Новости за 09.06.2022

Britney Spears is ready to say "I do."

The pop star and her fiancé, Sam Asghari, are getting married on Thursday in an "intimate" wedding ceremony, which about 100 guests will attend, TMZ reported.

Spears didn't confirm the news, but Page Six snapped photos showing their wedding preparation was underway and that they have a tent set up at her home in Los Angeles. 

Spears and Asghari, who met on the set of the pop star's 2016 music video "Slumber Party," announced their engagement in September 2021. Читать дальше...

The FBI has arrested Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on several misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Daily Beast reports. The arrest came after a Thursday morning raid on Kelley's home.

The Biden administration on Thursday shared details of its COVID-19 vaccination plan for children under 5, who remain the last age group in the nation to gain access to the life-saving shots.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol will hold its first of six televised public hearings Thursday night. Here's everything you need to know to tune in:

The Washington Commanders' defensive coordinator has issued an apology for his "irresponsible" comments about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. 

Nearly 18 months after the failed Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack, members of the House select committee investigating the attempted insurrection will conduct televised hearings to share their findings with the public — and perhaps make the case that former President Donald Trump and his allies deserve to be formally punished for their roles in the uprising.  

The gap between America's rich and the poor — or really, the rich and everyone else — has stretched into a chasm. That's fairly indisputable. The current divergence between the wealthiest Americans and the lower 90 percent of earners began in the late 1970s, after a post-World War II era of rising wages and not-outlandish differences in pay between workers and management.

The prestigious Brookings Institution on Wednesday placed its president, retired four-star Gen. John Allen, on administrative leave during a federal investigation of an illegal lobbying campaign on behalf of Qatar. The FBI recently searched Allen's electronic data as part of a federal probe into the Persian Gulf nation's influence campaign in 2017, The Associated Press reported Tuesday, citing an April 15 search warrant application evidently made public by mistake.

President Biden sat down with Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday's Kimmel Live, and Kimmel started the interview with some serious questions on why America hasn't done anything significant on gun violence, even after the Uvalde, Texas, massacre and 26 other school shootings this year. He felt compelled to ask serious questions, he deadpanned, so as not to disappoint Fox News. 

Twitter has agreed to give billionaire Elon Musk access to its "firehose" of raw data on the 500 million tweets posted each day, The Washington Post reports, citing a person familiar with Twitter's thinking. Musk has demanded the data, alleging that the social media company he agreed to buy for $44 billion is underreporting the share of users that are automated "spam bots." It is not clear if Musk will get full or partial access to the data "firehose," The New York Times adds.

The House passed gun control legislation on Wednesday evening that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semiautomatic rifle and ban the sale of magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds.

All 14 participants of a recent experimental drug trial saw their colorectal cancer disappear, researchers revealed in a new study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

A fourth-grade student who survived the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas testified before Congress on Wednesday as part of the House Oversight Committee's hearing on gun violence.