Новости за 30.03.2023

For those watching the New York grand jury dealing with the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, the revelations that more hush money payments are being explored in the case isn't new information.

Whoopi Goldberg earlier this week wore a sweatshirt promoting gun safety laws during an appearance on The View, and it’s created an uproar in right-wing circles.

Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, is on lockdown after reports of a possible active shooter.

Stanford Law School has announced its associate dean of diversity is on leave, the latest fallout from an event that brought a Trump-appointed judge — and 100 student protestors — to the university earlier this month. Stuart Kyle Duncan, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, was invited to speak on “Guns, COVID and Twitter” on March 9 by the law school’s Federalist Society, a conservative and libertarian group. Duncan, who has argued against marriage equality and other LGBTQ+ rights in the past... Читать дальше...

After the New York Times revealed that the Manhattan District Attorney's Office was looking at felony charges for former President Donald Trump, it sparked a legal conversation among scholars and experts about how they would get there.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) heaped praise on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday, claiming he played a key role in securing the release of a man convicted in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

By David Morgan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a Republican energy reform bill intended to bolster U.S. oil and gas production while scaling back climate initiatives, the first major legislation of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's majority.

The House passed the Lower Energy Costs Act by a mostly partisan 225-204 vote.

The bill would deliver on a top 2022 Republican campaign pledge to lower Americans' energy costs but faces little... Читать дальше...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was shredded by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) during the Senate proceedings on Thursday.

A former Boston Police K-9 officer who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has been arrested and charged for attacking a Capitol Police officer with a chair during the riot, NBC News reported.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) declined to criticize her son with Bible verses after he got his girlfriend pregnant out of wedlock.

A Swiss bank is being accused of helping wealthy Americans avoid taxes, according to a new report published by CNBC News.

Parents, students and advocates in the Hunterdon Central Regional School District attended a special meeting Wednesday to condemn “vitriolic comments” allegedly made on Twitter by a school board member and call for her resignation. Rebecca Petersen, the board member suspected of posting the controversial comments on Twitter, sat silently with other school board members before the crowd at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington. She listened as more than a dozen people expressed their... Читать дальше...

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing this Thursday on the “weaponization” of the federal government, aiming to examine allegations that the Biden administration influenced social media companies in regards to information about the COVID-19 pandemic.

TOPEKA — Paying for a license to carry a concealed firearm violates “God-given rights,” a House Republican argued during a tense discussion on gun law ethics this week.

A Democratic lawmaker called out Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for weaponizing the federal government to protect Donald Trump from a criminal investigation in Manhattan.

As a train derailment and fire forced evacuations in Minnesota on Thursday, a trio of Democratic U.S. senators introduced another piece of legislation inspired by the ongoing public health and environmental disaster in and around East Palestine, Ohio.

House Republicans' hearings on the purported "weaponization" of the federal government against conservatives have gotten off to a rocky start, with even some Fox News personalities complaining that they've so far failed to dig up anything significant.

New research examining 15 years’ worth of research indicates that comparing ourselves to people who seem better off than us on social media can result in several negative psychological outcomes. The new findings appear in the journal Media Psychology. “I became interested in researching social media because of its massive presence in the lives of so many people,” said study author Carly McComb, a PhD candidate at The University of Queensland in Brisbane. “Currently, there are over 4.2 billion... Читать дальше...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have proposed a fossil fuels-friendly bill they are calling the Low Energy Costs Act of 2023. If the bill passes, it will face two major hurdles: the U.S. Senate (where Democrats increased their small effective majority in the 2022 midterms) and Democratic President Joe Biden.

A Texas federal judge has voided Obamacare's requirements that insurance companies cover the full costs of life-saving HIV prevention and treatment drugs, claiming requiring Christian employers to do so violates their rights under the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

The lawyer for Jonathan Majors, the 33-year-old “Creed III” star, who was arrested over the weekend after an alleged domestic violence incident, has shared texts in which the alleged victim admits she is to blame and doesn't want him to face any charges, TMZ reported.

A group of Texas teens turned the tables on some racist bullies from their high school.

The recent frenzy over language processing tools such as ChatGPT has sent organizations scrambling to provide guidelines for responsible usage. The online publishing platform Medium, for example, has released a statement on AI-generated writing that promotes “transparency” and “disclosure.”

A new book by CNN's senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic reveals the ways in which Chief Justice John Roberts engages in backroom horse-trading on important votes -- including one landmark case where he wanted to quash a potentially incendiary opinion by Associate Justice Samuel Alito.

Large brains are a hallmark of human evolution. Brains allow us to make sense of the world and to successfully navigate through our lives.