Новости за 10.03.2023

Assistant White House press secretary Kevin Munoz, who worked on messaging on the coronavirus pandemic and other health policy issues, is set to leave his post. Munoz will leave later this month, a White House official confirmed to The Hill. In his role, he worked on COVID-19 issues from vaccinations and boosters to mask mandates...

West Virginia has asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action so the state can enforce its law banning transgender women from competing on female school sports teams, the state attorney general’s office said. A divided federal appeals court last month blocked enforcement of the law as the panel hears a challenge to it in...

Author Jodi Picoult is blasting officials in a Florida county for pulling several of her books from school libraries, saying that prohibiting literature sows division. “Martin County is the first to ban twenty of my books at once,” Picoult told The Washington Post in an op-ed published Friday. The Sunshine State county released a list of more than 60...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is announcing that she’ll soon be “a 36-year-old grandmother,” while praising “rural conservative communities” that “value life.” The Colorado Republican revealed that the girlfriend of her 17-year-old son, Tyler, is due next month. “I’m going to tell you all for the first time in a public setting, that not only am...

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, and Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse will speak with reporters Friday afternoon in a joint press briefing. The briefing comes after President Biden unveiled his long-awaited budget request for fiscal 2024 on Thursday, setting the stage for what is...

It’s hard to see how this experiment merits anything but a failing grade.

President Biden went after the House Freedom Caucus during remarks on the economy on Friday, the day after he released his proposed budget, saying there isn’t much to negotiate on with the conservative group after they released their new spending demands. The president argued that the Freedom Caucus demands include cutting all spending other than...

Members of the House Freedom Caucus on Friday presented a set of spending cuts and budget proposals they want as a condition of even considering voting in favor of raising the debt ceiling, laying down one of the first markers in the House Republican Conference for debt ceiling negotiations. The hardline conservative caucus wants to cap...

The announcement that President Biden will host his South Korean counterpart, President Yoon Suk-yeol, for a state visit in April comes at the perfect time for the U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) alliance. In late 2022, South Korea’s Foreign Minister Park Jin issued Seoul’s long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy. Within hours, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan had...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who chairs the Senate committee tasked with evaluating presidential nominees related to energy and natural resource issues, said Friday that he will not advance one of President Biden’s nominees. Manchin, in a Houston Chronicle opinion piece, said he would not advance the nomination of Laura Daniel-Davis, who has been nominated to...

The White House on Friday will highlight impacts of the American Rescue Plan, the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, as it prepares to mark two years since President Biden signed it into law. The White House will release state-by-state data for all 50 states about the impact of the package, pointing to jobs and small...

Republicans are lining up to take potshots at Democrats over education — an issue on which President Biden’s party used to enjoy a sizable advantage. The line of Republicans rushing to embrace the issue shows just how sharply the political dynamics have shifted. On Thursday evening, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin spoke at a CNN town...

A major Democratic group is launching a six-figure advertisement campaign in four critical swing states touting the benefits of the American Rescue Plan two years after President Biden signed it into law. American Bridge 21st Century, a liberal super PAC, is airing ads in Greensboro, N.C.; Flint, Mich., Erie, Pa., and Green Bay, Wis., media...

President Biden’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) doesn’t need a waiver from Congress to be confirmed, the Biden administration told lawmakers Thursday. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, has insisted that FAA nominee Phil Washington must secure a waiver due to his retired military status, citing...

LGBTQ activists and leaders are sounding alarm bells over a recent report on rising suicide rates among Black nonbinary and transgender youth, which many attribute to the spread of laws that target transgender identities. A quarter of Black transgender and nonbinary youth attempted suicide last year, according to a report last month from the Trevor Project, a...

Senate Republicans found themselves shaken and disoriented Thursday after finding out their leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was in the hospital after tripping at a private event, raising questions about his health and future leadership of the GOP conference. McConnell, who in January became the longest serving party leader in Senate history, has led...

President Biden has been on a good streak with his party’s left flank, but progressives are now fretting about his direction. First, there was Biden’s surprise announcement that he’d sign a GOP resolution disapproving of a Washington, D.C. crime bill that eased some sentencing laws. Then came reports that administration officials are thinking about keeping...

Story at a glance In the months to come, many Americans will be facing dark mornings — and with them, risks to their health and safety. Clocks will shift forward in most of the U.S. on Sunday as daylight saving time begins, resulting in later sunrises and sunsets across the country. Both sleep experts and...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered Peter Navarro, former President Trump’s trade advisor, to turn over hundreds of emails from a personal encrypted account that he used while working in the White House. The Justice Department sued Navarro for the emails from his Proton Mail account in August, after he refused to turn them over without a “grant of...

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took a stance against ChatGPT in schools during a CNN townhall on Thursday evening. ChatGPT, the new AI technology that caused panic among educators over concerns about cheating and learning for students, has been banned in numerous districts across the country, including in Virginia.  CNN's Jake Tapper asked Youngkin if he...

Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers appealed his double-murder conviction on Thursday, a week after the once prominent South Carolina attorney was convicted of the 2021 murders of his wife and son. The initial filing, a notice of appeal in the South Carolina Court of Appeals, does not include any arguments. A jury found Murdaugh guilty of killing...

Virginia’s leaders made their final push for the state to become the home of the FBI’s new headquarters, emphasizing that it would allow the agency to have close “proximity” to its other facilities and other agencies. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and members of Virgnia’s congressional delegation said in a statement after state leaders met with...

Anthony Fauci, who led much of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said testimony from former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield that he was excluded from a conference call about the possible origins of the virus was “unequivocally incorrect.” Fauci told Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto in an interview...

Nine House Democrats broke from the party on Thursday to overturn a Biden administration water regulation, siding with most Republicans on the disapproval resolution. The measure, which passed in a 227-198 vote, seeks to terminate the Biden administration rule that determines which waters must abide by federal regulations as part of the Waters of the...