Новости за 20.12.2021

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday dismissed talk of a personal spat between President Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin, insisting the president sees the West Virginia Democrat as “a longtime friend.”

Homeland Security announced Monday it will re-start construction on President Trump’s border wall, moving to plug “gaps” left in place after President Biden ordered all work to stop on his first day.

In Chicago, the dead vote. In Connecticut, they get elected to the United States Senate.

Members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at Emory University might deck their indoor halls with boughs of holly, but placing a Christmas wreath and garland on the frat house exterior did not make school officials the least bit jolly.

The Defense Department on Monday issued long-awaited rules to identify and root out political extremism in the armed forces, specifically zeroing in on social media and giving new guidance to commanders who will be responsible for policing their units.

A Russian accused of computer hacking as part of an illegal trading scheme was extradited from Switzerland to the U.S., the Justice Department said Monday.

The collapse of Democrats' social welfare bill at the hands of Sen. Joe Manchin III has renewed the call by some liberals for abolishing the Senate's constitutional design of two votes per state and replacing it with something more like the House, where more populous states have greater influence.

Former President Donald Trump revealed over the weekend that he had received a COVID-19 booster shot and chastised supporters who booed over the revelation.

LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has decided not to spend Christmas at the royal Sandringham estate in eastern England amid concerns about the fast-spreading omicron variant.

Thousands of new cars are piling up at manufacturers’ lots, the price of electric toothbrushes has surged, coffee machines have disappeared from store shelves and Apple has drastically cut its iPhone production.

Television actor Jussie Smollett was recently convicted of five felonies. A jury found him guilty for making false reports to police in January 2019 that he was a victim of a hate crime. His penalty for the convictions will be decided in early 2022. Who exactly is Jussie Smollett, and ...

Television actor Jussie Smollet was recently convicted of five felonies. A jury found him guilty for making false reports to police in January 2019 that he was a victim of a hate crime. His penalty for the convictions will be decided in early 2022. Who exactly is Jussie Smollet, and ...

Black fathers get a bad rap.

Society has painted us with a broad brush, stereotyping us as missing in action and unresponsive to our children’s needs. At times, we’ve been dubbed as uninterested in our children’s everyday lives.

Dads, we know that is far from the truth. It’s time to ...

Inflation is out of control in President Joe Biden’s economy, and the Democrat $5 trillion socialist tax-and-spend bill will make this problem worse. Thank goodness, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia recognized this and said he was a no-vote on the bill.

CHICAGO — Prosecutors' handling of the initial case against former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett represented a “major failure of operations" by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, according to the special prosecutor appointed to review it.

During a debate with George H.W. Bush in New Hampshire in 1980, the moderator asked that Ronald Reagan’s microphone be “turned off for the moment.” Reagan was angry and said something that might be applied to the failure of the Biden administration to use materials lying unused in Texas paid ...

Former vice presidential contender and ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin, speaking from Phoenix, Arizona, on America’s coronavirus chaos, called out the flip-flopping nature of Anthony Fauci’s science, the failure of the medical community to talk up natural immunity and the unconstitutional, unlawful aspects of a vaccine mandate.

Former President Trump is licking his chops over the prospect of a rematch with Hillary Clinton in the 2024 presidential race.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday he tested positive for the coronavirus as part of routine testing, joining members of Congress on the roster of high-profile politicians who caught the pathogen amid a winter surge.

D.C. police are investigating four fatal shootings Monday, as the nation’s capital continues to grapple with deadly gun violence ahead of the new year.

The federal government’s coronavirus spending spree turned out to be a snow job — literally.

It is hardly an overstatement that the right to choose leaders in fair elections is the cornerstone of democracy. Without it, the process of voting is an exercise in futility. Nonetheless, certain activists are attempting to weaken the nation’s election-integrity laws by recasting them as voter suppression. Democracy’s antagonists are, ...

By most counts, 2021 turned out to be another miserable year. COVID-19 is still with us, inflation soared, the foreign policy establishment got everything wrong, particularly, Afghanistan, and on some days, President Biden appears to have a vague understanding that he is president. But here we are at year’s end, ...

The World Economic Forum said Monday it is postponing its high-profile annual meeting in Davos, the latest sign that omicron is upending winter plans of even the rich and well-connected.

Last month in Glasgow, world leaders from nearly 200 countries agreed to increase national ambitions to reduce near-term carbon dioxide emissions while reiterating the long-term focus of achieving net-zero targets around mid-century. To meet those targets, we’re going to need all options, including nuclear power, which is one of the ...