Новости за 25.03.2024

President Biden’s reelection campaign added four members to its communications team, The Hill has learned exclusively. The campaign hired Mia Ehrenberg as a national spokesperson, Charles Lutvak as a national spokesperson, Fabiola Rodriguez as deputy director of Hispanic media and Katarina Flicker as deputy director of strategic communications. The new hires will start their roles...

No society should tolerate the destructive, self-absorbed petulance of the vandals. It should not have to be said that they have no right to destroy an irreplaceable piece of art or a precious document, denying it to future generations.

President Biden’s reelection campaign bashed former President Trump on Monday for claiming he has the cash to pay a $175 million bond in his civil fraud case, and brushing off the prospect that a conviction in another case could cost him the election. Trump scored a major win in New York appeals court earlier in...

The White House said it is looking to work with Congress to repeal an effective ban on LGBTQ pride flags flown over U.S. embassies in legislation funding the government through September. President Biden signed the $1.2 trillion spending package Saturday, hailing the agreement as a compromise in which “neither side got everything it wanted.” LGBTQ advocates criticized a provision...

The Florida Democratic Party on Sunday ousted two county party chairs, including the party chair of Miami-Dade County, in a contentious seven-hour meeting that follows a series of recent election defeats. The 120-member party central committee voted to oust Miami-Dade Chair Robert Dempster and Franklin County Chair Carol Barfield on Sunday by significant margins, with...

Former President Trump on Monday brushed off the prospect that a conviction in an upcoming trial over alleged hush money payments could cost him the election in November, suggesting it could actually help him if he’s found guilty. “Well, it could also make me more popular because the people know it’s a scam,” Trump said...

Democratic virtue is believed to be a stronger and more reliable force than authoritarian discipline; genuine consent from the people more powerful than any authoritarian coercion.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he doesn't believe former President Trump would follow through on his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border because of the two countries' economic ties. "Because we understood each other very well. We signed an economic, a commercial agreement that has been favorable for both peoples,...

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) are threatening to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he does not hand over materials pertaining to special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified documents. The threat — as written in a letter...

The European Union launched investigations into Meta, Google and Apple to review if the three U.S.-based tech giants’ recently announced measures comply with the EU’s new tech regulations, the European Commission announced Monday. The investigations will focus on whether the companies' new policies regarding app store rules, display of options to users and subscription...

As the sponsor of the Cerebral Palsy Research Program Authorization Act, which would create a program with dedicated research funding under the CDC, I hope my colleagues in Congress will join me in recognizing the need to expand research into cerebral palsy, build on the recent investment in the ADDM Network, and support additional avenues for dedicated federal research funding to benefit people living with cerebral palsy and their families.

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT Happy Monday. My latest social media feeds have been taken over by Swedish candy — and it’s all I can think about. Has anyone else been seeing the viral videos of Americans sampling it? And can anyone tell me if Bubs are actually that good? OK, back to why you came here....

Climate change-induced warming may be jeopardizing the survival of honey bee colonies in the Pacific Northwest, a new study has found. Contributing to this threat is an increasingly long autumn season, which is extending the amount of fall flying weather but is wearing out worker bees for spring, according to the study, published Monday in Scientific...

Republican Rep. John Moolenaar (Mich.) will serve as the next head of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) following the departure from Congress of Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) next month.   Announcing his appointment on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Moolenaar will be “an exceptional chairman” for the committee.  "His leadership experience...

Elliot Page is speaking out about the “devastating” effects of LGBTQ rights being “revoked, restricted and eliminated throughout the world.” The “Umbrella Academy” star, who came out as transgender in 2020, appeared Sunday at the Juno Awards in Canada to honor Tegan and Sara with a humanitarian award for their foundation’s “commitment to building progressive, social change” for the...

Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden all inherited the failed Afghan and second Iraq wars.

A case brought by Elon Musk, the owner of X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, against a hate-speech watchdog group was dismissed by a federal court in San Francisco on Monday. In his case against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), Musk alleged that CCDH illegally scraped data from the platform while...

The Biden administration is committing $6 billion toward cutting planet-warming emissions from some of the nation’s most polluting and difficult to decarbonize sectors.  The funds will go to 33 different projects in sectors including aluminum, cement and concrete, chemicals, iron and steel. It will also go toward the food industry, with projects like electrifying processes...

Story at a glance The rise of climate change-related extreme weather events like floods, hurricanes and heat waves is worrying homeowners in the U.S.  A roughly 2,000-person LendingTree survey published Monday found that 51 percent of homeowners fear climate-related hazards will affect their homes.   Survey findings also show about 50 percent of homeowners worry...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, is asking the UnitedHealth Group (UHG) to explain what it is doing to address the ongoing fallout from the cyberattack on one of its subsidiaries last month. In a letter addressed to UHG CEO Andrew Witty, Raskin wrote that the committee...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) took aim at former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel after McDaniel defended her involvement in former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “Ronna facilitated Trump’s corrupt fake elector plot & his effort to pressure MI [Michigan] officials not to certify the legitimate election...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill Monday that bans children younger than 14 years from holding social media accounts in the Sunshine State. The legislation also requires 14- and 15-year-olds to obtain parental approval to hold accounts on social media platforms that employ algorithms and have “certain addictive features.” “The internet has become...

No amount of courtesy, affability, relationship building or overall good feeling can justify the Supreme Court’s quiescence in the face of Thomas’s flagrant misconduct.

A New York appeals court on Monday temporarily stopped the clock on the looming enforcement of a multimillion-dollar judgment against former President Trump and his company over deceitful business practices. In a terse order, a state appeals court panel said it would pause the enforcement of the $464 million judgment against Trump, the Trump Organization...

Tech journalist Kara Swisher said in a Sunday interview that Elon Musk is as “subtle as a brick” in trying to conceal his support for former President Trump’s reelection bid. In an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Swisher said, “Yes, 100 percent,” when asked whether she thinks Musk, whom she covered for years,...