Новости за 30.06.2021

As I watched the boring, often stale, and long-running vaudeville-like performance over the infrastructure bill (which should be called “The Raising your Taxes and Giving Money to our Union Allies so They Have Work this Summer Act”) I kept watching the amazing steady progress of the Chinese Communist Party as ...

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead
Wake up, you sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed
Wake up, the wicked witch is dead!
— Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg  from “The Wizard of Oz”

The outcome of the sham presidential election in Iran this month was the installment of an international criminal. Ebrahim Raisi’s egregious human rights record puts that of many well-known modern era henchmen to shame. He was involved in the mass murder of 30,000 political prisoners in the span of a ...

Gulbuhar Hatiwaji was living in France when she received a call from her former employer. They had a request for her — that she return to China to apply for early retirement. Gulbuhar was puzzled by the request, but she went back to her hometown, Urumchi, planning on a two-week ...

Free markets, and not monopolies generally present the best outcomes for consumers. But since Thomas Edison began to wire up and light up New York City with his light bulb in 1879 and the first power plant in 1882, the model of vertically integrated monopolies for electricity generation and distribution ...

It is no secret that free speech is under attack on college campuses across the country. It was not but a decade ago when my Latin American Politics professor told an entire classroom of 20-year-olds that White men are the source of all modern problems.

NEW YORK (AP) – Reaction to Wednesday's Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling overturning Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction and clearing the way for him to be released from prison:

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson dropped a bombshell on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” this week, claiming the National Security Agency is monitoring his private emails and has plans to leak them in an effort to get Mr. Carlson booted from the air.

The State Department said Wednesday it will no longer require Americans to provide medical documentation proving their gender on passport applications, paving the way for individuals to choose a gender they self-identify with regardless of what their birth certificate or hospital records indicate.

As we begin to pick through the rubble of the early days of the coronavirus that started in Wuhan in an effort to determine with some specificity the origins of COVID-19, and whether it was accidentally or purposefully released from a Chinese lab, it is important, too, that we assess ...

Books and articles — scientific as well as theological — have been written on human nature. Still, most people don’t understand it, or refuse to learn from it, or worse, play to its dark side.

Last weekend, President Biden ordered the U.S. military to bomb targets in Syria and Iraq in an effort “to send a clear and unambiguous deterrent message” to Iran. It is apparently the belief of the Biden administration — as it has been with Mr. Biden’s three immediate presidential predecessors — ...

A Black Jewish diversity chief at a nonprofit group for children's book authors resigned amid backlash after she neglected to specifically condemn Islamophobia in a statement denouncing antisemitism.

U.S. blood centers and hospitals are grappling with a blood supply shortage amid a rising number of trauma cases, organ transplants and surgeries requiring transfusions.

Atlanta’s wealthy Buckhead district residents say they’ve seen enough crime — they’ve dodged enough bullets while walking the dog — that they’re seeking to secede from the rest of the city. That makes sense.

In February 2020, three White residents of Brunswick, Georgia, attempted what they claimed was a lawful citizen’s arrest of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger they suspected of trespassing on a residential construction site. Armed with an assortment of guns, they chased Arbery down in their trucks, cut him off and ...

Left-leaning immigration groups announced multiple legal offensives Wednesday against President Biden and his administration, suing to try to stop ICE movements of illegal immigrants in one case and demanding speedier action on admitting a refugee in another case.

Rep. Ilhan Omar said "right-wingers" will stop at nothing to silence her after she said Tuesday night she didn't regret posting a tweet that was condemned by her Jewish colleagues.

When Border Patrol agents stopped a Honda driving suspiciously near the California-Mexico boundary on Saturday and ordered everyone out of the car, one woman didn't get out. She couldn't.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that vaccines are effective against the delta variant of the coronavirus and there aren’t data suggesting people who received the one-shot Johnson & Johnson version need to get a booster.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday said lapses in the country’s approach to COVID-19 sparked a “crisis” and “grave consequences,” sparking new questions about the secretive nation’s response to the pandemic.

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said “nobody will ever know who really won” the Democratic primary for New York City mayor after tabulation mistakes by election officials sent the race into chaos.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week’s Black Sea incident in what he described as a “provocation" to test Moscow's response.

The people don’t believe Washington looks out for their interests — and it doesn’t make much difference whether “the people” are Republicans, Democrats or independents.

When I was president, I delivered on my promise to build a border wall to protect our country. All Joe Biden had to do was paint it.