Новости за 08.06.2021

Senate Republicans are holding up the confirmation for President Biden's nominee for director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Kiran Ahuja, targeting her support for abortion rights and focus on "...

Senate Republicans are holding up the confirmation for President Biden's nominee for director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Kiran Ahuja, targeting her support for abortion rights and focus on critical race theory....

More than 300 advocacy, civic, faith and labor groups sent a letter to the Biden administration on Monday urging them to "do everything in their power" to push for the passage of a sweeping voting rights bill that is stalled in the Senate....

A Virginia judge has granted a temporary injunction reinstating a gym teacher who was suspended for refusing to abide by a school district's new rule that requires teachers use a student's preferred pronouns.Leesbu...

The FBI has withdrawn its subpoena asking USA Today to produce information on readers who accessed a story about the fatal shooting of two FBI agents in early February. ...

The distribution of a Florida high school’s yearbook was temporarily paused following complaints from parents over a two-page spread dedicated to coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement. Officials at West Broward High School in Pembroke...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday afternoon.Blinken will testify on the president's 2022 budget request.The secretary appeared before t...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) pressed the acting White House budget chief Tuesday on the impact of expanded unemployment benefits on the labor force, saying he has family members who refuse to work because of them....

Some of the richest people in America had years in which they did not pay anything in federal income taxes, according to a report from ProPublica published Tuesday.They include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is slated to hold a briefing Tuesday afternoon.The briefing will include Sameera Fazili, deputy director of the National Economic Council, and Peter Harrell, senior director fo...

The CMT Music Awards is set to honor Linda Martell, the first Black woman to perform solo at the Grand Ole Opry, on Wednesday.Martell, whose most successful album, “Color Me Country,” was released in 1970, will be given the CMT Equal...

The House Oversight and Reform Committee is slated to hold a hearing Tuesday on the Sackler family's role in the opioid crisis.The hearing is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.

New York City’s Madison Square Garden is set to reopen at 100-percent capacity this month with a Foo Fighters concert, and will require proof of vaccination upon entry.The venue said in a Tuesday morning tweet that rock 'n' roll is coming back on...

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, released her first children's book on Tuesday, titled "The Bench.”The book is centered around a mother's perspective on the relationship between a father and son"My hope is that 'The Bench' resonates with every family...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he had a "constructive" meeting with a group of civil rights leaders but that he was unmoved on his opposition to a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections."There was nothing basically for-or-...

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Tuesday that he had a "constructive" meeting with a group of civil rights leaders but that he was unmoved on his opposition to a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections."There...

The Des Moines Area Community College is closed for a fourth day after a Thursday cyberattack.“Thank you for your patience and understanding as #DMACC continues to make progress to fully restore all computer network services,” the college...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday urged the Senate to approve a sweeping expansion of voting protections, dismissing the objections of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) with warnings that the integrity of elections is at stake.The legislation "...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) slammed Vice President Harris for imploring migrants traveling from Central America to the United States not to make the oftentimes dangerous journey. "I want to emphasize that the goal of our work is to...

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is set to hold a hearing Tuesday morning investigating the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline.Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount is scheduled to testify...

American Airlines is asking its employees to volunteer at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) to help handle the travel surge occurring this summer."As we look forward to welcoming back...

The White House COVID-19 response team and health officials are slated to hold a press briefing on Tuesday morning.The press briefing is scheduled to begin at 10:15 a.m. ET.Watch the live video above.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning.Blinken will testify before the panel on the president's 2022 budget request as it relates to the St...

The Mastercard Foundation is donating $1.3 billion to the pandemic response in Africa.The funding, which will be deployed to the continent over the next three years, is meant to “save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and...

Science is back, and we have the momentum to take bold climate action. The ocean must be part of the solution.As congressional leaders on ocean issues, we have witnessed how the climate crisis is affecting both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Off...