Новости за 06.03.2023

The four Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico crossed the border to buy medication and may have been victims of mistaken identity, the Mexican president said Monday, even as the White House remained mum about the incident for privacy reasons.

The Capitals' trades ahead of this year's NHL deadline netted a package of picks and players that MacLellan can now possibly further spin to try and retool around what he called an "older core."

Dr. Bruce Hensel, former medical correspondent for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, pleaded no contest Monday to charges he solicited nude pictures from a child.

Wisconsin voters know how quickly life can change in the wake of an election. In 1970, Republicans controlled both houses of the state Legislature and the governorship.

House Republicans on Monday demanded the IRS turn over information about a left-leaning think tank's $15 million study of a proposed e-file tax return system, saying federal law requires the review to be done by an independent group, not one staffed by former Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton aides.

Former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam may have faded into political obscurity, but his endorsement of infanticide lives on in the commonwealth's General Assembly.

President Biden has announced he will raise "some taxes" in the budget he is proposing this week to Congress.

Reliever Brad Hand is guaranteed $2 million in his one-year contract with the Colorado Rockies and the three-time All-Star would make $11.5 million over two years if he starts this season in the major leagues and pitches at least 60 games annually.

A Hawaiian snorkeling company is being sued for $5 million by a California couple who claim they were abandoned at sea by their tour guides.

The four conservatives on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urged House Republicans to battle the Biden administration's effort to give female-identifying male students access to girls' restrooms and locker rooms, which could include amending Title IX to include "biological sex."

China and Russia have announced they, along with Brazil, India and South Africa, are "working to develop a new global reserve currency" to compete with the U.S. dollar.

House lawmakers are set to consider legislation that will punish federal employees through civil penalties who use their positions to advocate for censoring civilian viewpoints.

Novak Djokovic won't be competing in two upcoming American tennis tournaments after his COVID-19 vaccine waiver was denied.

South Korea's government on Monday announced a new plan to resolve a long-running historical division with Japan and end a complex and emotive spat on wartime forced labor that drove bilateral relations to all-time lows in 2018.

President Biden told us early on that he'd put the green agenda high on his list of things to accomplish. We should have believed him, but because many of us didn't, we're paying the price.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans have given the American people an opportunity to dramatically strengthen the role of parents in the education of their children.

The D.C. Council said Monday it wants to withdraw an overhaul of its criminal code that weakened penalties for crimes like carjacking because Congress is poised to rescind the law under its constitutional authority.

Let us hope that in 2024, after four years under the weakest and worst president ever, the American people will vote for strong leadership that will put America first ("Media speculates on 'vintage' Trump CPAC speech; he sees it as setting up 2024," web, March 4).

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, was vandalized with a spray-painted message that read "Ron DeFascist," ahead of an appearance by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos," meaning people, and "kratos," meaning power -- so democracy can be thought of as "power of the people," or a way of governing that depends on the will of the people.

Lawmakers on Monday urged President Biden to focus as much attention on bringing home four Americans kidnapped in Mexico as he did on getting WNBA star Brittney Griner out of a Russian prison.

Americans have long had a love affair with the personal automobile. A car isn't merely transportation. In American culture, it is a statement of who a person is and what they value. A small two-seat sports car may look great but isn't nearly as practical as a minivan. Which one you choose to drive speaks volumes of your current place in life. The middle-aged playboy may relish tooling around in a Corvette, while the young Dad who coaches Little League may have a strong preference for the van.

The federal government had no lawful authority to initiate a student loan program in the first place ("Supreme Court weighs Biden student loan plan worth billions," web, Feb. 28).

There is no reconciliation without trust, and there is no trust without truth. I know this personally as one of the founders of Mothers of Srebrenica, an organisation of homemakers turned peacemakers from the Balkans.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a case involving a group of atheists who sued a city police department that held a prayer vigil with the community after a shooting that injured several children.