Новости за 10.03.2021

Crises — and the past year has delivered them in droves — have a way of both spotlighting problems and increasing receptivity to a broad range of solutions. Necessity, it appears, is the mother of reflection. In what has already been a tumultuous...

Top Biden administration officials will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Anchorage, Alaska, later this month, the State Department announced on Wednesday.Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Biden’s national security adviser Jake...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) is requesting the FBI brief Congress on efforts by white supremacists and other extremist groups to infiltrate law enforcement agencies across the country.Raskin, who chairs the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee...

Margaret Grun Kibben, the chaplain of the U.S. House, delivered a searing rebuke of lawmakers during her opening prayer in the chamber on Wednesday, saying they had “missed” the opportunity to rise above partisanship and unite against the pandemic....

The Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution honoring the 100th anniversary of the Hoosier Gym in Indiana, as well as the 35th anniversary of the film “Hoosiers," which was filmed there. The resolution was introduced last week by...

Streaming service Hulu plans to release an extensive new documentary on the GameStop stock controversy next Monday, ABC New...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to discuss the Biden administration's foreign policy priorities during an appearance on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.The House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing is set to...

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) announced Wednesday he will not run next year for the open Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).Ashcroft, the son of former U.S Attorney General John Ashc...

Puerto Rico school officials recorded low attendance amid some school reopenings Wednesday as fears surrounding the pandemic persist.  ...

A TV station in Bangladesh has hired the country's first openly transgender news anchor.Tashnuva Anan Shishir, 29, made her debut on Bangladeshi satellite station Boishakhi TV on Monday, International Women's Day, ...

The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an incident in which three women allegedly assaulted an Uber driver over the company's mask policy. ...

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, reportedly filed a formal complaint to the British broadcaster ITV concerning host Piers Morgan's comments about her mental health in her and Prince Harry's recent bombshell interview ...

President Biden on Wednesday will host an event with the CEO's of Johnson & Johnson and Merck.The meeting comes following a distribution deal for the COVID-19 vaccine that was reached by the two companies....

“The Late Show" and host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night spoofed Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex by having Winfrey interview President Biden’s dogs Champ and Major.The spoof, titled “Oprah with Major &...

Forty House Republicans on Wednesday voted against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest motion to adjourn, yet another sign her party is growing increasingly frustrated with the Georgia Republican's procedural delay tacti...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki will take questions from reporters at the White House on Wednesday.The briefing comes as the House is set to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, a maj...

Michelle Obama is opening up more about the "low-grade depression" she says she has faced during the coronavirus pandemic."Depression is understandable during these times," Obama, 57, said in an interview with People published Wednesday.Citing the...

Goldman Sachs on Wednesday announced a new initiative to invest $10 billion to bolster at least 1 million Black women over the next 10 years. The project, called “One Million Black Women,” will “commit $10 billion in direct investment capital...

A sheriff's department in Georgia has reopened an investigation into the 2013 death of a Black teenager whose body was found inside a rolled-up gym mat.CNN reported that the Lowndes County Sheriff's Department said this week that it would...

The White House COVID-19 response team is scheduled to hold a briefing on Wednesday morning.The briefing is set to begin at 11 a.m. EST.Watch the live video above.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday gave its stamp of approval for Shalanda Young to be deputy director of the White House Office and Management and Budget.The panel advanced Young's nomination on a 7-6 vote...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced plans to eliminate the use of solitary confinement in the city's jail system on Tuesday. "We're going to go farther than any jail system in Americ...

Anthony Fauci, President Biden's chief medical adviser, suggested Wednesday that Texas officials are inviting another surge of the coronavirus by lifting the state's mas...

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) says that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) "ought to be ashamed of himself" for calling aid to Black farmers "reparations.'During an appearance on CNN early Wednesday, Clyburn was asked a Fox News...