Новости за 07.02.2024

Users looking for an alternative to X no longer have to wait for an invite. Bluesky opened to everyone this week and landed over 800,000 new users in just 24 hours.

Mallory Swanson is returning to the U.S. national team, but she's not ready to play in a match just yet.

A strawberry dessert contaminated by her grandfather's heart medication might have caused Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's positive doping test, her lawyers argued at sport's highest court, which rejected the explanation and banned her for four years.

House Speaker Mike Johnson chalked up the GOP's failure to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and pass a stand-alone Israel aid bill to being a symptom of a "messy" democracy.

The immigration overhaul proposed in the Senate seeks to fix that with a $118 billion legislative spending package that would allow illegal border crossings by the millions to persist.

Taqueria Las Gemelas, a District restaurant that received $600,000 in pandemic stimulus money and a visit from President Biden in 2021, has sold its last taco.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday pledged "complete victory" and rejected a deal put forward by Hamas that would have freed all remaining hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in exchange for a lengthy cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.

The Oakland A's are slated to relocate to Las Vegas, with a stadium planned on the site of the Tropicana Hotel. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is standing somewhere between booing and cheering.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is getting flak from other journalists in America and beyond for saying no Western reporter "has bothered" to interview Vladimir Putin. Mr. Carlson said it in a video Tuesday revealing that he sat down with the Russian president.

Master Trooper Da'Von Brame has spent 25 years with the Kansas Highway Patrol and delivered two babies in emergency situations in January.

A New Hampshire man charged with killing his 5-year-old daughter and spending months moving her body before disposing of it has declined to attend the start of his trial Wednesday.

Cybersecurity professionals warned Congress on Tuesday that America's water systems are not prepared to ward off complex digital threats, including from Chinese and Russian hackers.

President Joe Biden is sending several senior aides to Michigan to meet with Arab American and Muslim leaders, according to three people familiar with the matter, as his administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas war frustrates members of a key constituency in a 2024 battleground state.

Las Vegas will be flooded with so many pre- Super Bowl events that Shaquille O'Neal lowered the prices to his popular carnival-themed " Shaq's Fun House. "

Federal investigators say they will determine the cause of last year's fiery Norfolk Southern derailment in eastern Ohio at a hearing in East Palestine this June.

Crews were searching for a Marine Corps helicopter carrying five troops from Nevada to California that was reported overdue early Wednesday as a historic storm continued drenching California.

When a reporter tried to ask White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about President Biden's latest verbal gaffe, the president's spokeswoman decided to dodge and defer, then move on.

Hopes are fading fast to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to America's former intelligence chief, who warned this week that the combination of increasingly provocative behavior from Pyongyang with the near-total loss of diplomatic leverage on the U.S. side has resulted in a uniquely dangerous moment in the region.

Managers at Tesla are asking which positions at the company are critical, sparking fears that layoffs are coming.

It is one thing to opine that former President Donald Trump's actions on Jan. 6 were outside his presidential responsibilities and therefore should not covered by presidential immunity, but that is not what a federal appeals court in Washington did this week ("Trump not immune from prosecution," page 1, Feb. 7).

Nothing can erase the horror and grief that was inflicted on a community by a disturbed boy's savage and murderous assault at his school, but the conviction of his derelict mother for involuntary manslaughter can bring some measure of justice and comfort for those whose lives were shattered ("Jury finds Michigan school shooter's mother Jennifer Crumbley guilty of manslaughter," web, Feb. 6).

Apple's first headset hit the market last week, and already customers are pushing the technology into dangerous places.

As a fitness and nutrition expert, I believe the latest effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fix racial health disparities will simply transfer people's addictions from menthol cigarettes to other products ("CDC targets menthol cigarette use in new ads," web, Feb. 5).

President Biden in a recent presser about the hostage situation and the ongoing Israeli-Hamas conflict said bleaty, bleaty and "movement" and something-something and "some movement," and the ah, the ah, the ah -- "opposition."

The annual "Puppy Bowl" turns 20 this year, well over middle age in dog years. But does the sheer cuteness of it really ever get old?