Новости за 14.07.2020

President Trump on Tuesday defended a St. Louis couple who went viral after they stood outside their home brandishing weapons as a group of protesters marched past them."They were going to be beat up badly if they were lucky, OK, if they...

President Trump on Tuesday defended a St. Louis couple who went viral after they stood outside their home brandishing weapons as a group of protesters marched past them."They were going to be beat up badly if they...

Former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford has withdrawn his name from consideration to chair a coronavirus oversight panel created by the March relief package.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch...

The Telluride Film Festival, previously scheduled for Sept. 3 to 7, has been canceled due the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said Tuesday. “While there will be those who might say they’re not surprised by it, that this was inevitable, we beg...

Hospitals will begin sending coronavirus-related information directly to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under new instructions from the T...

Testing capacity strained as US cases soar | California backtracks on reopening, governor orders more businesses to close | Operation Warp Speed pushes for COVID-19 therapeutics by early fall | Travelers to NY from ...

The Hill's Steve Clemons interviews SoapBox CEO and co-founder David Simnick. Read excerpts from the interview below.Clemons: Tell us the story of how your company SoapBox went from being a sma...

President Trump is expected to finalize a rollback to one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws Wednesday in a move critics say will be particularly harmful to minority communities.The changes to the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA...

Reta Mays, a former VA nursing assistant has plead guilty to killing seven patients by administering to them a lethal dose of insulin.Mays, who worked at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.V., was convicted of seven...

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday rejected a proposed settlement between convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and several of his accusers, saying the plaintiffs were improperly grouped.In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said the...

Florida reported 132 new coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday, breaking the state's record for the highest single-day death toll. The new fatalities bring Florida's total to 4,409 deaths, accord...

Philadelphia has canceled the city's planned 2021 Mummer's Day parade due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, the mayor said Tuesday.Mayor Jim Kenney (D) made the announcement during a press conference, acco...

This week, something happened that no one could have predicted when Donald Trump took office: three major fossil fuel pipelines -- the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dakota Access, and Keystone XL -- have been stalled or canceled, marking historic...

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday released a $2 trillion plan to address climate change with an emphasis on correcting racial economic disparities.Speaking from a gymnasium in his home state of Delaware, Biden made the case that...

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday released a $2 trillion plan to address climate change with an emphasis on correcting racial economic disparities.Speaking from a gymnasium in his home state of De...

The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a policy that would have stripped visas from international students whose courses move exclusively online amid the coronavirus pandemic.The move c...

Top Republicans are looking to target presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s $2 trillion climate and infrastructure plan, expressing confidence the former vice president’s position on issues like fracking will give them an edge in...

Fast food giant Burger King announced Tuesday that it is changing the diet of some of the cows it uses to create burgers in an effort to reduce methane gas, a major contributor to climate change.  In a Tuesday statement, Burger Kind...

President Trump is expected to give remarks during a Tuesday afternoon press conference on the nation's response to the coronavirus pandemic.The event is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. EDT.Watch the live video...

Three class-action lawsuits were filed against the city of Philadelphia Tuesday alleging indiscriminate use of force against protesters during demonstrations against police brutality that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.The...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Tuesday issues leading to gun violence in her city is a result of President Trump's failure to take action on gun reform legislation. "We're doing an all-han...

Several former employees and board members are reportedly alleging a culture of racism dating back years at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, or NMAfA.In a letter to the first Black head of the Smithsonian Institution,...

Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges accusing her of helping the late financier recruit and groom girls to sexually abuse. Maxwell appeared remotely Tuesday from a Brooklyn federal prison for...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday blasted President Trump's handling of the coronavirus, saying the fact that the president "finally" wore a mask in public over the weekend isn't enough....

An Iowa prosecutor is reportedly resisting calls from a Des Moines Register journalist to provide body camera footage of her May 31 arrest, arguing it would be overly expensive and time-consuming for a misdemeanor case.Des Moines police...