Новости за 05.04.2021

Rep. Matt Gaetz said Monday he will not leave Congress and denied that he “slept with” an underage girl, suggesting that accusations against him by political foes stem from anger that he “loathes the swamp.”

The Minneapolis police chief testified Monday that now-fired Officer Derek Chauvin violated departmental policy in pinning his knee on George Floyd’s neck and keeping him down after Floyd had stopped resisting and was in distress.

The city of Dayton intends to file a lawsuit against Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the U.S. Department of Defense in what it says is an effort to reduce contamination coming from the base into the city's drinking water supply.

With a total area of 452 square inches, Mill Ends Park in Portland, Ore., holds the distinction of being the World’s Smallest Park, a title formally bestowed by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1971.

The British government announced Monday that it will offer every citizen in England two at-home rapid coronavirus tests a week.

Joe Bartlett learned late last year he had been awarded the Purple Heart, a U.S. military decoration for service members wounded or killed in action, after over a year of behind-the-scenes work documenting his injury.

Catherine Starr, a voluntary service specialist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tucson, and nine other VA employees across the country were recognized for creating the Compassionate Contact Corps program in their area and were honored by the Department of Veterans Affairs with its ICARE award.

When interpreter Najeeb Aminyar discovered he was eligible for a special visa that would allow him to resettle in the U.S., he applied. The visa process was complex and took 17 months, but he was more fortunate than many others.

Fifty-five of the nation's largest corporations paid no federal income tax on more than $40 billion in profits last year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a progressive think tank.

Florida’s residency requirement has raised concerns about vaccine access for migrant workers, the undocumented and those experiencing homelessness.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumed Monday, with a key witness painting a picture of an image-obsessed Israeli leader forcing a prominent news site to flatter his family and smear his opponents.

Mexico’s president said Monday he won’t get a COVID-19 vaccine because his doctors told him he still has a high level of antibodies from when he was infected in January.

A Marine Corps Osprey tiltrotor squadron has arrived at Moron Air Base in Spain for a rotation in support of U.S. Africa Command’s North and West Africa Response Force, which conducts contingency and crisis operations throughout the two regions.

Two Gold Star mothers experienced a slice of their sons’ best moments, courtesy of Special Operations Command’s elite parachute demonstration team.

Experts describe ways to prioritize and find room for the behaviors you want to keep, and alter your environment for those you want to lose.

As competitive colleges and universities release decisions, it's clear that many students who didn't submit SAT or ACT scores are getting offers.

Nearly 6 in 10 medical workers say they would support vaccine mandates, a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows.

A former MIT research student married to the younger daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Selcuk Bayraktar has been central to Turkey's emergence as a producer of armed drones.

With vaccines now available and COVID-19 cases in decline in some communities, the state, school districts and even parents groups in Massachusetts are working on ways to give seniors something like a traditional graduation ceremony.

In terms of raw job losses, the leisure and hospitality sector has by far suffered the most in Hampton Roads, according to data from the Bureau of Labor statistics.

In interviews with The Los Angeles Times, property owners and managers said that they understood the unprecedented nature of the crisis but that they are absorbing too much of the cost.

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group has sailed through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean Sea.

The massive swing-and-a-miss that is the F-35 — which already has the Pentagon dreaming of a new, new next-gen fighter that might actually be cheaper and easier to use — is just one symptom of a much greater problem: In spending more on war-related costs than the world's next 10 nations combined, the U.S. wastes billions on weapon systems that are ineffective and often not even needed.

Previously, soldiers could only wear their ribbons on the Class A version of the uniform, which includes a jacket.

While a concern to military health authorities, the current surge of cases on bases on Okinawa is creating only a fraction of the hundreds of new cases generated by outbreaks on the island last summer.