Новости за 09.01.2024

A federal court dealt a blow late Monday to a Biden administration rule that sought to make dishwashers and laundry machines more efficient, but it did not appear to go as far as throwing the rule out. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined the Biden administration’s rule did not adequately consider appliance performance or...

Maryland will open a new statewide center focused on gun violence prevention following Vice President Harris's call for state officials to confront the issue on a state-level, Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Tuesday. “We have got to confront this inexcusable fact that 75 percent of all homicides in Maryland are committed with a gun. This...

Governors across the nation have issued emergency proclamations over approaching winter storms that they anticipate to cause heavy rains, strong winds, flooding and power outages. The governors of Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey and Kansas have issued emergency proclamations, warning residents of the hazardous weather conditions threatening their states. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R)...

President Biden did not find out about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's prostate cancer diagnosis until Tuesday morning, days after an undisclosed hospitalization was made public that Biden was also unaware of. The White House briefed reporters on the matter just after a Pentagon briefing that revealed Austin's cancer diagnosis earlier in the day. “The president didn't...

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report The Big Story What to know for the Haley-DeSantis Iowa debate GOP rivals Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are set to take the CNN debate stage in Iowa Wednesday, with less than a week before the first-in-the-nation caucuses. © AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Pressure is...

University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh suggested that college athletes should unionize after his team won the national championship on Monday night. “The thing I would change about college football is, to let the talent share in the ever-increasing revenues,” Harbaugh said at a press conference Tuesday. “We're all robbing the same train...

Republican presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are set to go head-to-head Wednesday in the next Republican presidential primary debate, just days before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses.   Former President Trump, the party frontrunner, is skipping the events, leaving just two candidates to square up in Des Moines at the event hosted by CNN. ...

Jonathan Turley, a conservative commentator and legal scholar, argued the GOP does not have sufficient evidence for impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, undercutting the effort the day before Republicans are set to kick off a series of hearings to remove him from office. Turley’s comments, via an op-ed in The Daily Beast, cast Republicans' impeachment...

House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) warned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland that if he doesn’t hold Hunter Biden, the president’s son, to the same level as Republicans who were held in contempt of Congress, he could face impeachment. “With respect to Merrick Garland, look, we know how he’s treated two Republicans...

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Tuesday acknowledged that Congress will “obviously” have to pass another short-term funding measure to avoid a partial government shutdown later this month, even though Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said last year he’s “done” with short-term continuing resolutions. “Obviously we’re going to have to pass a CR,” McConnell...

Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers became the latest Senate Republican hopeful to endorse former President Trump in the GOP primary, underscoring the enduring influence Trump has over his party. Rogers, who has previously been critical of Trump, said in an op-ed in the Daily Caller published on Tuesday that he was supporting the former...

Former President Trump’s legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive's broad immunity to criminal prosecution. The hypothetical was presented to Trump attorney John Sauer who answered with a “qualified yes” that a former president...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned lawmakers Monday that it will have to begin winding down the Affordable Connectivity Program that provides broadband discounts to millions of American households if it does not receive additional funding from Congress. The program’s remaining funding is expected to run out in May, and it would need another $6...

NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers did not apologize for comments he made last week suggesting late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was "one of the people really hoping that list doesn’t come out," in reference to a list of associates of Jeffrey Epstein. "I totally understand how serious an allegation of pedophilia would be, so for him to...

If the GOP wants a win with young women, it should pivot from contraception as a token solution to the real reproductive issues plaguing women.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and national security spokesperson John Kirby are slated to hold the daily press briefing Tuesday afternoon. On Monday, President Biden renominated Julie Su to serve as Labor secretary after her nomination was delayed in the Senate for months last year. In a speech on Monday, President Biden also sought to...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underwent surgery to combat prostate cancer, in an initial Dec. 22 hospital visit he kept secret from the White House, the Pentagon revealed Tuesday. The cancer was detected during a routinely recommended health screening Austin had in early December, according to a statement from doctors John Maddox and Gregory Chesnut at Walter Reed...

Actresses Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore responded to Vili Fualaau's criticism over the Netflix film "May December," arguing the story was not intended to be a biopic about Fualaau's controversial relationship with teacher Mary Kay Letourneau. Fualaau said last week he felt "offended" Netflix didn't consult with him about the film, calling it a "ripoff...

Boeing’s stock continued to slide on Tuesday amid fallout from the harrowing mid-flight incident Friday that left passengers terrified as an emergency door panel detached from a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. Boeing shares were down roughly 1.3 percent by midday Tuesday after falling 8...

Plans for a spacecraft's lunar landing have been scrapped due to a fuel leak, according to an American aerospace company. Astrobotic Technology said the Peregrine spacecraft, which was meant to land on the moon, has been “operational” for approximately 32 hours, in a statement posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Tuesday. The...

If we fail to take this seemingly small but extraordinarily important course correction, it will send yet another signal to the public and our allies around the world that America is a weakened state, with Congress more focused on politics than its own people.

The White House is launching a review of protocols for how Cabinet officials delegate authority in the aftermath of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s undisclosed hospitalization, which President Biden was not notified of for multiple days. Chief of staff Jeff Zients in a memo to Cabinet secretaries said while the review is ongoing, agencies would be...

Verizon customers have started to receive notifications they are eligible to receive a payment of up to $100 following a $100 million class action settlement with the wireless company.

The Democrat-controlled Maine Legislature voted down a Republican effort to impeach the state’s chief election official for kicking former President Trump off the ballot for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.  In an 80-60 party-line vote, the state House struck down the impeachment resolution going after Maine Secretary of State Shenna...

President Biden’s reelection campaign bashed former President Trump on Tuesday after he said he hoped the U.S. economy crashed in the next 12 months, arguing he doesn’t care about people. “Donald Trump should just say he doesn’t give a damn about people, because that’s exactly what he’s telling the American people when he says he hopes the...