Новости за 07.09.2023

An attorney for Peter Navarro called for a mistrial on Thursday, just after the former economic adviser to former President Trump was convicted of contempt of Congress. Stan Woodward, who represented Navarro in his contempt of Congress case, claimed that jurors, who deliberated for nearly five hours before reaching a verdict, went outside during their...

{beacon} Evening Report Thursday, September 7   © AP Are you ready for some football? A wide field of 2024 presidential hopefuls are courting a very specific group this week: The all-important football constituency. If you tune in tonight to catch the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs face the Detroit Lions in...

Sports betting is legal in Kentucky as of Thursday, and Gov. Andy Beshear (D) made the state’s first wager at the famous Churchill Downs horse racetrack in Louisville. “Today is a great day to celebrate and have a little bit of fun doing so,” Beshear said as the Bluegrass State became the 35th to legalize...

Vice President Kamala Harris has said she’s prepared to be president “if necessary,” though she brushed off concerns about President Biden’s age as the pair campaigns for a second term.  CBS News’s Margaret Brennan asked Harris in an interview for “Face the Nation,” set to air this Sunday, to respond to concerns from both sides...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) lead a new poll measuring voter preferences ahead of the 2024 U.S. Senate race in California, but a plurality of likely primary voters in the state are still undecided.  In a Berkeley IGS poll released Thursday, Schiff led with 20 percent support among likely voters, Porter...

The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) on Wednesday added 43 names of firefighters who died from 9/11-related illnesses to the department’s World Trade Center Memorial Wall ahead of next week’s anniversary of the terror attacks. The addition of names marks the second largest group to be added to the memorial wall since its creation...

First lady Jill Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday, her office announced four days after she tested positive for the virus. The first lady tested positive on Monday night and has been staying at the Bidens' home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., since then. President Biden has been testing every day after her results and has been...

CNN does not have a town hall planned with Vivek Ramaswamy for next week, despite the GOP presidential candidate tweeting otherwise. Ramaswamy tweeted last week that he was set to appear for a Sept. 12 CNN town hall, but a CNN spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Thursday there is no such event scheduled with...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story Trump-Pence feud boils over Mike Pence this week called out his former boss and what he sees as populism in the Republican Party, deepening the schism between the two men since leaving office. © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Speaking in New Hampshire...

Japan launched a rocket Thursday with the aim of landing a small probe on the moon, hoping to become the fifth country to do so. The launch carries two missions, the lunar probe as well as a high-tech X-ray telescope which may help scientists uncover the mysteries of how the universe was created, the Japanese...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Anna Gomez to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ending a stretch where the agency did not have a fifth seat filled that has lasted since President Biden took office. Gomez was confirmed 55-43, with five Republicans — Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska),...

Four former Navy officers who were convicted of felonies in one of the military branch’s biggest bribery scandals had their convictions vacated Wednesday.  Following allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, former Capts. David Newland, James Dolan and David Lausman and former Cmdr. Mario Herrera were allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $100 fine...

A Virginia man was arrested earlier this week and charged in connection with the assault of former Washington, D.C., police officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Lewis Wayne Snoots, 59, of Louisa, Va., is facing felony charges of assaulting, resisting or impending certain officers and civil disorder, according to the Department...

President Biden on Thursday tested negative for COVID-19 as he prepared to take off for India for the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit and as he has shown limited regard for safety protocols the White House said he would follow. The White House shared the news of Biden’s latest negative test roughly an hour before...

A Department of Justice investigation into two New Jersey-run veterans homes concluded that the state violated the Constitution during the COVID-19 through providing “inadequate” care to residents. The 43-page report looking into veterans homes in Menlo Park and Paramus determined there were numerous failures, including poor communication and the lack of staff competency that allowed the virus...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) impeachment trial in the Lone Star State is continuing into its third day on Thursday. As The Hill’s Saul Elbein writes, it’s a potentially explosive moment for the state's Republican Party and the first impeachment trial in the state’s modern history. Paxton faces 20 counts of corruption. Watch the live video...

A group of retired British police officers admitted to sending racist and offensive messages about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and others Thursday. Robert Lewis, Peter Booth, Anthony Elsom, Alan Hall and Trevor Lewton — all in their 60s — allegedly posted messages in a closed WhatsApp group about Meghan her husband, Prince Harry; Prince...

The president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union slammed General Motors's (GM) wage and benefit offer as “insulting” and warned the automaker that “the clock is ticking” as the union prepares to strike next week. General Motors offered UAW employees a 10 percent wage hike in its proposal Thursday, one week after the union filed...

State legislatures are leading a revolution to transform the experience of the internet, and with it, American childhood. In the past year, starting with Utah’s Social Media Regulation Act, S.B. 152, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia have all passed laws requiring parental consent and age verification for minors to open social media accounts or access pornography.[1] By...

Irishness has given Joe Biden a ready-to-wear political identity.

An internal watchdog is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step up its actions to address emissions of cancer-causing benzene, saying that oil refineries have been releasing unsafe levels of the substance. The EPA has classified benzene — which can come from burning coal and oil — as a known human carcinogen. Refineries...

A Fulton County Jail inmate died at an Atlanta hospital earlier this week, marking the sixth death in recent weeks at the same jail where former President Trump surrendered to authorities last month. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday 24-year-old Shawndre Delmore was discovered unresponsive during a routine check by a detention officer last week. Delmore...

The Trump campaign aimed its ire at the Biden administration's plans to push for more Americans to use electric vehicles Thursday. “Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle mandate will murder the U.S. auto industry and kill countless union autoworker jobs forever, especially in Michigan and the Midwest,” Trump’s campaign said in a statement. “There is no such...

Megyn Kelly announced Thursday she will interview former President Trump next week. The interview will be the first Kelly has conducted with Trump since May 2016, which came amid a feud between them that reached a peak in 2015's Republican primary campaigning. “It will be my first interview with a former president in seven years,...

Chinese hackers obtained a consumer signing key that was used to breach U.S. officials’ emails earlier this year through a Microsoft engineer’s account, the company said Wednesday. An investigation into the breach found that a consumer signing system crash in April 2021 produced a snapshot of the crash process, also known as a crash dump,...