Новости за 16.12.2022

Philadelphia mafia underboss Steven Mazzone was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise.

The House committee with oversight on the IRS has scheduled a meeting for next week to discuss how to handle private taxpayer information -- believed to be former President Trump's tax returns.

Sen. Josh Hawley is trumpeting word that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is joining his push to bar TikTok from federal government devices.

The House Jan. 6 committee is poised to make a criminal referral against former President Donald Trump on Monday, but it may not be a slam-dunk win for the panel.

President Biden is making back-and-forth trips between the White House and his home state of Delaware on Friday, racking up costly flight time.

Investigators have yet to name a suspect in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a home near campus last month. But would-be armchair detectives and internet sleuths have come up with several of their own, the conclusions often based on conjecture and rumor.

Yeshiva University said Thursday evening it will challenge a New York State Supreme Court appellate panel ruling that says the Orthodox Jewish university, which requires all students to take classes in the Torah, is not a "religious corporation" and must officially recognize an LGBTQ+ student club to which it has faith-based objections.

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge to Connecticut's policy of allowing transgender girls to compete in girls high school sports, rejecting arguments by four cisgender runners who said they were unfairly forced to race against transgender athletes.

The Biden administration vastly overstated its estimate that employers created more than 1 million jobs in the second quarter of this year, claiming historic job growth when in fact hiring had stalled, according to a new estimate.

A Minnesota man who said he idolized the shooter who killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs and was building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police was arrested this week as he tried to buy grenades from an FBI informant, according to charges filed this week.

The next time you message your doctor to ask about a pesky cough or an itchy rash, you may want to check your bank account first - you could get a bill for the question.

More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday.

China's social credit system where individuals cannot move about freely without showing their green, government-approved checkmarks will come to America's lands on the wings of fear, on the hope for safety and security, on the promises of government to provide safety and security.

The judge presiding over a hearing to determine if a Missouri man's murder conviction should be overturned questioned on Friday if police and prosecutors "were in a little bit of a rush" to convict Lamar Johnson.

Homeland Security has refused to divulge details of its disinformation board for fear of having the materials made public, according to two senators demanding answers about Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' ill-fated effort.

North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that state Senate boundaries drawn by Republican legislators - under which the court permitted this year's elections to be conducted - remain tainted by partisan bias and must be redrawn by trial judges.

Oberlin College has completed paying out a $25 million judgment to an Ohio bakery that won a libel lawsuit against the school after a shoplifting incident involving three Black students.

The American Bar Association on Tuesday notified the Vermont Law School, the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and Florida's Ave Maria School of Law of their noncompliance with bar passage standards.

The flexibility of hybrid work and the luck of the calendar will help drive a surge in Americans traveling from Christmas to New Year weekends this holiday season, AAA announced.

Elon Musk defended his decision to ban people on Twitter that he alleged shared his private location data and acknowledged that the ensuing outrage online is fueling his social media platform.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the latest lawmaker to criticize Twitter CEO Elon Musk's attempts to suspend several mainstream journalists for covering stories about him.

Angelina Jolie and the United Nations' refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades.

Virgin Atlantic will fly the first trans-Atlantic flight with net zero carbon emission next year by using sustainable fuel made from used cooking oil and fat, the company announced Friday.

More than a third of parents say vaccinating children against measles, mumps and rubella should be a personal choice and not a requirement for school attendance, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll.

Former President Donald Trump is lashing out at once-friendly media outlets for reporting on polls that show him trailing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a hypothetical 2024 primary.