Новости за 30.12.2020

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday pressed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to allow the upper chamber to vote on a House-passed bill that would send stimulus checks of up to $2,000 to most America...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is weighing whether to place Cuba on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. Two U.S. officials who spoke to the Times said that members of the State Department have...

A federal appeals court sent a lawsuit over a subpoena for President Trump's financial records back down to a lower court, further prolonging the protracted legal battle over House Democrats' oversight efforts of the president's personal finances.A...

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said on Wednesday that he will object during Congress's counting of the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, becoming the first GOP senator to back the effort by House conservatives.The decisi...

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Wednesday announced that the United Kingdom will have enough coronavirus vaccines to be able to vaccination its entire population.In a television appearance on BBC, Hancock state...

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it would block imports of palm oil from a second Malaysian company as part of its efforts to crack down on forced labor in the industry.A withhold release order first obtained by CNN stated that U.S...

ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit on Tuesday announced that he will be working from home on Friday during the Sugar Bowl after receiving a COVID-19 diagnosis this week. H...

President Trump called for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's (R) resignation on Wednesday, hammering him for refusing to back up the president's claim that he carried Georgia in the November presidential election - despite his lo...

A United Nations panel on Wednesday said that President Trump's pardons for several former Blackwater contractors convicted of killing more than a dozen civilians in Baghdad violated international law....

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is scheduled to hold her weekly press briefing on Wednesday morning.Then event is scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m. EST.Watch the live video above.

California on Tuesday set a new coronavirus daily death record, logging 442 fatalities, according to a tally kept by ...

A California nurse tested positive for COVID-19 just one week after he received the Pfizer vaccine.The nurse, identified as Matthew W., got the first dose of the vaccine on Dec. 18 and only experienced slight arm s...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has urged state health officials and hospitals to speed up the distribution of its supplies of COVID-19 vaccines in response to a letter from the state's health commissioner indicating that much...

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are set to hit the campaign trail in Georgia ahead of the state's pivotal Senate runoff elections next week.Harris and Biden will arrive in the state...

Texas on Tuesday shattered its daily record for coronavirus cases.The state reported 26,990 new COVID-19 cases, breaking the previous daily record set less than a week ago, ...

Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) have found themselves in a legislative bind, torn between their Senate caucus and President Trump with just a week to go until the elections that will deter...

The Senate appears poised to override President Trump’s veto of a defense policy bill, handing the president a stinging rebuke in the final days of his administration.The issue is likely to come to a head either on New Year’s Day or the following...

The Senate appears poised to override President Trump's veto of a defense policy bill, handing the president a stinging rebuke in the final days of his administration.The issue is likely to come ...

The girlfriend of the suspected Nashville bomber reportedly warned police last year that he was making explosives. Documents obtained by ...

A signature audit of the presidential election results in a key Georgia County confirmed there was no fraud, the third review to confirm that President-elect Joe Biden won the Peach State in November.Georgia Secret...

Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R) died on Tuesday after being hospitalized with COVID-19.Letlow, 41, was first admitted to St. Francis Medical Center due to complications from the coronavir...

Minneapolis will take increased measures to ensure investigations into misconduct by city police officers are carried out properly, ...

The Louisville Metropolitan Police Department is preparing to terminate two officers involved in the police shooting of Breonna Taylor, multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday. ...

Lawyers representing Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Arizona's 11 GOP electors disclosed in a court filing Tuesday that Vice President Pence rejected their request to join their attempt to subvert the results of the pres...

The anti-Trump GOP group the Lincoln Project has released an ad that puts blame on President Trump for the United States's high COVID-19 fatality rate, using his desired border wall as a visual.The ad, which is alm...