Новости за 31.05.2022

A new political entity has emerged, organized by those who have faced genuine combat rather than political skirmishes and spats among partisan operatives. Here comes Green Beret PAC, set to charge up the hill -- Capitol Hill, that is.

The former longtime partner of ex-NFL quarterback Mark Rypien has filed a personal injury lawsuit against him alleging years of physical and emotional abuse.

A Denver-based federal appeals court has agreed with a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump and had been rigged by Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook (now Meta) and others.

Even the White House said it wasn't sure whether President Biden lied last week when he told graduates at the U.S. Naval Academy that he turned down an appointment to Annapolis in 1965.

The transgender bishop at the center of a racially tinged spat received the backing of the church district's council Tuesday in the face of the denomination's presiding bishop's resignation demand.

The two finalists may have done their best work just getting to the finals. Chinese No. 1 GM Ding Liren edged rising Indian star Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the finals of the online Chessable Masters 2022 rapid tournament, which featured a strong preliminary section followed by a series of rapid knockout matches.

As we learn more about the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas, things are starting to look even darker than we originally supposed ("Uvalde school shooting response defined by agonizing mistakes, bad breaks," Web, May 30).

New York has one last chance to step back from the abyss of pure insanity -- by winning the 2022 gubernatorial election. And what does the GOP do with this lone chance at redemption? It allows a circus side show like Andrew Giuliani (the poster boy for white, GOP privilege if there ever was one) to inject himself into the race, where he has no business being.

In the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, shooting there is a very strong clamor to do "something" about gun control ("Lawmakers forge ahead in search of bipartisan path on gun control," Web, May 31). Republicans want to preserve gun rights and Democrats just want more government control.

Justice has spoken. Former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann has been tried on the charge of making a false statement to the FBI during the concocted Trump-Russia collusion saga. "Not guilty," concluded a jury of his peers.

A dozen Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to make leaking a draft Supreme Court opinion a federal crime.

Americans generally support greater limits on abortion and it's not just religious voters, according to a new survey from a Southern Baptist seminary revealed Tuesday.

Canada's government announced Tuesday it will allow the province of British Colombia to try a three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs, hoping it will help stem a record number of overdose deaths by easing a fear of arrest by those who need help.

President Biden tried to assure Americans Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the central bank will get control of record inflation, despite the price of gas hitting another high and three-quarters of voters saying the nation is headed in the wrong direction.

Reflecting on his past 15 years as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that his "biggest decision ever made" was preventing the confirmation of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court in 2016.

Top House Republicans demanded answers Tuesday from the Justice Department over President Biden's new pandemic prosecutor, who was tapped earlier this year to take control of investigations into hundreds of billions of dollars the government paid in suspected fraudulent coronavirus-related claims.

A first-of-its-kind museum dedicated to the victims of communist regimes is opening on Capitol Hill.

Swimmer Lia Thomas insisted Tuesday that male-to-female transgender athletes pose no threat to women's sports, arguing that losing races, team slots and scholarships is "part of athletics."

A jury acquitted former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann Tuesday on a felony charge of intentionally deceiving the FBI, a stunning blow to special counsel John Durham's credibility as he pursues possible misconduct by U.S. intelligence agencies probing conspiracy theories about Trump-Russia collusion.

An ongoing spike in COVID-19 infections six times worse than last year is likely even higher than what has been reported as summer begins, according to health officials.

Google search engines' results are boosting China's preferred narratives about COVID-19's origins and human rights abuses, according to a new study from the Brookings Institution and the Alliance for Securing Democracy.

Move over, college and high school athletes. The middle schoolers are now entering the NIL game.

The blue city of Austin wants to take on the red state of Texas by effectively decriminalizing abortion, a move that would protect its residents in a post-Roe v. Wade America who still want or need to receive the medical procedure.

President Biden is scheduled to meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday and will underscore the White House message that the economy is on the right track despite the pain of soaring inflation.

A Republican candidate for a county judgeship in Pennsylvania has brought his election battle to the Supreme Court in a fight that could affect statewide elections and the fate of undated mail-in ballots.