Новости за 17.08.2021

Liberals inside and outside Congress condemned Rep. Lauren Boebert after the Colorado Republican said on social media Monday that the "Taliban are the only people building back better".

Unless you've been under a rock the past few days, you saw the pictures: Armed Taliban members stomping through the streets of Kabul, thousands storming the airport as Americans fled, some desperate Afghanis clinging onto U.S. planes and eventually plunging to their deaths.

A Fox News Channel analyst says President Biden’s attorney general can and should disqualify Donald Trump for running for president in 2024.

In the continuing aftermath of the catastrophe of the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan, the Biden administration continues to display the feckless wokeness causing disaster after disaster. 

President Biden has yet to speak with world leaders since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday afternoon.

George Mason University granted a professor a medical exemption from its COVID-19 vaccine mandate after he filed a lawsuit that included an affidavit from his doctor citing "natural immunity" to the coronavirus — though the school denied a settlement had been reached.     

Congress’ special inspector general for Afghanistan issued a report just before the Taliban’s takeover of the capital of Kabul that predicted a “bleak” future for the country in the wake of President Biden’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops.

Students at Rutgers University filed a federal lawsuit Monday arguing they shouldn't be required to get COVID-19 vaccine shots, taking a stand against the mandate despite Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's recent refusal to block a similar rule at Indiana University.

The chaos and loss of life occurring in Afghanistan were unavoidable, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday.

A new poll has found more adults in the U.S. admit to having tried marijuana than ever before.

Former Rep. Doug Ose announced Tuesday that he has dropped out of the California gubernatorial recall race after suffering a heart attack.

Two Loudoun County teachers plan to join a lawsuit filed by a colleague who argues that a school district policy requiring staff to use transgender students' preferred pronouns amounts to a violation of educators' religious rights.

The New York State Fair intends to let attendees smoke marijuana use in certain parts of its fairgrounds this season in accordance with a state cannabis-use law that recently went into effect.

Taliban militants now controlling Afghanistan claim Tuesday that they will not seek reprisal attacks for now and would honor women's rights, as long as those rights fit within the group's definition of Islamic law — an assurance that fell largely on deaf ears Tuesday as thousands of men, women and ...

With Election Day now less than three months away, Virginia gubernatorial candidates are ramping up their grassroots, get-out-the-vote efforts.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Larry Elder, a radio talk show host and Republican candidate in the California recall election that could remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, reported income of more than $100,000 in the last year from business interests that included media and film companies and a string ...

Thirteen Republican senators, led by Jim Lankford of Oklahoma and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, asked the Internal Revenue Service Tuesday to review how it weighs tax-exemption applications for faith-based nonprofits.

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

China will gain strategically from the removal of troops from Afghanistan after the stunning collapse of the U.S.-backed government and military there, American analysts say.

But that success will be balanced against the ruling Communist Party's fear of contending with a radical Islamic state on its border in Central ...

Stephen Colbert says the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan should also serve as a reminder that America has its own Taliban-like "radicals" right here at home — Trump supporters.

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is requiring its workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 4, making it the latest employer to forge ahead with a mandate while some companies wait until U.S. regulators grant full approval of the shots to avoid legal headaches and workplace tumult.

U.S. military commanders on the ground in Kabul regularly communicate with Taliban leaders as they continue a frantic mission to evacuate American diplomats and civilians along with their former Afghan allies seeking refuge from a country firmly in the insurgents' control.

So much of greatness in sports and the arts comes down to how you measure it.

A new study has promising, positive news about aging that was deemed "amazing" by one of the lead authors.

Dozens of "progressive" organizations recently sent a letter to the White House and Congress urging them not to antagonize China but instead pursue multilateral efforts to address the challenge of global climate change. This approach is naïve and a threat to global security. Conservatives should chart a different course that ...

When Democrats reveal their true-blue colors, they actually favor ruddy hues. That's the takeaway from a vote by party members who populate the U.S. Senate. When presented with a chance to preserve high taxes on the wealthy Americans they represent, they chose the opposite. It just goes to show that ...