Новости за 07.06.2022

President Biden's embrace of an Obama-era policy of "Strategic Patience 2.0" toward North Korea isn't working, according to a leading Senate Republican voice on foreign policy, who argues the administration needs to take a more active stance on the ballistic missile and nuclear weapons threat emanating from Pyongyang.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Tuesday chastised Fox News for what he called its "cowardly" decision to air its regularly scheduled primetime lineup on Thursday and not offer gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House Jan. 6 committee's highly anticipated hearing on the 2021 assault on the Capitol.

Let us focus on New Jersey. The feisty Garden State is a complex place, with vigorous politics and spirited opinions. Then there is the Common Sense Club, founded by talk radio host Bill Spadea, who holds court on WKXW New Jersey 101.5 each weekday morning from a studio in the state capital of Trenton. His motto is "Save Jersey. Save America" -- and he is vexed that New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has taken an intense interest in grocery bags.

The upstart LIV Golf league has had a stunning couple of days, with veteran stars like Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson spurning the PGA Tour in favor of the new series fronted by Greg Norman.

Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician "Dash" Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as "Summer Breeze," "Diamond Girl" and "We May Never Pass This Way Again," has died at age 80.

A group of high-profile Hispanic investors bought up 18 radio stations across 10 cities in a $60 million deal bankrolled by an investment firm tied to billionaire liberal activist George Soros.

A judge has thrown out a $4.2 million jury award in a lawsuit filed by a transgender student in the Blues Springs School District who was denied access to male locker rooms and bathrooms.

A Baylor University professor has penned an op-ed calling on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate the hundreds of cases of sexual abuse in the state's Southern Baptist churches.

Thousands of workers in the United Kingdom started a four-day workweek Monday in the largest trial ever of its kind.

When President Biden visited a church in Uvalde, Texas, a few days after the tragic school shooting at an elementary school, he was met with a chorus of chants, "Do something!" "We will," he promised.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday that she expects inflation to remain "high" this year, even telling lawmakers that the administration's two-month-old forecast for price increases needs to be revised.

Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey delivered a fiery, emotional speech on gun control at the White House press briefing on Tuesday, sharing stories of the children who died in a mass shooting last month in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.

Cyberattackers have been holding hostage data and computer systems at American businesses, schools and hospitals until they receive digital payment from their victims, making cryptocurrency a key component of ransomware gangs' business model.

Russia must drop its ban on the Jehovah's Witnesses, release the 91 members of the group in its jails, and stop prosecuting citizens for belonging to the movement, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday.

Senate leaders are giving a bipartisan group of lawmakers more time to finish a compromise bill on guns and school safety, even as hopes fade for a quick deal.

The green dream of a swift energy transition away from oil, natural gas and coal (hydrocarbons) is an American family's nightmare -- a nightmare President Biden is determined to ignore.

President Joe Biden's "green" policies have put him over a barrel -- an oil barrel.

On May 26, Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a much-anticipated policy speech regarding the Biden administration's "China Policy."

President Biden met Tuesday with the lead Senate Democrat working to craft a bipartisan gun deal as the talks continued.

It defies logic that we live in an era where our government intentionally makes it easier to procure a crack pipe than baby formula.

This summer Americans are experiencing something special, almost spiritual with the release of "Top Gun: Maverick." It's more than a film. It's an experience that inspires and empowers us.

Solar panel production requires tremendous amounts of energy as well as the use of raw materials mostly available only from China ("Biden will trigger DPA, waive tariffs for two years on solar panels to boost production," Web, June 6). This lack of domestic raw-material availability is driven by the political left's efforts to stop just about any and all mining here in the U.S.

Clean energy's flaw in the plan is that wind and solar deliver their goals, but nothing else. Achieving perfection is the objective of the zealot. The big 'green' falsehood is that a barrel of petroleum provides a barrel of gasoline. Hidden is the fact that only 20% of that barrel is made into gasoline. The other 80% makes byproducts, many of which are plastics and polyesters that compose nearly all the disposables used in our hospitals to maintain high states of sterility.

Instead of a magic carpet ride to Saudi Arabia only to grovel and make a deal with the devil, President Biden should increase U.S. oil production so we can work back toward becoming oil-independent ("America needs its Gulf allies," Web, June 6). We should not be begging our enemies for oil.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee has been "in communication" with the NFL and the Washington Commanders regarding its request that Commissioner Roger Goodell and owner Dan Snyder appear at a hearing set for later this month, a spokesperson for the panel said Tuesday.