Новости за 10.03.2020

Two rare white giraffes, a mother and her male calf, were killed by poachers in Kenya's Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy, the park's director said Tuesday.Mohammed Ahmednoor said in a statement released on Twitter that the carcasses of the two...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is recusing herself from a Supreme Court case over the issue of “faithless electors” — Electoral College representatives who disregard the will of voters in presidential elections — because of her friendship with one of the...

Republican lobbyist Chris Cox is expected to join the White House as deputy assistant to President Trump for legislative affairs, Politico first reported.He would replace Ben Howard, who left to be a lobbyist. A source familiar with the pick told&...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would strengthen the ability of antitrust enforcement agencies to go after industry giants.The Anticompetitive Exclusionary Conduct Prevention (AECP) Act, co-sponsored by...

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against televangelist Jim Bakker for misrepresenting a “Silver Solution” sold through his show as a cure for the novel coronavirus.The lawsuit, which names Bakker and his...

A coalition of 150 travel and hospitality organizations is calling on Americans to take precaution about traveling while remaining rational on Tuesday.The coalition said it's in “daily” contact with public health authorities...

Nearly one-fifth of all women who die in the United States die from cancer.Even though breast cancer is responsible for more than 40,000 deaths a year, there is still much we don’t know about preventing, detecting and treating this deadly disease....

U.S. Soccer defended itself in the equal pay lawsuit filed by the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT), claiming the World Cup champions’ male counterparts have “more responsibility” and their job “requires a higher level of skill.”In a Monday court...

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) on Tuesday closed its headquarters in Washington, D.C., for the remainder of the week after a recent visitor tested positive for the coronavirus.“PhRMA learned last night that an...

Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee grilled President Trump's nominee to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the government's campaign watchdog, on Tuesday, urging him to recuse himself from any matters involving the president.But Trump's...

One day after dropping out of the Democratic primary, Michael Bloomberg announced he would form a new independent expenditure campaign—essentially a one-man super PAC—to fight Trump in the general election. In just over three months, the billionaire...

• HEALTH. America’s Health Insurance Plans, the trade association representing health insurance companies, recently hired Alston & Bird to work on issues related to the health insurance industry, according to disclosures. Jane Lucas, former...

At least 44 people died from alcohol poisoning in Iran while trying to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, according to multiple reports.“Some of the citizens of Ahwaz had heard that drinking alcohol could help them fight the coronavirus, so...

It’s time to move beyond the notion that copyright and free expression conflict, and that anti-piracy remedies will “break the internet.”This myopic narrative has hampered nearly every conversation about protecting the legal market for creative...

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, is airing ads to ensure that kids are counted in the 2020 census, the TV show announced Monday. The ads attempt to combat the fact that children under 5 years old were the most undercounted...

Meals on Wheels America called on the administration on Monday to allocate funding from the coronavirus supplemental appropriations package toward local senior nutrition programs. The organization, which works to address senior isolation and...

Lost in the news of the deteriorating situation in Syria is the story of a burgeoning democracy that promotes freedom of religion and belief. Obviously, this is not the government of Bashar al-Assad but rather the Autonomous Administration of North...