Новости за 24.03.2023

The Food Safety and Inspection Service on Friday announced a recall of 3,436 pounds of ground chuck sold in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and six other states.

Federal authorities expect to return a 13-year-old boy's remains to his Native American tribe in South Dakota this fall, they said Friday. The statement comes days after the tribe urged for a faster return of the child who died at a federal boarding school for Indigenous children in 1879.

President Biden underscored the partnership between the U.S. and Canada in an address to the Canadian Parliament, saying the two nations are bound by shared prosperity and values.

A gluten-free Reese's Pieces brownie brittle was recalled Thursday because it contains wheat, which contains gluten.

For decades his father was one of the world's most feared dictators. Today, Robert Mugabe Jr. is on bail, pending a return to a Zimbabwean court on a charge of damaging property that could send him to jail.

A House panel on Friday advanced a bill to permanently place fentanyl on the most-restrictive list of drugs, clearing the way for a floor vote.

A federal judge in Washington is threatening to report two attorneys for possible disciplinary action for delaying the trial of a man waiting in jail on charges that he assaulted police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot.

The State Department is beefing up its passport operation in response to soaring demand for U.S. passports.

With the largest South Korea-U.S. spring war drills in six years in full swing, North Korea Friday announced it had successfully tested a new weapons class, a nuclear underwater unmanned vehicle, or UUV, designed to take down targets with a radioactive tidal wave.

Twitter intends to start taking away people's blue check marks on April 1 unless they pay up.

Mexico's president on Friday angrily rejected comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the Mexican government has lost control over parts of the country.

What would normally be a relatively low-key election for a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court has gone national as one of the candidates, Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz, has turned it into a referendum on abortion.

Kirkland Warren was out on bail pending a long-delayed murder trial in Arkansas. But when he was arrested in southwestern Washington state early this month on charges that he assaulted his ex-girlfriend and fired a gunshot into her apartment, he quickly posted bond and was released again.

Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of such schools, including those specializing in religious education.

A student LGBTQ group has sued West Texas A&M University for canceling a charity drag show Monday, arguing the Canyon public campus violated their First Amendment rights.

The immigration deal expected to be announced Friday by U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would end a process that has enabled tens of thousands of immigrants from across the world to move between the two countries along a back road between New York state and Quebec.

People prosecuted for low-level felonies and misdemeanors such as trespassing and disorderly conduct for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol say they have been blacklisted by banks and shut out of social media fundraising services.

The U.S. imposed sanctions Friday on seven Belarusian elections officials, two state-owned automotive manufacturers and President Alexander Lukashenko's aircraft.

In order to deter people trying to skirt paying their fare, Metro is retrofitting gates at 10 stations with saloon-style doors that are, the agency hopes, too tall to hop over or otherwise bypass.

Israel's parliament, called the Knesset, was considering a bill that would outlaw attempts to persuade people to consider changing their faith, including online outreach, mail and any other means. Convicted proselytizers would face up to two years in prison.

Columbus Blue Jackets forward Patrik Laine is out 2-4 weeks after straining a triceps muscle in practice, yet another blow to the last-place team in the NHL that has been hampered by injuries all season.

John Fetterman campaigned amid a wave of health woes, including a stroke that left him for all practical purposes incoherent; won the seat anyway; and after serving only six weeks in the Senate, left in depression to Walter Reed. He's still there. Taxpayers sure are good to this man.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pushed back his departure to China after contracting "mild pneumonia," the presidential palace said in a statement Friday.

Spring is here in the District of Columbia, and so too are the cherry blossoms on the Tidal Basin. D.C.'s Yoshino cherry trees reached full bloom Thursday afternoon.

South Carolina leading scorer Gregory "GG" Jackson II said Friday that he's entering the NBA draft after one season in college.