Новости за 18.04.2023

After a months-long legal battle between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox Corporation, it all ended in a poot.

Kevin McCarthy’s debt ceiling bill goes up for a vote next week—despite being so unpopular in his own party that he is reportedly begging people to back it.

Mitch McConnell sounded the death knell Tuesday on any chance of Dianne Feinstein staying in Congress. For once, Democrats should listen to him.

Before the sun had even risen on Tuesday, the Iowa Senate passed a bill to loosen child labor laws, allowing the employment of kids in previously restricted fields like roofing, demolition, and working in meat freezers.

Twitter secretly changed its hateful-conduct policy to remove protections for transgender users, opening them up to even more online abuse.

On Monday, Representatives Jamaal Bowman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed support for the resignation of Senator Dianne Feinstein, as the congressional veteran’s absence leaves key votes, including on juridical nominations, in limbo.

Ron DeSantis’s latest plan to get back at Disney is so bad, it’s criminal.

Have you looked at your 401(k) recently? Probably it’s best not to. The S&P 500 index dropped 19 percent last year, the biggest decline since 2008, that fateful year when the subprime mortgage crisis almost caused a global depression.

With the news of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s historic indictment of Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up other crimes this April, the spotlight on the Justice Department has harshened. Bragg’s case, after all, covers conduct initially investigated by federal prosecutors during the Trump administration. And while it’s hardly surprising that Trump-appointed Attorney General Bill Barr intervened in the case—going so far as to force out the U.S. Читать дальше...

Jimmy Carter may be the most beloved ex-president in recent history, at least among environmentalists. Climate hawks and conservationists often credit him with trying and tragically failing to save the planet. Carter’s 1979 installation of solar panels on the White House roof is remembered as a symbol of his administration’s prescient attempts to tackle emissions and conserve nature; one presidential historian recently ranked him among “the greatest conservation presidents or environmental presidents of all time.” As the story goes... Читать дальше...

Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign doesn’t exist, but it’s already in trouble. He trails Donald Trump by more than twenty points in FiveThirtyEight’s polling average, and has seen his support dip as Republicans—including DeSantis himself—have rallied behind the former president in the wake of his arrest in New York. In response, the Florida governor and his allies “are sharpening their message nationally and in early GOP primary states,” The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

The Catholic League is drawing a line in the sand on sexual exploitation. The organization that aims to defend “the rights of Catholics—lay and clergy alike to participate in public life without defamation or discrimination” (that is to say: not be investigated for rampant sexual abuse) has bravely come out to say that it will not serve Budweiser at their 50th anniversary dinner.

A grand jury has decided not to bring state criminal charges against Ohio police officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old Black man during a car and foot chase last summer.