Новости за 27.01.2023

A Maryland man pleaded guilty Thursday to making death threats against Sen. Ted Cruz, the Department of Justice has announced.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to say if top administration officials discussed Hunter Biden's infamous laptop computer during their meeting Friday with Twitter owner Elon Musk.

The interim manager appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice to reform the troubled water system in Mississippi's capital city released a new financial plan Friday to change the way Jackson bills for water and spend hundreds of millions of federal relief funds paying down the system's debt.

Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he takes "full responsibility" after classified documents were found at his Indiana home.

Ronna McDaniel was reelected Friday to an unprecedented fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee after members of the national party veered away from calls for a leadership shakeup following a disappointing midterm election cycle.

Tesla and Twitter owner Elon Musk met Friday with two top Biden administration officials to discuss boosting electric vehicle production, the White House said.

Madison Square Garden's use of facial recognition technology to bar unwanted fans has prompted an outcry from people fearing that New York is turning into the Gotham of a 2008 Batman film in which the superhero had access to a mass visual surveillance network.

Utah lawmakers on Friday gave final approval for a measure that would ban most transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming health care like surgery or puberty blockers.

House Republicans said they stand by Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to end pandemic-era proxy voting, even though just a handful of absent GOP lawmakers will threaten their slim majority.

School guidance counselor Shelly Fitzgerald isn't giving up her court battle against a Roman Catholic high school in Indiana that fired her after learning of she was in a same-sex marriage.

The Havasupai Indian Reservation will reopen its territory and the Havasu Falls adjacent to the Grand Canyon that it owns and operates on Feb. 1, after being closed since March 2020.

"They all lie." It's a constant refrain about our political class. There's a sense of resignation in that sentiment that threatens the survival of our participatory democracy.

President Biden on Monday will open a series of visits to Democratic strongholds to highlight his accomplishments, rally the party faithful and attempt to change the subject from the scandal of his mishandling of classified documents.

Friday, the 27th of January, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The theme this year is "Memory, Dignity and Justice." It's fitting in so many ways, especially when the first victims of the Holocaust are considered.

Less than 24 hours after a human resources director found her on LinkedIn and conducted a 15-minute Zoom interview, Sinoha Rivas received an unreal job offer.

The Biden administration has banned mining and geothermal exploration in more than 225,000 acres of forest in Minnesota's Rainy River watershed, including the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The Michigan Legislature will set aside $200 million dollars out of its about $1 billion in spending for a paper mill in the Upper Peninsula, while also setting aside more money for the state's economic development fund.

For all the sound and fury about raising the nation's debt limit, most economists say federal borrowing is not at a crisis point ... at least not yet.

Video footage released Friday of the hammer attack on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband shows the dramatic moment in which an intruder and Paul Pelosi jockeyed for control of a hammer before the man later identified as David DePape swings it out of frame.

The Justice Department has charged three men as part of an Iran-backed plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses, officials said Friday.

It is not at all obvious that those who run the Republican Party wish their own voters or the party itself well.

I believe there is significant benefit in having a government composed of people who look like the country, and I applaud President Biden for his push in that direction.

The case against Julian Assange is a threat to the First Amendment's press-freedom protections ("New York Times, other newspapers pen open letter calling on feds to stop prosecution of Assange," Web, Nov. 29).

It's not just the lungs. Mounting evidence shows that COVID-19 can invade the heart or spark so much inflammation during the immune response that it weakens the critical organ, raising the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other cardiac chaos.

Two months after undergoing surgery for serious burns, Jay Leno is now contending with a number of broken bones after being knocked off a motorcycle.