Новости за 17.07.2022

Good things, it turns out, apparently don't come in threes. Despite Beal staying with the Wizards on a massive five-year, $250 million deal and the Commanders locking up star receiver Terry McLaurin, it increasingly appears that Soto won't become the latest homegrown star to stay in the District. And that's baffling when factoring in that Soto is arguably the most popular athlete in town, or at least close to Alex Ovechkin.

Juan Soto and Victor Robles homered, and the Washington Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves 7-3 Sunday to snap a nine-game losing streak.

Sen. Bernie Sanders criticized President Biden on Sunday for traveling to Saudi Arabia to rekindle diplomatic relations and to request that the OPEC leader produce more oil to blunt high gasoline prices.

Jasper Philipsen of Belgium braved a heat wave to win the 15th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint on Sunday as Jonas Vingegaard kept the leader's yellow jersey.

The dejection, disappointment and dreariness that was the first half of the 2022 season certainly warrants a respite from thinking about the current state of the franchise. But the next four days likely won't provide that for anyone watching coverage of the All-Star festivities.

What may be the final part of the franchise that introduced movie audiences to quirky magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives on the 4K disc format in "Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore."

A Marine who was in Afghanistan when that country fell to the Taliban and who now lives in Texas told lawmakers he's seen more dead bodies from migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border than he did during his tour of duty.

You know, things haven't always been this crazy.

This week, as the headlines in the news were laden with more and more evidence of a world gone mad, the grand prize for the "Best Fiddler While Rome Burns" award goes to Presbyterian minister Heath Rada.

Now that we are down to a little more than two months before reconciliation expires, it looks like the Senate Democrats are finally getting serious -- they are starting to talk openly about raising taxes.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were wed Saturday in a late-night Las Vegas drive-through chapel, culminating a relationship that stretched over two decades in two separate romances and headlined countless tabloid covers.

Cameron Smith charged his way into history on the Old Course, a Sunday stunner at St. Andrews that sent the Australian to his first major by overcoming Rory McIlroy to win the British Open.

Sen. Ted Cruz argued Sunday that the Supreme Court's decision in 2015 to legalize nationwide same-sex marriage was "clearly wrong" and that the high court had overreached.

Iran's hardline Islamist government on Sunday accused President Biden of stoking "Iranophobia" and provoking regional tensions on his Middle East tour that wrapped up over the weekend after visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel.

A Democratic member of the House select committee investigating last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol said Sunday that the panel expects to receive sought-after Secret Service text messages within the coming days from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021.

Nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to mass shooting that left 21 people dead at a Uvalde elementary school but "systemic failures" created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman was finally confronted and killed, according to a report from investigators released Sunday.

A White House economic adviser conceded Sunday that inflation is "unacceptably high" but said it is being blunted by decreasing prices at the pump.

Sen. Bernard Sanders accused Sen. Joe Manchin III of "intentionally sabotaging" President Biden's agenda on Sunday.

The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a four-game sweep of the Freeway Series on Saturday night and cruised back home from Orange County to begin a well-earned vacation.

Bryan Cranston was hoping to get a hit in the All-Star Celebrity Softball game at Dodger Stadium.

An off-duty police officer shot and killed a man armed with a semiautomatic handgun in the area of a Southwest Washington entertainment district Saturday night, the Metropolitan Police Department said.

Travel arrangements are pending for close to 30 Seventh-day Adventist young people and their escorts after their mission trip to southern Panama was threatened by social unrest in the region. During the past week, social and economic protests have paralyzed ground transportation in the Central American country.

Matt Olson and freshly minted All-Star Austin Riley hit consecutive home runs in the third inning, and the Atlanta Braves rolled to a 6-3 victory Saturday night and dealt the Washington Nationals their ninth loss in a row.