Новости за 29.12.2020

The Army is planning to alter its hair and grooming regulations in an attempt to be more inclusive, Task & Purpose reported on Tuesday.The changes, which are expected to be announced in January, include allowing some women to wear ponytails...

The shooting death of a 7-year-old Atlanta girl has emboldened a group of community leaders to call for a private security force to supplement the Atlanta Police Department....

President Trump on Tuesday assailed congressional Republican leaders for allowing a veto override of must-pass defense policy legislation and for not backing his election fraud claims, while pressuring GOP members to quic...

The Los Angeles Department of Public Health is urging filmmakers to pause production in the Hollywood area amid a regional spike in coronavirus cases.In a Dec. 24 email to industry contacts, circulated by FilmLA, the county’s nonprofit film office,...

The Los Angeles Department of Public Health is urging filmmakers to pause production in the Hollywood area amid a regional spike in coronavirus cases.In a Dec. 24 email to industry contacts, ...

British singer Petula Clark offered words of comfort for residents of Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday in response to reports that her hit song "Downtown" was broadcast over a loudspeaker by the man who died after setting off the Christmas Day...

President-elect Joe Biden will hold a press conference to deliver remarks on the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday afternoon.The event is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. EST.Watch the live video above.

A Massachusetts GOP leader who has COVID-19 says he most likely contacted it at a White House Hanukkah party on Dec. 9, local station WJAR reported last week.Tom Mountain, the vice chairman of the Massachusetts Rep...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that congressional oversight committee members in the minority can sue to enforce requests for government information.A three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 in favor of a group of...

A statue of a freed slave kneeling at the feet of Abraham Lincoln was removed from downtown Boston early Tuesday.The Emancipation Memorial featuring the former president was taken down by city...

Ceiling fans sold by Home Depot are being recalled due to potential for the blades to detach during use and cause injury, CBS ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to set up a stand-alone vote on increasing the amount of recently passed stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000.Senate Democrat...

Ben Crump, the civil rights activist and attorney representing 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr., called for assault and battery charges to be brought against the woman who “attacked'' the teenager after falsely accusing him of stealing her phone.“...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is signaling lawmakers have the votes to override President Trump's veto of a mammoth defense policy bill as soon as Wednesday."The House voted to reapprove the confer...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is signaling lawmakers have the votes to override President Trump's veto of a mammoth defense policy bill as soon as Wednesday."The House voted to reapprove the conference report on this must-pass...

World Health Organization officials said the world needs to prepare for a pandemic that may be more severe.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, on Tuesday, released their Archewell Audio production company's first podcast episode, which includes a series of audio diari...

The longest-serving state legislator in American history and the last veteran of World War II to hold office will retire next week after more than six decades.Wisconsin state Sen. Fred Risser (D), 93, has represent...

A limited number of congressional staffers are now eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine, according to a memo from Congress's in-house physician. The Office of the Attending Physician (OAP) said it is offering the vaccine to two...

President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen suggested Monday that recent recipients of presidential pardons may turn on Trump and be forced to testify against him due to their lack of Fifth Amendment protecti...

Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) on Tuesday threw their support behind a President Trump-backed effort to increase the amount of recently passed stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000.The endorsem...

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, becoming the latest high-level official to do so on camera in order to instill public trust.“It is relatively painless. It happens really quickly. It is...

The U.S. attorney who was widely criticized for the September announcement of an investigation into discarded Pennsylvania ballots announced his resignation from the Justice Department Tuesday.

The United States sold the ambassador’s residence in Israel for more than $67 million over the summer, The Associated Press reported Tuesday, citing recently published Israeli tax documents.The State Department in September confirmed the sale...

A manager fired from Tyson Foods for placing bets on which workers would contract the coronavirus defended his actions as a “morale boost.”“We really want to clear our names,” Don Merschbrock, who worked as a night manager at the Waterloo, Iowa,...