Новости за 31.01.2023

President Biden will announce Wednesday a push to cap credit card late fees and urge Congress to rein in "junk fees" tied to travel, concerts and other industries, the White House said.

Any organization has to have structure in order to thrive and survive. A business needs a business plan complete with a budget, an expectation of necessary human resources, expectation of revenue and much more. Structure provides stability and a framework that can be referenced if the business begins to run into difficulty.

Nonbelievers advocate for religious freedom because the right to believe or not to believe must be protected from regimes that would persecute those who disagree with them, an atheist leader says.

Pondering the meaning of life is practically universal, but conclusions preserved in the human heart are uniquely personal.

With Republicans and Democrats holding slim majorities in the House and Senate, budget negotiations will involve a lot of horse-trading.

"More than anyone else, parents know what their children need," former President Donald Trump said in a message unveiling parts of his education platform for his 2024 campaign.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced plans to block state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory.

Some have compared the cleansing of El Paso, Texas, before President Biden's border visit to the fake villages that Grigory Potemkin is said to have set up along a route traveled by Catherine the Great.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday countered former President Donald Trump's assertion he has been "disloyal" and touted his recent landslide re-election victory in Florida.

House Republicans fired a warning shot Tuesday at Democrats' climate change agenda, cautioning that the days of the clean energy sector receiving major favorable treatment from the federal government over that of fossil fuels is over under a GOP-controlled chamber.

President Biden has decided the coronavirus emergency will be over in early May -- which is a problem for his lawyers, who are about to go to the Supreme Court and argue that the pandemic gives him the legal leeway to forgive student debt.

Former Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Tuesday he won't run for the Senate.

A coin-sized silver capsule containing the radioactive element cesium, used in mining gauges, has gone missing in western Australia.

It is a bit ironic that San Francisco's African American Reparations Advisory Committee recently proposed that the city pay $5 million each to virtually all Black San Francisco residents over the age of 18, pay off educational and other debts, provide an annual payment, and pay reparations to Black people all over the country with drug convictions.

Rep. George Santos on Tuesday announced to the House Republican Conference he would step down from his committee assignments while federal and state authorities investigate him.

It was a double Dutch treat that gave GM Anish Giri a breakthrough win in his home country's signature tournament at the 85th Tata Steel Masters tournament that concluded Sunday in the coastal Netherlands' village of Wijk aan Zee.

The parents of Tyre Nichols, who died after a violent encounter with police during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, this month, will attend President Biden's State of the Union address next week.

Six years have passed since David Meehan told police he was brutally beaten and raped as a child at New Hampshire's youth detention center. It's been three years since he sued the state and almost two years since a broad criminal investigation produced any arrests. Trial dates are months, if not years, in the future.

Florida lawmakers are pushing legislation that would let citizens carry a concealed gun without having to get a government-issued permit.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin reiterated on a visit here Tuesday America's "iron-clad" commitment to South Korea's defense but left two key issues for the alliance -- one pressing, one long-term -- unaddressed.

For months, dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers have been terrorized by a radical pro-choice outfit calling itself Jane's Revenge, but now it looks as if the previously unknown group is entwined with a larger threat: Antifa.

House Republicans say they have the support necessary to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee despite public grumblings from a handful of GOP lawmakers about such a floor vote.

The Republican House majority has much to do.

It's time to introduce legislation to fire federal employees who stole COVID-19 relief money from us taxpayers ("Tens of thousands of federal employees bilked government of pandemic cash," Web, Jan. 31).

Boeing will deliver its last 747 model jet to cargo carrier Atlas Air Tuesday after over 50 years and 1,574 jets made.