Новости за 06.06.2022

"Tiger King" star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle has been charged with laundering more than half a million dollars, money federal prosecutors said Monday that he believed to be the proceeds of an operation to smuggle people across the Mexican border into the United States.

If the Boston Celtics want to do a better job of protecting home court than they did in the last two rounds, they will need to start doing a much better job of protecting the ball.

Apple on Monday provided a peek at upcoming tweaks to the software that powers more than 1 billion iPhones and rolled out two laptops that will be the first available with the next generation of a company-designed microprocessor.

U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks is asking former President Donald Trump to back him once again in Alabama's Senate race, a request that comes two months after a feud caused Trump to revoke his endorsement of the congressman.

An Arizona judge on Monday declined a request by the state Republican Party to block most mail ballots for the 2022 election, preserving the voting method used by the overwhelming majority of voters.

What comes to mind in the month of June? Weddings. Vacations (and how to pay for record-high gas prices if you're driving). Graduations.

Federal authorities announced Monday they have obtained a warrant to seize Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich's $350 million jet, as part of America's attempt to deliver financial pain to Russian President Vladimir Putin's major backers.

President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act on Monday to spur domestic production of clean energy technology and also ordered a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels imported from Southeast Asian countries, two measures that received mixed reviews from industry leaders.

Would American voters stand up and say "Enough is enough" if the Democrats took the law into their own hands and had the FBI round up, handcuff and place in leg irons former Trump White House staff -- for purely political reasons? This is exactly what happened last Friday to Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House adviser, when he was getting ready to board a plane for a flight to Nashville.

Slowly the facts known in 2016 are being exposed to the public. Members of the executive branch knew the false "Steele dossier" used against then-candidate Donald Trump was paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign. The critical damage of the conspiracy was the expense to the taxpayers of the meritless Mueller investigation, two partisan impeachments of former President Trump and the harsh treatment of Mr. Trump's family, staff and supporters by the Mueller and executive branch investigators.

A 24th woman filed a civil lawsuit Monday alleging sexual misconduct by Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson, who is also awaiting possible discipline from the NFL.

President Biden's effort to "build back better" has degenerated into "build back poorer" for the American people and "build back broke" for the American government.

The Dominican Republic's minister of the environment and natural resources - the son of a former president - was shot and killed in his office on Monday by a close friend, the office of the president said in a statement.

Recently in Time magazine, American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten argued, "Far-right advocates of privatizing public education are using Big Lies to undermine public schools."

Our allies in the Middle East have demonstrated time and again that they don't need us to advance their security and interests in the region, but the same does not hold for America.

On June 7, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up the nomination of Amanda Bennett to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the $800 million "soft power" federal government media agency that broadcasts news overseas.

A government watchdog group is sounding an alarm over concerns that the Federal Trade Commission, under pressure from President Biden and his Democratic allies, is conducting a secret probe into whether oil companies are manipulating prices.

The White House on Monday slammed the Louisiana legislature for passing a bill that would ban abortions throughout the state, including in cases of rape or incest.

A new online tracking system from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks to guide future masking and social distancing policies by classifying COVID infection rates in U.S. counties as low, medium, or high.

When many Americans hear a generic reference to "The Middle East" their immediate impression may be one of war and/or challenging circumstances. The last two U.S. generations have heard endless tragic stories of American hostages, "death to America" chants from Iran, the war in Iraq and a never-ending dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians. The impression of trouble in the region runs deep.

The Washington Commanders plan on unveiling a mascot next season, but the team won't do so until later in the campaign.

Legal scholar Ilya Shapiro has resigned from Georgetown University Law Center, objecting to its requirement that he undergo racial sensitivity training over tweets critical of President Biden's Supreme Court nomination process.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case brought by a St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters. Husband-and-wife attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey were protesting the state of Missouri's suspension of their law licenses over the incident.

The latest COVID-19 surge appears to be easing in the Northeast, but the Southeast and Mountain West are starting to see hospitalizations rise, as subvariants of omicron pop up around the country.

Several Tampa Bay Rays players declined to wear a rainbow-themed hat for the club's Pride Night, and one major league pitcher thinks their decision is an "absolute joke."