Новости за 16.07.2021

Health officials on Friday warned about a case of human monkeypox in a U.S. resident who recently returned from Nigeria, and said they're tracing the person's contacts on two flights.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday that President Biden has confidence in FBI Director Christopher Wray, even as blunders keep mounting for the embattled bureau.

President Biden on Friday defended his administration’s policing of Facebook and other social media sites for misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.

Back in Iowa for the first time since the 2020 election, former Vice President Mike Pence told voters in the first-in-the-nation caucus state the "Trump-Pence" administration showed what can be accomplished when you fight for conservative principles.

Democrats’ plan for $3.5 trillion of new spending on social programs — the biggest ever proposed — would eat up nearly all of the government’s annual tax collections in a single spending plan.

A comment by President Joe Biden is encouraging airlines to hope that travel between the United States and Europe could be expanded in time for last-minute, late-summer vacation trips.

Sydney McLaughlin turns 22 three days after the final of the 400-meter hurdles, in which she might win Olympic gold and may even lower her current world record.

The COVID-19 comeback across the U.S. is putting pressure on hospitals at a time when some of them are busy just trying to catch up on surgeries and other procedures that were put on hold during the pandemic.

SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state have charged former Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers star Richard Sherman after police said he drunkenly crashed his SUV in a construction zone and tried to break into his in-laws’ home.

The Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review for the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 shots for people aged 16 years and older, the vaccine makers said Friday.

An attorney representing several Virginia churches and allied ministries says they'll appeal a Friday ruling that blunts their challenge to the Virginia Values Act.

Fully vaccinated Americans could be allowed to cross into Canada for non-essential travel as soon as mid-August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday.

President Biden is bringing back low-flow showers of the Obama years.

The administration announced Friday that it will reverse a Trump-era loosening of restrictions on how much water can flow out of a showerhead.

The Energy Department said it will take steps to drop the rule, which changed how water ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Trump-Russia FBI spy Stefan Halper, while also sanctioning plaintiff Svetlana Lokhova and her attorney for “their continuing to bring frivolous litigation against Halper.”

The Biden administration has announced plans for a new formal relationship with Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, the latest signs of geopolitical tug of war in the region in the wake of the U.S. and allied troop pullout from Afghanistan.

Officials in Australia are reportedly rebranding shark "attacks" as "a negative encounter" as experts argue the former had given the nautical predators a bad reputation not based on science.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger criticized the current state of the online encyclopedia he started in a recent interview, casting doubt on whether it can be trusted to provide unbiased information because of the heavy input of editors with "establishment" views.

The highly infectious COVID-19 delta variant is becoming a "pandemic of the unvaccinated," a top U.S. health official said Friday.

As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to fade, American consumers face high prices and shortages of many basic goods and services — like food, gas, and lumber — due to disruptions in supply chains and inflationary policies. Yet, one industry has triumphed during the trials and tribulations of the past year ...

Nancy Pelosi’s twilight years may thus far be bereft of achievement from a governance standpoint, but her status as a formidable political tactician remains intact. It’s a reputation predicated on the Speaker’s demonstrated fidelity to a scorched earth brand of Washington politics.

Rep. Rob Wittman is urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel August recess in light of the backlog of work Congress needs to get done.

A handful of students at Indiana University recently sued their school over its coronavirus vaccine mandate, saying the shot should not be a condition of returning to campus because it violates both state law and the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, the one guaranteeing due process in protection of individual ...

Milton Friedman once said, “inflation is taxation without legislation.” That being the case, Americans could be in store for some hefty tax hikes in the months ahead.

Israel put pressure on U.S. lawmakers to reject initiatives to restore the Iran nuclear deal during a recent bipartisan congressional trip taken to the Middle East.

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian passenger plane with 17 people on board went missing Friday during a flight in Siberia.