Новости за 12.08.2021

Two top Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are calling on President Biden to quickly adopt a plan to keep thousands of federal inmates who were transferred to home confinement during the pandemic out of prison.Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the...

The U.S. Census Bureau is scheduled to host a news conference Thursday afternoon with a focus on redistricting data.The news briefing is slated to begin at 12:30 p.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.

Tennessee State University is offering students at least a $100 gift card to get the coronavirus vaccine. Students can get the gift card either by proving they're vaccinated or by getting their shots at one of Tennessee State's on-campus...

The FBI said in court documents filed Wednesday that a man charged with killing his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter blamed QAnon for his actions.Matthew Taylor Coleman believed his wife “possessed serpent DNA” and passed it to their...

President Biden is set to deliver remarks Thursday on prescription drug prices.The remarks are slated for 11:15 a.m. EDT.Watch the live video above.Read more from The Hill:...

The Kennedy Center is joining the growing list of performance venues requiring that its audiences be vaccinated against COVID-19.The new policy, announced Thursday by the prominent Washington performing arts institution along with D.C.'s Ford's...

The World Boxing Association (WBA) president on Wednesday said the organization is suspending judge Gloria Martinez Rizzo for six months after a controversial scorecard and unearthed racist tweets from her now-deleted Twitter account,...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require more than 25,000 of its clinical and research staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the agency announced Thursday.The move comes as the highly transmissible delta variant of...

Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen reportedly said in his closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday that former President Trump was “persistent” in attempting to put pressure on the Justice Department to discredit...

The Coalition to Protect American Workers, led by GOP strategists including Mark Short, who served as former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, is warning members of Congress against reversing President Trump’s landmark 2017 tax reform...

As the once-per-decade redistricting fight gets underway, voters will be armed with a new arsenal: a suite of sophisticated digital tools capable of exposing suspected partisan gerrymandering as it unfolds.The rollout of this civic-minded tech...

MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is facing growing resistance to his hard-line stance against COVID-19 restrictions and mask mandates. Officials in a handful of Florida school dist...

The Taliban are on the march in Afghanistan — and President Biden is in a no-win situation.Biden is adamant that he made the right decision when he announced in April that he would withdraw U.S. forces. But the Taliban have expanded their territory...

Democratic National Committee (DNC) members are growing increasingly frustrated by the White House’s influence on their political operation, causing friction between aides to President Biden and the leading party organization promoting his agenda....

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) scored two significant victories this week, but he's facing big headaches as he tries to keep his razor-thin caucus unified while President Biden's top legislative priority hangs in the balance.Schumer...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) disclosed on Wednesday that his wife purchased stock in Gilead Sciences, a company that manufactures a COVID-19 treatment, in February 2020, when information regarding the coronavirus was just beginning to come to light.The...

We’ve witnessed tremendous courage in the face of mental health challenges on the part of elite athletes recently. Simone Biles withdrawing from the women’s team all-around gymnastics event in Tokyo last month — as the competition was ongoing —...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are asking an appeals court to strike down an order issued by Dallas County that would require residents to wear masks in schools and businesses....

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) suggested he will try to persuade progressives to help pass the $3.5 trillion spending package the Senate approved early Wednesday, as Democrats work to keep their caucus together in the evenly split upper...

Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is planning to resign from his current position as a head of a law firm to return to politics, Axios reported.“I am writing to you today to inform you of my decision to resign my positions as President, CEO and Dean...

All 73 members of Tennessee's House Republican Caucus urged for a special session Wednesday to take action against the authority of local officials looking to impose COVID-19 safety measures, ...

Elementary students at two Atlanta-area schools are temporarily moving to virtual learning due to an increase in COVID-19 cases as districts attempt to bring back in-person instruction amid the spread of the highly ...

A group of more than two dozen House Democrats on Wednesday urged their party's leaders to include more funding for electric vehicle investments in the $3.5 trillion spending plan, arguing the amount allocated in the bipartisan infrastructure bill...

Minnesota will now require state employees to either be vaccinated or go through weekly COVID-19 testing before returning to work. ...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday rejected requests from former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell that he dismiss lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems...