Новости за 18.04.2024

The Biden administration has issued its final rule on maintenance of public lands, finalizing a 2023 proposal to allow leases of those lands for conservation purposes. The rule, issued Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), would finalize the bureau’s proposal for “conservation leases.” It outlines which people and entities would qualify, including tribal...

The truth is men and women are different. And women deserve safety, fairness and privacy. Women deserve equality of opportunity. Women deserve to compete. And women deserve the chance to win.

The United States is floating on a giant pumped-up air mattress of excess federal spending and no one has had the guts to say so.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he never read the impeachment articles that sought to boot him from office — disclosing the detail the day after the Senate voted to dismiss the charges for failing to meet constitutional muster. “Actually I have not read the articles of impeachment,” Mayorkas said before getting cut off during...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Wednesday he thinks President Biden can win his state in this year’s upcoming presidential election. “I believe President Biden can win North Carolina,” Cooper said at Semafor’s World Economy Summit. “And the campaign obviously believes that because they are investing. And they are there.” Biden’s campaign has set...

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has declared the United States his primary home for the first time, according to business filings for his travel company Travalyst on Wednesday.  The prince has listed the U.S. as his “new country/state usually resident,” officially moving his primary residence out of the U.K. The change of address was...

Momentum is growing quickly behind the effort to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from power if he moves to alter the motion to vacate rule as part of a package of foreign aid that's expected to pass through the House this weekend. Johnson is reportedly flirting with a proposal to raise the threshold for forcing...

The highest regular cannabis use was found among lower-income, less-educated U.S. adults, according to a Gallup survey released Thursday.  Gallup defined "regular cannabis use" as using it for a minimum of 10 days per month. Regular usage frequency varied by income and education. The highest regular use was recorded among U.S. adults who earned less...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified as a 2024 presidential candidate in the battleground state of Michigan, his campaign announced Thursday. Kennedy is backed by the Natural Law Party in Michigan, which worked to collect signatures and file paperwork to support his Independent White House bid. “He’s the most qualified candidate in the modern-day history of...

The earned income tax credit is a policy proven to boost economic stability for low-income workers, improve health and help people stay attached to the workforce when desired.

The Kennedy family is set to endorse President Biden in his reelection campaign on Thursday during an event in Philadelphia, a strong rebuke of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent White House bid. The Biden campaign is expecting 15 members of the Kennedy clan to attend Thursday’s event alongside the president. Kerry Kennedy, the younger sister of Robert...

Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) got into a heated shouting match during a congressional hearing Wednesday. The two top lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee shouted over each other for more than five minutes during a hearing on the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday. They hurled questions at each other during an...

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough tore into Bill Barr, who served as attorney general under former President Trump, for his pledge to support the Republican presidential ticket this fall. During an interview on Fox News this week, Barr said that "given two bad choices, I think it's my duty to pick the person I think would...

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A newly proposed change to the tax code would require greater specificity from the IRS when it comes to logging and correcting simple accounting errors on Americans’ tax returns, a plan that could affect the way that millions of Americans claim the popular child tax credit (CTC). Currently, the IRS has the authority to fix...

A report says Black inmates sentenced to death by lethal injection suffered a botched procedure at higher rates than white prisoners. In the analysis released this month, researchers at the anti-death penalty group Reprieve found that Black people had a 220 percent greater chance of suffering a botched lethal injection execution than white people, regardless of whether...

A new memoir penned by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be available later this year, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. In the book, titled “The Art of Power,” Pelosi details her years in public service, legislation she's helped to enact as House Speaker and her personal account of the Jan. 6, 2021,...

Kerry Kennedy is doubling down on her family’s commitment to support President Biden in November’s election instead of her brother, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has launched a long-shot independent bid for the White House. "I think, you know, this is the most important election of my lifetime,” Kerry Kennedy told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s...

The Trump campaign is asking GOP candidates and committees to share a portion of their fundraising haul from messages that use the former president’s name, image and likeness, a new move campaign officials say is designed to protect small-dollar donors from misleading messages. Trump campaign co-chairs Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote to GOP vendors...

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel responded on Wednesday to former President Trump’s pointed social media post slamming Kimmel earlier in the day. “It appears that I once again ruffled the feathers of our Kentucky-fried former president, who is, apparently — with all that's going on — still smarting from my joke about him at the...

Rite Aid has announced plans to close 13 additional stores after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

The U.S. on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iran targeting the country's drone manufacturing as Washington aims to isolate and hurt Tehran following its massive — though largely unsuccessful — attack on Israel last weekend. The Treasury Department sanctioned 16 individuals and two entities involved with the production of Iranian drones, including the engines built...

Michael Cohen called former President Trump's complaints about potentially missing his son's high school graduation due to his presence at the New York criminal hush money trial "comical." “I find it not just comical, right but I find it I find it insulting that that's the big issue,” Cohen said on the MeidasTouch “Political Beatdown”...

The overwhelming vote of 273-147 on final passage of the FISA bill affirmed that the leadership had struck the right chord with the new procedural rule. Republicans voted 146-88 for the bill and Democrats 147-59.

Google fired 28 employees Wednesday who protested the tech giant’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Protesters staged sit-ins Tuesday at two Google offices — New York City and Sunnyvale, Calif. — in protest of the $1.2 billion contract that the company shares with Amazon to provide cloud computing services to Israel. Nine people...