Новости за 07.12.2021

Back in May, when the NFL schedule came out, Ron Rivera was already embracing for what he called a “round-robin tournament.” It wasn’t hard to see why. The Washington coach saw his team would close the season with five straight divisional games — a stretch that could very well determine ...

U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. cut a deal with Chinese officials to protect its business lines in the country, working with government regulators on rules that would allow the company to operate more freely in the country while supporting key government priorities, according to a published report.

While Instagram prepared to defend itself at a Wednesday Senate hearing by announcing new child-safety measures, the libertarian-minded TechFreedom argued that parents are the ones who need to step up.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday health officials' earliest “inkling” about the omicron variant is that it appears to cause a less severe form of illness, but he cautioned it will take weeks to get the full picture across age groups and different global populations.

Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, limiting service at many key and popular sites.

At least some Senate Republicans appear poised to back legislation creating a one-time exception to the filibuster so Democrats can raise the nation's borrowing limit before next week's deadline. 

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that drew violent protests to Charlottesville, Virginia, will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public art by an African American heritage center.

President Biden on Tuesday warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. would impose economic and other sanctions if Moscow invades Ukraine.

American consumers now prefer shopping on a daily or weekly basis to watching TV news, participating in sports activities and attending group social settings with the same frequency, according to a new report on consumer trends.

Leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees agreed Tuesday to strike from the annual defense authorization bill language that would require women to register for the draft.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is urging Republicans not to support an effort by Democrats to link the annual must-pass National Defense Authorization Act with a maneuver for hiking the debt ceiling.

Editor’s note: This is one in a series examining the Constitution and Federalist Papers in today’s America.

Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen grabbed a stranglehold on his chess title match after Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi allowed his bishop to be trapped and went down to defeat with the White pieces in the ninth game of the scheduled 14-game match in Dubai Tuesday.

It took 136 moves in one game and one fateful oversight in another, but we finally got a pair of decisive results from the title match between Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen and Russian challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in their scheduled 14-game match just past the halfway point in Dubai.

One of my favorite findings about liberals — now called progressives — is that they always go too far. Even when they pursue a noble goal, they almost always take it to extremes and end up headed toward disaster. 

Viewpoint discrimination is an ugly side effect of cancel culture’s prevailing influence in higher education — and it is often guised in overly broad campus policies that claim to promote public health and safety.

Last Tuesday, Erick Tiegs, 16, returned home from the hospital. He was the final student discharged after being struck with an SUV while marching in Waukesha, Wisconsin’s annual Christmas parade last month. He was playing the trombone when he was hit.
 
The band teacher, Sarah Wehmeier-Aparicio, gave credit to ...

The Federal Reserve is in a fix — inflation is hardly temporary, transitory or going away anytime soon. Even if pandemic and supply chain disruptions were to magically disappear tomorrow, President Joe Biden’s swelling budget deficits are making the monetary policy tradeoff between stable prices and healthy employment growth unworkable ...

The Rev. Greg Laurie, an evangelical pastor known for his daily radio broadcasts and stadium-filling outreach meetings, knows what it’s like to face sorrow during the holiday season.

Though regular readers of my work know of my absolute opposition to the school lockdowns we’ve suffered through for the better part of the last two years, I must acknowledge that there has been at least one benefit from those lockdowns — to wit, the education given to the public ...

One of my political detractors called me a “right-wing religious wing nut” this past week. It seems that my conservative views on everything from the right to life to the right to bear arms and the right to self-governance warranted his opprobrium. Implicit in his condemnation was this: “Piper, and ...

As a candidate, Joe Biden promised Americans that he would bring about a swift end to the coronavirus pandemic. Time and again, Mr. Biden told us he had a secret plan to “shut down the virus.” More than 10 months into his presidency, we know those were nothing more than ...

The recently concluded Kyle Rittenhouse case is not the only reminder that prosecutors need to be carefully watched. Over the last 50 years, America’s courtrooms have become a battleground upon which some of society’s most contentious issues are settled, whether they belong there or not.

Orthodox Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, known for “hot takes” on numerous issues, says the answer to global problems of racism, including antisemitism, is a healthy dose of “kosher hate.”

House prices are 20% higher than they were a year ago due to lingering supply chain issues, increased cost of materials and labor shortages. With housing affordability threatened, American home builders are asking the Biden administration to temporarily lift tariffs on building materials such as steel and lumber from China ...