Новости за 12.03.2023

Fox News media reporter Howard Kurtz said Sunday that the defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against the network is a “major test of the First Amendment," just weeks after announcing that Fox would not let him cover the case. “Legally, Dominion must prove Fox acted with malice or reckless disregard for the truth....

Silicon Valley Bank reportedly paid employees their annual bonuses just hours before federal regulators shut down the bank on Friday, CNBC reported. Sources told CNBC that the bank had historically paid their bonuses on the second Friday of March, and that their annual bonuses were in the works days before the bank collapse on Friday....

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said on Sunday that his fellow lawmakers should “talk” more about changing the retirement age for people currently in their 20s in part due to longer life expectancy. During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” anchor Shannon Bream asked Kennedy if he thinks there should be "conversations" in Congress about changing...

Federal officials are auctioning off Silicon Valley Bank, according to multiple reports Sunday, as they try to contain the fallout of the bank’s historic failure last week. Regulators started the auction on Saturday and expected bids by 2 p.m. on Sunday, according to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, which cited people...

In a rare show of consensus, congressional lawmakers from both parties on Sunday said they would oppose any potential bailout options for Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed on Friday in the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ruled out a bailout possibility for the bank's owners and investors, and...

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Sunday that the released tapes from the attacks on the Capitol during Jan. 6, 2021 are not going to show "tourism at the Capitol," but rather would show a "dark, tragic day." House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has spurred fury this month by granting Fox News host Tucker Carlson...

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said that any stock sold by Silicon Valley Bank executives should be “clawed back” and given to depositors of the bank after it collapsed last week. Federal filings show that Silicon Valley Bank CEO Gregory Becker sold over $3.5 million in stock in the bank roughly two weeks before the firm...

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) on Sunday blamed the Silicon Valley Bank collapse in part on the mistaken belief that interest rates would stay low forever. During an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart,” Porter said rising interest rates were one of the leading causes of the bank's collapse, noting how the bank...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Sunday blamed President Biden for what he called the politicization of Social Security and Medicare during his State of the Union address last month. Kennedy on "Fox News Sunday" told Shannon Bream that Medicare faces financial trouble as soon as 2028, with the same going for Social Security in 2035,...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) term is up in 2026, but he said he has not given any thought to possible presidential ambitions, instead throwing his full support behind President Biden. “I [am] 1,000 percent behind President Biden,” Murphy said in an interview with CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “And I haven't really looked beyond...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Sunday knocked President Biden’s budget proposal, saying it could only be improved by being thrown into a shredder. “The president's budget took my breath away. His numbers are extraordinary. We're going to run out of digits here,” Kennedy said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The only way I know how to...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Sunday laughed off the idea that a trip to Iowa over the weekend was an indication that he was preparing to run for president, instead saying his travels were focused on promoting his new book. When asked by "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo if DeSantis's trip was a...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) said on Sunday that she believes that raising the retirement age for people who receive Social Security benefits should be “on the table.” During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Kaitlan Collins noted that fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley, a Republican presidential candidate, supports the idea. “I think...

The near-hysteria over this now “identified” flying object did serve to highlight a far more important national-security issue, namely, the continuing mystery surrounding the origin and identity of exotic UFOs.

Anthony Fauci, who led much of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, said on Saturday that calls from the GOP to prosecute him over the handling of the outbreak are an example of “craziness.” “There's no response to that craziness,” Fauci said on CNN. “I mean, prosecute me for what? What are they talking...

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on Sunday said he’s not ready for the federal government to offer Silicon Valley Bank a bailout after its collapse shook the tech sector last week. “I'm not ready to offer them a bailout by any stretch of the imagination. We have to see exactly everything that is pertinent to the...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Sunday that he will begin to “slowly roll out” access to official tapes from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection to other news outlets, after he faced criticism for giving Fox News host Tucker Carlson an exclusive look at the footage. “We will slowly roll out to every individual news...

Fox News's reputation as a serious news source is being strained by the drip-drip of leaked texts and emails from a massive defamation lawsuit it is facing from Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion in damages as part of an ongoing legal battle that neither side has shown any interest publicly in settling. ...

The best way to head off a conflict over Taiwan is through diplomacy not military buildups and harsh rhetoric.

Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer (N.D.) said Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has earned the right to be “at the head of the class” as a possible 2024 GOP presidential contender. Cramer said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Republican Party is “in desperate need of some new leadership,” and that former President...

The U.S. innovation system, the world’s best, has been the driving force of our country’s prosperity, technological leadership and national security for two centuries. This system is the most productive private-sector/government-sector partnership ever devised. Each partner does what it excels at best: The government funds vast research in basic scientific discoveries, mostly at research universities;...

If there is another "multi-car pile-up," history may well repeat itself.

More than 8,500 people were under evacuation orders in central California over the weekend after a levee was breached following heavy rainfall.  The Pajaro River’s levee, which is about 100 feet wide, was breached by flooding after another atmospheric river pounded the state. Officials had warned residents to leave their homes, but some who stayed...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson promised never-before-seen footage of the Jan. 6 riot that would reveal new details and alter public perceptions of the Capitol breach. But in his first shows dedicated to the topic, he largely came up short in delivering smoking guns.  Carlson gained access to some 44,000 hours of the attack by...

Former Vice President Mike Pence said late Saturday that “history will hold Donald Trump accountable” for the events of Jan. 6, 2021, levying harsh criticism on the former president as Pence mulls a 2024 White House bid. “President Trump was wrong,” Pence said at the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner attended by politicians and journalists, according...