Новости за 26.10.2021

President Biden will campaign for Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday, one week out from an election that will test his electoral brand and amid one of the most consequential weeks of his presidency.  His...

Democrats are facing hurdles to making a new annual tax on billionaires' investment gains a reality.The proposal, championed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is seen as a way to help pay for...

Democrats say they're in striking distance of reaching a long-sought deal on expanding social safety net programs, but still need to resolve a handful of key sticking points....

Democrats say they’re in striking distance of reaching a long-sought deal on expanding social safety net programs, but still need to resolve a handful of key sticking points. Progressives and key centrist holdouts remain at odds over some top...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is facing a gut-wrenching decision about whether to sign off on a whittled-down budget reconciliation package that is expected to fall short of his goal to expand Medicare and empower the federal government to negotiate...

A small but vocal group of Republican midterm candidates with ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection is threatening to upend the GOP's effort to make the 2022 cycle a referendum on President Biden, sparking a brewing...

TAX​MasterCard Inc. hired Holland & Knight LLP to lobby on tax reform measures. Joshua Odintz, former Democratic tax counsel for the Senate Finance Committee, will work on the account.Post Holdings Inc. hired Capitol Tax Partners LLP to lobby on...

With hundreds of thousands of Americans driving battery-powered cars, only a fraction of U.S. firefighters are trained to put out electric vehicle (EV) fires, even as policymakers look to rapidly accelerate EV adoption in the coming decade. ...

A U.S. District Judge on Monday ruled that Prince Andrew, Duke of York, must make himself available for questioning by July 14 in a civil lawsuit brought against him by an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein.U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan...

The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that officials said killed a cinematographer on the set of his movie "Rust" last week was previously fired from a film in 2019 over a gun that was unexpectedly discharged that injured...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin released a new ad on Monday, featuring a mother who pushed to have the 1987 novel "Beloved" banned from her son's English curriculum in Fairfax County, Va. roughly eight y...

The FBI on Monday released amended 2020 hate crime statistics, indicating that it had previously underreported the number of bias-motivated crimes last year due to technical issues.In a ...

A federal judge on Monday ruled that Oklahoma could proceed with the lethal injections of five death row inmates, with the earliest execution scheduled for this week.Judge Stephen Friot denied a motion for a prelim...

The White House is rejecting more claims of executive privilege from former President Trump over documents requested by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, directing the Natio...

New details are coming to light from the FBI on a Virginia Beach, Va., couple's counterfeit coupon scheme worth $31.8 million in losses to retailers and manufacturers that landed the two in prison for nearly 20 years alto...

Reducing health care costs is voters’ top priority for both Congress and President Joe Biden, according to a poll released this summer. Congress has no lack of solutions being bandied about to address those costs. The problem, as with many issues in...

At least two people were killed and four others, including one police officer, were injured in a shooting at a mall in Boise, Idaho, on Monday."Five people and a Boise Police officer were injured in this event. Pol...

The future of another key climate provision, a fee on methane emissions from oil and gas development, is being negotiated on Capitol Hill.Leaving a meeting of Senate committee chairs with jurisdiction over cl...

A key Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expert advisory panel on Tuesday could pave the way for children as young as five to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.The panel is poised to weigh the evidence and provide the FDA with a recommendation...

For President Biden's economic agenda, this week is gearing up to be a do-or-die moment. Democratic leaders are racing over the next 72 hours to secure a framework deal on their social benefits plan, deeming it a crucial step before the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Monday that its conditional sailing order for cruise ships will remain in place until at least Jan. 15, 2022."After the expiration of this temporary...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Monday that its conditional sailing order for cruise ships will remain in place until at least Jan. 15, 2022."After the expiration of this temporary extension, CDC...

Democratic lawmakers are renewing calls to expel any member of Congress implicated in the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol following reporting that witnesses have recently informed congressional investigators of their coordina...

The Treasury Department has hired a former JPMorgan Chase executive to head a new government program aimed at addressing racial inequality issues in banking and other financial services industries.Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced Monday&...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Monday seeking to restore a Trump-era ban on abortion referrals that the administration overturned earlier in October.As Yost'...