Новости за 28.02.2022

Target, which already was paying workers a $15-per-hour minimum, is raising its wages further to fill vacant positions in its stores and distribution centers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is an apex predator. He is a pupil of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's tactics, if not a pupil of Stalin's full ideology. As Stalin assassinated his rivals, most notably Leon Trotsky in 1940, so has Putin done with some of his opponents. As Stalin brought the ...

Much is made of former President Donald Trump's tweets, outspokenness, comportment and dietary habits. Mr. Trump had goals when he was in office, and despite many obstacles in his way he achieved most of them in just four years. The world's tyrants were in check, Middle East peace was being ...

Fewer than 14 months ago we had a U.S. president who would have kicked Russian leader Vladimir Putin's behind. Now we are in a mess on so many fronts that not even a newspaper editorial has space to list all of them. What's more, many of the messes President Biden ...

Masks will no longer be required in California schools as of March 12 but will remain "strongly recommended," Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.

NEW YORK — Top-seeded Elina Svitolina, a 27-year-old professional tennis player from Ukraine, says she will withdraw from the Monterrey Open rather than face a Russian opponent at the Mexican tournament unless tennis's governing bodies follow the International Olympic Committee’s lead and insist that players from Russia and Belarus are ...

As often happens among the political class in Washington, we met on television debating each other. I liked him immediately, despite our political and even religious differences.

Concerned parents across the political spectrum from Loudoun County, Virginia, to San Francisco and everywhere in between are taking back control to protect their children from destructive COVID-19 mandates and the radical anti-American curriculum that’s being taught in public schools. Whether it’s questioning critical race theory at school board meetings ...

As the invasion drags on and the bodies pile up, it is clear that the swift, decisive victory Russian President Vladimir Putin hoped for hasn’t materialized. Kyiv continues to stand defiantly as the capital of freedom in Eastern Europe. Russian forces already lost more men in this conflict than America ...

The Senate is considering a House-passed postal reform bill this week that is light on reform and heavy on accounting gimmicks. 
 
It’s been about 15 years since Congress last passed legislation to reform the Postal Service, and it’s safe to say the problems have not been resolved. But legislation ...

Anti-Kremlin hackers are escalating their cyberwar against the supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government, including leaks of personal information and knocking more pro-Russian websites offline.

NEW YORK — CNN's future leader, Chris Licht, told network employees on Monday that he plans to “double-down on what's working well and quickly eliminate what's not.”

Oil and gas are Russia’s largest exports and account for a substantial portion of its budget. Russia exports about 5 million barrels of oil per day and supplies Europe with 40% of its natural gas consumption. High oil prices are of great benefit to Russia and a killer for the ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk hopes to build a 6.2-mile tunnel to help his electric cars get around traffic in the Miami area, according to a report. 

After my father accepted Jesus, our family moved to Wichita, Kansas. Wichita was a bit better than our family’s previous home in Guthrie, Oklahoma, but it was still one of the most racist cities in the nation. “Better” meant that there were no white and colored water fountains, but a ...

“Green” energy is associated with a healthy lifestyle, kind of like a kale smoothie for machines. However, President Biden’s rejection of reliable fossil fuels is triggering unintentional fallout. In the name of climate change, the president’s policies contribute to Russia’s devastating war on verdant Ukraine and heightening nuclear fears. It’s ...

Many political pundits have decided that Hispanics are moving over to the Republican Party. Those pundits are wrong — Hispanics have already made the move.  

The head of a Russian delegation at a U.N. climate conference apologized for his country’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, calling the incursion “unjustified,” Agence France-Presse reported, citing sources who said they heard him during a virtual meeting on Sunday.

President Biden’s approval rating has fallen to a new low of 37% in a new poll that showed voters giving the president poor marks on his handling of the economy.

The laboratories of democracy, a phrase popularized by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis to describe federalism, are in full swing across the country. One policy experiment some states are considering is lowering the legal blood alcohol concentration level for driving by 40%, from 0.08% to 0.05%. Dumbing down the ...

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett made a trip that would have been unthinkable just three years ago when he became the first Israeli leader to visit the states of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. This historic trip was just the latest achievement for the Abraham Accords ...

Law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C., have reinstalled a perimeter fence around the U.S. Capitol “out of an abundance of caution” ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.

In 1963, two years after the Berlin Wall was constructed with Russian support to stop people from leaving communist East Germany, then-President John F. Kennedy delivered his stirring “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech signaling America’s solidarity with Germans. Twenty years later, in 1983, then-President Ronald W. Reagan called out Russians ...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for talks Monday amid high hopes but low expectations for any diplomatic breakthrough, after Moscow unleashed the biggest land war in Europe since World War II but met unexpectedly stiff resistance.

Two Republican lawmakers over the weekend accused President Biden of having “abandoned the capital” in spending the weekend at his home in Delaware while war rages in Ukraine.