Новости за 11.08.2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A GOP-led effort to force two county election clerks to turn over ballots and voting machines is running into resistance among Republicans as well as legal hurdles, with attorneys for the Legislature saying subpoenas issued so far are not valid.

The gargantuan, $1 trillion infrastructure bill has descended on Capitol Hill like a threatening weather event. Some eye it with alarm for very specific reasons — particularly Gregory Wrightstone. He is a geologist and the executive director of the CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit based in Arlington, Virginia, that emphasizes the ...

The fugitive Texas House Democrats were left stranded Wednesday in Washington, D.C., unable to push for federal voting-rights legislation with Congress on recess and unable to return to the Lone Star State without risking arrest.

Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst said his rock band canceled the rest of its U.S. tour dates because it became apparent that fans would not be safe attending at this point in the coronavirus pandemic.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – A board voted Wednesday to move ahead with preliminary work on a multibillion-dollar plan to ease choking traffic by replacing the aging American Legion Bridge linking Maryland and Virginia and create toll lanes for Interstate 270 and parts of the beltway ringing the nation’s capital.

Senate Democrats launched a new bid Wednesday to rewrite America's voting laws, highlighting Republican opposition to the effort and adding fuel to the left's calls to end the filibuster rules that allow the GOP to block liberal priorities.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi will open a 50-bed field hospital and the federal government will send medical professionals to help treat patients as COVID-19 cases continue surging in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S., officials said Wednesday.

New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul distanced herself Wednesday from disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo and said she will purge her new administration of any state employees who acted unethically to help Mr. Cuomo fight allegations of sexual harassment.

Not everyone can casually name-drop the greatest basketball player of all time, so no one could blame Washington coach Ron Rivera for doing so this week when he was asked a question about Thursday’s preseason game.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that COVID-19 vaccination is safe during pregnancy, with a new study of pregnant women showing no increased risk of miscarriages.  

President Biden on Wednesday met virtually with business, university and health care leaders who have instituted vaccine mandates or testing requirements to discuss how to get more Americans vaccinated and end the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stevie Nicks has canceled plans to perform headlining sets at several U.S. music festivals due to what the Fleetwood Mac singer described as concerns about the rising number of COVID-19 cases.

LAS VEGAS — Becky Hammon can't wait for the time when it's normal for women to interview for head coaching positions in the NBA and their gender isn't the story.

Some of the largest concert venues in and around Washington, D.C., will soon require attendees to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result during the past 72 hours.

If a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, how terrible would it be to waste two simultaneous crises?

A religious liberty organization and a group of parents are challenging a new Connecticut law that requires children to be vaccinated to attend public or private schools despite religious objections or exemptions.

Common sense is a hallmark of superior leadership. Nonsense is a giveaway that a leader is lost. President Biden has clearly gone astray. His catalog of folly is already thick, but one entry alone illustrates his wanderings, and sadly, it might be the most perilous. It's the president's determination to ...

Democrat-controlled Washington is decimating our national economy. Crippling tax hikes, reckless spending, record-high inflation, overreaching lockdowns, defunding law enforcement, blue state bailouts – all are radical policies holding back a much-needed economic recovery. Thankfully, Republican legislative majorities in the states are holding the line on fiscal responsibility.

The U.S. labor movement is in the midst of an existential crisis. Its leaders know times are changing, and they must do something if organized labor is to survive. But the last thing union bosses want to do is to change. And that is a problem.

The late, great Father Richard John Neuhaus, who tirelessly dedicated his life to saving the preborn, had a dream. That dream was that there would once again be a day that, as former President George W. Bush (who credited Father Neuhaus as a spiritual mentor), said, “all children will be ...

Andrew Cuomo, in resignation remarks, said that since he works for the people — “for you,” he said — that it was high time to step aside and “let government get back to governing” because, hey now, ho now, “doing the right thing is doing the right thing for you.” ...

A group of seven liberal Democrats in the House of Representatives recently sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asking her to review (and calling on her to revoke) the tax-exempt status of American charities that provide support to Jewish people living in the State of Israel, including in ...

When interpreted in accordance with the plain meaning of its words and informed by a fair reading of history, the Constitution does not permit the government to infringe upon personal freedoms, no matter the emergency or pandemic. For those who agree with me, worry not. We will persevere. For those ...

In May of this year, the Biden administration announced its support for a proposal at the World Trade Organization that would allow other countries to seize American intellectual property on COVID-19 technologies, including vaccines. On cue, those countries promptly modified their ask. Whereas the original proposal called for the waiver ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham urged Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 while speaking Tuesday on Capitol Hill a little over a week since he tested positive for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.