Новости за 23.06.2021

The nation's top military officer clashed sharply with Republican lawmakers Wednesday during a budget hearing over allegations that the Pentagon has embraced controversial topics such as critical race theory since the election of President Biden.

CALEXICO, Calif. — The chief of the Border Patrol said Wednesday he was leaving his job after less than two years in a position that lies in the crosshairs of polarizing political debate.

BOSTON — The Boston Celtics have hired Brooklyn Nets assistant Ime Udoka to be their new coach, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court's recent ruling on Obamacare has quickly reverberated across the legal landscape, with the administration rushing to tell lower courts to shut down red-state challenges to President Biden's immigration policies.

President Biden is set to meet with Afghanistan's top political leaders in Washington on Friday even as Taliban insurgents score major battlefield gains and the embattled government in Kabul warns of a looming civil war.

“We the people,” the opening words of the Preamble to our Constitution, comprise one of the most famous phrases in American history. We owe this phrase, just as we owe the whole of the Preamble and the whole of the final form of our Constitution, to one of the most ...

President Joe Biden has proposed 30 tax increases totaling $3 trillion over the next decade. Not only would these tax increases hit working families and small businesses hard, but they would also provide a boost to Communist China and other foreign rivals.

When it comes to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s family membership at Bailey’s Beach Club, we must be charitable to the good senator before chastising him (“Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, R.I. Dem, defends continued membership in all-White social club,” Web, June 21). After all, the club was formed in the late 1800s for ...

Nineteen years ago, on Oct. 10, 2002, Congress voted to authorize the use of military force against Iraq. Citing many factors to justify the vote, including misrepresentations from the United States Department of State that Iraq maintained a capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations, ...

“Tracing Adam Schiff’s Subpoena hypocrisy” (Web, June 21) stunned me. Courts have concluded that Congress can secretly subpoena any citizen with no limits. This power is unlike any other power of the government to intrude into a citizen’s life. Of course, Mr. Schiff used this power to obtain records of ...

Kelly Sadler cites R.R. Reno’s June 8 assessment in the Wall Street Journal as the reason “woke” universities are spitting out unhirable individuals (“Woke universities produce unhirable graduates,” Web, June 18).

The June 17 article “‘Obamacare’ survives: Supreme Court dismisses big challenge” (Web) appropriately draws attention to the 33.2 million Americans who as of 2019 did not have adequate health-care coverage. We at NAKASEC VA appreciate the article addressing this fact in light of the Supreme Court’s vote to uphold the ...

Under the Constitution, all public bodies consisting of public servants sit for the citizens who attend public meetings. These meetings function for the purpose of serving the citizens (“Parents sue school board over racial-bias program, free-speech concerns,” Web, June 3).

The Harlem Globetrotters have been a basketball staple since their debut in 1926, touring the country as an exhibition team. Now, they want to become the next NBA team.

As an independent voter, I believe that the Democrats have turned politics into raw sewage that stinks to high heaven. Watching President Biden’s continuous blunders and missteps should tell everyone to be very weary of our downfall as a society.

Our recent Sunday Scripture reading — the story of Jesus calming the turbulent waters — has always provided a message of confidence and consolation.

Three U.S. companies — Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — created and manufactured the world’s most effective mRNA COVID vaccines in record time. An increasing majority of Americans have now been inoculated, but much of the developing world remains in desperate need of vaccines. Americans naturally want to help. ...

State election laws, revised in a rush before the November 2020 presidential election to make it easier for people to vote during the coronavirus, led to systemic distrust in the integrity of our election system, and is the reason why many Republican-held states have decided to pass new election laws, ...

It is good that the United States is celebrating the outcome of the Civil War again, after effectively trading President Lincoln’s holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King’s holiday. The new Juneteenth holiday will serve as an annual reminder of the liberation of the slaves owned by Democrats by Republican ...

House Republicans on Wednesday redoubled efforts to hold China accountable for the COVID-19 pandemic, pressuring President Biden and congressional Democrats to take action.

When Phillies slugger Bryce Harper walked to the plate early in Wednesday’s game, Ryan Zimmerman and Max Scherzer took policing MLB’s new foreign substance enforcement into their own hands. The Nationals duo waved for the umpire’s attention, then pointed to their hats, signaling that the umpire should check Harper’s hair ...

Recently, the House of Representatives repealed the 2002 authorization for military action in Iraq and patted itself on the back. But the fact that it took two decades reminds us just how far we’ve strayed from the Constitution when it comes to armed conflict. 

Embedded in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's scathing rebuke of the NCAA and its rules were a few suggestions on how college sports can be reformed to avoid being sued into oblivion.

Joy Behar says former President Donald Trump should be seen as a man who spent years "normalizing crime" instead of a pro-cop Republican.

President Joe Biden's goal to make the U.S. electric grid carbon-free by 2035, will require the U.S. to diversify its domestic energy sources, including a heavy reliance on solar power. This is foolish for two reasons: The solar industry in the U.S. is non-existent, so most purchases will have to ...