Новости за 14.12.2021

President Biden plans to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

WASHINGTON — Arizona asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to allow enforcement of a ban on abortions performed solely because of Down syndrome and other genetic abnormalities.

The director of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that 77 countries have reported cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus and that it’s probably in most countries even if it hasn’t been detected yet.

Bradley Beal doesn’t need to read the opposing team’s scouting report to know what the priority is when they face Washington: Do whatever it takes to get the ball out of the playmaking guard's hands.

LAS VEGAS — O.J. Simpson is a free man.

The 74-year-old former football hero and actor, acquitted California murder defendant and convicted Las Vegas armed robber was granted good behavior credits and discharged from parole effective Dec. 1, a day after a hearing before the Nevada Board of Parole, Nevada ...

Statement by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

We note U.S. President Joseph Biden’s readiness expressed at the December 7, 2021 talks with President Vladimir Putin to establish a serious dialogue on issues related to ensuring the security of the Russian Federation. Such a dialogue is urgently needed today when ...

President Biden has responded to adversaries with modest moves to shore up democracy’s bulwarks. China and Russia, though, could easily mistake his intentions for bluff and bluster. Accordingly, the president’s half measures are worthy of two cheers.

Billionaire iconoclast Elon Musk had it right when he told a Wall Street Journal forum last week: “One of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and rapidly declining birthrate.”

For many chess fans, the just-completed world championship match between Norwegian titleholder Magnus Carlsen and Russian challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi was like one of those double-edged positions where your evaluation shifts depending on your mood.

When newly reappointed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says, “We don’t think it’s a good time to raise interest rates, and that’s because we want to see the labor market heal further,” what is he waiting for? The U.S. has a record number of job openings, and unemployment, while down ...

Last week, movie stars Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jennifer Lawrence all hit the “Don’t Look Up” red carpet in New York City for the premiere of their new film, which offers “a humorous warning about climate change, politics and more,” according to filmmaker Adam McKay.

The Washington Football Team isn’t the only NFL squad dealing with COVID issues this week.

Microsoft this week opened a new stripped-down version of its LinkedIn app in China that is specially designed to exclude free expression online, in submission to the communist country’s rules.

Olaf Scholz takes the reins of a Germany in crisis. Looking beyond the coronavirus, the foundations of economic strength are eroding — quickly. Under Angela Merkel, German prosperity was built on superior manufacturing within Europe, and exports of autos, industrial machinery, robots and engineering products and supporting services to China ...

He is alive! Norman Podhoretz is alive, and he agreed to an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s very perceptive Barton Swaim this weekend. He says that many of his peers are now deceased, but not him, and he certainly did not sound deceased. Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol have ...

Testing has revealed that Washington tight end Logan Thomas tore his ACL earlier this month in a win over the Las Vegas Raiders, after an initial MRI indicated the opposite.

The Mississippi abortion case (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), like Roe v. Wade, is about abortion, but it is also about much more. It is not a stretch to argue that both cases are about the American “way of life,” or what it means to be an American. 

LONDON — British lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve new restrictions to curb the spread of the omicron variant, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a major revolt by lawmakers in his own Conservative party who are opposed to the regulations.

Chairman James Clyburn of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has subpoenaed me. His partisan objective is to conduct a show trial that will allow his grandstanding committee to wrongly portray the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic as deficient and flawed.

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Carolyn Burnett is bracing for her first Christmas without her son Chris, a beloved high school football coach whose outdoor memorial service drew a crowd of hundreds.

President Biden’s phone call last Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, may have avoided an immediate escalation in Ukraine. Yet, the U.S. intelligence community is delivering stark warnings that Russia could be positioning itself to storm Ukraine — and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reportedly spooked that Russians and ...

Congressional leaders will hold a moment of silence on the U.S. Capitol steps late Tuesday as the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 nears 800,000.

President Biden scored poor marks with the American people in a recent poll that rated his executive leadership in three key areas: gun control, the coronavirus and inflation.

When the game started Sunday at Ghost Town Field, David was nowhere to be found.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol voted Monday to hold former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress after he twice failed to appear for scheduled depositions.