Новости за 24.02.2024

President Biden commemorated the National Guard for their commitment to service, after two guardsmen were killed in a helicopter crash Friday. "Jill and I mourn the loss of two Mississippi National Guardsmen, whose aircraft crashed during a routine training mission near Booneville, Mississippi yesterday," Biden said in a statement. "Our prayers are with their families,...

The U.S. military called the damage to the U.K.-owned vessel carrying over 40,000 tons of fertilizer struck by Iran-backed Houthi rebels an “environmental disaster.” Houthis attacked the cargo ship operated by Rubymar Monday night, causing “significant damage” to the vessel which prompted an 18-mile oil slick, according to the U.S. military.  The ship's cargo, over...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) made a new pledge this week to help the next president be "successful" in the White House — regardless of who wins the general election. “Well, let me just say this, whenever our president is elected, duly elected by the people which Joe Biden was done, which Donald Trump was done...

Now is a more important time than ever to protect America’s emergency infrastructure. Last week’s cell outage and the revelation of Russia’s capacity to disrupt U.S. communications satellites should be a sobering wake-up call to Congress that it is time to pass the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act.

Black leaders are condemning former President Trump’s recent comments about Black voters as “racist.” Speaking at the Black Conservative Federation (BCF) annual gala in South Carolina on Friday, Trump said his legal woes have earned him the support of Black voters around the country. “I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing,” Trump told...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the NCAA from enforcing name, image and likeness (NIL) rules for recruits after Tennessee and Virginia demanded a preliminary injunction. The decision, handed down Friday by U.S. District Judge Clifton Corker in the Knoxville division of the Eastern District of Tennessee, said the NCAA cannot enforce its NIL rules...

To be sure, more Houthi attacks are coming, but the objective, again, is not to stop them from attacking — which is impossible — but to lower the risk these inevitable future attacks pose.

The cost of complying with climate disclosure laws is colossal.

A measles outbreak at a Florida school this month, which comes in the wake of last year’s in Ohio, is showing the vulnerability of classrooms amid rising vaccine skepticism. So far six students from Manatee Bay Elementary School in Broward County have tested positive for the disease, which can be incredibly dangerous for young children,...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against tax company H&R Block for allegedly deceptively marketing products as “free” when they’re not, and for deleting customers’ tax data when they try to downgrade to more affordable online services. “H&R Block designed its online products to present an obstacle course of tedious challengers to...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Polls will close at 7pm Eastern in today’s South Carolina GOP primary. A big win is expected for former President Trump over his only remaining serious rival, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. Haley, born and raised in the state, was twice elected governor here. If Trump wins — any another outcome...

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) is supporting a campaign asking Democratic voters to vote “uncommitted” in Michigan’s presidential primary, if they are unhappy with the way President Biden has handled the Israel-Hamas war. “I do think it makes sense for those who want to see this administration do more, or do a better job, to...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is looking to prevent a partial government shutdown by moving a set of spending bills as a single package ahead of Friday’s deadline, he told GOP lawmakers on a private call Friday night. A source familiar with the call told The Hill that Johnson said his goal is to pass a...

Former President Donald Trump is slated to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Saturday. The speech will serve as the culmination of the conference, which doubled as a coronation for the former president this year. It is scheduled to take place hours before he is expected to thump former...

The primary race between former President Trump and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is growing increasingly personal as Haley remains defiant in her decision to stay in the race despite trailing Trump by double digits. The changing tenor of the race was underscored this week when she choked up talking about her husband during an...

What if the 25th Amendment is used to remove Biden from office should his health take a turn for the worse? What if Trump's legal issues prevent him from becoming the Republican nominee or president?

X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is going to begin rolling out audio and video calls for non-paying users. Elon Musk, owner of the platform, shared the news several weeks ago that they would begin rolling out the feature to all users “as soon as we are confident that it is robust.” The company...

Russian authorities have given Alexei Navalny’s body to his mother after days of demands, his spokesperson announced Saturday. “Alexei’s body was given to his mother. Thank you very much to everyone who demanded this with us,” Kira Yarmysh posted on X, formerly Twitter. “While Lyudmila Ivanovna is in Salekhard. The funeral is yet to come....

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said he didn’t know the campaign consultant allegedly involved in fake robocalls of President Biden in New Hampshire in January. “And first of all, let me just denounce it,” Phillips said in a Friday interview with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo on his show. “I don't know the man who...

It may be hard-wired in the family DNA.

It may not be the first site you think of when you think of a national park, but it ranks as the most-visited NPS site for another year in a row.

At an event in South Carolina, former President Trump said that his four criminal indictments have increased his support among Black Americans, because they understand he is a victim of discrimination. While at the black-tie event ahead of the South Carolina primary, Trump compared his legal woes to the history of anti-Black discrimination in the...

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod said the impression of the Republican party as extreme is harming it politically. “If I were the [President Biden’s] campaign, I would pay to have every American see the [Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)] convention, because the thing that has been thwarting Republicans in the midterms and since, has been...

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference is set to conclude Saturday with its third full day of GOP political speakers. Saturday's list of speakers include (all times in EST): Also on the schedule, straw poll results from the convention are set to be announced at 4:10 p.m. Watch the live video above.

Donald Trump is slated to speak around noon on Saturday as part of the last day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. His speech comes as he appears on a glide path toward the GOP nomination, with speculation now turning to who will be his running mate. The event comes...