Новости за 05.03.2024

The White House on Monday seized on Cookie Monster’s post complaining about “shrinkflation." “C is for consumers getting ripped off,” the official White House account on X, formerly known as Twitter, posted in response to an earlier post by the “Sesame Street” character. “President Biden is calling on companies to put a stop to shrinkflation.”...

Michelle Obama is making it crystal clear — she’s not eyeing a return to the White House with a surprise presidential bid, according to her office. “As former first Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,” Crystal Carson, the director of communications for Obama’s office,...

Former President Trump on Tuesday said Israel has to "finish the problem" in its war against Hamas as Israeli leaders face mounting criticism for their handling of the war in Gaza. Trump called into "Fox and Friends" ahead of Super Tuesday voting, and co-host Brian Kilmeade asked the former president whether he was "on board"...

Republican populism is splintering Democrats’ historic coalitions.

Harvard University submitted more documents Monday in response to a subpoena from the House Education Committee, which has accused the school of not being cooperative with its probe into antisemitism on college campuses.   Harvard turned over more than 1,500 documents, including an overview of how it has been battling antisemitism. “Harvard denounced antisemitism...

Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) will forgo a bid to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and will instead run to become the No. 2 Senate Republican, sources tell The Hill. Barrasso had been one of the “Three Johns” seen as likely to run for the top spot in the conference alongside Sens. John Thune...

A California man was arrested and charged for allegedly smuggling greenhouse gases into the United States from Mexico and selling them for profit, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Michael Hart, of San Diego, is accused of purchasing refrigerants in Mexico and bringing them into the U.S. in his vehicle, where they were hidden under a tarp...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) faulted Boeing for quality control problems in the wake of a midair blowout earlier this year. In a statement Monday, the agency said its six-week audit of the aviation giant and Spirit AeroSystems, the manufacturer linked to the incident that sparked the audit, found “multiple instances when the companies allegedly...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule Tuesday to limit late payment fees issued by credit card companies, a move the agency says will reduce the typical fee by 75 percent and save U.S. consumers an average of $220 per year. The consumer watchdog agency estimated the rule would save Americans more than...

CNN analyst Van Jones suggested Monday that President Biden push back against concerns around his age in this week's State of The Union address by emphasizing a "good grandpa," is better than "a bad grandpa." "Unfortunately he cannot get any younger, so there's not much they can do about it. He has a chance this...

David Axelrod said Monday the indictments former President Trump faces have made him look “indomitable” and “strong." “I think we have to stop and acknowledge, the sort of moment that we’re in, where a guy who engineered an insurrection at the Capitol is on the verge of being his party’s nominee again, and I don’t...

Jill Biden is among the Philadelphia Eagles mega-fans lauding Jason Kelce following the longtime center’s retirement announcement. “Congratulations on a legendary career,” the first lady said in a Monday post on social media. Biden’s celebratory message came just hours after a teary-eyed Kelce announced his NFL retirement during a news conference. The 36-year-old Super Bowl LII champion played his whole...

Conservative legal commentator George Conway ripped into the Supreme Court justices’ majority and concurring opinions when restoring former President Trump to Colorado’s primary ballot, calling it “shoddy legal work all around.” “I think they did have a very difficult time with it because I don’t think any of the three opinions make any sense whatsoever,"...

Regardless of party, McConnell might have been recognized as one of the most effective Senate leaders ever, if only in the end he’d been willing to stand up to Donald Trump.

Mark Cuban, the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said he would cast his vote for President Biden over former President Trump in November, even if “he was being given last rites.” “If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still...

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin noted there were high tempers on the Supreme Court after it ruled Monday that Colorado could not disqualify former President Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. “There was a paradox, about today, at The Supreme Court,” Toobin told CNN anchor John King on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” in a...

Plastic food packaging contains chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system — and that can leach into food, a new study has found. Once there, these chemicals can mimic — or disrupt — the effects of the hormones estrogen and testosterone on the body, according to the study published on Tuesday in Environmental Science & Technology. Other...

It is time for a much broader look at the fiscal crisis.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is narrowly leading Democrat challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell by 3 points, according to a new poll. A survey from the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling, paid for by Emily’s List and first shared with The Hill, shows Scott leading Mucarsel-Powell 44 percent to 41 percent, respectively. Because the margin of error is...

Despite broad bipartisan support in Congress and from chemical companies, first responders, and others, the program has been allowed to lapse for more than seven months.

Former President Trump exulted in a favorable ruling from a unanimous Supreme Court on Monday and projections of triumph in today’s Super Tuesday contests in 15 states amid evident Republican Party divisions. All nine justices agreed that Colorado, which holds its primary today, can’t knock Trump off ballots based on a clause in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The upshot...

A package of six bills that needs to pass by Friday to avoid a partial government shutdown is drawing intense fire from conservatives in both chambers who are zeroing in on more than 6,000 earmarks buried in the package. The spending package was initially expected to pass easily but now faces a rocky path in...

Hard-line conservatives are up in arms over the bipartisan government funding deal endorsed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), but heading into this week’s vote to prevent a partial shutdown, they've been forced to acknowledge they're all but powerless to block it. Members of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus have urged Johnson to demand deep...

The Department of Justice is expected to propose sweeping updates to influence disclosure rules for agents of foreign clients next month that could reshape the contours of the World War II-era law. It has been decades since there have been major legislative or regulatory updates to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which imposed registration...

Former President Trump is set to tighten his lock on the GOP presidential nomination on Super Tuesday, with plausible expectations that he could sweep all ​15 contests that are taking place. The main hope for his last remaining rival, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, would appear to be a victory in Virginia, buoyed by the moderate voters...