Новости за 11.05.2021

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to nominate former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, according to a person familiar with the president's decision.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Sean Parnell, a decorated Army veteran and regular guest on Fox News programs who became a favorite of Donald Trump, is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat.

Russell Westbrook was surprised he missed the shot. After all, the scenario unfolded for a perfect storybook ending: On his record-breaking night, the NBA’s new triple-double king got the ball in the final seconds, stormed down the court and could drain the go-ahead jumper for the win. 

ATLANTA — A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges, and a prosecutor filed notice that she'll also seek hate crime charges and the death penalty.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The PGA Tour is giving away $40 million to the leading 10 players who move the needle, a term that's been around for some 60 years because it's a simple way to define popularity.

DALLAS — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the National Rifle Association's bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit that accuses it of financial abuses and aims to put it out of business.

The Biden administration is cracking down on so-called ghost guns to solve America's epidemic of gun violence but crime stats from major cities and the Justice Department suggest the do-it-yourself weapons are a small part of the problem.

Newly minted Texan Joe Rogan says hardcore lockdown politicians left citizens no choice but to flee "sinking ship" cities that may be "irreversibly f----d."

The White House says it's staying out of "inter-party" squabbles on Capitol Hill as the House GOP moves to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership post Wednesday.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned gasoline station operators across the country on Tuesday that price gouging would not be tolerated amid shortages caused by the cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline system.

Visitors of the Smithsonian's National Zoo can begin reserving timed entry passes this week ahead of the zoo's reopening on May 21. 

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s foster care placement agency hopefully will win an important victory in the Supreme Court before summer gets under way.

Speaking before a press conference Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley addressed the problems of leaving Afghanistan in what was obviously an uncomfortable performance. It was also riddled with disinformation for which the secretary and the chairman should be embarrassed. The American people deserve ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s place at the head of the mob intent on correcting the wrongs of past generations has been endangered. She has been waving the bloody shirt about past generations’ complicity in racism, and now her role at the head of the mob is in question.

As our country reflects on a year defined by a once-in-a-century global pandemic, it is deeply distressing to consider the economic wreckage caused by the coronavirus. 

Progressive urban leaders are ramping up efforts to “defund” the police, put convicted violent felons back on the street while refusing to prosecute or even enforce laws against burglary, shoplifting and drug crimes. 

Let’s hope official Washington hears the scorn being heaped on their hometown Capitals for forward Tom Wilson’s beatdown of two New York Rangers players. I have no skate to grind against the Caps, but this sad episode has the potential to teach us about cries of foul play across the ...

BALTIMORE — Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit was treated with an antifungal ointment containing the steroid betamethasone that may have caused the horse to fail a postrace drug test, trainer Bob Baffert said Tuesday.

President Joe Biden appropriately imposed an array of sanctions against Russia recently, chiefly striking back at a sweeping Russian cyberattack that created significant data breaches for Fortune 500 companies, multiple agencies of the United States federal government and thousands of American nongovernmental organizations. 

Paris is known as the City of Light, and Beirut used to be known as the Paris of the Middle East — the Arab world’s center of culture, art, and learning, with bars and cafes a la mode. So, there is irony as well as tragedy in the likelihood that ...

President Biden's next 100 days will be dominated by major budget and economic challenges while the administration continues to grapple with controlling COVID-19, former White House chiefs of staff and business leaders said Tuesday in a forum hosted by The Washington Times.

When George W. Bush left the White House in 2009, he vowed to follow in his father’s footsteps and disappear. He said it would be inconsiderate to his successor to become a back-seat driver, second guessing the new president.

Oregon lawmakers have advanced an elections bill to prohibit knowingly and purposefully spreading wrong information about how to participate in the voting process.

More than a dozen House Republicans signed a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding he investigated how the bureau came to classify a near-massacre of GOP members by a crazed gunman as merely "suicide by cop."

The University of Massachusetts Amherst suspended three freshman students this month, banning them from taking final exams after a photograph surfaced showing the three young ladies outside at an off-campus party without face masks.