Новости за 26.10.2017

The United States military had been seeking the authority to arm its drones in Niger before the recent ambush of US forces there, three defense officials tell CNN. The military is still seeking the authority to arm the drones in the wake of the ISIS attack, the officials added, with one saying the effort has […]

Here’s a stat that shows the Fox News presidency in action: President Trump has granted 19 interviews this year to Fox News employees. Interview No. 19 was with Lou Dobbs at the White House on Wednesday. Dobbs is one of Trump’s biggest boosters in the media, consistently promoting the President’s agenda. No other media outlet […]

No, they won’t! Well, um… maybe they might. That’s about where things stand on the question of whether lawmakers drafting a tax reform bill will propose changes to 401(k) contribution limits or the tax incentive you get for saving in a 401(k). To hear President Trump tell it on Monday, they absolutely positively won’t make […]

The U.S. government is toughening up the process for renewing a popular foreign work visa. This week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services advised its officers to “apply the same level of scrutiny” to extension requests for the H-1B visa, among other sought after visas. In other words, officers are instructed to review requests for renewal […]

The US military conducted two airstrikes targeting ISIS in Yemen on Wednesday, killing nine ISIS militants, according to US Central Command, which oversees US troops in the region. The two strikes hit ISIS vehicles and took place in al Bayda Governorate in Yemen. This is only the second time the US has targeted ISIS in […]

After months of meetings behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, Ivanka Trump took the podium Wednesday in the Capitol’s Lyndon Baines Johnson Room to make a public pitch on tax reform, which she called “critically important.” “Today, the vast majority of American homes are dual income. Our tax code has to recognize and support this […]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Wednesday to recommend the use of a third “booster” shot of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine during outbreaks of the mumps. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus spread through saliva and mucus. Dr. Manisha Patel, a medical officer at the CDC, […]

San Juan’s mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz, has called a multimillion dollar contract awarded to a small Montana firm to help restore power in Puerto Rico “alarming” and said it should be canceled immediately. “The contract should be voided right away and a proper process which is clear, transparent, legal, moral and ethical should take place,” […]

Since when was it heroic to give up? On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona vacated the field of battle by announcing that he won’t run for re-election, delivering a remarkable speech in which he attacked the “casual undermining of our democratic norms” and the “coarsening” nature of politics under Donald Trump. Three Republican senators […]

The staffer in Sen. Bob Menendez’s office in charge of assisting the senator fill out his Senate financial disclosure forms described himself as “vaguely familiar” with the rules that govern the forms. Robert Kelly, the deputy chief of staff of operations in Menendez’s Washington office, testified as a part of the defense’s case in the […]

Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, a member of the President’s commission on opioid addiction, has a message for the Trump administration a day before it is expected to declare a national emergency on the epidemic: “We want medicine, not media.” When asked about first lady Melania Trump’s recent focus on the issue and the expectation she […]

Top Senate Republicans are pledging to find out if the White House is intentionally delaying new sanctions on Moscow as the Trump administration is several weeks past a congressionally-imposed deadline to identify top Russian officials involved in political cybermeddling. “We’re going to check into it,” Republican Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign […]