Новости за 12.01.2023

Democratic lawmakers insisted Russian bots had overtaken Twitter and were being used to boost Republican talking points, despite warnings by platform executives that the claim was untrue, according to the latest installment of the "Twitter Files."

Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland nominated by then-President Donald Trump, will serve as special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden's home in Delaware and at an office in Washington.

A central focus of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's meeting with President Biden in Washington on Friday will be the intensifying U.S.-Japan security relationship at a moment of expanding threats from North Korea and China.

Florida will seek to provide consumers more flexibility in buying prescription drugs and more information about their costs under a legislative proposal that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he will ask lawmakers to approve.

Fires feeding off modern materials found in people's homes are burning faster and becoming deadlier at the same time that fire departments across the country are struggling to retain and recruit firefighters, officials said Thursday.

The discovery of classified documents in a storage space in the garage of President Biden's Wilmington, Delaware home has brought fresh scrutiny to the White House's refusal to release the visitor logs for the president's private home.

An Indian gaming company is taking a new approach to work-life balance by fining workers who message their colleagues about work-related issues outside of normal working hours.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says embattled freshman Rep. George Santos, New York Republican, is unlikely to have access to anything top secret.

Bradley Beal has been cleared to resume full basketball activities for the Washington Wizards.

It would be a stunning turn of events worthy of pro-wrestling television, complete with major geopolitical implications.

After somehow breaking our supply chain in the middle of a recession, America's "chestfeeding" secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, managed to grind air traffic to a halt this week.

U.S. military personnel reported 247 new UFO sightings between March 2021 and August 2022, officials said in a major report released Thursday, with some of the objects having "demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities" that cannot be explained.

There are many areas in which the coverage by the secular press falls short of what would be called "optimum." Reporting on religion is near the top of the list.

It is not uncommon to witness freezing temperatures in winter in Europe and North America.

In "Escape From Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It," Erica Thompson provides a thorough treatment of the whys and wherefores of modeling.

Experts predict that it will cost American families more money to heat their homes this winter than at any time in the last 15 years.

An art gallery owner in San Francisco is being investigated by police after he was caught on video spraying a homeless woman with a hose.

We found out this week that the people who run the University of Southern California think that the term "field" is racist.

Have you ever wondered what it would really feel like to face the terrors of a communist revolution only to be sentenced to a forced labor camp or firing squad?

Twitter may have found a new source of revenue: selling popular usernames.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries urged House Republicans to take action over New York Rep. George Santos, who has faced increasing calls to resign over lying about his history.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday he is willing to make public unreleased security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Russia has released a U.S. Navy veteran who apparently illegally crossed the border from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad last year and was held there for nine months.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Thursday said that Congress is obligated to investigate President Biden's handling of classified documents, comparing it to the Justice Department's criminal probe of former President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday named a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department's review of classified documents found in a garage at President Biden's home and at a Washington university office Mr. Biden once used.