Новости за 15.05.2024

After President Joe Biden and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday morning agreed to two debates in June and September, Trump suddenly began trying to push a third debate all on his own.

Another Biden administration appointee has resigned over the president’s failure to take a hard line on the war in Gaza.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., antivax disinformation king and literally brainwormed independent presidential candidate, accused Biden and Trump of colluding with one another to exclude him from the presidential debate stage.

On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced that it’ll be raising tariffs on imports from China. Fees on electric vehicles will rise from 25 percent to 100 percent, and several other goods—solar cells, steel and aluminum products, semiconductors, even facemasks—will now be much more expensive to import, too. The change is expected to impact only about $18 billion worth of products—a relatively modest figure—because the U.S. currently importing very few of those things from China. “American... Читать дальше...

Twelve years ago, the Supreme Court abolished mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders. Seven years ago, the justices applied that ruling retroactively. Somehow, Arizona didn’t get the memo.

More than half of all Black women across the United States have little to no access to abortions, according to a joint report released Wednesday by two reproductive rights organizations.

If you’ve ever wanted to share a cup of steaming Rudy with your favorite second cousin, now you can. Rudy Giuliani—once dubbed “America’s Mayor” and now bankrupt and embroiled in lawsuits—has gone the way of seemingly all right-wing grifters: hocking a personally branded line of coffee.

In a press conference Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was caught off-guard by a reporter’s question about police funds being cut in a proposed Republican budget.

Donald Trump’s latest fundraising venture is a little atypical for a presidential candidate.

In a ridiculous, low-budget video published to social media, a Missouri Republican candidate warned voters to not be “weak and gay.”

Donald Trump has had some of his political cronies show up at his hush-money trial. And it turns out he has been editing what they would say on his behalf, a seemingly obvious violation of his gag order.

Donald Trump is still facing some lingering opposition in his Republican primaries around the nation, all stemming from holdouts for a candidate who threw in the towel months ago: Nikki Haley.

“Make my day, pal.”

Biden and Trump, both presumptive presidential nominees, are trading barbs like two creaky prizefighters offering to debate one another, giving a glimpse into the type of back and forth voters can expect ahead of the general election in November.

The latest banter battle comes on the heels of Biden formally notifying the Commission on Presidential Debates that he won’t participate in its scheduled debates slated for later in the fall. Biden instead challenged Trump to two debates... Читать дальше...

It’s perhaps hard to imagine today, but we have two landmark books to thank for some of the U.S. government’s most vital public health regulations. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, published in 1905, shined a light on the unsanitary and unsafe practices of the meatpacking industry and eventually led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the safety of products for human consumption. In 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring exposed the toxicity of the pesticide DDT, which... Читать дальше...

Bibi Netanyahu has been a purposeful pain in Joe Biden’s ass for decades now. Early in Barack Obama’s first term, the new president secured Netanyahu’s promise from the Israelis to freeze new settlement building for 10 months, albeit with so many exceptions that it was hard to keep track of all of them. Despite these gaps, the agreement paved the way for the Palestinians to rejoin the peace talks, which began again in late 2010, just three weeks before the putative “freeze” was to end.

“There’s an old joke,” Woody Allen says at the start of his 1977 movie Annie Hall. “Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort. And one of them says, ‘Boy the food at this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know. And such small portions.’”

On Tuesday, when Michael Cohen testified against Donald Trump, the former president’s lawyers reminded jurors that Cohen was once slavishly devoted to Trump and used to lie relentlessly on his behalf—before Cohen turned on him. Cohen responded by admitting it: Yes, he was once a member of the Trump “cult.” Which is apt: Again and again, Trump’s own lawyers have seemingly designed their strategy around flattering Trump as much as serving his legal needs. We talked to Ankush Khardori, a former federal... Читать дальше...

Representative Greg Murphy joined his fellow Republicans in suggesting that  Israel could use nuclear weapons in its already brutal war on Gaza.

The first day of cross-examination against arguably the most consequential witness in Donald Trump’s hush-money case resulted in … practically no results for the GOP presidential nominee’s legal defense.