Новости за 21.06.2023

The two-time WNBA MVP has missed only one game so far this season, helping the Washington Mystics to a solid start. Elena Delle Donne is averaging 18.4 points, her best scoring output since 2019, when she led the Mystics to their first league championship.

President Biden's top priorities include cracking down on wealthy tax cheats, illegal guns and White supremacist domestic terrorists, and yet his son got a favorable plea deal on two out of three.

Senate Democrats confirmed the 100th district court judge appointed by President Biden on Wednesday, outpacing his predecessor.

Embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has the support of Amnesty International, which condemned this weekend Britain's planned extradition of Mr. Assange to the United States.

Special counsel John Durham told lawmakers Wednesday that FBI agents who worked on the Trump-Russia collusion probe became emotional and apologized when confronted with intelligence that the investigation may have been part of a plan by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign to distract from her use of a private email server.

The owners of a pair of taco restaurants in Northern California were ordered to pay $140,000 in back pay and damages to 35 employees for bringing in a purported priest to extract confessions of workplace misconduct.

Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents on a social media platform, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal felony charges.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff was censured Wednesday by House Republicans over his false accusations about former President Donald Trump's supposed collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Looking back on his own 2021 dive to the Titanic, an early OceanGate passenger says one must be "a little bit crazy."

A Christian school has filed a religious discrimination lawsuit after Colorado officials told it to change campus policies upholding the biblical belief in two biological sexes to receive universal preschool funds.

The daunting search and rescue effort for the Titan is rushing experts and specialized underwater equipment together by land, by air and by sea to find the submersible before its oxygen runs out.

A man who has claimed for years that Google was torturing users with flashing lights crashed a car into a building near the company's New York City headquarters, injuring three pedestrians, authorities said.

The Biden administration is warning private digital defenders not to hack back against cyberattackers, amid a crush of breaches hammering American businesses and citizens.

The excursion company executive who launched the now-missing vessel that was bound for the Titanic's wreckage is being scrutinized for past comments in which he said he didn't want to hire "50-year-old white guys" because they weren't "inspirational" figures.

Deja Taylor, a Black single mother in Virginia, lied on a federal form about her drug use when she purchased a firearm -- much like Hunter Biden did when he bought a revolver.

The Defense Department will now pick up the tab for military families so they can ship their pets when they get sent to a new duty assignment. Under a new policy starting January 1, 2024, service members transferring within the continental United States can be reimbursed up to $500 for one household pet and up to $2,000 for overseas assignments.

House Democrats on Wednesday failed to stop a scheduled censure vote against Rep. Adam B. Schiff for his allegations against former President Donald Trump of Russian collusion in the 2016 election.

"Freedom for me and none for thee" has moved from a mere mantra to a disquieting, freedom-shattering reality in some sectors, with many citizens and government officials flagrantly forgetting the reality that liberty and justice are truly for all.

Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News' popular political combat show "The Five," saying Wednesday that "a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences" made it no longer worth it to him.

Rookie Taj Bradley allowed one run over a career-high six innings, Randy Arozarena and Isaac Paredes homered, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2 on Wednesday to split a two-game series between the top two teams in the AL East.

Twitter owner Elon Musk seemingly made a sweeping policy decision Tuesday by declaring that "cisgender" and its abbreviation "cis" are considered slurs on Twitter.

President Biden this week referred to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "dictator" for the way he responded to the U.S. Air Force's shooting down of a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic in February.

The Nationals placed center fielder Victor Robles on the 10-day injured list with back spasms for the second time this season on Wednesday, a day after Washington starter MacKenzie Gore questioned Robles' effort on a flyball that fell for a single.

Edwin Pieters is searching for reasons why the Biden administration fired him as an immigration judge.

In 1928, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis characterized the values underlying the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution as embracing the uniquely American right, which he called the right to be let alone.