Новости за 04.01.2024

In a new political year with elections upon us, there is no escaping this hot-button issue.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to an Iowa high school on reports of a shooting Thursday morning.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook, who served as envoy to Iran under former President Trump, will keep their government-funded protection, the Biden administration informed Congress last month. In the documents, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, the State Department said the two officials continue to face “serious and credible” threats that...

A progressive watchdog organization has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), alleging his presidential campaign improperly coordinated with a super PAC. Campaign for Accountability said in a release on Wednesday that it filed the complaint this week requesting that the FEC investigate Phillips’s campaign committee, the super PAC Pass...

Former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci described the likely rematch between former President Trump and President Biden as a choice between "demented" and "dementia" in an interview on Wednesday. During an interview with Scaramucci, Newsmax host Eric Bolling said he will take Trump, who he described as "the 77 year old," and Scaramucci can take...

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said in a new ad that he was “wrong” to support former President Trump, now his rival for the GOP nomination, back in 2016. “I have an admission to make: Eight years ago, when I decided to endorse Donald Trump for president, I did it because he was winning. And...

The Biden administration announced an agreement Thursday to provide $162 million in federal funding to Microchip Technology to expand production of computer chips domestically, the second tranche of money doled out from a bipartisan law signed in 2022. The Commerce Department announced preliminary terms with the Arizona-based manufacturer, which will allow the company to "significantly...

Voters should worry less about Biden's age and more about Trump's erratic behavior.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts secured the highest approval rating among U.S. officials at 48 percent in a new Gallup poll measuring support of top leaders. While no U.S. official clinched a majority showing of support, Roberts came the closest, with nearly 50 percent of Americans approving of him and 46 percent disapproving. The...

Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of former President Trump’s appeal to stay on the ballot in Colorado.   Daines's amici curiae — or friend-of-the-court — brief is part of a broader Republican backlash against the Colorado Supreme Court’s...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy on Wednesday expressed optimism about getting on the ballot across the U.S., but said it likely cost his campaign about $15 million. Asked on NewsNation's "Dan Abrams Live" about the challenge of getting on state ballots as an independent, Kennedy said, "we're going to be able to get on...

The media U.S. mortgage payment was down nearly $400 in December from its October peak, enticing some homebuyers back into the market, according to a Thursday report from real estate group Redfin. The median mortgage payment was $2,361 for the four week period ending in Dec. 31, Redfin found. That’s $372, or 14 percent, less...

President Biden’s reelection campaign dropped its first advertisement of 2024, focusing on preserving democracy to mark the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The 60-second spot, entitled “Cause,” is narrated by Biden and argues that former President Trump, the GOP primary frontrunner, has made efforts to “erode American democracy and excuse –...

President Biden moved his speech on democracy, marking the anniversary of Jan. 6, up a day due to the incoming winter storm in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions this weekend. The president was set to travel to the Philadelphia area on Saturday to mark the three year anniversary of the riots at the U.S. Capitol....

Colorado’s secretary of state said in an interview late Wednesday that former President Trump does not have a “get out of jail free card” after he appealed a decision to kick him off the ballot in the state earlier in the day.  “Donald Trump is trying to argue he did not incite an insurrection while...

Private employers added 164,000 jobs in December and wages were up 5.4 percent from last year, according to the new National Employment Report released by the ADP Research Institute on Thursday. "We're returning to a labor market that's very much aligned with pre-pandemic hiring," said Nela Richardson, ADP’s chief economist, in a press release. "While...

As 2023 drew to a close last week, South Africa decided to file a claim at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, preposterously accusing Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza.

Four distinct scenarios emerge, with results that range from very destructive to catastrophic.

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told a group of New Hampshire voters Wednesday that she trusts them to “correct” the results of the Iowa caucuses later this month. “We have an opportunity to get this right. And I know we'll get it right and I trust you. I trust every single one of you. You...

With the most powerful member of the Senate firmly committed to UFO transparency, 2024 may hold even more intriguing revelations than last year did.

President Biden will raise the stakes of the 2024 election in the coming days, sharpening the argument that former President Trump is a danger to democracy. The moves will build on Biden’s frequent references to “extreme MAGA Republicans” whom he casts as outside the American mainstream. Back in 2020, Biden ran, he said, to “restore...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has given Senate Democrats a not-so-happy start to 2024 after a fresh round of accusations that he accepted lavish gifts in exchange for aiding a foreign government. The second superseding indictment — this one accusing him of receiving gifts linked to Qatar — is the latest legal trouble staring down the New Jersey...

Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are running out of time to catch former President Trump in the GOP primary. The next few weeks will be critical for both GOP presidential candidates, who each trail Trump by a wide margin in swing state and national polls. Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday noted the House's expected impeachment inquiry into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is an extension of its examination into the Biden administration's handling of the border. Asked on NewsNation's "On Balance with Leland Vittert" if Mayorkas's impeachment would make a difference for the border situation if the problem relates...

A group of volunteer divers believe they have found the remains of a woman in a vehicle submerged in a retention pond near Walt Disney World.