Новости за 20.02.2026

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The Trump administration has informed Congress that it intends to proceed with planning for a potential re-opening of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, which was shuttered in 2012 during the country’s civil war. A notice to congressional committees earlier this month, which was obtained by The Associated Press, informed lawmakers of the State Department’s “intent to implement a phased approach to potentially resume embassy operations in Syria.” The administration has been considering re-opening the embassy since last year... Читать дальше...

All truckers and pass drivers will have to take their commercial driver’s license tests in English as the Trump administration expands its aggressive campaign to improve safety in the industry and get unqualified drivers off the road. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the latest effort Friday to ensure that drivers understand English well enough to read road signs and communicate with law enforcement officers. Earlier this week, the Transportation Department said 557 driving schools should... Читать дальше...

Sundaes are "on standby" for Oakland's new favorite athlete.

A fifth of voters are still undecided.

Venezuela has passed a new amnesty law, but some families of political detainees and prisoners' rights groups are reacting with mixed feelings. On Friday, critics said the measure helps some people but ignores others, including detained military members. Under the new law, trial courts must approve each amnesty request within 15 days. But the requirement for judicial oversight has fueled skepticism about how applications will be handled. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez signed the law a day earlier... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump has warned that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat says Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days following nuclear talks with the U.S. Trump's remarks Friday came a few hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said on MSNOW’s “Morning Joe” show that his country was planning to finalize a draft deal in “the next two to three days” to then send to Washington. The tensions between the longtime adversaries... Читать дальше...

Officials say that a camp in northeastern Syria that had housed families of suspected members of the Islamic State group is now largely empty after hundreds of women and children were repatriated to their countries or transferred to other facilities in recent weeks. The repatriation is part of Syrian government efforts to have suspected IS militants and their family members — held in various camps since the extremist group’s was defeated in Syria in 2019 — returned to their countries of origin. Gonzalo Vargas Llosa... Читать дальше...

Vivian Tu wants to make personal finance more approachable. Tu is known on as Your Rich BFF on TikTok, where she provides personal finance advice to millions of followers. The former trader at JPMorgan got the idea because she was always giving personal finance advice to her colleagues. Some of her tops tips include finding fun ways to talk about money with your significant other and pausing before you buy something to think about why you really want it. She also suggests trying out a robo-adviser if you want to get into investing.

President Donald Trump suffered a rare rebuke when the Supreme Court ruled against his tariff agenda. The decision Friday throws U.S. trade policy back into uncertainty. Trump has built his economic message around tariffs and the deals that he says they force. He argues they bring factories and jobs back. He also warns that losing them harms the economy. The White House says it is looking for other laws to keep tariffs in place. Democrats say the decision proves Trump broke the law. Polling from... Читать дальше...

The property was once featured on an episode of A&E's "Hoarders."

A cold weather advisory and extreme cold warning are in effect.

The modular homebuilding premise has generated buzz but mixed results in California.

The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The Friday decision centers on the tariffs Trump unilaterally imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs levied on nearly every other country. It’s the first major piece of Trump’s broad agenda to come squarely before the nation’s highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of three conservative jurists in his first term.

The Republican president has called the case one of the most important in U.S. history and said a ruling against him would be an economic body blow to the country.

America’s gross domestic product — the nation’s output of goods and services — increased at an 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department reported Friday, down from 4.4% in the July-September quarter and 3.8% in the quarter before that. A downturn in government and consumer spending contributed to the slowdown in fourth-quarter growth, the government said. Consumer spending rose just 2.2%, a significant slowdown from the third quarter’s healthy 3.5% gain. The U.S. economy grew 2.2% in 2025... Читать дальше...

The Republican president has said a ruling against him would be an economic body blow to the country.

The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The decision on Friday centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law, including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country. It’s the first major piece of Trump’s broad agenda to come squarely before the nation’s highest court, which he helped shape with the appointments of three conservative jurists in his first term. Читать дальше...

A Belgian collector who put up a series of World War II photographs showing the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad for online auction has signed a preliminary agreement with the Greek Culture Ministry. The ministry says it's seeking to obtain the photos from the collector, who has now withdrawn the entire collection from sale. Greece has declared the photos part of Greek heritage. It has not specified how it intends to obtain the pictures nor has it provided details of the preliminary agreement signed on Friday.

A Portland, Oregon, company is recalling nearly 3.4 million pounds of frozen chicken fried rice products sold at Trader Joe's stores and in Canada. The products may contain pieces of glass. Ajinomoto Foods North America Inc. pulled Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice. Another recalled product, Ajinomoto Yakitori Chicken with Japanese-Style Rice, was sold in Canada. The problem was detected after four consumers complained of finding glass. No injuries have been reported. Consumers should not eat the product.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia church has reached its maximum height with the placement of a cross on its central Tower of Jesus Christ. The basilica says a crane lifted the upper arm of the cross on Friday. The church is still unfinished, with cranes and scaffolding around it, though its construction began in 1882. Architect Antoni Gaudí died in 1926, and Sagrada Familia plans to celebrate his legacy this year. The basilica plans to remove the tower scaffolding by June. Millions of visitors help fund the work through ticket sales.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered under heavy Israeli restrictions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, including some who were allowed to enter from the occupied West Bank. The Ramadan prayers at Al-Aqsa, in Jerusalem's Old City, took place for the first time since a shaky ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect in October. Israel restricted the number of Palestinians allowed to enter from the West Bank to 10,000 on Friday... Читать дальше...

Safely disposing of household batteries is good for the home and good for the environment. Dead batteries can leak heavy metals into soil and water once they reach the landfill. They can also overheat and cause fires in garbage trucks and recycling centers. So don't throw them in your household trash or recycling bin. Look for a city or state drop-off site instead, or use The Battery Network website to search for a drop-off location by ZIP code. Safely recycling a battery doesn’t cancel out the environmental cost of making it. Читать дальше...

State Republicans redrew their congressional map over the summer to make five Democratic-held seats winnable, in line with the explicit expectation set by President Donald Trump. Republicans pursued that goal largely by “cracking” Democratic-leaning voters across multiple districts. That means voters in Democratic-leaning parts of Texas, like denser areas around Dallas and Austin and communities along the U.S.-Mexico border, are now spread across districts that include larger numbers of Republican-leaning voters. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump has long spread conspiracy theories about voting that are designed to explain away his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Now that he’s president again, Trump has stocked his administration with many people who have promoted his falsehoods and in some cases helped him try to overturn his loss. The first concrete action from Trump's mandate to investigate the 2020 election was the seizure in late January of ballots and election records from Fulton County in Georgia, a Democratic stronghold that includes Atlanta. Читать дальше...