Новости за 24.09.2021

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The NBA has denied Andrew Wiggins' request for a vaccination exemption, leaving the Golden State Warriors swingman ineligible to play home games until he meets San Francisco's vaccination requirement.

The U.S. Census reported this week that birth rates have started to rebound from COVID-19 after hitting a low last winter.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday insisted that emails recovered from Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop computer were Russian disinformation, despite new confirmation of the authenticity of the emails.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell traded barbs Friday on the steps of the U.S. Capitol as the two got into a shouting match over abortion and who was acting like a Christian.

A Colorado website designer who fears the state will prosecute her for not creating a same-sex wedding design — or other websites promoting messages her faith does not support — asked the Supreme Court on Friday to hear her case.

The articles of impeachment filed by House Republicans against Biden administration figures are starting to pile up.

The Veterans Health Administration paid out $10 million more than it should have in 2020 for prosthetic devices such as artificial limbs, according to a new audit released Friday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday sidestepped questions about whether Vice President Kamala Harris, the administration's border czar, has worked with Haitian officials to stem the migration of refugees.

Rep. Ted Lieu, California Democrat, is leading an effort to undermine the federal government's investigations of Chinese influence over scientists, researchers, and others engaged in alleged economic espionage.

More than 400 D.C. Fire and EMS employees are seeking a religious exemption for COVID-19 vaccines, according to reports.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that all of the Haitian migrants have been cleared from the camp in Del Rio, Texas where they had been living in squalor for more than a week.

A photographer who took photos of mounted Border Patrol agents in a tense encounter with Haitian migrants earlier this week says he didn't see any whipping, puncturing the outrage that the White House and immigrant-rights activists have aimed at the agents.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, on Friday said the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill is doomed to fail in a vote scheduled for Monday.

The House passed Friday a broad pro-choice bill that would sweep away state restrictions on abortion, a speedy but largely symbolic vote in reaction to a wave of pro-life measures in Texas and other red states making their way to the Supreme Court.

A former grassroots organizer for the conservative group FreedomWorks is facing charges in connection with the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.

India’s prime minister on Friday urged President Biden to push forward a long-awaited trade deal between the countries.

The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling on President Biden to declassify intelligence assessments amid a standoff between lawmakers and the administration over facts behind the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

A legal battle spanning three countries that soured China's relations with the U.S. could be nearing a resolution as a top executive of Chinese high-tech giant Huawei will reportedly testify virtually to a federal court in New York.

Republican lawmakers on Friday demanded the Biden administration reveal how many Afghan evacuees have already been charged with crimes in the U.S. after federal prosecutors revealed two cases in Wisconsin involving allegations of spousal abuse and attempted sexual assault of two boys under 15 years of age.

Hawk Newsome, a co-founder and the chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, called coronavirus vaccine mandates “racist” and vowed a series of street protests and “uprisings” if the government continued to bar those who couldn’t prove inoculation from entering bars, restaurants, places of entertainment and other public ...

Former President Donald Trump said Friday that the long-awaited election audit in Arizona has uncovered "significant and undeniable" fraud in the 2020 presidential election, while he dismissed findings that show he lost the state's biggest county to President Biden by more votes than reported last year.

If North Korea doesn’t return to negotiations, it’s fair to assume that the North will lock in its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile arsenals, making denuclearization unachievable and eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula even more problematic.

President Biden on Friday insisted that his $3.5 trillion social welfare bill has a "zero price tag" and the spending will be fully paid for.

President Biden on Friday decried the images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback aggressively handling Haitian migrants, calling the images "horrible" and vowing that there will be consequences for those involved.

Civil rights activist and MSNBC host Al Sharpton encountered protesters and accusations he was “stoking racism” when he held a press conference at the makeshift encampment for Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas.