Новости за 29.04.2024

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday slammed reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is planning on issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials. In a statement, Johnson called the reported arrest warrants illegitimate and said that "instead of wrongly targeting Israel,” the ICC should redirect its focus...

Lester is charged with the shooting of Ralph Yarl, who had knocked on the wrong door to pick up his brothers on April 13, 2023 in Kansas City

Five companies are responsible for a quarter of all plastic waste worldwide, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. The study, conducted by the Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, involved surveys of plastic waste collected from 2018 to 2022. Of more than 1.8 million pieces of waste collected, over 900,000 had...

The inequity of canceling student debt but no other types of debt will become more glaring.

Former President Trump is the front-runner in a three-way race with President Biden and Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll shared with The Hill on Monday. In a race between the three candidates, 44 percent of registered voters said they backed Trump while 38 percent said they would vote...

While climate change is in general increasing the ferocity and frequency of severe weather events, the same effects may not apply to the massive snow dumps that occasionally pummel the U.S. West. The quantity of snow that falls during so-called "snow deluge" years — such as the big 2023 snow season in California — is...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revising long-standing rules to place laboratory tests under the same jurisdiction as other testing, which the agency says will help ensure better safety and efficacy. Since 1976, the FDA has not enforced legal requirements on most laboratory developed tests (LDT) due to the Medical Device Amendments. Generally speaking,...

Prehistoric humans are often believed to have largely eaten meat — to the extent that proponents of many modern low-carb diets portray them as closely resembling humans' “primordial” eating style. But a recent excavation at a cave in Taforalt, Morocco, complicates this picture, according to findings published on Monday in Nature Ecology & Evolution. These findings challenge “the prevailing notion”...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said Monday his state will not abide by the Biden administration’s sweeping new changes to Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at government-funded schools. In a letter to President Biden, Abbott railed against the revised rules — which provide new protections for transgender students — saying...

Basketball star Brittney Griner this week will speak publicly about her experience in a Russian prison for the first time since her release in December 2022. In an interview with Robin Roberts, scheduled to air Wednesday on ABC, the Olympic gold medalist and a nine-time WNBA All-Star breaks down as she shares that her incarceration...

Multiple law enforcement officers were hit by gunfire Monday afternoon in Charlotte, N.C., according to local police. A U.S. Marshals Task Force, which includes officers from different agencies, was conducting an investigation near the 5000 block of Galway Drive when they were "engaged by active gunfire from a subject," the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said on...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to stage a vote on a bipartisan bill to combat antisemitism, the latest push by lawmakers in the wake of pro-Palestine protests roiling college campuses across the country. In a letter to Johnson on Monday, Jeffries asked that the Speaker bring the Countering Antisemitism...

One America News, the conservative network touted by former President Trump, retracted a story this week that falsely alleged an affair between Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, and adult film star Stormy Daniels. The story, which has since been removed from the network's website, cited a "whistleblower" who alleged Michael Avanetti, Daniels former attorney, had...

I am entitled to express myself freely, but no one is obligated to help me express myself.

A quartet of senators from the greater Washington, D.C., area tore into a potential provision that would add a number of long-distance flight slots at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) as part of the upcoming reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and...

Americans are smarter than Democrats give them credit for. Americans understand that politics is why President Trump is on trial.

An overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel in its war against Hamas over the militant group running the Gaza Strip, according to a new poll. The Harvard CAPS-Harris survey shared with The Hill showed 80 percent of registered voters said they support Israel more in the war, while 20 percent said they support Hamas more....

Excitement over a 2024 rematch between President Biden and former President Trump is slowly increasing as the general election approaches, according to a new poll. In the poll, published Monday by Monmouth University, 39 percent of voters expressed at least some enthusiasm about a Biden-Trump rematch, up 12 percentage points from December. While enthusiasm might...

More than half of voters think former President Trump has committed crimes for which he should be convicted, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll shared with The Hill. Fifty-five percent of surveyed voters think Trump has committed crimes, a finding that comes as the first of four criminal indictments against the former president goes...

Vice President Harris will join Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, hosts of the personal finance podcast "Earn Your Leisure," for a conversation Monday in the Atlanta suburb of College Park. Harris’s trip to Georgia is the first stop on a tour planned to showcase the Biden-Harris administration’s support for local economies. A statement released by...

An anti-Trump Republican group took a swipe at a series of high-profile politicians including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former Attorney General Bill Barr for their support of former President Trump after repeatedly expressing concerns about him. In an ad released Sunday, Republican Voters Against Trump warned of several GOP figures suffering from...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Monday sued the Biden administration over new federal nondiscrimination protections for transgender students. The Education Department this month finalized a set of sweeping changes to Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and education programs that receive federal funding, after more than a year...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is scheduled to deliver a briefing Monday afternoon. It comes after President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend. The administration has continued to call for a cease-fire in Israel's war against Hamas that could open wider channels for humanitarian aid into Gaza.  Secretary of...

An angler at a lake in Austin, Texas, said she caught a koi fish near the Waller Beach area.

While this law was designed to impact TikTok, what it damages may be far more significant.