Новости за 03.03.2020

(STUDY FINDS) -- ITHACA, N.Y. — College can be a very stressful time for young adults, and this can be very taxing on their mental health. Fortunately there is a very accessible remedy for this stress — nature. Recent research shows that spending as little as 10 minutes in a natural setting can help relieve…

A South Carolina super PAC that drew the ire of former President Barack Obama for using his words in a way he didn't like fired back with gusto after getting a cease-and-desist letter from Obama's lawyer. The 30-second ad sponsored by the Committee to Defend the President was entitled "Enough Empty Promises." The ad pushed…

  A Democrat who serves on Denver's left-leaning city council is wishing the coronavirus on supporters of President Trump. Candi CdeBaca declared "Yaaaas!!" on Twitter in response to a political activist's threat to infect Trump supporters. The activist, Susan Daniel, an attorney and volunteer coordinator the Obama-founded OFA organization, wrote, "For the record, if I…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Virginia Kruta Daily Caller News Foundation Donna Brazile snapped at RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday, telling Fox News hosts Ed Henry and Sandra Smith that the GOP chairwoman could “go to hell.” Brazile, who previously served as the acting chairwoman…

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In 2012, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, held that most of the ACA, popularly known as Obamacare, was constitutional. However, Chief Justice John Roberts in his majority opinion pointed to the power of the…

(STUDY FINDS) -- SHEFFIELD, United Kingdom — Has the quintessential handyman become a thing of the past? Homeowners used to take pride in repairing and maintaining their homes all by themselves, but a recent survey of 2,000 young British adults finds that many still need assistance with the simplest of tasks — like changing a…

  [Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By John Murawski Real Clear Investigations College officials are trumpeting their new core mission of protecting female students from male student sexual aggressors. But academe is strangely silent in the face of professors or administrators themselves allegedly crossing the line by leering, making…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.] By Andrew Kerr Daily Caller News Foundation Leading Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg have paid a combined $466,000 to superdelegates who are likely to support their benefactors in the event of a contested convention, Federal Election Commission…

(CNBC) -- The Federal Reserve announced an emergency rate cut Tuesday of half a percentage point in response to the growing economic threat from the novel coronavirus. The move was the first such cut since the financial crisis. Markets had been widely expecting the U.S. central bank to take some type of action, with anticipation…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced an uncertain path to staying in office on Tuesday, even as preliminary results showed his Likud party pulling ahead of its opponents in the country’s third election in less than a year. Exit polls on Israeli TV stations showed Likud and its allies capturing 59…

  A court in Michigan has ordered a school district to explain why it punished students for legal actions done outside of school time in their own homes. The order came after lawyers for students at Saline High School in Saline, Michigan, and their parents filed a motion for a restraining order and preliminary injunction…

  A "vast unplanned experiment in mass homeschooling" could be unleashed in the United States if school officials follow the response of some nations to the coronavirus. The forecast by Kevin Carey, vice president of education policy for the New America think tank, came in a New York Times story highlighted by the Foundation for…

We go from hysteria to hysteria. And even that's not quite accurate. We now endure multiple hysterias at once. The latest, of course, is COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus. In addition to China, where the virus originated, major cities in Italy and Japan are in lockdown mode, and Japan has closed all its schools.…

The world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced he's contributing $10 billion to "fight climate change." In a Wall Street Journal article, Holman W. Jenkins Jr. reviews the various ways that Bezos' money likely will be wasted, based on the presumption that the human-caused release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is causing…

A contestant on "Wheel of Fortune" surprised viewers and host Pat Sajak by solving a 17-letter puzzle with impressive speed and with only two consonants on the board. Taya Somers, a businesswoman and mother of five, correctly solved the puzzle with a scarce amount of information, only knowing she was hunting for a "phrase" and…

Bill Kristol long has been regarded as a conservative or neoconservative. He founded the now-defunct Weekly Standard. He's a commentator on networks and played a leading role in defeating President Bill Clinton's health care plan. But he has been a strong critic of President Trump. And now he's telling people to vote for Joe Biden.…

An overwhelming majority of Democrats believe it is merely "circumstances" that make people rich, not hard work. Pew Research said its new poll found 65% of Americans "say the main reason some people are rich is because they have had more advantages in life than most other people." Among Democrats, 82% adopt that position. Similarly,…

Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg told a pro-Israel policy conference Monday that one of his proudest moments as mayor of New York City was his defense of the controversial plan to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center by Islamic jihadists. "I was never prouder than when…

(NBC NEWS) -- Chris Matthews, one of the longest-tenured voices at MSNBC, announced his retirement during Monday’s night’s airing of his talk show, “Hardball.” Matthews, 74, said he and MSNBC had mutually agreed to part ways. The decision followed a series of events that resulted in criticism of the host’s statements about Bernie Sanders, African-American…

The left will use any reason to hate on Vice President Mike Pence, Christianity and white males, even during a pandemic. On Wednesday the vice president shared a photo of his coronavirus task force meeting and MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle was among those who immediately attacked. “Today we had a very productive meeting of the White…