Новости за 15.02.2024

Special counsel Robert Hur will appear publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on March 12 to answer questions about his investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified records. The hearing, confirmed by a source familiar, comes as Republicans have called his failure to recommend charges for Biden part of a broader “double standard” amid former...

The Biden administration is monitoring Russia’s pursuit of an “anti-satellite” capability but cautioned there’s little threat to Americans' personal safety. “It’s not an active capability and it has not yet been deployed,” White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said Thursday, a day after the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee raised alarm...

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it will seek to give student debt forgiveness to those experiencing “hardship” in the president’s latest plan for debt relief. The hardship category is one of five in Biden’s new student debt relief plan that is going through the negotiated rulemaking process, where relevant stakeholders come together to discuss...

A government watchdog found serious lapses in how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) vetted sponsors for a wave of migrant children that arrived in the U.S. along the Mexican border in 2021 without a parent or guardian.   According to a report released Thursday from the HHS Office of Inspector General, agency...

More than anyone, women in Iran understand that global support for oppressed women anywhere and everywhere is essential.

Combinations of state, local and private-sector efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are more effective in their goal than any of the three on their own, according to research published in the journal Energy Research & Social Science. Researchers analyzed emissions disclosures to CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project, for more than 1,300...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk moved the spacecraft and satellite communications company’s state of incorporation to Texas on Wednesday, as the billionaire attempts to move his many companies out of Delaware following an unfavorable ruling in state court. “SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas!” Musk wrote in a post on X,...

Giffords, a national gun violence prevention organization, bashed former President Trump on Thursday for ignoring the deadly shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade at a rally hours later. In a statement first provided to The Hill, Giffords argued that Trump, in his speech in South Carolina, aligned himself with the National Rifle...

A new report by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General blames "deficiencies" within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for 187 deaths by suicide over a eight-year period. The report, released Thursday, came after reviewing 344 inmate deaths from 2014 to 2021 and finding that 187 — more than half — died...

Story at a glance Nearly half of healthcare workers in the United States have seen a patient experience discrimination based on their race or ethnicity, according to a new survey from The Commonwealth Fund.   The 3,000-person survey found that 47 percent of doctors, nurses, dentists, physician assistants and other health workers witnessed a racist incident...

State attorneys general have been testing the boundaries of consumer protection laws via courtrooms in pursuit of climate change policy goals for years.

COVID-19 patients are at least four times more likely to develop chronic fatigue than those who have not been infected, according to a new study published by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers used electronic medical records from the University of Washington for their analysis and followed more than 4,500 adults...

Former President Obama stood by President Biden’s commitment to the NATO alliance on Wednesday, days after former President Trump sparked concern around the globe by saying the U.S. should not defend NATO allies who fall short of their defense spending targets. “President Biden is absolutely right,” Obama wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The last thing...

Trump attorney Alina Habba cast doubt on the outcome of the New York civil fraud trial against former President Trump, saying she thinks her client will be unhappy with the decision expected Friday. “If I could file the appeal now, I would,” Habba said in a Newsmax interview Wednesday. “There's no surprises coming here.” “I’ll...

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will deliver a daily press briefing Thursday afternoon. The briefing comes as President Biden renewed his calls for Congress to pass gun violence prevention legislation after Wednesday’s deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade. The briefing is scheduled for 1 p.m. EST. Watch the live video...

NEW YORK — A judge on Thursday rejected former President Trump’s bid to toss his hush money charges, paving the way for the first criminal trial of a former president to begin in March. Judge Juan Merchan said “at this point” he will move ahead with jury selection beginning March 25 as scheduled, a timeline...

Kristen Stewart is blasting former President Trump as “such a little baby” for tweeting about her then-relationship years before he became commander in chief. In 2012, Trump weighed in on the actor’s relationship with her "Twilight" co-star, Robert Pattinson, amid a highly publicized cheating scandal. “Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart,” Trump wrote at the...

Detroit Pistons center Isaiah Stewart was arrested after punching Phoenix Suns center Drew Eubanks before Wednesday’s game in Phoenix. Stewart was arrested for assault, issued a citation and released, law enforcement said. He did not play in Wednesday’s game due to a pre-existing injury. The Phoenix Police Department said a fight broke out between the...

President Biden renewed his calls for Congress to pass gun violence prevention legislation after Wednesday's deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade. The shooter in Kansas City, Mo., opened fire during the victory parade, killing at least one person and injuring more than 20 more, including at least eight children. “The Super Bowl...

In the hours after the murder of Gabby Petito, Brian Laundrie made repeated phone calls to his parents who, years later, continue to maintain they were never told Petito was dead, according to court documents released Monday.

Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.) said it was a “sad day” for Kansas City, Mo., in the wake of a mass shooting following the victory parade for the Kansas City Chiefs Wednesday. “My daughter and son were at the parade — they left before the shooting occurred. It's a sad day for Kansas City. This was...

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), an outspoken voice against gun violence, said the Kansas City shooting in Missouri, which took place on the sixth anniversary of the school shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in his state, was "horrific." “I mean this is just a horrific event and it is exclusively,...

Former President Trump said he purposely conflated Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley last month. “So it's very hard to be sarcastic when I interpose. I'm not a Nicki fan, and I'm not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names they said, 'He didn't know Pelosi from Nikki,...

Members of Congress mourned after a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade on Wednesday killed at least one person and injured over 20 more. Kansas City, Mo., police said three people are in custody after the shooting, which injured at least 21 people, including at least eight children. Eight of...