Новости за 06.01.2021

ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta Hawks guard Rajon Rondo will miss at least three more games because of right knee soreness.

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) - Alabama wide receiver DeVonta Smith wins Heisman Trophy.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Oregon health officials had a goal of administering 100,000 coronavirus vaccines by the end of 2020, but as of Tuesday had only administered 51,283.

There are not many Blue Dog Democrats, that old redoubt of moderate liberals, left these days. As our colleague David Sherfinski reported last week, this once influential voting bloc has been diminished to about two dozen members. Like strangers in a foreign land, these days they appear out of step ...

Justice has long been said to be blind. After the bogus 2020 presidential election the saying should be changed to "Justice is deaf, dumb, blind and dead." To put it into perspective, the vast majority of TV news outlets and newspapers have been saying there is no evidence of fraud ...

The last time a Republican won a gubernatorial race in Connecticut was 2002. The winner was a woman named Jodi Rell, and she was the first female governor from the Republican Party to win that state, as well as the second female governor in Connecticut's history.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi offensive coordinator Jeff Lebby has agreed to a new two-year contract.

Barring another last-minute change, Syracuse will return to the basketball court on Wednesday night after a COVID-19 pause that lasted nearly three weeks. Coach Jim Boeheim is ready to roll.

On Monday, The Washington Times carried a short article by Dave Boyer reporting that President Trump awarded Republican Rep. Devin Nunes the Medal of Freedom ("Medal of Freedom goes to Rep. Nunes for 'courageous' efforts to stop 'plot' against Trump," Web, Jan. 4). The medal is well-deserved.

The Trump administration delivered an eleventh-hour blow to the regulatory state Tuesday by finalizing a scientific transparency rule requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to back up its mandates with publicly available data.

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court decision dismissing the last in a series of challenges that sought to decerify Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the state.

ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia officials say they have identified the state's first case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The first African American lawmakers to lead the California Legislature’s public safety committees at the same time promised Tuesday to bring “radical change” to improve treatment of Blacks and Latinos by law enforcement.

CUSTER, S.D. (AP) - Authorities say a deputy shot and wounded a man in Custer who refused to drop a gun and pointed it at the officer.

The Marine Corps has launched an ambitious effort to cut outdated programs and modernize for 21st-century conflict.

CHICAGO (AP) - Activist Chicago priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger has been asked to step aside due to allegations of sexual abuse that occurred decades ago, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced Tuesday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Six times, Philip Rivers led the the Chargers to the playoffs. Six times, he failed to reach the Super Bowl.

NEW YORK (AP) - Joe Douglas' to-do list this offseason is massive - and so is the climb the New York Jets need to make to reach respectability.

The U.S. is on pace to record 400,000 more deaths for 2020 than it did in 2019, driven by COVID-19 and problems that go beyond the coronavirus but were rekindled by the pandemic, including disrupted care for other diseases and mounting drug overdoses.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Protesters placed signs outside Kentucky's Capitol calling for the governor's impeachment as state lawmakers opened their 2021 session Tuesday. Another sign declared: “Make hanging traitors great again,” months after the governor was hanged in effigy for his COVID-19 restrictions.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Two Oklahoma lobbyists have agreed to pay $115,000 in penalties as part of a settlement announced Tuesday by the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.

The greater D.C. region has used less than a third of the more than 791,000 coronavirus vaccines delivered in the last four weeks, and officials say vaccinations are off to sluggish start due to several factors.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The Wichita City Council is diverting COVID-19 grant funding that had been intended for hiring a pandemic-control officer and is instead using it to lease software that ensures police officers don't cheat on their training.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana lawmaker's decision to block residents from testifying before a Senate committee via videoconferencing didn't last very long Tuesday before the chairs of all Senate committees decided to allow such testimony during the coronavirus pandemic.

America's nuclear arsenal wasn't compromised by a recent cyber attack that targeted thousands of sensitive computer networks used by government agencies and private companies, the Navy admiral in charge of the U.S. Strategic Command said.