Новости за 09.07.2020

The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced a spending bill that would prohibit military construction projects on bases named for Confederate officers.The provision, included in the more than $250 billion military construction and...

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced Thursday it has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden and will mobilize fo...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Thursday issued an executive order for 13 counties in the state to require face masks and put limits on businesses as coronavirus cases climb.The order will also ban indoor socia...

Online retailer Shein has removed a pendant in the shape of a swastika from its offerings following complaints.The necklace, sold for $2.50 under the name “Swastika pendant necklace,” was removed following an Instagram post by the advocacy...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said Thursday that the health risks of keeping schools closed are greater than those of opening them, amid a push by President Trump to have studen...

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden unveiled his $700 billion jobs plan on Thursday from Pennsylvania, where he offered a blistering rebuke of President Trump's economic agenda and vowed to crack down on Wall Street...

Geoffrey Berman, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on Thursday testified that Attorney General William Barr “repeatedly urged” him to resign before forcing him out in June.Berman told the House Judiciary Committee...

President Trump on Thursday derided New York City as a "hellhole" as he complained about a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the Manhattan district attorney's subpoena to obtain his tax returns."This is purely political. I win at the...

More than 10,000 religious organizations received financial aid through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for a total of at least $3 billion, according to an analysis by The Guardian.The recipients range from individual houses of worship...

The federal judge in the Michael Flynn case is asking an appeals court to rethink its decision ordering the charges against the former national security adviser to be dropped.Judge Emmet Sullivan, of the district court in D.C., filed a petition with...

Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said Thursday that hyperpartisanship in the U.S. has made it difficult to suppress the coronavirus."You have to be having blindfolders on and covering...

A member of the White House press corps has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) said Thursday.The individual, who is asymptomatic, attended briefings at the White House on Monday and...

President Trump is planning to hold a fundraising event in West Texas later this month amid surging coronavirus cases across the state. Trump is scheduled to travel to Odessa, Texas, on July 29 for a campaign fundraiser, USA Today reported...

Senate Republicans are hedging on whether to attend the Republican National Convention next month in Jacksonville as coronavirus cases surge in Florida and other states.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky....

Senate Republicans are hedging on whether to attend the Republican National Convention next month in Jacksonville as coronavirus cases surge in Florida and other states.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — who has "every intention" of...

Michael Cohen, President Trump's former personal attorney, is back in police custody after allegedly violating the terms of his coronavirus-related release, his attorney told reporters Thursday.

The superintendent of the Dallas Independent School District said Thursday that it looks unlikely that Texas's second-largest school district will be able to go forward with fall football games as planned due to coronavir...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a court filing Thursday that it supports GOP operative and Trump ally Roger Stone starting his jail sentence next week.DOJ, which has caught flak from critics who accuse it of being soft on Stone, wrote that...

A Pennsylvania police officer who was seen kicking a seated protester on May 30 will not face criminal charges, Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri announced Thursday, ...

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) will join a conversation on Instagram Live Thursday evening to discuss gerrymandering and voter suppression efforts in the U.S.In a press release, Abrams announced that she would talk...

The Texas GOP is suing Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) for canceling its in-person convention scheduled for next week amid the coronavirus pandemic.Texas GOP chairman James Dickey signaled that such a move was c...

The Census Bureau is preparing to launch its door-knocking campaign, even as coronavirus cases surge in some parts of the country.The agency is about to send 500,000 temporary workers into the field to visit househ...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday said "people will do what they do" in response to a question about the toppling of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore."I don't even have my grandmother's earrings," said Pelosi, who was born in...

Retired Gen. Colin Powell took on President Trump over the president's defense of the Confederate flag on Thursday, saying, "Doesn't he have more important things to do?"Powell, who served as for...

President Trump on Thursday afternoon is scheduled to sign an executive order on the White House Hispanic Prosperity Initiative.The event is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.