Новости за 05.11.2022

Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 19 rail union voted to accept a tentative agreement with the National Carriers' Conference Committee Saturday.

Twitter on Saturday launched a subscription service for $7.99 a month that includes a blue check now given to verified accounts as new owner Elon Musk overhauls the platform's verification system just ahead of U.S. midterm elections.

A Georgia county's election official has admitted failing to mail more than 1,000 absentee ballots to voters who asked for them.

Another local school board meeting is making national headlines.

Former President Barack Obama lent his star power Saturday to Democrat John Fetterman's campaign for the U.S. Senate against Republican Mehmet Oz, saying the stakes of the midterm elections are too high for Pennsylvanians to sit out, and saying the contrast between the candidates is clear.

Rap and business mogul Sean Combs, known otherwise as "Diddy", has agreed to purchase legal cannabis operations in multiple states for $185 million.

There will be two radically different versions of America on the ballot this year. By their choices, voters will tell us the America in which they want to live.

The Federal Reserve has dropped another anvil on the U.S. economy in its ongoing effort to tamp down the raging effects of inflation.

Barack Obama warned anxious Democrats on Saturday that abortion rights, Social Security and even democracy itself is at risk should Republicans seize congressional majorities next week. "Sulking and moping is not an option," the former president said in Pennsylvania.

The head of the Organization of American States is facing growing calls, including from the Biden administration, for an external probe into possible misconduct tied to his intimate relationship with a subordinate.

The security guard at a Giant store in Oxon Hill and the suspected shoplifter shot each other during the deadly confrontation on Friday.

Why do Democrats continue to express their elitist and arrogant views so openly? So -- well, arrogantly? Good question. Here's the answer. They're not so much political pragmatics as true believers in themselves. They honestly cannot accept the idea that Joe Truck Driver is an equal.

Several Pennsylvania groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union have filed suit in federal court seeking to have votes from mail-in or absentee ballots counted even if they lack proper dates on their return envelopes.

The Transportation Security Administration is lowering the price of TSA PreCheck, which gives travelers separate lanes in security lines, the agency announced.

A visitor to Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando went from looking at animals behind bars to being behind them himself after being outed and apprehended as a New York City fugitive.

Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in October, according to preliminary numbers obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that show yet another rise in the level of chaos along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

North Korea added to its recent barrage of weapons demonstrations by launching four ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, as the United States sent two supersonic bombers streaking over South Korea in a dueling display of military might that underscored rising tensions in the region.

President Biden on Friday lamented Elon Musk's Twitter takeover and accused the platform of spreading disinformation around the globe.

Washington Wizards forward Deni Avdija responded publicly to the Kyrie Irving controversy for the first time Friday, telling reporters 'there need to be consequences for actions' after the Brooklyn Nets guard was suspended at least five games for failing to unequivocally disavow antisemitism.

Kevin Durant had 28 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, and the Brooklyn Nets won easily in their first game following Kyrie Irving's suspension, 128-86 over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.

Nike has parted ways with Kyrie Irving.

The House Jan. 6 committee has granted former President Donald Trump an additional week to turn over documents in response to its eleventh-hour subpoena, the panel's chairman Bennie G. Thompson announced Friday.

Five adults were found shot dead in a home in southern Maryland on Friday, according to reports.

The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press will get a $145,000 settlement following a pair of lawsuits filed after an FBI agent posed as a reporter for The Associated Press and created a fake story.

President Biden made a bold prediction: Democrats will defy polls and political prognosticators with big wins in midterm elections on Tuesday.