Новости за 16.05.2023

Declaring a mission to liberate "Taco Tuesday" for all, Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force Wyoming-based Taco John's to abandon its longstanding claim to the trademark.

Expelling Rep. George Santos from the U.S. House would take a big chunk of GOP votes along with all the Democrats, but a California congressman is betting colleagues on both sides of the aisle have had their fill of the scandal-plagued New York Republican.

The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others while roaming through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood and apparently firing at random targets was an 18-year-old high school student, authorities said Tuesday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday that President Biden agreed to negotiate directly with him on cutting spending and raising the debt ceiling, sidelining Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer and congressional leaders.

An unknown man managed to slip undetected inside the home of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, according to two people familiar with the incident. The U.S. Secret Service is investigating.

President Joe Biden is curtailing his upcoming trip to the Indo-Pacific, scrapping what was to be a historic stop in Papua New Guinea as well as a visit to a Australia for gathering with fellow leaders of the so-called Quad partnership so he can focus on debt limit talks in Washington, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Switzerland posted another shutout in beating Kazakhstan 5-0 Tuesday for its third victory at the ice hockey world championship.

Remember the comedy program "Whose Line Is It Anyway," described by host Drew Carey as the show "where everything's made up, and the points don't matter"?

President Biden has a raw political motive for not wanting to strike a budget deal with House Republicans.

Wall Street Pied Piper Jamie Dimon decreed from his Manhattan perch -- or perhaps from a location in Palm Beach -- that his white-collar minions must once again chain themselves to their desks in the offices of JPMorgan.

Jackson Mahomes, the brother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, grabbed a woman by the neck and kissed her against her will three times earlier this year, according to new information in an affidavit.

California brokerage firm Red Rock Secured was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with a fraud scheme to peddle over-priced gold and silver coins for retirement investment plans.

A former Metropolitan Police Department officer and police union official has pleaded guilty to time and attendance fraud related to his second job at three D.C. Whole Foods locations.

House and Senate negotiators wrapped up work Tuesday on the details of a bill to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Minnesota, setting the stage for final votes in the closing days of the legislative session.

President Biden delivered only the third veto of his presidency Tuesday against bipartisan legislation to reimpose tariffs he temporarily suspended on China-allied Southeast Asian solar panel producers, siding with clean-energy advocates over the domestic solar panel industry.

Disney on Tuesday asked a state judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a governing board appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis to oversee Disney World, claiming the company has been the victim of the "weaponizing" powers of government aimed at punishing it for opposing a law dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by critics.

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins will resign after a monthslong ethics investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general into her appearance at a political fundraiser and other potential issues, her attorney said Tuesday.

From the pandemic to the play-in tournament, not much has kept the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat from crossing paths in the Eastern Conference finals recently.

Before Elon Musk acquired Twitter and even more often following the transaction, the obituary for the social media giant has been written many times.

President Biden will visit the peace memorial in Japan that recognizes the 140,000 people killed after the U.S. military dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the White House said Tuesday.

Earlier this month, Federal Reserve policymakers again raised interest rates but indicated they are prepared to pause any further tightening.

Two poultry workers in the U.K. have tested positive for bird flu, but they had no symptoms and there's no evidence of transmission between people, the Health Security Agency said Tuesday.

Angel food cake is the first thing I remember baking with my mom. She showed me how to separate the eggs, then whip the whites and fold in the flour. As soon as the cake cooled enough to eat, we'd take turns tearing pieces off and shoving the still-warm, light-as-a-feather cake into our mouths.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the government needs new rules to protect people from artificial intelligence tools capable of manipulating people or helping them make bioweapons.

Twitter has made its first acquisition of the Musk era with the purchase of the job search company Laskie.