Новости за 31.01.2020

(REUTERS) OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is the unnamed company that surfaced in criminal charging documents filed earlier this week in a probe of illegal kickbacks from drugmakers, according to people familiar with the matter. Purdue Pharma, which faces U.S. Justice Department probes and sprawling litigation over allegations it played a central role in the…

(NBC NEWS) Life expectancy in the United States went up for the first time in four years in 2018, thanks largely to a decrease in death rates from cancer and drug overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. Still, experts noted that the report, from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics,…

(CBS NEWS) With around 43 million Americans under 65 past-due on medical bills and yearly U.S. medical debt totaling $88 billion, one surgeon in Nebraska is offering to eliminate debt for his patients. As long as they agree to pay it forward. Surgeon Demetrio Aguila saw a recurring problem at his clinic Healing Hands of…

(BBC NEWS) Your lungs have an almost "magical" ability to repair some of the damage caused by smoking - but only if you stop, say scientists. The mutations that lead to lung cancer had been considered to be permanent, and to persist even after quitting. But the surprise findings, published in Nature, show the few…

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, one of the original anti-Trumpers who in 2016 tried to block President Donald Trump from getting the party's presidential nomination, announced that he wants to call additional witnesses in Trump's Senate impeachment trial. The action, which Romney had been publicly ruminating about throughout the week, was confirmed by Liz…

When House impeachment managers were asked Thursday night to give a closing argument, lead manager Rep. Adam Schiff rose from his seat, but Rep. Jerry Nadler beat him to the well of the Senate as the California Democrat called out "Jerry, Jerry, Jerry." Senate staffers seated above the well covered their faces in an attempt…

Faces of Choice, an awareness campaign featuring survivors of abortion, says Fox TV and Fox Sports refused to air its 30-second ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Despite several attempts to reach out, the network has still not responded to the campaign or several media outlets seeking comment on its decision. Now the campaign…

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee said Thursday night that he will oppose Democratic demands for additional witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate. That means no more than three Republicans can break away from the GOP position that witnesses should not be called…

A crowd showed up for a recent Bernie Sanders campaign rally in Iowa City, Iowa -- only to find out that their candidate wouldn't even be mentioned by his surrogate. The Vermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful appointed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to fill in for him at the event Friday while he…

It's unlikely that Donald Trump's new Israeli-Palestinian peace plan will succeed. Yet, it's the best of any recent offerings because it dispels poisonous fictions that have held back negotiations for decades. The reality is that there will never be a Palestinian "right of return" to Israel, since such a policy would destroy the Jewish character…

(PALM SPRINGS DESERT SUN) Authorities have uncovered a cross-border tunnel that stretches more than three-quarters of a mile, making it the longest of its kind ever discovered along the Southwest border, the U.S. Border Patrol announced Wednesday. The 4,309-foot tunnel starts in Tijuana, in an industrial area about a half mile west of the Otay…

(CNBC) A new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School finds that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed wealth tax on the richest Americans will generate $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion less than what the campaign claims. The results, if accurate, could undercut the critical funding needed to support his plans to develop public health care,…

(NEW AMERICAN) Pro-life advocates are infuriated after Fox repeatedly ignored requests for ad space during the 2020 Super Bowl from pro-life group Faces of Choice after giving the group the “runaround,” while approving a commercial that will feature drag queens and LGBTQ activists. Fox is now claiming it is out of ad space, but Faces…

The Democratic Party is so deep in its Trump Derangement Syndrome that the things its leaders say and do often defy reason. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood in front of microphones on Thursday and declared that if President Donald Trump is acquitted by the Senate (a likely scenario), he will not actually be acquitted. Pelosi…

Two lawsuits have been filed against the State Department that could "confirm that President Trump had every right to be concerned about Ukraine and the Biden corruption." Washington watchdog Judicial Watch said Thursday it has sued the State Department for records of communications from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev related to Burisma, the Ukrainian company…

During House impeachment hearings last fall, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly cut off questioning by Republican lawmakers to protect the identity of the whistleblower who filed the complaint that led to the impeachment of President Trump. Schiff, who now is the lead House manager in the Senate trial, insisted the whistleblower has…

"Dissatisfaction with democracy within developed countries is at its highest level in almost 25 years," say researchers at the University of Cambridge. "The U.K. and the United States had particularly high levels of discontent." No wonder. Certainly, America is a severely divided country. "Severely divided societies are short on community," and "community is a prerequisite…

"This is not a peace plan," said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in rejecting President Donald Trump's proposal to create a Palestinian state and give that state $50 billion over 10 years to secure its economic viability. Mr. Trump's plan "is theft. It is erasure," said Ms. Omar – the most virulent of a crop of…

Ten to 20 years from now, we will not be talking about impeachment, and believe it or not, we won't still be talking about Donald Trump either. We will be talking about our debt crisis. For all the good that came from this era, the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations will all be remembered as…