Новости за 03.02.2023

Democrat Lucas Kunce will run against Sen. Josh Hawley next year, painting the conservative lawmaker as being "out of touch" with Missourians.

A trio of men in their 30s and 40s who visited The Eagle, a New York City bar dedicated to the gay leather subculture, were robbed of thousands of dollars in separate heists in the fall of 2022.

The White House on Friday said the presence of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over U.S. airspace is a "clear violation" of U.S. sovereignty and international law, despite Beijing's claims that the craft was not engaged in espionage.

Rep. Victoria Spartz announced Friday she is not seeking reelection to the House or launching a bid for Indiana's open Senate seat next cycle.

Virginia Senate Democrats this week voted down a priority measure for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that would have required student and parental notification about certain scholastic awards.

A bipartisan duo in the Senate wants to make it easier for families of veterans fleeced by financial scams to recoup misused benefits.

After Donald Trump called 2024 soon-to-be presidential rival Nikki Haley "overly ambitious," she took to Twitter to revive a proposal she floated over a year ago that every person serving in public office be required to take a cognitive test.

A North Korean defector, now a prominent South Korean lawmaker, is adding his voice to the growing push for Seoul to seek its own nuclear weapons arsenal, saying the U.S. nuclear umbrella and mutual defense treaty no longer provide dependable protection against the threat from Pyongyang.

An Iowa residential care facility for Alzheimer's patients was fined $10,000 by state officials Wednesday after a woman woke up alive in a body bag at a funeral home.

A major hospital system in northern Florida said Friday it is diverting some emergency room patients and canceling surgeries after a security problem with information technology.

China can deny, dismiss and apologize all it wants -- fact is, a balloon owned by the communist country found floating over Montana sends a clear, compelling and even chilling message to the world that goes like this: America is weak. Weak, weak and very, very vulnerable.

Former top-20 tennis player and U.S. Olympian Varvara Lepchenko's doping suspension for use of a banned stimulant was reduced from four years to 21 months as part of an agreement with the International Tennis Federation after she appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Most people consider murdering innocent civilians in a terror attack to be a terrible thing, but not everyone.

Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic, space-age fashions, has died, the group that owns his fashion house announced on its website Friday.

Some people seem to believe that former President Trump was speaking literally when he made a recent promise to build a "dome" to protect the U.S. should he be reelected.

If President Biden is worried about the dangers of shooting the Chinese reconnaissance balloon out of the sky, I fear that his risk calculus remains fatally flawed ("Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over U.S. homeland," Web, Feb. 2).

An arms control advocacy group is calling on Russia to allow on-site inspections of its nuclear arsenal as part of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that it signed in 2010 and to renew disarmament diplomacy with the U.S.

The first English-language television broadcast of the U.S. men's soccer team in its new media contract was seen by 416,000 viewers on TNT.

The U.N. human rights chief expressed concerns Friday that steps taken by the new Israeli government, the most far-right in the country's history, could fuel further violations of human rights and humanitarian law in the wake of a recent spike in bloodshed in the region.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday abruptly postponed a long-planned weekend fence-mending trip to China after the Pentagon announced it was tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in airspace over sensitive sites in the Western U.S.

A defiant President Biden crowed Friday over "strikingly good news" in a jobs report that showed U.S. employers added 517,000 jobs in January.

The husband and parents of a Ugandan activist decapitated by a swinging gate at Arches National Park in Utah were awarded $10.6 million in damages by a federal judge Monday.

The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for grizzly bears in the northern Rocky Mountains, which would open the door to future hunting in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.

President Biden is facing intense pressure from fellow Democrats to overhaul the nation's police laws after Tyre Nichols' death at the hands of five Memphis police officers, but he's no closer to a legislative deal than when the effort collapsed in the last Congress.

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, after orchestrating the December, 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, would later write in his diary, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Fast-forward to 2023. This seems DirecTV's problem, too.