Новости за 07.02.2024

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is teaming up with ride-hailing company Lyft to prevent human trafficking and raise awareness on the issue, the department announced Wednesday. The partnership, between the DHS Blue Campaign and Lyft, will include a tutorial program to help ride-hailing drivers in the United States and Canada recognize and prevent human...

United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Powers, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Director Tom Perez and other senior White House officials will travel to Michigan on Thursday to hear from community leaders amid anger from Arab and Muslim Americans over President Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza. The officials will hear from community...

The Biden administration named a lead for a new institute for artificial intelligence (AI) safety on Wednesday, underlining the White House’s focus on the developing technology. Elizabeth Kelly, an economic adviser to the president, will lead the AI Safety Institute at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), a subset of the Commerce Department....

A man was charged Monday with illegally flying a drone over M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore during the AFC championship game last month, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. Matthew Hebert, 44, of Pennsylvania, was hit with three felony counts for allegedly operating an unregistered drone, an incident that temporarily...

Hamas has reportedly proposed a multi-stage cease-fire over the course of four-and-a-half months that would see the release of living and dead Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, the withdrawal of all Israeli troops and an agreement to end the war. The U.S. and Israel are studying Hamas’s response, which was delivered Tuesday by...

Talk show host Bill Maher said he refuses to air a previously recorded interview with superstar rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, because of his antisemitic rhetoric. Maher said Monday in an interview with TMZ that Ye is “helpful for spreading the fertilizer” of the idea that “Israel and the Jews are like the...

The Democratic Party's advantage over Republicans in party preferences for Black and Hispanic adults in the U.S. has decreased by nearly 20 percent in the last three years, according to a new report from Gallup. The findings, published Wednesday, show that the difference in how many Black adults identify as Democrat, or lean Democratic, and...

Federal support should be agnostic about which medium a public broadcasting licensee employs to distribute news and information.

Alina Habba, an attorney for former President Trump, went after the judge of a New York defamation case that ruled against the former president last month, arguing he was politically biased and leading the jury against her client. “It was like being in an epic ‘Twilight Zone’ where no rules were allowed, but for the...

Why do these candidates so frequently postpone their reckoning with reality for so long? While each has his or her own psychology, from my experience there are some understandable reasons.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will testify before the House Armed Services Committee at the end of the month over his decision to hide his recent cancer diagnosis and subsequent hospitalization from the country’s top officials. Austin has agreed to testify on Feb. 29, a House aide confirmed to The Hill late Tuesday.   House Armed Services...

Former President Trump went after Nikki Haley after she lost the Nevada primary to “none of these candidates” Tuesday, making fun of the poor performance in a state where Haley did not campaign. Haley faced no opposition in the primary, sharing the ballot only with “none of these candidates” and a number of candidates who...

Having watched them deny the problem for so long, who in their right mind would trust Democrats on the border crisis now?

The Biden administration is tightening air pollution restrictions — a move that it says will save thousands of lives but is meeting pushback from industry which argues that it will harm the economy. The decision to tighten the restrictions on pollution from small particles, commonly referred to as soot, comes as a reversal of the...

Sport is not a “nice-to-have,” but a “must-have” for all girls and women, and it is something that we as a society must fight to invest in.

Many qualified immunity cases are not about split-second decisions. Rather, they involve premeditated retaliation against private citizens or a fellow government employees.

Former President Trump left the White House in 2021 under the cloud of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, rendering him politically toxic after he refused to accept his election loss. His first administration was marked by rapid turnover — from the public firing of the FBI director to a revolving door of chiefs...

Nearly half of transgender people in the U.S. have considered moving to another state because of legislation in their home state that threatens to curtail access to things like gender-affirming health care, public restrooms and school sports, according to a survey published Wednesday by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE). Roughly half, or 47...

Nikki Haley was projected to lose Nevada’s state-run Republican presidential preference primary, according to Decision Desk HQ, a stunning development that comes despite former President Trump's name not being on the ballot.  Voters were given a choice on the ballot to select a box that said “none of these candidates,” though they couldn't write in...

A federal appeals court in New Jersey ruled Monday that residents’ refusal to wear face masks at a school board meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic is not protected as a free speech right. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in two similar cases that stemmed from lawsuits against officials in Freehold and...

Taylor Swift's attorneys have threatened legal action against a student who has been tracking the celebrity's private jet use via social media. Swift’s lawyers have sent multiple letters to Jack Sweeney, a student at the University of Central Florida, and demanded that he stop tracking and sharing the flight information of the singer online, the...

A second atmospheric river within days pelted California with hurricane-force winds, bringing tornado warnings and hundreds of mudslides. The Los Angeles area experienced one of the wettest storms in history, between 6 and 12 inches, that unleashed nearly 400 mudslides, and officials warned that the threat was not yet over, The Associated Press (AP) reported....

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel may step down from her post after the South Carolina primary election, multiple outlets reported Tuesday night.  McDaniel has faced pressure from party figures who have expressed dissatisfaction with the direction of the RNC and its lack of finances heading into a 2024 general election. In a statement...

The White House on Tuesday called the Republican effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "a waste of time" and a "political stunt" after the House vote failed. The vote failed in embarrassing fashion for Republicans on Tuesday evening, as three members joined Democrats to vote against impeachment. The 214-216 vote was a loss for Republicans,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Tuesday that makes medication preventing HIV available to residents without a prescription. The bill, S.B. 339, authorizes pharmacists to furnish preexposure prophylaxis, commonly called PrEP, a drug that helps prevent HIV infection prior to exposure, as well as postexposure prophylaxis, a drug used for patients exposed to...