Новости за 06.02.2024

The Biden administration will halt enrollment in a program that provides broadband discounts to millions of Americans as it runs low on funds and prepares to wind down in the coming months. The Affordable Connectivity Program will stop accepting new enrollments at 11:59 p.m. ET Wednesday, a White House spokesperson confirmed. The cutoff comes as...

Politically charged gamblers can now place their bets on whether Taylor Swift will endorse President Biden’s reelection bid at the Super Bowl. The wager involving the “Anti-Hero” singer — who’s famously dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and is expected to attend the team’s game against the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is brushing off the idea that Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s relationship was “scripted” by the league to gain viewers. Ahead of the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Goodell held an annual press conference where he attributed high viewership in...

Qatar’s prime minister said Tuesday he was optimistic a deal would be reached soon to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, pause fighting between Israel and Hamas and scale up humanitarian aid deliveries. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, said he had received a response...

The American Bar Association (ABA) announced Monday it is adding a free speech requirement to its accreditation process for law schools Monday.   The ABA’s House of Delegates, in a voice vote, approved a new policy meant to combat laws and protests that have disrupted free speech and debate on law school campuses.   “The...

Jill Biden is remembering Toby Keith following the country music star’s death from stomach cancer. The 62-year-old “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” singer died Monday, a statement on his Facebook page announced. “He fought with grace and courage,” the statement said of Keith, who publicly revealed his stomach cancer diagnosis in...

Every big NFL moment has to start somewhere—and for the NFL’s game balls, that somewhere is Ada, Ohio.

Doug Emhoff is predicting San Francisco 49ers mega-fan Vice President Harris will be none too pleased with the outcome of the Super Bowl on Sunday, saying the Kansas City Chiefs are “likely going to win” the big game. “This is a big deal for her because this is her team,” the second gentleman said during a...

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) top lawyers are urging lawmakers to avoid an “illegitimate, invalid, and dangerous” impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The letter, entered Tuesday into the record of the House Rules Committee as it forwarded the impeachment resolution to the House floor, attacks the GOP's rationale for unseating Mayorkas. “Passage of this...

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says King Charles III’s cancer was “caught early” as Britain’s monarch begins treatment following his diagnosis. The cancer was discovered during a prostate procedure, Buckingham Palace announced Monday. Specific details about the type of cancer were not disclosed. In a Tuesday interview with BBC Radio, Sunak said he was “shocked and sad” when he first...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is borrowing a line from Taylor Swift to jokingly offer a tongue-in-cheek confirmation about political conspiracy theories involving the singer: “Haters gonna hate.” The Massachusetts Democrat appeared on CBS’s “The Late Show” on Monday and was immediately asked by host Stephen Colbert about the “Anti-Hero” singer. Swift — who won two Grammy...

The absence of comprehensive federal regulation protecting data privacy has made protecting everyday Americans from scams and harmful data practices very challenging.

Former President Trump suggested Monday that he has recommendations for how the Republican National Committee (RNC) could grow, claiming he would share them following the upcoming South Carolina GOP primary. While referring to RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as "my friend," Trump signaled that her future as the party chair could be uncertain. "Things are looking...

Democrats currently view Texas as their best hope for flipping a GOP held senate seat in 2024. They should think again.

A proposed deal on border security, announced after long and painstaking negotiations in the Senate, has stumbled out of the gate. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has declared the push “dead on arrival.” In the Senate — which is typically more open to bipartisan moderation than the House — at least 19 GOP senators have declared...

Infrastructure The ​National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) hired GrayRobinson to lobby on issues related to infrastructure and the asphalt industry, including implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and highway and federal aviation reauthorization bills. Chris McCannell, a former chief of staff and press secretary to several members of Congress, will work on the...

Educators and students have been finding creative ways over the past few years to circumvent book bans in states and schools across the country. Inside and outside the classroom, vested teachers, parents and young readers are forging access to free versions of books that have been taken off the shelves in schools, largely in Republican-led...

Florida abortion rights groups are heading to the state Supreme Court this week as part of their effort to put abortion protections on the ballot in November. The court will hear arguments Wednesday about whether the ballot measure language meets state rules, the final hurdle to clear before the question can be put to voters....

Story at a glance Colleges and universities across the U.S. are trying to enroll more "adult" students as their traditional-aged applicant pool grows ever smaller. Facing a decline in enrollment — and fearing that decline could become a cliff as America's population of fresh high school graduates continues to shrink — schools are offering flexible...

Nikki Haley is fueling questions about her endgame as she barrels toward a South Carolina showdown with Donald Trump despite the odds seemingly stacked against her. The former South Carolina governor has shown no signs of wanting to drop out, even as it seems increasingly likely Trump will win the nomination. She has recently launched...

A nearby "super-Earth" exoplanet was recently discovered just 137 light-years away from Earth, prompting scientists to dig deeper into if it has the conditions to sustain life, NASA announced. The planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times as wide as Earth and orbits within a conservative "habitable zone" around its parent...

A pair of climate scientists are proposing a sixth category for hurricanes as climate change increasingly intensifies these storms, according to a new research study. In a study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the two scientists argued the "open-ended" Saffir Simpson hurricane wind scale is becoming increasingly "inadequate" as...

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) came out against the bipartisan Senate border security bill on Monday, warning that it could actually make border security worse. "My top priority last year was to secure the border. They did not give me a bill that secures the border, it actually makes the border worse,” Marshall said on NewsNation’s...

A central piece of the Senate’s bipartisan border deal is a new authority for the administration to close the border to most migrants in certain circumstances. Proponents of the bill say it would cut in half the number of migrants being allowed into the country, which is a top priority for Republicans, while not closing...

The acting chief of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the union representing Border Patrol agents both endorsed the bipartisan Senate border security bill on Monday, adding support for the plan from those who would enforce key aspects of it. The endorsements, both first reported by Fox News, come as the Senate deal faces...