Новости за 03.01.2024

Nearly six in 10 American workers saw their wages grow more quickly than inflation in the past year, according to new analysis from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a left-leaning think tank. Some 57 percent of workers earned higher inflation-adjusted wages in November compared to one year earlier, the analysis found. This represents a...

Harvard alum Bill Ackman wrote in a lengthy post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that members of the Harvard Corporation, the board for the university, should leave if they supported former President Claudine Gay. “The Corporation Board should not remain in their seats protected by the unusual governance structure which enabled them...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that President Biden has “accelerated the rate of decay” of U.S. deterrence. “President Biden has allowed such [an] accelerated rate of decay of our deterrence that we had built up in the four years that President Trump and I were serving, has really done the American people...

Former NATO chief James Stavridis urged the Biden administration to move toward a “more aggressive” response to the attacks from the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on shipping vessels in the Red Sea. “What I think the White House is going to be grappling with today, in addition to what you and I have just discussed, is...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) says Washington should no longer be dubbed a “swamp” because it gives real wetlands a bad name. “I wish people would quit calling it a swamp,” the Tennessee Republican said during a Wednesday interview on Real America’s Voice. “A swamp is actually something God created that actually works,” Burchett told the conservative media...

United Nations experts are sounding the alarm over the planned execution of an Alabama inmate by nitrogen gas, arguing it is an "untested" method that could subject the inmate to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" or torture. In a report issued Wednesday, a panel of U.N. experts — part of the Human Rights Council's special...

Former President Trump has secured endorsements from every member of House GOP leadership, underscoring his enduring strength in the party less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses kick off the Republican primary calendar. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) on Wednesday became the last leadership holdout to publicly back Trump. Some Republicans viewed it...

Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said the alleged Israeli assassination of a top Hamas official in a Beirut suburb Tuesday would not go unanswered.  On Wednesday, Nasrallah addressed the killing of Saleh al-Arouri, the No. 3 member of Hamas’s political and military leadership, during a major speech marking the four-year anniversary of the death of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian commander who was killed...

Requests for abortion medication among women who are not pregnant spiked in the days after the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs decision leaked, according to research published Tuesday.  Citing data from the telemedicine abortion pill provider Aid Access, the study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found requests to the organization spiked in May 2022 when a...

The legacy media doesn’t like when reporting is aimed at a subject previously immune from journalistic scrutiny.

Members of a key Federal Reserve committee forecasted rate cuts in 2024 but noted “an unusually elevated degree of uncertainty” as it weighs its next move, according to new minutes from its December meeting released Thursday. The committee voted to hold interest rates at their highest level in more than two decades following its final...

Less than a month after the leaders of three top U.S. colleges testified before the House about antisemitism on their campuses, two of them have been forced to resign, and GOP lawmakers have made clear they are not yet satisfied. The presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the Massachusetts Institute of...

A new rule requiring child welfare agencies to place LGBTQ children in “environments free of hostility, mistreatment, or abuse” based on the child’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression is drawing opposition from Republicans. The proposed rule, issued in September by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also would require caregivers to undergo cultural...

Republican presidential candidates are set to appear in several competing town halls and debates this month, offering some of the final opportunities to boost their campaigns before voting kicks off in the Iowa caucuses. The first set of events will take place Thursday. CNN is hosting back-to-back town halls in Des Moines, Iowa, with former...

The mischaracterization of the effects of slavery and racism can promote social dynamics of color and caste common to India and countries with colonial histories.

GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said he would not issue a pardon for former President Trump if he were elected president in 2024 and if Trump were convicted of a crime. In an interview on “The View” on Wednesday, the former New Jersey governor did not hesitate to say “no” when co-host Joy Behar pointed...

The United States joined with several of its allies Wednesday to warn Houthi rebels against further attacks on shipping vessels in the Red Sea, labeling recent Houthi attacks “illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly destabilizing.” Houthi rebels have launched numerous attacks on merchant ships and vessels since the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel war last year, prompting the U.S....

The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling for an immediate halt to new policy changes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that they say will disproportionately affect Black and brown Americans.  In a letter sent to CMS and the Department of Health and Human Services, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) addressed a March...

Inflation is threatening health care access across the country as the gap widens between the cost of medical services and the coverage rates paid out by Medicare, Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) warned last month. Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle joined The Hill's "Medicare Drug Price Negotiation: How to Ensure Access and...

The Biden administration has all the facts it needs. Now, all that remains is rejecting the proposal for an expanded IP waiver at the WTO.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D) on Wednesday renewed his call for Senate colleagues to expel embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) after federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment newly alleging that Menendez accepted race car tickets and other gifts in exchange for helping Qatar.   “Now, accused of selling his honor and our nation for a...

GOP presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday she had assumed it was a “given” that the Civil War was about slavery when giving her controversial answer on the topic last week. “What I should have said immediately was that the Civil War was about slavery, but I just assumed that that was a given,...

GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie said those urging him to drop out of the race are “crazy” to think he would do so. “Anybody thinks I'm getting out of this race, they're crazy,” Christie said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Christie suggested that former President Trump’s numerous legal battles will result in President Biden being reelected...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday will deliver the administration’s first daily press briefing of this high-stakes election year. President Biden offered an upbeat message about the nation and his own performance in office in a pre-recorded New Year’s Eve interview with Ryan Seacrest, pointing out the strong economy and recovery from the...

One of the growing threats to our physical, environmental and financial health is liquified natural gas exports, known as LNG.