Новости за 22.07.2022

People are increasingly getting away with murder in America's big cities, with police saying they're no longer able to roll low-level offenders to get them to snitch on the big targets.

A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for her role in a viral GoFundMe scam that was organized under the pretense of helping a homeless veteran from Philadelphia.

The Biden administration and local leaders are walking a fine line as they play catchup with the surging monkeypox, scrambling to get vaccines and tests to an LGBT community that is losing patience while combatting the idea this is a sexually transmitted disease for gay men.

FedEx is cutting Sunday service in certain rural markets, lowering its national coverage from 95% to 80% on Sundays starting in mid-August.

President Biden made his first public appearance Friday since testing positive for COVID-19 a day earlier, participating virtually in a briefing with his economic team on reducing gas prices.

A new study is challenging the long-standing theory that a lack of serotonin in the brain causes depression, as well as the value of antidepressants that are designed to address the problem.

A school resource officer who shot and wounded a Kansas high school student after the student shot him four times won't face charges because he believed his life was in danger, a prosecutor announced Friday.

Comic-Con audiences got a sneak peek at the new "Lord of the Rings" series "The Rings of Power" Friday in San Diego. Amazon Studios unveiled a new trailer for the show, set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings." Stephen Colbert, a self-proclaimed Tolkien fan, was also on hand to moderate a panel teasing the series on the fan convention's biggest stage, Hall H.

Indiana Republican lawmakers are pairing a proposal to ban nearly all abortions in the state with promises to boost spending toward helping pregnant women, young children and adoptions.

Stephen K. Bannon was found guilty on Friday of criminal contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 Committee, marking a significant victory for the panel as it ramps up its probe of the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Microsoft President Brad Smith offered a dire assessment of world affairs on Friday, pointing to the economy, war and climate as among the troubles putting extraordinary pressure on people across the globe.

President Biden on Friday condemned the attack on Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for New York governor, as an attack on democracy.

President Biden's agenda -- to infiltrate state-run elections with a bureaucratic "get-out-the-vote" scheme -- came about last year when he issued Executive Order 14019.

Stephen K. Bannon's defense team dug in on what it says is clear political bias motivating the government's criminal contempt of Congress case against the former Trump adviser in its closing arguments Friday.

It should be no shock to anyone that Dr. Anthony Fauci caused some confusion last week. This time, though, it was over his statements about his retirement.

Owners of D.C.'s Union Market eatery apologized for a recent email newsletter that included what some claimed to be racially offensive language about Asian Americans.

Legislative efforts to preserve a certain type of bait fish are apparently working -- and it may be part of the reason why so many sharks have attacked beachgoers off the coast of Long Island, New York.

One America News Network (OAN) is set to lose its last major cable carrier when its agreement with Verizon ends at the end of July. OAN and Verizon were unable to reach a new agreement.

Amid skyrocketing crime rates, residents of one Minneapolis neighborhood are crowdfunding to pay for a city program that will give them more police patrols.

There are some things you see in life that you can't unsee. I recently viewed news footage of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar pretending to be arrested outside the Supreme Court building, where a crowd had gathered to protest the court's recent abortion decision ("AOC, Omar fake being handcuffed in protest outside Supreme Court," Web, July 19).

It is ironic that, on the 53rd anniversary of the first moon landing, President Biden would tell the nation that man-made climate change "is literally -- not figuratively -- a clear and present danger" ("Biden unveils executive action on climate change but stops far short of declaring national emergency," Web, July 20). Included in the long list of well-qualified people skeptical of what Mr. Biden calls an "emergency" are Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and at least five other Apollo astronauts.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh is being harassed with the aim of getting him to resign from the Supreme Court so that President Biden can appoint another radical ("Protesters' run-in with Kavanaugh at Morton's steakhouse gets big thumbs up from White House," Web, July 9). These so-called protesters have upped the ante by hounding Justice Kavanaugh when he was out to dinner. Justice Kavanaugh had to leave via an alternate exit.

Florida's Miami-Dade County School Board has voted to ban two previously-approved sex education textbooks amid concerns that they violate a new state law against age-inappropriate sexuality and gender lessons.

President Biden is doing fine with COVID-19, his doctor said Friday, with his symptoms improving after one day of antiviral treatment and basic Tylenol keeping a mild fever in check.

One California farmer is growing green and going green with a new electric, self-driving tractor.