Новости за 12.12.2022

The push to block noncitizens from voting in U.S. elections gained steam this weekend as Louisiana approved a ban on the practice.

The Supreme Court announced Monday it would review a second challenge to President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.

Sen. Joe Manchin III said Monday he doesn't plan to follow in the footsteps of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and switch his party affiliation from Democrat to independent, despite the moderate West Virginian frequently butting heads with his party.

The leaders of America's largest Christian organizations increasingly have something in common: they're closer to eligibility for Medicare than their college graduation, a new study finds.

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal and take great pride in supporting political positions that are often inimical to their own best interests, as if sticking pins into effigies of themselves will win them friends among Democrats who disdain them ("U.S. Jews fear collision with expected Israeli government," Web, Dec. 7).

A judge unsealed Monday indictments against former Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler and a school spokesperson in the latest fallout from the investigation into the district's handling of two 2021 campus sexual assaults.

Republican Sen. Mike Braun announced Monday his campaign to become Indiana's next governor in 2024, and said he will not seek reelection to a second term in Congress.

Michael McKenna would be excellent as chair of the Republican National Committee ("Vote for me, Michael McKenna, for RNC chair," Web, Dec. 9).

Charles' Hurt's recent op-ed attacks Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and the Republican establishment for losing the 2022 midterms and exalts former president Donald Trump ("Time for new leadership at the RNC after three straight failed elections," Web, Dec. 8).

Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawananakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii's largest landowners, died on Sunday. She was 96.

Recently, a handful of nominal Republicans were included in a story about what the new Republican House majority should do.

Using smart devices to calm or occupy toddlers during tantrums could stunt their healthy emotional development and make them more volatile over time, according to a new study.

If the imprisonment and subsequent hard-fought release of WNBA star Brittney Griner teaches us anything, it is that Russia should become a country that is off-limits to Americans.

Leaving aside any possible undeclared motives for leaving the Democratic Party, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona has said some things that have needed to be said for a long time.

I am tired of hearing and reading the virtuous condemnations of Donald Trump's dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes ("Democrats using anti-Semitism as political bullet," Web, Dec. 5).

There is an adage: In any organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work, and 80% of the people do 20% of the work.

When I was on Capitol Hill 15 years ago, there was a low-level aide who was viewed almost as a leper.

The Biden administration's failure to secure U.S. Marine Corps veteran Paul Whelan's release is a national disgrace ("Paul Whelan 'greatly disappointed' in Biden administration, was led to believe deal would happen," Web, Dec. 8).

While the COVID-19 pandemic opened the American public's eyes to many aspects of governmental policy, perhaps the most striking was the realization that the nation has become too dependent on China for critical goods.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday helped the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve pack up toys for distribution to needy families before Christmas, praising the giving spirit of America's youngest generation and the military families who they said represent the "very spine of our nation."

A fired Florida health department data manager charged with illegally accessing state computers after she publicly accused officials of wanting to make COVID-19 statistics look less dire has reached an agreement with prosecutors that should result in the case being dropped.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin set a special election for Feb. 21 to fill the 4th Congressional District seat of the late Democratic Rep. A. Donald McEachin, as the field of candidates seeking the post grew Monday.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones blasted the House Oversight and Reform Committee's final report on Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder and the NFL as "politically biased," criticizing the document during an interview with a Dallas radio station

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a gender equality case over Michigan State University cutting its swimming and diving program for women.

The Washington Post has lost 500,000 subscribers in the nearly two years that former President Donald Trump has left office, according to a report.