Новости за 20.04.2024

The government should end its routine practice of skipping over environmental reviews for offshore oil drilling.

Former Vice President Mike Pence argued that his ex-boss, former President Trump, has betrayed the Republican Party with an aversion to signing a national abortion ban if elected in 2024. Pence said his proudest accomplishment while serving as Trump’s VP was the overturning of Roe v. Wade, adding that it is now “disheartening” for him...

Gun company executives now face a critical choice: Double down on their strategy of putting profits over public safety, or read the room and start taking basic steps to stop the carnage.

With its nation-leading renewables fleet and oil and gas industry, Texas is poised to dominate what boosters hope will be America’s next great energy boom: a push to tap the heat of the subterranean earth for electricity and industry. That technology, known as geothermal energy, has demonstrated the rare ability to unite the state’s warring...

President Biden signed a bill Saturday extending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program another two years. The Senate passed the reauthorization bill early Saturday, after hours of intense debate, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to Biden’s desk shortly after the midnight deadline....

Mary Trump, former President Trump’s niece, joked that she’s concerned narcolepsy runs in the family after rumors of her uncle falling asleep in court this week came to light. The former president seemed to doze off during his first day of the New York hush money criminal trial. The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reported...

A GOP political operative’s conviction over steering illegal Russian contributions to former President Trump’s 2016 campaign was upheld by a federal appeals court on Friday. The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of Jesse Benton, a veteran political operative. Benton was convicted in late 2022. He had been charged with helping...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) launched billboards in North Carolina Saturday targeting former President Trump on his abortion stance, ahead of Trump's rally in Wilmington. Sixteen billboards will be displayed in Charlotte and Wilmington, in both English and Spanish, hitting Trump on his perceived support of the Tar Heel State's 12-week abortion ban, signed into...

Former President Trump made a new plea for presidential immunity Saturday in a Truth Social post, ahead of arguments at the Supreme Court next week on his immunity claim in his federal election interference case. “IF IMMUNITY IS NOT GRANTED TO A PRESIDENT, EVERY PRESIDENT THAT LEAVES OFFICE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY INDICTED BY THE OPPOSING...

President Biden celebrated the "historic vote" Friday for workers at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. "Congratulations to the workers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on their historic vote for union representation with the United Auto Workers," Biden said Friday in a statement. The accolades come after factory workers...

NEW YORK – Selecting the jury for the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president was never going to be an easy task. But several New Yorkers who could have served in the historic role indicated that even the possibility of sitting on former President Trump’s jury was too much to bear. “I have...

For those truly paying attention, there is no mystery as to why the voice of independent candidate for President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is resonating with more and more of these Americans.

The man who self-immolated outside of the New York courthouse where former President Trump's first criminal trial is taking place has succumbed to his injuries, according to police. The New York Police Department (NYPD) said early Saturday morning that Max Azzarello, 37, was declared dead by hospital staff, The Associated Press reported. The news comes...

In 2024, Americans are being asked to decide between two forms of division — one with policies that will divide and the other a person who personifies division in the minds of many.

The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) agreed to deliver aid to residents in Gaza when the U.S. finishes a pier for moving aid by sea, U.S. officials said Friday, according to The Associated Press. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has confirmed to The AP that it will work with the WFP to...

What we are losing is a sense of clarity or objectivity. Self-immolation is not normal or commendable, whether committed by a monk or a madman. Violence against political opponents is not contextual, but wrong.

Four “Three Percenter” militia members were sentenced to prison Friday over charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Erik Scott Warner, 48; Felipe Antonio Martinez, 50; Derek Kinnison, 42 and Ronald Mele, 54, all hail from California, according...

Whether you're talking about traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage — call it whatever you want — cuts to either one are cuts to Medicare, no matter how you spin it.

Let’s remember the revolution of the past as we come together to build an education and workforce system for the future.

The University of Southern California (USC) is under fire after it revoked the right of its pro-Palestinian valedictorian to speak at graduation, revealing what critics say is a free speech double standard and kicking off what's expected to be a controversial year for commencement addresses. The school told Asna Tabassum she could not speak at...

Food marketing hooks kids on unhealthy foods, creating poor eating habits that can last a lifetime.

Democrats are taking extraordinary steps to prevent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from hindering their efforts to keep the White House in November. From rallying Kennedy’s family around President Biden, to dumping opposition research and holding press briefings about how he helps former President Trump, Democrats watching Kennedy qualify for more state ballots are pulling out...

President Biden's campaign is feeling good about where it is in its battle for reelection. The president had a successful week, it says, stumping in Pennsylvania and picking up a big endorsement from the Kennedy family. All the while, former President Trump was stuck in a courtroom and off the campaign trail for his hush money...

The Senate early Saturday passed a two-year reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) warrantless surveillance program after hours of intense and sometimes acrimonious debate on the Senate floor, narrowly avoiding a key national intelligence gathering capability going dark. Senators voted 60-34 to send the bill to President Biden’s desk shortly after the midnight...

Former White House ethics lawyer Jim Schultz said that he thinks the New York judge in former President Trump’s hush money case will still find his social media posts quoting others as violating the gag order in the case. “He's referencing the jurors, he's, he's pushing out something that someone else said, yes,” Schultz, who...