Новости за 22.04.2024

Is Israel prepared for an all-out war with Iran?

Columbia University administrators appear to have only inflamed student protesters against the Israel-Hamas war both on their campus and at other schools after leadership chose to have more than 100 students arrested over pro-Palestine demonstrations on Friday. Under pressure from politicians on both sides of the aisle, university President Minouche Shafik faces calls to resign...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Americans regardless of their politics should fear the "kind of threats" made by former President Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee this fall. In a podcast episode of Democracy Docket’s “Defending Democracy” that aired last Friday, Clinton drew a stark contrast between Trump and President Biden, saying the...

{beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Monday. Happy Earth Day!! It’s been a busy morning in court news. Here’s what’s happening today: Opening arguments in former President Trump’s hush money trial wrapped up this morning, and the first witness took the stand before the jury was dismissed a little after noon. President Biden will announce the availability...

The European Commission is investigating TikTok over a feature that launched in France and Spain that offers users the ability to earn points for completing certain tasks on the app, the commission said Monday. The investigation will look into whether TikTok’s “addictive” features of its “TikTok lite” program violated the European Union’s Digital Service Act...

Environmental and health history is replete with stunning examples of industries that have been engaged in long-term purposeful deception, tricking the public into believing that their products are safe.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule on Monday blocking the disclosure of protected health information to aid in the investigation or litigation of patients or providers involved in legal reproductive health care. The rule issued by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) prohibits providers, clearing houses and their...

Dozens of protesters were arrested at Yale University on Monday morning after an encampment swelled to attract several hundred people calling for the school to divest from military weapons manufacturers, the university said. In a statement, Yale said officials warned the protestors at Beinecke Plaza to leave and remove their belongings, after notifying them "numerous...

California on Monday released a first-of-its-kind plan to harness more than half of the state's land to decrease carbon emissions. Over the next two decades, the state will work to accomplish 81 nature-based goals that serve to help achieve California's target of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. These solutions, which will strive to support the...

The United States has begun talks with Niger to withdraw the roughly 1,000 American troops in the country, a State Department official confirmed Monday. The development comes after Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine on Friday, with the two on Monday committing “to initiate conversations in Niamey to begin...

I don’t have much faith in the auditor’s opinion. But I know what would help.

President Biden is narrowly leading former President Trump in a new national poll of voters, with his lead growing slightly when narrowing in on those who said they definitely plan to vote in November. A Marist/PBS NewsHour poll published Monday found Biden leading Trump 51 percent to 48 percent among registered voters, a slight uptick...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wants to put the "U.S. budget on blockchain," a ledger of transactions typically associated with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. “I'm going to put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain so that any American — every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget...

One of only two Muslim women in the U.S. Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has always been a vehemently outspoken critic of Israel. She explained her recent vote against the Israel Security Supplemental Bill, for example, as a refusal to “support unconditional military aid that further escalates the already horrific humanitarian situation” in Gaza. Often accused of antisemitism, Omar...

Extreme heat linked to climate change threatens more than 70 percent of workers globally, according to a report released Monday by the International Labor Organization (ILO). More than 2.4 billion of the world’s workers were at risk for some level of exposure to extreme heat based on data from 2020, the most recent year for...

The NBA is seeking a new long-term television rights deal focusing on streaming, according to a new report. The Athletic reported Monday the league is holding talks this week with tech giants like Amazon, as well as legacy media players like NBC, on a new deal that could span a decade. The NBA's current media...

The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) says she was “basically evicted” after she was suspended from Columbia University’s Barnard College on Friday for participating in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Hundreds of students have occupied Columbia’s campus for days, protesting the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, backing a cease-fire in the conflict and...

States with high or median flexibility levels for remote work had 3 percent to 4 percent lower depression rates than those with low flexibility in 2023.

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case brought by Republicans Kari Lake and Mark Finchem over the use of voting machines in Arizona elections, the latest blow to the two GOP candidates, who have seen their lawsuit rejected several times.   Lake and Finchem asked the Supreme Court to review a...

There’s just no way that we in 2024 should accept a status quo in which children are forced to do exhausting, dangerous, demanding jobs that threaten their lives and health.

NEW YORK — A New York judge said Monday that Manhattan prosecutors can bring up several civil lawsuits involving former President Trump if he chooses to testify in his ongoing criminal trial. After hearing arguments Friday, Judge Juan Merchan ruled that prosecutors can cross-examine Trump about six of the 13 prior court determinations they requested to...

The Biden administration is unlikely to ease high-level travel warnings for the People’s Republic of China unless Beijing takes concrete steps to address safety concerns, a senior administration official told The Hill ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing this week. Blinken will raise with Chinese officials steps they must take before...

Singer John Legend says former President Trump is a racist down "to his core." Speaking to MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday, Legend spoke of Trump’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd. “When we protested the killing of George Floyd, he was advocating for the military to shoot us...

Public libraries, once considered the backbone of America’s civic infrastructure, are under attack.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the Education and Workforce Committee, said Sunday that she’s “gravely concerned” over protests against the Israel-Hamas war at Columbia University that have led to arrests. Hundreds of students have occupied Columbia’s campus center for days, protesting the Biden administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, backing a cease-fire in the...