Новости за 27.09.2022

President Biden's plan to cancel billions in student loan debt hit what's thought to be its first legal snag on Tuesday with a lawsuit alleging the move is an illegal overreach by the administration that would increase state tax burdens for some who have their debt forgiven automatically.

Tucked inside Democrats' new spending bill is $15.3 million in emergency money for the FBI to investigate Afghan evacuees brought to the U.S. during last year's chaotic airlift.

"You can't replace 19 or 43," Capitals veteran T.J. Oshie said about Backstrom and Wilson. "You're just not going to be able to do it. We're going to miss them, definitely."

Beto O'Rourke and Stacey Abrams shot into the political stratosphere four years ago when the fresh-faced Democrats electrified the party on their way to better-than-expected showings in statewide races in deep-red Texas and purple Georgia. But the pair is struggling to build on those near-success stories in a pair of gubernatorial races this year.

A Sikh student at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte was handcuffed and detained by campus police Thursday over his open carrying of a kirpan, a small dagger seen as sacred in Sikhism.

Pharmaceutical company Biogen Inc. has agreed to pay $900 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to recommend its multiple sclerosis drugs, causing false submission claims to Medicare and Medicaid.

The House Jan. 6 committee has postponed its hearing scheduled for Wednesday saying it couldn't proceed because of Hurricane Ian bearing down on Florida.

The United States will limp into the World Cup, and not just because of all the Americans' injuries.

The fugitive in a Southern California slaying was killed in a shootout Tuesday with law enforcement in the high desert after he allegedly fled with his 15-year-old daughter, authorities said.

Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is urging his Republican colleagues to vote against the sweeping bill to fund the government throughout the end of the year, highlighting funding that is contrary to conservative stances.

The D.C. Council Committee on Transportation and the Environment voted on Monday to advance the Metro For DC Amendment Act, which would give city residents $100 a month on a SmarTrip card.

Philadelphia's Democratic mayor imposed a ban on guns at playgrounds and recreation centers Tuesday after the death of a city worker, another example of a rising tide of violence in major cities that conservatives blame on lax law enforcement.

Attorneys for Maryland's Republican gubernatorial nominee announced Tuesday that they're challenging an order allowing the counting of mail-in ballots before Election Day.

The U.S. Department of Labor found several Dairy Queen locations in Indiana and Michigan violated child labor laws.

The Biden administration was so unprepared for the surge of migrant children last year that it was unable to deliver adequate care, leading some children to experience panic attacks and sending others to potentially unsafe homes, an inspector general revealed Tuesday.

Reflecting the expanding global competition for influence and strategic advantage at the top of the world, the Defense Department has named Iris A. Ferguson as "deputy assistant secretary for Arctic and global resilience," a new position to coordinate U.S. military policy in the increasingly-critical region.

I have always thought that there was something very odd about this COVID pandemic.

A study by Pew Research Center shows that women make up a larger proportion of the college-educated workforce than men.

President Biden said Tuesday that a cap on insulin costs and other discounts for older adults would be imperiled under GOP control of Congress, leveraging a White House speech on health care to rebuke political rivals and win over voters who could decide the midterms.

Rep. Andy Biggs is calling on Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a new documentary depicting chaos and unfettered immigration at the southern border.

At long last, the Democrats' insatiable appetite to pass one monstrous spending bill after another has caught up with them.

Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a state law into effect allowing illegal immigrants to obtain state-issued IDs.

The world has changed so rapidly since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, that it can be hard to keep up.

The California Air Resources Board recently voted to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars and trucks in California by 2035. Such a ban will eviscerate consumer choice, pose enormous and perhaps insurmountable challenges, and lead directly to increased dependence on communist China.

Major League Baseball's postseason has a little more heft this season.