Новости за 20.12.2022

The newly unveiled federal budget bill contains two measures that will be crucial for preventing another attack like January 6 from happening again.

U.S. lawmakers unveiled the massive omnibus bill early Tuesday. The spending bill lays out the federal budget for 2023.

What will happen next to Representative-elect George Santos?

A bombshell New York Times report charged Monday that the New York Republican had fabricated the bulk of his résumé. Santos responded later that day by invoking twisted identity politics, rather than any actual evidence of his background or policy plans.

House Republicans have remained silent on Santos. When they take control of the House in a few weeks, their majority will be by just a few seats. If he were forced to resign... Читать дальше...

What if you tried to Stop the Steal and nobody came? The closing weeks of 2022 provided the answer, which was, mercifully, nothing, nothing at all like the 2020 election fallout. That was most apparent in Arizona, where Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake had, more than nearly any other candidate, dedicated herself to preemptively fomenting the same conspiracy theories that drove Donald Trump’s Big Lie, but none of it materialized after she had, like him, so clearly lost. Even as some... Читать дальше...

The climate crisis is not, unfortunately, the product of a few evil CEOs waking up every day and deciding to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere for profit. Its causes are structural, and can be traced back through centuries of colonial plunder and imperial excess. That said, the top executives at the world’s largest fossil fuel companies bear a grossly outsize responsibility for driving up emissions, polluting our politics, and delaying action for decades the world won’t get back. And they tend to be whiny jerks. Читать дальше...

During one of many rousing public demonstrations shown in Laura Poitras’s new documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a middle-aged activist lays out—in the plain, swift terms made possible, at this historical moment, by sheer grim familiarity—the consequences of her child’s encounter in his teens with the painkiller OxyContin. “I don’t expect the Sacklers to care about my son,” she goes on. “But 400,000 lives? Somebody should care about that.”

George Santos responded Monday evening to the shocking report that he fabricated his entire resume—and his reaction left a lot to be desired.

The House January 6 committee closed out its final public meeting on Monday by recommending criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol two years ago. Though the committee is also expected to release a full report by the end of this week, the vote will likely be the last significant move by the body before the Republican takeover of the House next month ends its work—a final televised indictment of Trump in the American public memory.

Representative Ruben Gallego is looking to draw from the teams that propelled Senator Raphael Warnock and Senator-elect John Fetterman to victory in the 2022 midterms, according to five Democrats with knowledge of those talks.

As the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, held its final meeting on Monday—the last before the incoming Republican House majority takes office and likely ends any further congressional investigations into the worst attack on Congress since the 1800s—the cable news–ready headline was the committee’s decision to refer several criminal complaints about former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department. While the referrals are largely symbolic... Читать дальше...