Новости за 18.05.2021

There are only a few days left before Michelle Obama's uber-popular portrait hightails it out of D.C. for a national tour.Washingtonians have until Sunday — via free, timed-entry passes — to view the painting of the former first lady by Amy...

Bank of America announced on Tuesday that it would be raising its minimum wage to $25 an hour by 2025 and will now require its U.S. vendors to pay employees at least $15 an hour."Bank of America’s increase to paying $25 per hour builds on the...

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and top Senate Democrats will hold a media availability on Tuesday afternoon.The event is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. ET.Watch the live video.

Former first lady Laura Bush is disputing her daughter’s claim that the White House is haunted, joking that Jenna Bush Hager probably heard Secret Service agents "talking down the hall" instead of ghosts. Laura Bush said on “The Kelly...

Veteran GOP pollster Frank Luntz and Chelsea Clinton revealed Tuesday that they both cried when receiving their COVID-19 vaccines.During an appearance on Clinton’s podcast “In Fact with Chelsea Clinton,” Luntz, who suffered a stroke early last year...

In his first joint address to Congress, President Biden said young transgender people are “so brave” and urged lawmakers to pass the Equality Act, which would expand federal civil rights laws to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in virtually...

Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush (R), said he would support former President Trump in a 2024 presidential run, but pushed back on the former president’s claims that the election was stolen.“I think there was fraud and irregularity, I just don’...

A disproportionately small percentage of Asian and Pacific Islander actors and crew members have been included in the highest-grossing films in the past decade, according to a new study released Tuesday from the University of Southern California...

The new guidance from the CDC says vaccinated people don't need to wear masks or get tested for the coronavirus.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday defended the Biden administration’s approach to the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, saying “intensive” diplomatic discussions behind the scenes are the best means of reducing...

Former President Obama says when he first entered the White House, he asked about aliens."The truth is that when I came into office, I asked. I was like, 'Alright, is there a lab somewhere where we're keeping the alien specimens and spaceship?' "...

President Biden is set to deliver remarks at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Mich., on Tuesday afternoon.The president is scheduled to speak at 1:40 p.m. ET.Watch live in the video above....

A Black city council member is alleging that a law enforcement official urinated outside of a funeral home he owns in retaliation after he participated in protests following the fatal police shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in North Carolina.Elizabeth...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Biden is investing in electric vehicle markets because that’s where the future of manufacturing and job creation is.“I would say to any skeptics, anyone who’s questioning why we’re...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday slammed Republicans after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that he would not support legislation to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.&...

Pinterest is vowing to hire more female executives and increase workforce diversity after allegations of discrimination flooded the company.Pinterest announced on Tuesday that it wants to increase the representation of minorities and...

One of the world's "rarest and most-sought after" nonsports trading cards — featuring an image of former President McKinley — is up for grabs and could fetch tens of thousands of dollars at auction.The 1932 item from company PSA was originally...

The nonprofit wing of the top Republican group dedicated to fighting the war over political district lines is filing a lawsuit aimed at forcing the U.S. Census Bureau to explain how it counted people in group settings like college campuses...

District Attorney Andrew Womble announced Tuesday morning that he would not press charges against the police officers who shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr. last month outside of his home in Elizabeth City, N.C., saying they were "justified."“...

The White House formally backed a bill to establish a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he won’t support the legislation.In a statement of administrative...

Former Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio), whose retirement from Congress became effective this weekend, told Spectrum News that he “won’t miss the circus around here, but I might miss some of the clowns.”Stivers, who served in the House for 10 years,...

Texas's Democratic Party chair said that he and his party would "welcome" actor Matthew McConaughey if he decided to run for governor of the state.Gilberto Hinojosa told Politico in an interview published Sunday that he would be open...

Harvard is asking the Supreme Court to reject a challenge to the school’s race-based admissions approach, urging the justices to leave intact decades of settled law permitting its policy.The school’s court filing on Monday comes in...

Community Health Systems (CHS), one of the largest hospital chains in the U.S., has filed tens of thousands of lawsuits against its patients in the past year, even as many other hospitals have cut down on suits due to the COVID-19 pandemic.CNN...

Alabama police have issued an arrest warrant for a man accused of stealing a Confederate monument last month.Selma police have charged Jason Warnick for the theft of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair that was stolen from a Selma cemetery in...