Новости за 23.02.2022

ADELANTO, Calif. — A small convoy of truckers demanding an end to coronavirus mandates began a cross-country drive from California to the Washington, D.C., area on Wednesday.

Security analysts familiar with internal U.S. government thinking say most of the blame for the Ukraine crisis and Russian invasion this week in seizing two eastern regions rests with President Biden and grew out of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August.

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed an illegal immigrant during a chase through a remote canyon in southeastern Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.

When it comes time to sign your company’s 2021 tax returns this year, you may notice something: It’s a little bit heftier. For that, you can thank Congress. As part of the 2017 tax overhaul, new filing rules impact just every small and mid-sized “pass-through” business in the country.

Gilbert Arenas recently took a jab at a former college teammate, and he may wish now that he hadn’t.

Russia has amassed nearly all the combat power it requires to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, even beyond the regions claimed by separatist groups, a senior Defense Department official told The Washington Times.

After a jury in 2006 declined to impose the death penalty on Zacarias Moussaoui, who had just pleaded guilty to being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, the government announced that another person was the 20th. Yet, that person, Mohammed al-Qahtani, was ordered released from the U.S. Naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...

A Canadian pastor who was imprisoned for keeping his church open during COVID-19 has found common cause with the truckers who have blockaded Ottawa to protest mask and vaccine mandates.

Every state that had a statewide mask mandate, except Hawaii, either has lifted it or will let it expire in the coming weeks as coronavirus infections fall to levels not seen since November, before the omicron wave.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine under several pretexts reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s rationale for invading and annexing Sudetenland in 1938 and his invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland a year later. Then, as now, the excuse was that German-speaking people (then) and Russian-speaking people ...

The criminal prosecution against former President Donald Trump took a major blow Wednesday as two prosecutors abruptly resigned.

"Biden's recurring Afghanistan nightmare" (Web, Feb. 22) notes that instead of doing their duty and resigning, our nation's admirals and generals merely did what they were told to do — knowing that team Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal plan would result in disaster.

Rather than protesting totalitarian government abuses by bringing trucks into a national capital and incurring punitive actions by clogging everything up, it seems to me a far better tactic for truckers would be to refuse to haul goods to those capitals. They would thereby deprive the vindictive creatures who live ...

Moving rapidly along from the sublime to the ridiculous, Canadian Member of Parliament Ya'ara Saks said that when truckers in the recent demonstration signaled one another with a brief "honk honk" of their horns, it actually meant "heil Hitler" ("Canadian lawmaker says 'honk honk' is code for 'heil Hitler,'" Web, ...

For decades, American universities were at the forefront of providing new opportunities for female athletes. As “woke” identity politics have infiltrated academia, colleges have subordinated women’s sports programs and 150 years of progress in women’s athletics to the destructive agenda of political correctness. The most recent Ivy League swim season ...

Many people no doubt believe that Senate Democrat Joe Manchin III is the West Virginian who will have the greatest influence on national policy and the federal government in the coming years.

The Supreme Court cast doubt Wednesday on the way the Biden administration nixed a Trump-era rule pushing legal immigrants to be self-sufficient, suggesting during oral arguments Wednesday that the government was using subterfuge to try to get its way.

President Biden on Wednesday expanded U.S. sanctions against Russia to include penalties against the builder of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline that connects Russia and Germany.

A wide performance gap between white students and black students has persisted in D.C. public schools for generations. Lawmakers can help close this gap today, and at the same time, erase any remaining vestiges of a problem created by their brethren decades ago.

Police are warning Maryland senior citizens not to fall for a telephone scam making the rounds in which a con artist pretends to be a lawyer working to get the target's grandchild "out of jail."

A Minnesota mom told her son that he would receive $1,800 from her if he could stay off social media for six years — and he did it.

A basketball card of the late Kobe Bryant from the 1990s was recently sold for $2 million, breaking the record for the most expensive card of the former Lakers star.

At a time when the West appears to be in relative decline compared to its rivals, the People’s Republic of China is proceeding with its plans for dominating the world. That is not an overstatement. A recent white paper outlining China’s next five-year plan for its country’s space development plans ...

What could be more working-class than truck drivers? Spending 12 straight hours on the road, driving a big rig, isn’t for sissies. And Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to the manner born (the son of a prime minister), with his beautifully styled hair, has the audacity to call them fascists ...

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