Новости за 21.06.2024

A Concert of Powers, while demanding a strategic shift, offers a more stable and realistic framework for managing the multipolar world we inhabit.

Border officials are reporting significantly lower numbers of encounters with migrants between ports of entry at the southwest border, weeks after the Biden administration announced an asylum crackdown. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said Thursday that preliminary data since the announcement shows a 25 percent decrease in such encounters, but it warned that “migration flows...

President Biden highlighted Friday that 1 million pensions have been saved under the American Rescue Plan. “Today, we mark a major milestone: Thanks to my American Rescue Plan, we have protected one million pensions from devastating cuts,” Biden said in a statement. “Whether it is Social Security, Medicare, or pensions, workers who earn a dignified...

Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon filed an emergency appeal Friday with the Supreme Court — a last-ditch bid to stay out of prison while appealing his conviction for evading the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. “An even-handed approach thus strongly favors allowing Mr. Bannon to remain on release,” Bannon attorney Trent...

"Judge Judy" Sheindlin is calling Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's (D) hush money case against former President Trump "nonsense." "You gotta twist yourself into a pretzel to figure out what the crime was. [Bragg] doesn't like him — New York City didn't like him for a while," Sheindlin said of Trump in a "Who's Talking to Chris...

New Mexico and Texas cannot move forward with a deal aimed at resolving a decade-long dispute over Rio Grande River management, due to their failure to include the federal government in the process. The Supreme Court on Friday denied a motion made by the two states, along with neighboring Colorado, to enter a consent decree on the...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the billionaire twin brothers who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, said they each donated $1 million in bitcoin to former President Trump. “Over the past few years, the Biden Administration has openly declared war against crypto,” Tyler Winklevoss posted on the social platform X. “It has weaponized multiple government agencies to...

What’s needed is a system where public health has the funding to accomplish both its everyday objectives and pivot to quick and effective emergency responses as needed.

The Supreme Court in a 8-1 decision upheld a federal law that disarms people under domestic-violence restraining orders, ruling it complies with the court’s recent expansion of Second Amendment rights.  Under that two-year-old precedent, which found a right to bear arms outside the home for the first time, the court has prescribed a new test...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doubling down on criticisms that U.S. ammunition and weapons deliveries are arriving to Israel in a “trickle,” adding that he is airing private disagreements to force a change in the situation.  “I felt that airing it was absolutely necessary after months of quiet conversation that did not solve the...

Amtrak is still facing service disruptions on Friday in the Northeast after service between New Haven, Conn., and Philadelphia was suspended Thursday afternoon.  “As of 8:24 am ET, Due to a disabled commuter train in New York (NYP), All rail services will be delayed/modified between PHL & NYP,” Amtrak Northeast said in a post on...

The Biden administration on Friday announced the availability of $850 million in Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) grants aimed at reducing methane emissions. In remarks to reporters, Deputy Energy Secretary David Turk said the funds will be offered across three categories: those cutting emissions from current oil wells, those focusing on leaks from other equipment such...

A new survey obtained by The Hill shows that voters on both sides of the political spectrum are anxious for a return to civility and an end to partisan gridlock. The poll conducted in late May by Emerson College and commissioned by The Common Good, a non-partisan, pro-democracy organization, highlighted voters’ frustration with the current...

Thanks to the launch of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence (AI) is the trending topic everyone has heard about. In fact, J.P. Morgan analysts say that Gen AI represents a seismic shift. “The advent of generative AI is a seminal moment in tech, more so than the Internet or the iPhone,” says Mark...

It’s no secret that Donald Trump wants to remake the presidency in his own image: all powerful and answerable to no one.

Count former President Trump among those who are backing Louisiana's controversial and first-in-the-nation law that will mandate classrooms from elementary school through college prominently display the Ten Commandments. "I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER," Trump wrote this week on his online platform Truth Social....

State Department spokesperson Matt Miller on Thursday declined to say whether the U.S. is investigating six Israeli strikes on Gaza cited in a new United Nations report as possible violations of the laws of war. The report from the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), published Wednesday, detailed six “emblematic” attacks...

If you want to know the actual trajectory of the 2024 races, all you need to do is monitor the state of play in two congressional districts: PA-8 and NE-2.

Robert Winnett, who was slated to join the Washington Post as its executive editor this fall, will no longer lead the publication after backlash from its staff and its reporting on his career in journalism. Winnett, currently an editor at The Telegraph, will remain with the publication, its editor Chris Evans wrote in a memo...

Current and former Republican officials and conservative activists are slated Friday to address the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference in Washington, D.C. The list of speakers expected to deliver remarks are: The event is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m EDT. Watch the video above.

Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said Thursday that Judge Aileen Cannon is a “partisan, petty prima donna.” When talking about a Friday hearing on former President Trump challenging special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment in the Mar-a-Lago documents case, Cobb said on CNN’s “OutFront” with anchor Erin Burnett that “the law requires that" Cannon...

President Biden’s personal attorney, Bob Bauer, suggested that he’s preparing for legal challenges to the 2024 election results in November, when Biden faces former President Trump in a 2020 rematch. Bauer, in an interview with Politico, warned about challenges considering the aftermath of the 2020 election. “We’re seeing — and have seen — election officials...

The Pentagon's acquisition system is still hobbled by bureaucratic inertia.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has introduced legislation to exempt tips, including tips in the form of credit and debit card charges, from taxation, following up on an idea that former President Trump promoted during a recent trip to meet Republicans on Capitol Hill. “American workers in dozens of industries depend on tipped wages to support...

Today, the race for the White House is a dead heat, according to national polling; Nikki Haley could put Donald Trump over the top.