Новости за 04.04.2024

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is set to deliver the daily press briefing Thursday afternoon. The event comes after President Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the Israeli strike that killed a group of aid workers in Gaza amid its ongoing war with Hamas militants. Following the call, White...

A group of Senate Democrats is calling on President Biden to take more action to address the humanitarian issues in the Gaza Strip, arguing the U.S. has the resources to provide more aid and prevent “further suffering” of civilians. In a letter dated Wednesday, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.),...

Colorado State University (CSU) researchers warned of an “extremely active” Atlantic hurricane season, in a forecast released Thursday. CSU’s Tropical Weather & Climate research forecasted that there will be 23 named storms in the Atlantic basin, which includes the entire Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. According to a webpage on tropical...

The last time former President Trump and his ex-fixer, Michael Cohen, publicly came face to face, their courtroom encounter during a civil business fraud trial ended with Trump storming out in a huff and Cohen swearing his old client would “ultimately be held accountable” for his actions. The two men aren’t rid of each other...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) asked the state’s Board of Regents Tuesday to create a policy requiring student athletes to be present during the national anthem in order to keep their scholarships. Landry’s letter to the board came after Louisiana State University’s women’s basketball matchup against the University of Iowa Monday, during which viewers criticized...

President Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio at the White House next week for a state visit that will include a joint press conference with the two leaders, the administration announced Thursday. The prime minister will meet with Biden Wednesday, where the two men will discuss "efforts to strengthen our political, security, economic,...

The maker of a drug to treat Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, says it will withdraw the medication from the market after it recently failed a large clinical trial.  Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said it will halt sales and marketing of Relyvrio in the United States and Canada, and it will no longer be available for new patients...

The United Nations Human Rights Council voted Thursday to adopt a first-of-its-kind initiative protecting the rights of intersex people. Twenty-four countries voted in favor of the draft resolution, which calls on states to “enhance efforts to combat discrimination, violence and harmful practices” against individuals born intersex, defined as having sex characteristics that do not fit typical...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Thursday she would move to block the sale of F-15s to Israel after seven aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza earlier this week.  “I think it is clear that Congress has a responsibility to act. We have legal tools here. And as I said, we cannot...

Former President Trump shared articles critical of Judge Juan Merchan and his family on Wednesday, appearing to test the bounds of the gag order placed on Trump in his New York hush money case. Merchan expanded the gag order Monday to prevent Trump from discussing his family, after the former president made comments critical of...

Stephen Colbert is calling on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the country's war with Hamas, making an impassioned plea following the deaths of six World Central Kitchen workers and a translator in Gaza. "One of our self-imposed mandates is that, if we can, we talk about what everybody's talking about. And today, what...

Ford is delaying the rollout of its new electric pickup truck and electric SUV as the demand for EVs decelerates industry-wide. The Dearborn, Mich., auto giant said on Thursday it had delayed the launches of its electric pickup truck built in Tennessee and the three-row SUV manufactured in Ontario, Canada.  Despite the delay, the auto-manufacturing...

With public approval ratings of Congress dipping into the teens, the warning lights are already flashing red. A wake-up call is long overdue for Congress to reverse its performative antics and get back to legislating for the nation.

Eighty percent of worldwide carbon emissions since 2016 are attributable to fewer than 60 companies and countries, according to a report published Thursday by the think tank InfluenceMap. The report attributes the vast majority of overall emissions to 57 entities, a combination of nation-states, state-owned companies and investor-owned companies. The three largest producers of human-caused...

Former President Clinton will lead a U.S. delegation to Rwanda this weekend to mark 30 years since a genocide ravaged the country, the White House announced Thursday. An ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi people in the country escalated to genocide in early 1994, eventually resulting in the deaths of between 500,000 and 800,000 Tutsi...

Former President Trump argued Thursday that Truth Social is “very solid,” after the platform’s parent company reported a $58 million loss last year and saw its shares plunge more than 20 percent this week. “All of the competitors to TRUTH SOCIAL, especially those in the Radical Left Democrats Party who are failing at every level,...

Lightning and thunder weren't enough to shake a mother eagle taking care of her eggs in West Virginia.

NASA selected three commercial space companies to design autonomous moon rovers the space agency could use for moving people and cargo on the Earth’s satellite. Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab were picked to develop a Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for astronauts so they could further explore the moon. They would also have the...

The U.S. trade deficit widened to $68.9 billion in February, the largest disparity since last April, as import values exceeded exports by more than analysts were expecting. The trade gap on goods increased by $300 million to $91.4 billion while the export surplus on services decreased by $1.6 billion to $22.5 billion, according to Commerce...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “expressed his outrage” with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a call Wednesday, after seven aid workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza earlier this week. A convoy of vehicles for the charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) was struck multiple times by the Israeli military Monday, after leaving one...

Republican strategist Karl Rove urged Democrats to “go hard” at former President Trump’s rhetoric surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, calling the former president’s pledge to free imprisoned rioters a “critical mistake.” “If they were smart, they’d take the Jan. 6 and go hard at it. And they would say, ‘He wants...

Former national security adviser John Bolton downplayed former President Trump’s threats against NATO slightly, suggesting Trump's “short attention span” could keep him from following through on leaving the alliance. Trump has been openly critical of NATO, calling on alliance members to increase their contributions and threatening that he could “encourage” Russia to invade if they...

Former President Trump said his advice to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to quickly wrap up the conflict in Gaza and “get back to normalcy,” warning that Israel was badly losing the public relations battle with its war against Hamas. Trump called into conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show Thursday morning, where he was...

It may seem idealistic to propose that American retirement just needs to “do better,” but the system has a deeply misaligned incentive structure that harms all generations.

The Biden administration announced a final rule on Thursday aimed to protect federal workers and make it harder to fire them, in an effort to prevent former President Trump from gutting the workforce if he’s reelected. The rule, issued by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), clarifies that nonpartisan career civil servants with protected status...