Новости за 07.04.2022

Max Scherzer declared himself “good to go” for his New York Mets debut in Friday's second game of the season against the Washington Nationals, the club he helped win the 2019 World Series.

The chief of the World Health Organization called on Congress to maintain its support for vaccine programs and other global health efforts as lawmakers prepared to skip town without offering any funding for President Biden's latest plan to combat the virus abroad.

Democrats are pushing for a congressional stock trade ban, citing the need to restore public trust in lawmakers.

The White House is still insisting that President Biden has never talked to son Hunter Biden about his far-flung foreign business dealings, despite new revelations depicting more complex and intertwined family financial relationships.

A round of applause, please, for the work of DARPA. Unfamiliar with DARPA? It stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — which has been around for six decades, tracing its heritage back to 1957, and the Soviet Union’s surprise launch of Sputnik 1. The beachball-sized craft orbited the Earth ...

President Biden's sister Valerie Biden Owens tested positive for COVID-19, her publishing company announced Thursday.

Did you actually look at the photographs of the five aborted fetuses obtained by pro-life activist Lauren Handy and turned over to D.C. police on Wednesday? The powerful words of abolitionist William Wilberforce are applicable. “You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you ...

That better be one outstanding burger. 

As the Atlanta Braves kick off their season Thursday night at Truist Park, fans of the 2021 World Series champions will be able to splurge on a bougie burger that costs $151. 

Action Network’s Darren Rovell started the social media storm by tweeting the ...

Some lottery players go with their lucky numbers to hit the jackpot, but one woman hit paydirt after hitting the wrong buttons.

Attorneys for Finnish lawmaker Päivi Räsänen, cleared last month of hate-speech charges in connection with her comments on the Bible and homosexuality, were told Wednesday that prosecutors will appeal the ruling.

For the second time in less than a year, the U.S. Postal Service announced an increase in the cost to send a one-ounce first-class letter.

A new study finds that Americans take COVID-19 health precautions less seriously around their close friends, but that conservatives are likelier than liberals to relax them.

The White House warned of possible legal action Thursday after Alabama's legislature passed legislation outlawing gender-affirming medicines for transgender youth and a separate bill prohibiting sexual-identity discussions in early grades.

Sen. Mark Kelly is distancing himself from President Biden on immigration and other issues as he turns his attention toward navigating what is shaping up to be a brutal midterm environment for Democrats.

New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a state judge Thursday to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and impose a $10,000 fine for each day that he allegedly continues to withhold documents that were ordered to be turned over in the state’s probe of his company’s ...

The insurance giant Geico has canceled its plans to host Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour for a company event and issued an apology after the leaked announcement touched off an outcry over anti-Semitism.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Thursday that he was open to allowing people who identify as “non-binary” to serve in the U.S. military.

This White House is the most corrupt administration in modern history.

There are so many things going wrong — and so many radically bad decisions being made — it would be useless to focus on just one issue for this column. Before we can solve anything, we need to go item by item to understand the insanity, incompetence and destructiveness that ...

Parents are challenging or banning books in school libraries and classrooms more than ever before, with two highly contentious works on LGBT identity the lead targets of conservatives' wrath.

Senators forged a new milestone for America on Thursday, voting to elevate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court.

Tech companies are offering nearly $10,000 a month to summer interns for in-person office work in hopes of luring young people disillusioned by remote jobs.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a COVID-19-linked bill requiring health care centers to allow in-person visitations, as the Republican announced he approved dozens of other measures passed during this year's legislative session.

The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land. All congressional legislation must be in accordance with its articles, amendments and provisions.

I was shocked to hear that radio host Amber Athey was fired from the talk radio station WMAL by the station's corporate owners for making a joke about Vice President Kamala Harris' outfit at the State of the Union. Ms. Athey used a UPS advertising slogan, "What has brown done ...