Новости за 08.07.2021

Before newly elected legislators are sworn in, they attend orientation sessions during which they are taught how to set up an office and hire staff, as well as the process of passing legislation.

July 2021 marks the 57th anniversary of federal-government support for public transportation. 

I’m reading that because the Internal Revenue Service is understaffed and overworked (and well behind in getting tax refunds out because of the pandemic), one Washington scribe called it “critically malfunctioning” and a “hot mess.”

China is unrepentant, and Democrats are uninterested.

“The truth will out,” wrote William Shakespeare in “The Merchant of Venice.” Embedded in the Bard’s comedy, the sobering proverb has stood the test of time – 500 years or so – until now. Shakespeare couldn’t have foreseen Communist China’s skill at suppressing ...

Major League Baseball and Ticketmaster are facing a barrage of negative ads ahead of next week’s All-Star Game for bowing to “woke” political pressure. 

Anthony Fauci, from his perch on MSNBC, told the unvaccinated American public to “get over this political statement,” get on board the vaccine wagon and for the good of the country, get the shot.

Bill Cosby is planning a comeback with a number of new projects including a standup comedy tour and docuseries after his release from prison last week.

The Washington Mystics played with just six players in their 90-71 loss to the Connecticut Sun on June 29, highlighting the team's current short-handed four-game losing streak.

China’s growing military power in Asia has increased the danger Beijing will launch a war against a neighboring state, with Taiwan just one of several likely future targets, the admiral in charge of intelligence for the Pentagon's Indo-Pacific Command warned this week.

The Biden administration on Thursday said its door-to-door campaign to boost COVID-19 vaccinations will hinge on doctors and trusted locals, not government agents, and scolded those pushing "misinformation" about the effort.

The next-generation F-35 Lightning II fighter represents a growing portion of the Pentagon's tactical aviation fleet, but high costs needed to keep them flying may mean they're simply too expensive even for the U.S. military, the congressional watchdog Government Accountability Office said in a new report issued this week.

Although the communist regime in Cuba is weakening and its economy is crumbling, it still poses a great threat to the security of the United States and democratic countries in the Western Hemisphere. 
 
The imprint of the regime’s systems of intelligence and subversion is seen in the assault on ...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson has accused the National Security Agency of seeking to smear him by supposedly leaking details about his recent attempt to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

For the past 50 years, the constant drumbeat from the news media, popular entertainment, and from all other cultural influencers has been this: The nuclear family, consisting of one child or more living with both a married mother and a father, is a dinosaur on its way to extinction.

ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. — Five years into a nearly $50 million federal grant to move this Gulf community threatened by rising sea levels, a new house has yet to be built. Officials say that will change by the end of the year, but on the isolated island people ...

Who is proud to be an American? I am. 

The good news is that an overwhelming majority of adults (68%) are very or extremely proud to be an American. The bad news is the only group that is not proud are young people. Only 36% of those aged 18 to ...

Mrs. Pelosi, tear down that wall!

Word on the street is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is finally allowing her Stasi fencing around her grand office on Capitol Hill to come down this weekend. We will believe it when we see it.

But the real scandal remains that she had the ...

The pandemic has raised in a very pointed way an important question for American democracy: What is the proper role of experts? 

Parents all over the country are rightly outraged that their children are being taught Critical Race Theory in the classroom, with grassroots movements to recall school boards and FOIA curriculums occurring from Loudoun County, Virginia to San Diego, California.

Dr. Anthony Fauci urged Americans still hesitant to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to "get over this political statement" and get the shot.

One of the greatest tennis players in the world is coming to D.C. this month.

President Biden will speak Thursday afternoon on the worsening situation in Afghanistan, where the U.S. military withdrawal is now virtually complete and the insurgent Taliban is gaining new ground by the day.

The fight over critical race theory in the classroom crept into Virginia’s gubernatorial race, where the candidates are banking on education issues to give them the edge in a tight contest. 

Immigrant rights groups lashed out at the Biden administration this week after a new whistleblower complaint from two volunteers at a shelter for illegal immigrant children said they'd seen tragic mismanagement and suffering youths.

The Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis says it will require its 1,100 workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of August as a condition of employment.