Новости за 03.04.2023

President Biden criticized House Republicans on Monday for their refusal to hike the debt limit without securing spending cuts, arguing that it took 200 years to accumulate the national debt under both parties.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday bolstered his legal team with a white-collar criminal defense lawyer and traveled to Manhattan, where heavy security precautions were erected ahead of his court arraignment and booking as the first ex-president to be charged with crimes.

Italian officials better start pronouncing "bruschetta" correctly or they could face up to a six-figure fine.

Hamline University President Fayneese Miller said she will retire effective next year, making the announcement a few months after the faculty called for her to resign over her handling of an uproar over Islamophobia and academic freedom.

Publishers have put a trigger warning at the beginning of the best-selling 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind."

Ron Rivera can give plenty of reasons why he's more than comfortable with Sam Howell becoming the Washington Commanders' starter in 2023.

An unprecedented attempt to prosecute a former U.S. president is underway with the indictment of Donald Trump.

Countries hostile to the U.S. and others have been meeting with another to devise ways to dethrone the U.S. dollar as the world's primary reserve currency.

There is something that would have made all the difference for former President Donald Trump had he focused on it as his top priority, rather than himself.

The Medicare program was signed into law nearly 60 years ago to provide health coverage (and, with it, increased financial security) to tens of millions of older Americans.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Monday the list of 33 competitive Republican-held or open districts nationwide that it will target in its bid to recapture the House majority in 2024.

The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal from a death row inmate in Louisiana who argues that the state ignored a confession from another inmate that potentially would have taken his death sentence off the table.

Former Indiana Hoosiers coach Bob Knight was hospitalized over the weekend with an undisclosed illness but was not listed as a patient on Monday at two hospitals in Bloomington, Indiana, where he lives.

North Dakota's House lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor's veto of a bill that would have restricted teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use.

Major League Baseball's new rules are working as hoped through the first four days of the season.

A Connecticut businessman who conspired with a now-former state lawmaker to steal federal coronavirus relief funds from the city of West Haven was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for his role in the scheme.

A Muslim inmate at the Green Rock Correctional Center in Chatham, Virginia, is suing for what he claims is the prison's denial of accommodations during Ramadan, a monthlong religious observance that calls for fasting from dawn to sunset.

His caseload has featured charges against former President Donald Trump's company and some of Trump's closest associates in business and politics.

Federal public health officials have identified southern Nevada as the place in the U.S. with the highest number of cases of a potentially lethal fungus that is resistant to common antibiotics, and can be a major risk for hospital and nursing home patients.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Monday accused President Biden of a "dereliction of duty" for failing to confront the chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border and vowed to restore Trump-era policies credited with slowing illegal immigration and the flow of illegal drugs crossing into the country.

A bipartisan coalition of senators is renewing the battle with Big Tech over legislation that intends to give news publishers more leverage to negotiate with major tech platforms such as Facebook and Google about advertising and distribution of news content.

Former President Donald Trump has bolstered his legal team by hiring an experienced white-collar criminal defense attorney to defend him from criminal charges filed by the Manhattan District Attorney.

A college student has been accused of making a threatening phone call to a member of Congress.

If and when Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, now visiting Guatemala, defies Chinese warnings and meets Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California, defense will almost certainly be on the agenda.

House Republicans, irate over the indictment of former President Trump, are threatening to strike back at Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg by revoking the federal funds doled out to his office.