Новости за 19.08.2021

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on mask mandates is being put to the test in Florida, where some school boards are refusing to comply with his order.

The Taliban became America's bitter foe after it hosted al Qaeda in Afghanistan prior to the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. But 20 years later, and now in complete control of the country, heavily-armed Taliban fighters are — for now — closely coordinating on the evacuation ...

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernard Sanders is preparing a national campaign swing to drum up support for President Biden's $3.5 trillion package of social welfare spending.

Hillsdale College has made available a "1776 Curriculum" for American history and civics that it says stands in contrast to the rapid spread of critical race theory curriculums in K-12 education that have created an uproar in many states.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Brandon Lowe hit his career-high 29th homer, Shane McClanahan won his fourth straight start, and the AL East-leading Tampa Bay Rays handed the Baltimore Orioles their 15th consecutive loss, 7-2 on Thursday.

The Biden administration Thursday said it wants to roll back protections the Trump administration issued that allowed colleges and universities to fund campus faith-based clubs even if they required their leaders to affirm religious beliefs about marriage, abortion and other hot-button issues.

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe has increasingly focused his campaign message on tying his opponent to former President Donald Trump.

Homeland Security says it doesn't know where it will get the money to handle the surge of border asylum claims it expects under its new plan to shift the work from immigration judges to department bureaucrats.

A federal judge issued an injunction Thursday blocking the Biden administration's attempt to limit the scope of illegal immigrants who federal agents can target for arrest and deportation, saying Homeland Security officials failed to give a good justification for the reasons behind the policy.

Neil Young has canceled plans to perform at the upcoming annual Farm Aid benefit concert he co-founded over safety concerns sparked by the continuing novel coronavirus pandemic still going strong.

Stephen A. Smith has another word of advice for the NBA's "White" executives: Hire more Black employees with "cachet" who can settle disputes among Black stars.

The Federal Trade Commission renewed its antitrust case against Facebook on Thursday, filing an amended complaint in federal court after Judge James E. Boasberg dismissed its first complaint in June.

Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Thursday.

China’s military stepped up flights of H-6 bombers near the southeastern tip of Taiwan, triggering air defense forces of the island state, the Taiwan defense ministry said Thursday.

A confidential United Nations document warns the Taliban is intensifying efforts to hunt down Afghans who worked with American and NATO forces over the past two decades, and that the militants have threatened to kill or arrest their family members if the people being sought cannot be found.

U.S. voters may be experiencing buyer's remorse when it comes to President Biden, according to a newly released poll.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas said on Thursday that Taliban "goons" are blocking, beating and stripping documents of people trying to escape Afghanistan via the Kabul international airport, now controlled by American troops inside a strict fence line.

The United Nation’s cultural agency on Thursday called for increased protection of Afghanistan’s cultural sites and relics after the Taliban toppled the country’s government.

The Department of Defense canceled its annual Warrior Games competition for the second year in a row because of fears of COVID-19.

The city of Charlotte, North Carolina, announced it will rename Jefferson Davis Street to Druid Hills Way in the first of a series of such changes set for various roads currently honoring infamous racists.

Anti-Taliban protests grew for a second day in Afghanistan and spread to the streets of Kabul for the first time since the militant group seized the country’s capital, where tense crowds of Afghans gathered on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of the country's independence from British control more than a ...

ASHBURN — Antonio Gibson says he’s not really much of a taunter. But there was something about last year’s Thanksgiving showcase — the game when the Washington running back scored three touchdowns — that caused Gibson to wave goodbye to the trailing Cowboys defender as he raced to the end ...

The ultimate summation of President Biden’s administration, as captured in photos, will be those of Afghan women hurling their babies over barbed wire at the Kabul airport in desperate attempts for U.S. soldiers to fly them to safety.

A lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court is demanding Congress disclose thousands of hours of Jan. 6 Capitol riot surveillance videos that are the crux of a mounting legal battle between prosecutors and the press.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona on Tuesday forgave another $5.8 billion in student debt, announcing the department is forgiving the loans of more than 323 borrowers who have total and permanent disabilities.