Новости за 03.04.2024

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) may have endorsed former President Trump in his bid for the White House, but their relationship remains as icy as ever. McConnell still doesn't talk to Trump, even while some of his top deputies — Senate GOP Whip John Thune (S.D.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) — have reached...

With two weeks until the 2024 tax deadline, only around 50,000 people have used the IRS’s new direct file online filing system, a number well shy of the hundreds of thousands the agency anticipated for this tax year in early projections. While the IRS has pushed hard to alert taxpayers of the direct file system...

Climate change and generations of US housing and development policy are making homes, neighborhoods, and entire municipalities riskier to insure, undermining the ability of Americans to live where they choose. The current face of this crisis is a nationwide withdrawal by the insurance industry from regions threatened by wildfires and hurricanes, particularly along the Gulf...

Apple is set to face its biggest antitrust challenge yet as the Department of Justice (DOJ) targets the tech giant’s alleged control of the smartphone market. Apple faced a high-profile antitrust challenge a few years ago by video game company Epic Games over the company's app store rules, and the tech giant mostly prevailed against...

Democratic hopes are rising that they could spring an upset in Florida this November, despite the Sunshine State having turned a deeper shade of red in recent years. Those hopes were given a major boost Monday by two seemingly contrasting court decisions on abortion. On one hand, the Florida Supreme Court upheld an existing 15-week...

Florida Democrats are seizing on the state’s Supreme Court’s decisions on abortion ahead of November’s Senate race in hopes the issue will galvanize voters in the red-leaning state. On Monday, the state’s high court issued two rulings on access to abortion, one of which upheld the state’s 15-week abortion ban but another that gave the green light...

California, a state known for advancing some of the strictest climate policies in the country, is the nation's top emitter of a little-known — but very persistent — greenhouse gas, a new study has found. Sulfuryl fluoride, a common pesticide for treating termites and other wood-infesting insects, lingers in the atmosphere for more than 40...

Retired Command Sgt. Maj. Tonya Oxendine, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for nine hard years before she began her path to recovery. Her pain reached a point where, one day after leaving her desk at the Pentagon, she was considering driving off a bridge. “I was at the...

Democrats are fearful that Israel’s war in Gaza is turning into a major political liability for President Biden and candidates down the ballot, and one that could get worse if it rages on into the summer and attention turns to his match-up with former President Trump. Biden is under increasing pressure from Democratic lawmakers over...

When President Biden moved into the White House in early 2021, a debate ensued about whether he could bring his Peloton bike with him because of the security risks it might pose. Biden had grown attached to the bike, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the New York Times reported that he and Jill Biden would “engage...

A judge in Washington banned the use of videos enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) as evidence in the trial of a man who is accused of killing three people. The ruling, signed Friday by King County Superior Court Judge Leroy McCullough, may be the first-of-its-kind ruling in court as AI tech emerges. It was first...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was admitted to a Colorado hospital Monday to undergo emergency surgery for a blood clot in her leg. Boebert was experiencing “severe swelling in her upper left leg” and went to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado. “I want to thank Dr. Rebecca Bade and the entire team...

Former President Trump is projected to win the Republican presidential primary in Wisconsin, according to Decision Desk HQ. Trump was not expected to face any serious competition in the state, which has 41 delegates up for grabs on the GOP side. He was in the state earlier on Tuesday in his first visit of...

President Biden is projected to win the Democratic presidential primary in Wisconsin, according to Decision Desk HQ. Biden was not expected to face any serious competition in the state, which has 82 delegates up for grabs on the Democratic side. However, members of the party upset over the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas...

Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines have issued tsunami warnings after a massive earthquake hit Taiwan Tuesday. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said tsunami warnings are in effect for coastal regions of the country. Taiwan experienced a 7.5 magnitude earthquake at 8:58 a.m. on Apr. 3, 2024. The depth was about 35 kilometers, or 21 miles,...

Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) endorsed a convicted Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioter in his bid against a sitting GOP member of the lower chamber. Good threw his support behind Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia legislator who was charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Evans pleaded guilty to one...

Former President Trump was projected to win New York’s Republican primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. There are 91 delegates on the GOP table in the Empire State, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill — though the former president has already hit the number he needs for the nomination. Trump appeared on the Tuesday...

President Biden was projected to win New York’s Democratic primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. Biden last month cleared the delegate threshold he needed to meet to win the party nomination, but his New York win could add a major boost to his numbers — with another 268 delegates on the table in the Empire State, according...

World Central Kitchen (WCK), the non-profit organization that has delivered food to civilians in Gaza, released the names of its seven employees who were killed by Israeli airstrikes Monday. “These are the heroes of WCK. These 7 beautiful souls were killed by the IDF in a strike as they were returning from a full day’s...

Former President Trump has won the Rhode Island Republican presidential primary, Decision Desk HQ projects. Trump, who is already the presumptive nominee for the GOP, will add at least 10 of the state’s 19 delegates from the contest to his total. Delegates are allocated proportionally to candidates who receive at least 10 percent of the...

President Biden has won the Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Biden became the presumptive nominee last month after clinching enough delegates for the nomination. His win in the Ocean State will award him at least 21 of its 26 pledged delegates up for grabs. Biden was the...

Former President Trump was projected to win Connecticut’s Republican primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. The win could add as many as 28 delegates into Trump’s camp, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill — though the former president has already hit the number he needs for the nomination. Ex-rival Nikki Haley, whose sole primary...

Former President Trump's social media company is suing two of its co-founders, claiming they failed to perform basic duties and delayed the firm's recent merger with "a series of reckless and wasteful decisions." The lawsuit from Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social, alleges that Wesley Moss and Andrew Litinsky "failed...

President Biden was projected to win Connecticut’s Democratic primary, according to Decision Desk HQ. Biden has already sailed past the delegate threshold he needed to win the party nomination, but his victory in the Constitution State could add as many as 60 more delegates into his column, according to a tracker from Decision Desk HQ/The Hill. The...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) endorsed switching the state to a “winner-take-all” system for Electoral College votes on Tuesday, a change that would bring the state in line with the rest of the country and could tip the 2024 election. Only Nebraska and Maine assign Electoral College votes by district. In most elections, Republicans take...