Новости за 30.06.2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Democrats on Tuesday not to mess with the filibuster rule if they win control of the chamber in November.He said eliminating the legislative filibuster by reduc...

Fatal conceit: it is the concept that central planning, with decision-making concentrated in a few hands, can never fully grasp the millions of complex individual interactions occurring simultaneously in the marketplace.It is a fatal conceit to...

Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (D) announced a slate of new rules Tuesday for passengers entering Puerto Rico amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Beginning July 15, all passengers must wear a face mask and take a “molecular” test less...

More than 1,700 veterans from Washington, D.C., are asking the Senate to pass legislation making the District the country's 51st state.On Friday the House passed legislation that would grant the District statehood, marking the first time such...

President Trump has now been briefed on intelligence regarding Russian bounties on coalition forces in Afghanistan, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday.

House Republicans ousted retiring Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) from the GOP Steering Committee, with several lawmakers voicing frustrations that he has not been at the Capitol for votes in the past four months.Rooney's removal from the powerful...

The Republican super PAC the Lincoln Project hit President Trump with a campaign ad released Tuesday over reports of he was briefed that Russia had offered bounties to encourage Taliban-linked militants to kill coal...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Tuesday that Russia should not be readmitted to the Group of Seven (G-7), breaking with President Trump who has repeatedly floated having Moscow attend the group's summits. Asked if Russia...

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday is scheduled to hold a press briefing where she will provide updates on the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic and the protests following George F...

GOP legislators in states across the country are advancing bills that would prevent elections officials from sending out absentee ballot applications ahead of November's election, even in states where those top officials...

In the late spring of 2010, the upper Gulf Coast of the U.S. was hit with an unexpected environmental calamity in the form of the massive and weeks-long Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The pristine, powder sugar sand beaches on Alabama’s coast were...

Two city officials in Boynton Beach, Fla., were removed earlier this month after two Black fire department officials were replaced by white faces in a city mural. Latosha Clemons, the Florida city’s first Black female deputy fire chief and its...

Three Democratic senators on Tuesday urged Facebook to more aggressively purge white supremacist groups from its platform.In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said the CEO has...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hit President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday, stressing the need for a uniform nationwide response."We need real plans, real gui...

An Adidas executive stepped down on Tuesday after calling concerns about the treatment of racism and LGBTQ issues within the company “noise” last year.Adidas announced that Karen Parkin, the head of human resources, would leave the company after 23...

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday said the federal gover...

Top Democrats are requesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper testify over multiple reports that Russia offered bounties to Taliban-linked fighters to target U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J...

Family YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer will not face criminal charges after authorities determined their young son Huxley, whom they adopted more than two years ago from China, was safe in his new home. BuzzFeed News reported ...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he will likely request a classified briefing on intelligence that Russia offered bounties to incentivize Taliban-connected militants to kill Ameri...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday said that he will likely request a classified briefing on intelligence that Russia offered bounties to incentivize Taliban-connected militants to kill American soldiers in...

A bust of King Leopold II of Belgium has been removed from display in Ghent a day after the country’s current king, Philippe, expressed his regrets for Belgium’s colonization of the Congo and the resulting atrocities, The Associated Press reported....

A Democratic House counsel who helped draft the articles of impeachment against President Trump is publishing a new book about the impeachment probe. Norm Eisen said Tuesday his book, “A Case for the American People: The United States V. Donald...

The city council in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, voted Monday to temporarily suspend the city’s police chief over a Facebook post appearing to call area demonstrators “road bumps.”Iowa outlet KCCI shared a video on Facebook earlier this month of a man...

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told reporters Tuesday that bombshell media reports that Russia’s military intelligence paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. service members is “absolutely inaccurate,” making the claim after she and...

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) told reporters Tuesday that bombshell media reports that Russia's military intelligence paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. service members is "absolutely inaccurate," making th...