Новости за 19.12.2020

Coca-Cola will cut nearly 2,200 jobs worldwide, with 1,200 jobs in the United States expected to be cut due to declining sales amid the coronavirus pandemic.Job cuts in the U.S. will represent nearly 12 percent of...

A key federal agency said this week that employers can legally require their workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine and prevent them from entering their workplaces if they refuse.The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday blamed Russia for the massive cyberattack against multiple U.S. agencies and thousands of individual federal and private entities, saying the country was "pretty clearly" behind the attack...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday blamed Russia for the massive cyberattack against multiple U.S. agencies and thousands of individual federal and private entities, saying the country was "pretty clearly" behind th...

Russia has long been viewed as a threat in cyberspace. But after one of the most successful cyber intrusion campaigns in U.S. history, questions are being raised over how the federal government was so completely blindside...

Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sounded the alarm Friday over his concerns regarding the Treasury and Defense Departments' ability to make loans during the co...

Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sounded the alarm Friday over his concerns regarding the Treasury and Defense departments’ ability to make loans during the coronavirus pandemic.Hill on a...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Friday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized reimbursements for hotels in the state that have been used to protect members of vulnerable populations...

President Trump on Friday signed a stopgap funding measure that will keep the government funded for another 48 hours while lawmakers attempt to finalize an agreement on an economic relief bill.Trump signed the bill just after 10 p.m.,...

United Airlines is helping to contact passengers after it was determined that a man who passed away on a Monday flight could have died of a heart attack due to COVID-19 complications, The New York Times ...

The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to shutter its last two consulates in Russia over caps set by Moscow on the number of diplomats that are allowed in the country.In a letter to congressional leaders sent Dec. 10 and obtained...

"Guardians of the Galaxy" trended on social media Friday night after Vice President Pence announced that U.S. Space Force members will be called "guardians."

As President-elect Joe Biden prepares to assume office next month, he is already announcing his plans to reverse President Donald Trump’s legal immigration restrictions. While this will be a tall order by itself, the Cato Institute has published a...

President Trump appointed new members to the 1776 Commission Friday in a final effort to bolster the "patriotic education" group in the closing days of his administration.

President Trump appointed new members to the 1776 Commission on Friday in a final effort to bolster the “patriotic education” group in the closing days of his administration.The White House said in a press release that Larry Arnn, a longtime Trump...

Congress passed a days-long stopgap bill on Friday, hours before the government was scheduled to shut down, as negotiations over another coronavirus stimulus bill stretched into the weekend.

The House on Friday passed a two-day, stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown and provide negotiators additional time to iron out details on a larger funding and COVID-19 relief package. Both parties are still feverishly...

Metro Transit Police on Friday said that an FBI agent involved in a shooting on a train in Maryland on Tuesday fired his weapon “several times,” leaving a passenger hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Metro police announced the finding...

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) is expected to issue an executive order to shut down indoor dining starting Dec. 23 as COVID-19 cases continue to rise around the District, Washington City Paper ...

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) called the second round of proposed $600 stimulus checks for Americans an "insult" as Congress has deliberated for months over an additional COVID-19 relief bill.The representative fo...

President Trump and Melania Trump are seen in matching tuxedos in their final official Christmas photo in the White House.The first lady tweeted the snapshot on Friday as she shared holiday greetings with her followers.The photo shows the couple,...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said on Friday that he will let a stopgap government funding bill clear the Senate after getting reassurances from Senate leadership about a year-end deal to provide coronavirus relief."I have been assured by Senate GOP...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received a briefing Friday from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)  on Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) association with an alleged Chinese spy. ...

A group of doctors and staff at Stanford University's hospital on Friday held a protest to signal their frustration with school officials over the university's plan to distribute COVID-19 vaccines....

President Trump spent the weeks leading up to Election Day boasting of the rapid development of a vaccine for COVID-19 under his watch. But now that the shot is here, the president is nowhere to be seen.Trump was absent when Vice President Pence...