Новости за 01.12.2021

MENLO PARK, Calif. — A disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts - including one belonging to a fictitious Swiss biologist - to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coronavirus, Facebook said Wednesday.

An interactive plush Labradoodle puppy with a smart collar and a “magical cauldron” that allows children to brew up furry pets from a mixture of ingredients are among this season’s most-sought-after toys amid global supply chain shortages.

The emergence of the omicron strain of COVID-19 is raising new questions about the still undetermined origin of the coronavirus outbreak and whether it leaked from a Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan in 2019.

Despite North Korea’s ongoing nuclear weapons buildup and provocations, South Korean President Moon Jae-in is trying to convince the United States to declare an end to the Korean War. While the 1950-53 war seems a relic of the past, North Korea today poses a very real security threat. 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments for and against a Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks. The arguments -- pro and con -- are familiar, but there is a greater argument to be made for upholding the law and, should a majority of justices decide ...

Americans live under a governmental regime that openly breaks its own laws. The government not only believes it can do whatever it can get away with politically, not only believes that it can torture its foreign foes and claim the torture is a state secret, not only can bribe and ...

Washington’s own Dave Chappelle, lately much in the news, needs to be careful. If he continues reasonably responding to his critics, he’s going to find himself transformed from a successful comedian to a first amendment superhero.

Abortion is the ending of human life, and as such, is a difficult topic for anyone to discuss. I know this personally because, as a teenager, I once considered having an abortion.  But even then, as I sat in the Planned Parenthood examination room in 1985 as a scared, pregnant ...

One of the most significant challenges facing our nation today is the emerging battle with China. From potential aggression towards Taiwan and Hong Kong to the theft of Intellectual Property, the emerging threat is a serious one. Most importantly, we must take drastic action to ensure that China does not ...

As news of a brand-new and very contagious variant of COVID-19 spread across the world on Friday — prompting the Dow to drop more than 900 points — President Biden was nowhere to be found.

The noise surrounding plastic pollution has been driven by wacky activists who can always be counted on to have radical ideas for addressing any problem. But Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s recent announcement that the U.S. is planning to endorse a UN treaty on plastic pollution shows that sensible policy ...

The words still resonate with me: “You did it the right way.” 

They came from a close friend as we engaged in a conversation about immigration to the United States. The fact that I married a U.S. citizen overseas and applied for residence at the local U.S. consulate before moving ...

One of the few remaining areas of bipartisan cooperation, the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, has finally made its way to the U.S. Senate after clearing the House with strong bipartisan majority support.
 
There was such strong consensus over the necessity of the NDAA in its current form that ...

A team of opinion researchers last week presented results from surveys in five swing states that indicated that President Trump would do well in a race against President Biden.

Before we enthusiastically invest in hydrogen as part of the "decarbonization" strategy suggested by Rich Powell,several mitigating factors should be considered ("Hydrogen investments may be key to global energy competitiveness for U.S.," Web, Nov. 23).

Human rights lawyers Francois Zimeray and Jessica Finelle have filed a complaint with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention alleging "serious violations of Ghislaine Maxwell's defence rights and presumption of innocence." The decision to incarcerate Ms. Maxwell for over 500 days in isolation certainly strikes me as of ...

Recently we have seen three high-profile cases in which prosecutor decisions have been proven badly wrong. In Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse, seriously overcharged in the opinion of many legal experts, was found not guilty of every single charge. In Georgia, prosecutors initially decided not to bring a single charge in the ...