Новости за 05.01.2024

Texas's government is responsible for its engineering decisions and their negative effects.

Israel’s defense minister laid out his vision for the next phase of the war against Hamas on Thursday and described how Israeli forced would shift to a scaled-down and new approach. Yoav Gallant said Israel would continue to fight Hamas “for as long as necessary” and detailed how Gaza would be run once Hamas is...

Former President Trump holds a large lead over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) in her home state, according to a new Emerson College poll released Friday. The poll finds Trump ahead of Haley by 29 points in South Carolina, just eight weeks before the state's primary on Feb. 24. The poll found Trump...

The U.S. added 216,000 jobs and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent in December, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, closing the books on a year of remarkable economic resilience. The jobs report bookends a surprisingly strong year that largely defied earlier fears that interest rate hikes...

A global AI policy juggernaut was launched in 2023 but there is no precedent for its breadth, depth and speed.

An attorney for former President Trump, Alina Habba, said late Thursday that she has faith in the Supreme Court and believes that Justice Brett Kavanaugh will “step up” in Trump’s ballot cases in Maine and Colorado. “I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them,” Habba told...

Since even the presence of the aircraft carrier task force did not deter Hezbollah from attacking Israel, its replacement by a smaller, older and less powerful amphibious ready group is hardly likely to dissuade Nasrallah.

Americans are divided about how much the United States should involve itself in resolving the Israel-Hamas war, a new survey found. The survey, conducted by Gallup, found that roughly four in ten U.S. adults say the nation's leaders are doing the “right amount” to resolve the conflict. By comparison, 39 percent say the U.S. is...

Many evangelical voters believe that God is calling Trump to lead the nation. But at one time or another, Trump has disregarded most of the decalogue, often willfully.

Former U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who testified before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, announced on Friday that he’s running for Congress. Dunn is running for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District, which is being vacated by retiring Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.) — a move that comes several months after suggesting on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that he might run for...

John Leganski, most recently former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s deputy chief of staff, is joining Harbinger Strategies as a partner. “[John’s] ready insights were of immense value to myself and the entire House Republican Leadership team over the past decade and I saw firsthand his uncanny ability to bring people together around creative approaches to the...

Shipping companies are diverting their cargo away from the Red Sea as attacks by the Houthi rebel group in Yemen intensify in response to the ongoing siege of Gaza. The attacks by the Houthi rebels, officially known as Ansar Allah, are now sparking confrontations in other parts of the Middle East, and U.S. diplomats are...

A ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday that federal regulations do not require emergency rooms to perform life-saving abortions if doing so would violate state law is the latest state-level development to fire up Democrats on the issue of abortion. Democratic strategists see the abortion issue as their best talking point...

The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is set to play a prominent role in the upcoming presidential election, with the two leading candidates for the White House pushing dueling narratives about the legacy of the day’s events. For Biden, the attack on the Capitol – when Trump supporters stormed the complex to try...

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley brushed off a quip she made Wednesday that the New Hampshire primary voters would “correct” the results of the Iowa caucuses. "We have done 150 plus town halls, you got to have some fun, too. So we’re at this town hall, we had 700 people in New Hampshire, we’re cuttin’...

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the “knee-jerk policy reactions” he expects to see from politicians calling for gun control legislation after a school shooter killed one student and injured five others on Thursday. In a sit-down with voters Thursday, Ramaswamy said the legislative focus shouldn’t be on guns, but on mental health. “The temptation...

Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley argued that polling between her and President Biden proved she was the most formidable GOP opponent, saying on Thursday “I defeat Biden.” “I think that what you're seeing is we've got momentum. We've got momentum in Iowa, we've got momentum in New Hampshire, you're gonna continue to see us be...

A pair of House Republicans sent a letter to the D.C. Board of Elections on Thursday demanding answers after the board revealed last week that a data breach resulted in the disclosure of voters' private information. The board informed the public last week that the information of about 400,000 voters was put at risk during...

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley called for mental health reform following the deadly school shooting in Perry, Iowa on Thursday. "We have to deal with the cancer that is mental health. We have to," Haley told voters at a CNN town hall in Iowa. "One in three people have a mental health issue, but if...

A drone boat filled with explosives launched from the part of Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Houthi militants drew within “a couple of miles” of U.S. Navy and commercial ships in the Red Sea before detonating on Thursday, according to the Pentagon.  The explosion of the unmanned surface vessel (USV) — which had transited 50 miles from Yemen out into Red Sea shipping lanes — came after the U.S. and 11 other countries called on Yemen's Houthis to stop...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis knocked former President Trump as someone who is “not pro-life" and argued that the former president “flip-flipped” on the issue of abortion on Thursday.  “Of course not,” DeSantis said during a CNN town hall in Des Moines, Iowa when he was asked if Trump was not “pro-life.” “I mean, when you're...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said at a town hall that the Jan. 6 rioters did not display patriotism when asked by an Iowa voter on Thursday.  "Did the Jan. 6 insurrectionists display patriotism, as some of them claim they did?" the voter asked at a CNN town hall in Iowa.  "No, of course not....

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stayed on message when asked about immigration and gun reform during a presidential town hall in Iowa on Thursday.  When asked by an Iowa voter about how he would deal with school shootings without infringing on gun rights, DeSantis cited policies he implemented in Florida following the 2018 shooting at...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) appeared to take a shot at his 2024 competitor Nikki Haley for seemingly mixing up the names of an Iowa Hawkeyes basketball player and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins. DeSantis kicked off a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday by giving Collins a jersey with Iowa Hawkeyes basketball player Caitlin Clark’s...

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) slammed what he called a “racist” and “Marxist” narrative in education, going after former Harvard University President Claudine Gay, in Thursday comments. Owens slammed "the current narrative is that ‘Blacks can't compete intellectually,’" during an interview with anchor Blake Burman on “The Hill on NewsNation.”  Owens went on to say that...