Новости за 02.05.2024

A leading Muslim advocacy group slammed President Biden's speech Thursday decrying the anarchy on college campuses, saying he failed to condemn attacks on protesters by law enforcement and supporters of Israel.

It was exactly 50 years ago that the liberal post-Watergate Congress, dominated by Democratic big spenders, passed a new set of budget rules called the Budget Reform and Impoundment Control Act.

U.S. team and Gotham FC defender Kelley O'Hara announced Thursday that she is retiring from soccer at the end of the National Women's Soccer League season.

Billie Jean King's $5,000 check sure went a long way for women's sports.

China's national television, print and social media have released the latest pictures of the country's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, designated CV-18 that is conducting its first underway sea trials.

I've recently read and enjoyed three interesting historical true crime books. The books cover Wild West bank robbers, a notorious traitor, a movie star and her gangster boyfriend.

Hamas said Thursday it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on cease-fire talks, in response to Egypt's latest proposal. In a statement, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said he spoke to Egypt's intelligence chief and "stressed the positive spirit of the movement in studying the cease-fire proposal." The statement did not say when the delegation would travel.

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a repeal bill Thursday.

U.S. stocks climbed Thursday to trim the majority of their losses for the week.

Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is calling for President Biden to pardon her of perjury and fraud crimes convictions she got while in office.

The CIA is preparing for an "infinite race" with China for artificial intelligence and top technology, making getting the best tools a leading priority for America's spies.

The judge overseeing a pivotal antitrust trial focused on whether Google is stifling competition and innovation repeatedly indicated Thursday that he believes it would be difficult for a formidable rival search engine to emerge.

Speaking at the George W. Bush Presidential Center last month, CIA Director William Burns declared that Iran's recent unprecedented attack on Israel had "turned out to be a spectacular failure."

Two horses fell and unseated their riders in the second race at Churchill Downs on Thursday, two days before the historic track hosts the 150th Kentucky Derby.

It turns out that nearly half of the anti-Israel student protesters taken into custody at Columbia University and the City College of New York weren't exactly students.

Ryan Mountcastle and Jorge Mateo each homered and drove in two runs to lift the Baltimore Orioles to a series-deciding 7-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday.

Even interns aren't safe from Tesla's recent layoffs.

A British man who pleaded guilty to disrupting a United Airlines flight and forcing it to divert to Maine was ordered by a U.S. court to pay $20,638 in damages to the carrier.

A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges Thursday and was sentenced to life in prison.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers on Thursday tried to put distance between the presumptive GOP nominee and confidential payments to women who alleged affairs with Mr. Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether the state is violating its own constitution with a program that would spend $10 million of public money on infrastructure grants for private schools.

The start of the first civil trial stemming from the 2021 Astroworld festival, at which 10 people were killed in a crowd surge, has been delayed.

A tanker truck filled with gasoline burst into flames in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in southwest Connecticut, closing the East Coast's main north-south highway Thursday and causing major traffic jams.

Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age.

The average time of a nine-inning game is 2 hours, 36 minutes through the first full month of the major league season, down 1 minute from 2023 in the second year of the pitch clock.