Новости за 23.07.2021

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

After months of pleading and arm-twisting with the public to increase vaccinations, policymakers and employers are imposing mandates or devising rules that make life miserable for holdouts.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told private employers Friday to “do the maximum you can do” ...

Rick Dennison, an assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings, is out of a job after he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to ESPN.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Angelina Jolie scored a major victory Friday in her divorce with Brad Pitt when a California appeals court agreed with her that the private judge deciding who gets custody of their children should be disqualified.

The rift between the Green Bay Packers and some of their star players appears to be deepening.

The same day as the opening ceremony of the Olympics unfolded, Tokyo Games organizers announced Friday that 19 more coronavirus cases had been discovered among people connected to the competition, including three athletes.

America took on the mantle of the world’s policeman in the 20th century and Congress is now poised to make the U.S. the galaxy’s garbage man in the 21st century.

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis city and county officials say they will require masks in some public places starting Monday, citing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases spurred by the delta variant.

Fox News host Sean Hannity denied Thursday night that he said viewers should get vaccinated against COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and ripped "idiots in the media mob" for reporting otherwise.

Most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots and doubt they would work against the aggressive delta variant despite evidence they do, according to a new poll that underscores the challenges facing public health officials amid soaring infections in some states.

Five years ago, on Sept. 11, 2016, the National Football League unveiled a remarkable two-minute video, “Football Is America.” Featuring well-known black and white players, the video saluted the military, first responders, and the idea of e Pluribus Unum – out of many, one. They didn’t actually use the phrase, ...

The same folks who helped bring you COVID-19 are now claiming they’re going to be carbon neutral by 2060. Anyone who has been paying attention can already hear the stilted teleprompter speech by President Biden warning the nation that American leadership on climate policy is key to winning our competition ...

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has just come under fire — again — from leftists who say his insistence on a return to school absent any face mask requirements is a danger to the nation.

Unlike much of the longtime party establishment, former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole supported Donald Trump in 2016.

Even having the president on for a prime-time appointment couldn’t keep CNN from finishing behind both Fox News Channel and MSNBC.

An Assemblies of God congregation near Seattle is one step closer to being released from a Washington state law requirement that its employee health-insurance plans cover abortion if they also offer maternity care.

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials said Thursday they now have evidence of an untreatable fungus spreading in two hospitals and a nursing home.

Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI's background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands of tips and had provided "all relevant" ones to the White House counsel's office.

“Trump launches broadside against Milley over ‘coup’ reports” (Web, July 15) seems to put Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a no-win situation. Milley’s failure to disclaim or deny the main points of the article when directly asked during his press conference July 21 further ...

Anthony Fauci said recently on PBS that “we will try anything and everything” to get people vaccinated, such as enlisting trusted confidants of the unvaccinated to reason with these people. 

Gerrymandering is named for Elbridge Gerry, one of the three who in 1787 refused to sign the Constitution’s first draft (“Eric Holder and Democrats’ gerrymandering,” Web, July 21). As it happened, the Bill of Rights was hastily added, answering the three men’s main objection. Not long after, Gerry, now governor ...

Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” Had he lived in today’s world, he might have saved his poetic stiletto for a human flaw more threatening than the tendency to stay the course: hypocrisy. ...

GREAT FALLS, Va. — Republican Virginia gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin and his wife cut the real estate tax bill on their horse farm when they successfully petitioned Fairfax County to designate the more than 30-acre property around their Great Falls home as agricultural property, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. 

House Democrats are trying to muscle their way into the infrastructure negotiations between President Biden and bipartisan senators, even going as far as threatening to scuttle the entire package.

The Justice Department on Thursday indicted nine people, including Chinese nationals and an American private investigator, on charges they were part of a Chinese government covert operation called "Fox Hunt" that forcibly repatriated opponents of the Beijing regime.

DOVER, Del. — A Delaware judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative political commentator Candace Owens against USA Today and another media organization over fact-checking coronavirus posts she made on Facebook.