Новости за 14.07.2021

Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam is at 37% capacity, the lowest level since the 1930s. The lake provides water to about 40 million people in Nevada, Arizona and California, but a severe drought and diminished snowfall in the Rocky Mountains have significantly reduced the supply. Other lakes in the ...

During the Vietnam War I was a Marine squad leader in mortars, and I ended up on a 100% disability fighting against Communist Russians and Chinese who backed North Vietnam. As if that weren’t bad enough, we had race riots back in the U.S., where Black Americans were rightly fighting ...

FedEx bought Kinko’s in 2004 and rebranded the stores under the name FedEx Office in 2008, which might explain why, as Vce President Kamala Harris observed, people who live in rural communities have no Kinko’s near them (“Kamala Harris: The portrait of how desperation slides into frantic idiocy,” Web, July ...

There is an old saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. President Biden surely knows it by heart but doesn’t want to hear it now. By his reckoning, COVID-19 vaccine naysayers are like those stubborn beasts. As refuseniks, they must be made ...

REvil, a Russian-based hacking group held responsible for several recent major ransomware attacks, abruptly vanished from the internet this week.

The American College of Sports Medicine has ranked Arlington, Virginia, as the fittest city in the U.S. for the fourth year in a row.

Actor John Leguizamo is irate at those who oppose critical race theory and says they need to "calm the f--- down."

Actress and pop star Olivia Rodrigo popped into the White House briefing room Wednesday to prod young Americans to get vaccinated as the federal push for widespread immunity stalls out.

By any standard, Zaila Avant-garde is a remarkable 14-year-old girl with a positive and compelling outlook on life.

The American health insurance industry — which rakes in over $1 trillion a year — wants to rebrand for the first time in 20 years. This, according to its lobbying group's CEO, comes “after a year filled with unprecedented challenges.”

Former President George W. Bush said Wednesday that the Biden administration's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan will result in "unbelievably bad" consequences.

A left-leaning watchdog group has sued the U.S. Election Assistance Commission over allegations that the federal panel weakened the security standards for voting systems this year after unlawful secret meetings with voting machine manufacturers.

In the wake of last year’s election, there was a sense on the right that the eschaton was imminent, that the Republicans would never win another election, and that the nation was doomed to a bleak and ever-deteriorating future.

Former TV host Catt Sadler said she got sick with COVID-19 after caring for someone with the virus — even though she was vaccinated and wearing a mask.

NEW YORK (AP) — Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday.

President Biden, in a speech from Philadelphia, knocked down former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen 2020 election while characterizing those who wanted to tighten state voting laws as Ku Klux Klan types who couldn’t wait to legislate away the rights of Blacks and minorities.

Toure is a media personality that hosts a couple of podcasts, has authored six books, and has enjoyed a wide-ranging broadcast career, hosting on MSNBC, appearing regularly on CNN, and more.

Three decades after the “historic” United Nations Convention on Climate Change, and after spending trillions on clean energy initiatives that have yielded less-than-stellar results, the inescapable fact remains without incorporating nuclear fission into our clean energy policies, the CO2 levels are probably not coming down. In fact, prominent activists on ...

Criticism of Richard Branson’s recent space sojourn crossed ideological and political boundaries. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders used it as an opportunity to renew his call “to tax billionaires,” while CNN’s Brian Stelter wondered if it was “ethical to be launching rockets and flying off to space and spending all this ...

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday that Democrats need to do a better job at not allowing the "noisy" left wing define the party if they want to continue winning elections.

“No person ... shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.” 
-- Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

A majority of voters support President Biden's plan to send vaccine promoters door to door but nearly two-thirds of Republicans oppose the plan, underscoring a partisan divide over federal efforts to push the shots as the dreaded delta variant takes hold.

Once a whale is on a beach, it cannot get back into the ocean easily. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight, or drowning when high tide covers the blowhole. Unfortunately, the United States is fast approaching the "beached whale" status in its relationship with ...

Shortly after historic protests swept the island of Cuba on Sunday, the Biden administration expressed its "support" for the Cuban people to “peacefully protest and determine their own future,” but also “call[ed] upon the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment….” 

The former head of the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday said people might not need COVID-19 booster shots on a recurring basis, citing the ability’s body to build a long-lasting immune response after a jumpstart from vaccines.