Новости за 18.04.2024

Those living near the riverfront domicile have differing opinions on the encampment.

Residents of four states experienced 911 outages on Wednesday, impacting emergency calls in parts of Nevada, Nebraska, Texas and the entire state of South Dakota. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday night that 911 calls from landlines were not working and instructed residents to use mobile devices to dial. The service was restored after...

Only 9 percent of young Americans believe the U.S. is headed in the right direction, according to a new poll. The survey, released Thursday from Harvard Kennedy School's Insitute of Politics, found that less than 10 percent of voters 18-29 said the country is generally headed in the right direction. Roughly 58 percent of respondents...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is slated to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Thursday morning on the department's 2025 fiscal budget. This comes one day after the upper chamber voted to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Mayorkas, shutting down the possibility of a lengthy Senate trial, which Republicans had demanded...

Republicans should approach abortion the same way they tackle other policy issues—as a chance for horse-trading.

The Justice Department (DOJ) is ramping up efforts to target carjackings in Washington, Chicago and several other cities in a new initiative. Eleven U.S. attorney's offices across the U.S. have established a carjacking task force to mitigate ongoing threats, the Justice Department said in its announcement. These task forces will be led by the federal...

Predictably, the inclusion of China in the Bretton Woods institutions has only frustrated these institutions' purpose.  It is time to recognize this reality and ostracize China rather than keep trying in vain to co-opt it.

Pollution from the plastics industry is a major force behind the heating of the planet, according to a new report from the federal government. The industry releases about four times as many planet-warming chemicals as the airline industry, according to the paper from scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Its emissions are equivalent to...

NEW YORK — Former President Trump on Wednesday took aim at prospective jurors in his first criminal trial despite a gag order barring him from making public statements about them. “’They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,” Trump posted on Truth Social, giving credit...

Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.) remains hospitalized and in stable condition after suffering from a cardiac episode last week, his office said Wednesday.  “Congressman Donald M. Payne, Jr. suffered a cardiac episode based on complications from his diabetes last week. Today, he is in stable condition at a local hospital and continues to be under...

“There is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, only a political one.”

Jury selection is set to resume on Thursday, the third day of former President Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan. Seven jurors have so far been picked, with 11 more to go that includes six alternates, whittled down from hundreds of New Yorkers called to serve on the panel. Dozens of jurors were almost immediately...

The International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes is an outdated institution that does not contribute to economic development or address global challenges like climate change.

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Wednesday that former President Trump’s recent social media post “clearly” violated the gag order in his hush money criminal case. Trump's post, quoting a Fox News host, reads: “’They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury,’ Jesse Watters.” In an...

Former President Trump is leading President Biden among potential voters in the upcoming presidential election, a new Emerson College Polling national survey found, with Biden's polling rate dropping since early April. The newest Emerson College national poll, released Thursday, found Trump leading Biden, 46 percent to 43 percent, respectively. Support for Biden dropped 2 percentage...

Inside a Baltimore cruise terminal last week, dozens of military personnel were spread out across a wide room under bright lights, with workers bent over computers across rows of tables hastily arranged as workstations. This is the bustling operations center for the Unified Command leading the response to the total collapse of the Francis Scott...

The Biden campaign is seeking to make former President Trump the face of the anti-abortion movement as Democrats look to harness voter fury following the overturning of Roe v. Wade. At campaign stops in the days since a Civil War-era abortion ban was upheld in Arizona, Vice President Kamala Harris has gone hard against “Trump...

Instagram’s recent decision to move the platform away from political content has sparked concerns among content creators and advocacy groups over which issues will be included. The social media site began rolling out changes last month, following through on previously announced plans to stop recommending political content across Instagram and Threads. Unless users change their...

President Biden is stepping up mocking former President Trump in an attempt to remind voters about his flaws and personal issues. Just this week, Biden taunted Trump as shares of his media company fell sharply on the stock market. He also poked fun at Trump over needing money to pay enormous penalties and legal fees....

Former President Trump’s New York hush money trial has quickly turned into a media spectacle, allowing Trump to garner attention as he effectively merges his campaign with his courtroom attendance. Trump aides have noted the “wall to wall” coverage of the former president’s remarks to reporters outside the courtroom on Monday and Tuesday, sharing photos of nearly...

In a town typically light on fashion and heavy on partisan friction, what one high-profile figure wore to a swanky White House affair has ignited a ferocious debate seemingly just as polarizing as politics in Washington. Lauren Sánchez, the former TV host-turned-philanthropist and fiancee of Amazon founder and The Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, turned heads at the...

NEW YORK — Former President Trump is set to come face-to-face with a lineup of witnesses in his first criminal trial that could include former White House aides, Trump Organization employees and multiple people allegedly paid hush money on his behalf. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) is looking to convince a New York jury...

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...

Following a classified briefing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known as UFOs, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) suggested Wednesday that the U.S. government may be intentionally concealing information on these objects from the American public. “I think there's a cover up,” Burchett told Blake Burman on NewsNation’s “The Hill.” “There are tens of millions...

The Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. said Wednesday that Israel must respond to Iranian strikes on the country, brushing off warnings from American leaders and other allies fearful of a regional war between the two powers. Iran launched over 300 munitions toward Israel on Saturday evening in response to an Israeli strike that killed Iranian...