personalization,” Dr. Tahir Ekin PhD, professor and the director of the Center for Analytics and Data Science, said. Lawmakers agreed, saying that...

Sympathy among U.S. voters for Israel in its war with militant group Hamas plunged among young voters, with more than half now expressing more sympathy for the Palestinians, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. The nationwide poll released Thursday found 54 percent of those surveyed said their sympathies lie more with Israelis while 24...

An appeals court has temporarily lifted the gag order barring former President Trump and his attorneys from talking about the trial judge's staff in his New York civil fraud case. The order follows an emergency lawsuit filed by Trump's legal team Wednesday against Judge Arthur Engoron, whose enforcement of the gag orders they claim "casts...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) is under fire this week after he recorded a video voicing support for a cockfighting organization at its annual meeting. Animal rights groups and fellow Oklahoma politicians went after Stitt for leaving a message for the Oklahoma Gamefowl Commission, a political action group that lobbies for lessened penalties for participation...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story New Hampshire defies new Biden primary order The Granite State has bucked the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) presidential nominating order, setting a primary date that keeps its first-in-the-nation status. © Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool New Hampshire will...

More than 700 incidents of violence and threats targeting LGBTQ people have occurred over the past year, including murder, harassment, assault and vandalism, according to an updated tally released Thursday by GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy organization, and the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. At least 26 transgender people since November 2022 have been killed...

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said to defeat the militant Palestinian group Hamas fully, Iran must be confronted “once and for all." “[T]o ultimately defeat Hamas, in the extent that we understand it [in] military terms, you have to prevent their ability to reconstitute their military forces,” Esper said in a Thursday interview on CBS....

Cancer death rates among children and teens dropped in the past two decades, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but that decline has stalled over the past 10 years among Black and Hispanic children. The cancer death rate for all kids and teens up to age 19 fell...

The Gila River Indian Community will partner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to cover one of the tribe’s canals with solar panels following a landmark agreement cemented ealier this month. The deal sets in motion the first solar-over-canal project of its kind to begin construction in the United States, according to the Arizona Department of...

Authorities say they are investigating the deaths of a family of four found inside their home on the Fort Stewart Army base in Georgia. “Fort Stewart law enforcement — in partnership with the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division — continues the investigation into four individuals found dead inside their on-post home Wednesday, Nov....

Measles cases around the world jumped by 18 percent in 2022 due to low vaccination rates, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The new report found that measles cases increased by 18 percent in 2022 compared to 2021 and totaled more than 9...

Independent 2024 presidential candidate Cornel West criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for not calling for a cease-fire in the ongoing war between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas. “You say, ‘Brother Bernie, man, this is reaching the point where it's getting pathetic now, man,’” West said in an interview with Status Coup News on...

The man who broke into former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) San Francisco home and violently attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, was found guilty on federal assault and attempted kidnapping charges on Thursday. The jury found David DePape guilty on both counts, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of...

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called for the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, saying “the time has come” for a new governing coalition in Israel. In a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Lapid laid out his vision for a “national reconstruction government,” which he said would be led...

The last time we saw El Niño was in the winter of 2018 to 2019, and even that year's El Niño was substantially weaker than the one we're seeing now.

President Biden late Wednesday quipped that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) could have any job he wants, including potentially being president, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the governor’s much-discussed White House ambitions. “I want to talk about Gov. Newsom. Want to thank him. He’s been one hell of a governor, man,” Biden said at a welcome...

Telecommunication companies in Gaza announced a complete blackout of their services Thursday due to dwindling fuel supply, marking the latest development in an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the region. Jawwal and Paltel, two Palestinian telecommunications providers, announced Thursday that all telecom services in the Gaza Strip have gone out of service because the energy sources fueling the...

A man who attacked Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) in her apartment building earlier this year was sentenced Thursday to 27 months in prison after pleading guilty. Kendrid Khalil Hamlin, 27, followed the Minnesota congresswoman into an elevator in her apartment building Feb. 9, according to court documents. He told her he planned to use her restroom, and when she...

The Biden administration has proposed limiting environmental reviews surrounding power lines, large-scale batteries and solar farms as part of a larger effort to develop more renewable energy. In a late Wednesday press release, the Energy Department said it is proposing the changes “to promote the development of clean energy and supporting infrastructure.” It also described...

The 2023-2024 school year is in full swing and millions of American children wake up each day and head to school. This reality is not possible without the tremendous teachers, school administrators, cafeteria workers and custodians, bus drivers, local and community leaders, and so many others — all of whom deserve our deep gratitude not...

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest in the death of a Jewish man who died after an alleged altercation with a pro-Palestinian demonstrator in California.

Lawyers for Dexter Wade said that an independent exhumation and autopsy found that the 37-year-old Black man had a wallet and ID on him at the time of his death, despite police officers’ claims they could not identify the body. Wade, the father of two daughters, was killed in March and buried without his family’s...

The marketing head for Anheuser-Busch will step down at the end of the year, a decision that comes months after its Bud Light brand saw a dip in sales following the company's controversial partnership with a transgender influencer. Benoit Garbe, the U.S. chief marketing officer for Anheuser-Busch, will resign at the end of the year...

The real future for Gazans is to live somewhere integrated into functioning economies.