Новости за 15.08.2022

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is running for an open congressional seat in the state, with the election coming on Tuesday. Ms. Palin has not drawn this much press coverage since, as 2008 vice presidential hopeful, she appeared with the late John McCain in a pair of red Naughty Monkey high heels, which created both a political and fashion sensation -- as did her nickname "Mamma Grizzly."

The specter of armed federal agents outside former President Donald Trump's Florida home is not an image I suspect many of us are comfortable with.

The Biden administration must take seriously the threat from Iranian "hit squads" intent on killing U.S. officials on American soil, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, days after revelations that an Iranian paramilitary tried to carry out an assassination plot against him.

Like all chief executives, President Biden made a lot of promises on the campaign trail -- many he's since conveniently forgotten and many he's regrettably kept.

The pharmaceutical-innovation pipeline, which recently delivered the life-saving COVID-19 vaccines in record time, may be irrevocably broken.

If you had been aware of the following facts, would you have voted for the just-passed climate and health care bill?

The Democratic Party's so-called Inflation Reduction Act is the work of doubters bent on extinguishing the material progress that has made America exceptional.

Pete Carril, the rumpled, cigar-smoking basketball coach who led Princeton to 11 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, where his teams unnerved formidable opponents and rattled March Madness with old-school fundamentals, died Monday. He was 92.

Kraft Heinz is recalling thousands of pouches of Capri Sun after some cleaning solution accidentally mixed with the juice on a production line.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- President Biden is spending his August vacation in South Carolina, an early 2024 primary state and the stomping ground of key ally Rep. James Clyburn, which suggests the president is already thinking about his reelection campaign.

Alex Wagner knows her new prime-time perch on MSNBC is an unorthodox arrangement. But she's determined to make the most of it.

A federal court has blocked the Biden administration's attempt to exclude fertility-awareness methods from the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate in a win for advocates of natural family planning.

President Biden will sign into law his $430 billion tax, healthcare, and climate bill on Tuesday at the White House.

Minneapolis Public Schools will lay off or reassign white teachers before taking the same action with "educators of color" if cuts are needed, according to a new report.

A metal object believed to have fallen from a trans-Atlantic jet came crashing down outside the Maine State House, landing with a loud bang just feet from Capitol Police worker, officials said Monday.

China's military is continuing provocative military exercises that U.S. officials say are intended to coerce and intimidate Taiwan, a key regional ally.

The FTC, an independent agency now chaired by one of President Biden's appointees, is picking fights with Capitol Hill and Big Tech as it looks to assert its influence on crucial tech and privacy issues.

A Republican senator is demanding answers from the Biden administration after a federal agency allowed ICE to eliminate the labor union for thousands of employees, leaving them working without a collective bargaining agreement.

Former President Donald Trump and the Biden administration traded shots Monday over who bore the most blame for last year's Afghanistan collapse, the deaths of 13 American troops and the abandonment of tens of thousands of Afghans who had been promised a safe place but who were abandoned by the U.S. withdrawal.

The man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie is a 24-year-old born to Lebanese parents who reportedly became radicalized and withdrawn after a month-long trip to the Middle East in 2018.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- President Biden ignored the first anniversary of the Taliban's Afghanistan takeover Monday, instead relaxing on vacation with no public appearances or statements calling attention to his administration's foreign policy blunder.

America hangs in the balance -- a mere breath in the course of human history and yet a nation that changed the course of it altogether.

People were fired from their jobs, prevented from participating in everyday-life activities and denied medical care -- all for failure to show proof that they received an mRNA shot they didn't want, as required by a mandate euphemistically referred to as "CDC guidance." So much for "My body, my choice."

In "Bear hunting in Mar-a-Lago" (Web, Aug. 9), Charles Hurt writes, "If you are going to shoot a grizzly bear, you better kill it."

In his robotic, sanctimonious, no-questions-taken press conference last weekend, Attorney Gen. Merrick Garland said the Justice Department had no alternative to its unannounced, dawn-to-moonlight raid on Mar-a-Lago ("Attorney general's attempts to defend Trump raid fail to quiet GOP attacks," Web, Aug. 14). The urgency, he implied, was too great for any alternative, such as issuing a subpoena or working with the Trump staff.