Новости за 08.08.2023

President Joe Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday, protecting almost one million acres from uranium mining in a massive win for his environmental agenda and Indigenous rights.

Ron DeSantis is trying to invigorate his flailing campaign by reshuffling staffing for a third time.

In the last several weeks, more mainstream voices have started to echo the long-held concerns of climate activists: that—despite their deluge of green advertising and rhetoric—fossil fuel companies are not leading the way toward an energy transition. 

A Trump-appointed Texas judge has ordered three senior Southwest Airlines lawyers to take eight hours of “religious-liberty training” from the far-right Christian hate group Alliance Defending Freedom.

The worst thing about President Donald Trump’s indictment for conspiring to overthrow the 2020 election through various fraudulent means is not, as The Wall Street Journal editorial board contends, that “it makes any future election challenges, however valid, legally vulnerable to a partisan prosecutor.” It’s not even that Trump used the previous two indictments to raise money for his 2024 presidential campaign (albeit with diminishing returns). No, the worst thing about Trump’s latest indictment... Читать дальше...

When former President Donald Trump sought to overthrow the 2020 election three years ago, one of his central claims was that certain places could not be trusted to fairly count votes. He specifically focused on large cities that happened to overwhelmingly vote for Democrats and had significant populations of minority voters, describing them in harsh terms. “Detroit and Philadelphia are known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country—easily,” he claimed in 2020. “They... Читать дальше...

“Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right,” proclaimed President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, during a joint speech to Congress at the crux of the Civil Rights Movement. At that moment, outside of the walls of the Capitol, the country was at its wits’ end. Anti-democratic forces in the South were determined to stop Black Americans from voting. In response to pressure from civil rights activists, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965... Читать дальше...

Andrew Cuomo’s sister helped coordinate a campaign attacking the women who accused the former New York governor of sexual misconduct.