Новости за 21.07.2023

China's large-scale buildup of nuclear missiles and other strategic weapons now requires that Beijing begin nuclear talks with the United States, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday.

The Justice Department has told Texas that a floating barrier of wrecking ball-sized buoys the state put on the Rio Grande violates federal law and raises humanitarian concerns for migrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

Television ads presenting Jesus as "the Jewish Messiah" are generating an impressive response, the Messianic Jewish broadcaster airing the spots said.

A self-powered semi-submersible vessel carrying four tons of cocaine was caught off of Mexico's Pacific coast, said Customs and Border Protection.

President Biden on Friday announced he has asked CIA Director William J. Burns to become a member of his Cabinet, making him a key adviser on national security issues.

Top Republicans demanded answers Friday over what they said was an effort to punish a senior Border Patrol official who has been critical of the Biden administration's immigration policies.

Hunter Biden's lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Friday, saying the lawmaker reached a "new level of abhorrent behavior" after she displayed sexually explicit pictures of the president's son at a congressional hearing.

President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to be the next chief of naval operations. If confirmed by the Senate, Adm. Franchetti, the current vice chair of naval operations, will be the first woman to head the service and the first woman to serve as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

While Chinese and Russian warships conduct joint drills in what looks like a counter to tightening cooperation between the United States and its Indo-Pacific allies, North Korea's forces remain back at the base.

A new canned cocktail called Gay Water is looking to attract LGBTQ drinkers and avoid the pitfalls of Bud Light's disastrous marketing partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

FBI employees wrongly searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a U.S. senator and a state senator, according to a court opinion released Friday. The disclosure could further complicate Biden administration efforts to renew a major spy program that already faces bipartisan opposition in Congress.

At the heart of the Justice Department's twin cases against former President Donald Trump are two obscure statutes so rarely used that one had only been invoked by federal prosecutors roughly a dozen times in the last 20 years.

The Stanford Law School diversity dean will step down after her much-criticized scolding of a conservative federal judge who was shouted down by student protesters at a campus appearance.

Waves of pink-clad moviegoers passed under cardboard palm trees on the frenzied first day of "Barbenheimer."

Former President Donald Trump cheered Friday when a federal judge set his classified documents trial to start May 20.

Tamarind remains a bit of a mystery to most cooks in the United States, but its sweet and sour pulp is appreciated by cooks from its native range in tropical Africa to India, Mexico and beyond. The pods resemble a long, bulbous peanut, but the flavor evokes some combination of lemons, dates and apricots - which makes it a powerhouse ingredient packed with flavor.

Human remains were inside a duffel bag found Thursday by people feeding animals at a property in Bexar County, Texas. The bag was in the open.

The Republican presidential race is becoming a taunt-fest.

Connecticut Sun stars DeWanna Bonner and Alyssa Thomas are engaged to be married, the players and team announced Friday on social media.

A babysitter was arrested and charged with manslaughter Wednesday, accused of leaving a baby in a hot car for hours earlier that day, causing the child's death.

Nearly 40% of the money raised by the WHO Foundation in its first two years came from anonymous sources, worrying some that donors may be trying to influence the World Health Organization and its role in shaping global health policy with their gifts.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is not letting a China-linked hack of her department prevent her from working with the communist regime and is preparing to make new overtures to Beijing later this year.

The few times George Kirby has stumbled through a subpar start this season, his rebound efforts have been superb.

Brian Harman found himself in elite company through two rounds at Royal Liverpool, tying the 36-hole record also held by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. Even better was having no company at all atop the leaderboard Friday in the British Open.

An abortion opponent who told investigators that anxiety and nightmares about plans for Wyoming's first full-service abortion clinic in years led her to break into and burn the facility pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge Thursday.