Новости за 18.10.2023

Hundreds of Jewish activists protested inside the Capitol on Wednesday, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. And just as quickly, Capitol Police began arresting them.

Donald Trump might be the star of a new TV special soon: his upcoming D.C. trial.

The Supreme Court signaled again this week that it would allow the federal government to regulate so-called “ghost guns,” despite legal challenges. In an unsigned order on Tuesday, the justices blocked a lower court ruling that had prevented a rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives targeting prefabricated gun-building kits from going into effect. The move cements a significant setback for gun rights advocates who hoped the high court might be more favorable toward the kits. Читать дальше...

Both of us have spent our entire adult lives advocating for justice for Israelis and Palestinians alike. Within Israel, we have supported our friends on the left who have challenged the Netanyahu government, the settlers’ movement, and the religious zealots. We strongly oppose the claim that only Jews have a right to the land. We vigorously oppose efforts to destroy the judicial system and open the way for an authoritarian politics. We are longtime social democrats who cannot abide attempts to... Читать дальше...

Fifteen days without a speaker of the House, and it appears that the Republican Party, and the nation, are back to square one.

There was one word sorely missing from President Biden’s big speech in Israel on Wednesday: “ceasefire.”

Republican fears around Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent party pivot appear to be coming true.

It started with the dead birds. Last week, more than a thousand migratory birds were killed in one night by flying into one building in Chicago. Among the tiny corpses were 33 types of birds, and most of them were songbirds too, the kind that, if you’re a birdwatcher, like me, you get excited about seeing, like palm and yellow-rumped warblers.

Late Saturday morning in a Chicago suburb, a 6-year-old boy was found stabbed to death, his mother seriously wounded. The details of the crime that quickly emerged rhymed with the news cycle in a way that brought familiar dread: The mother and son were targeted by their killer—who turned out to be their landlord—due to their Palestinian and Muslim background. He had been angered by the Hamas attack on Israel nearly two weeks ago and his tenants ended up being the too-convenient target of his rage. Читать дальше...

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

A sense of resigned déjà vu permeated the House chamber on Tuesday, as representatives embarked on their latest vote to elect a new speaker of the House—which, if you’ve been keeping count, made it the 16th such vote this year. Actually, if you count the vote two weeks ago when former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his position in an unprecedented vote instigated by a hard-right faction of the Republican conference, it was the 17th vote on the speakership.

Representative Elise Stefanik might have thought she was offering a stoic show of support while nominating Jim Jordan for House speaker on Wednesday, but instead she was met with a cacophony of boo’s from her colleagues when an unexpected turn in her speech nodded to Jordan’s alleged role in a collegiate sex abuse scandal.