Новости за 14.05.2024

Want to confuse a Democrat? Ask for a definition of "mom." The hemming and hawing and sputtering and stuttering and sidestepping that follows is classic textbook Lunatic Left.

President Biden on Tuesday will announce that he's quadrupling tariffs on electric vehicles from China to 100% and sharply increasing duties on $18 billion in clean energy products, including semiconductors, solar and batteries.

Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday urged foreign governments to respect its overseas-based trade offices after a staff member in its London branch was charged in Britain for allegedly working for the Chinese city's intelligence service.

Less than three years ago, Mary Ann and David Giordano were taking turns lying on the living room floor with their Afghan hound Frankie, hand-feeding the desperately ill dog anything she would eat.

The power vacuum that America left behind in Afghanistan is fueling a resurgence of Islamist terrorists who have the will, and perhaps the capability, to target the U.S. and its interests abroad, according to a major report by the United States Institute of Peace, which argues that the Biden administration should consider unleashing more military strikes against terrorist targets in the country.

The dating app Bumble got stung after running billboard ads that appeared to sneer at celibacy as an alternative to meeting people online.

For much of the past two years, Caitlin Clark has been the centerpiece of the college basketball world.

Jayson Tatum scored 33 points with LeBron James watching from a courtside seat and the Boston Celtics beat the severely short-handed Cleveland Cavaliers 109-102 in Game 4 on Monday night to take a commanding 3-1 lead in their East semifinal series.

Daulton Varsho robbed a homer with his glove, hit one with his bat and then drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th inning with a groundball to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 3-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night.

In one of the most closely watched congressional races this year, U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is looking to defeat a fellow Republican in Tuesday's primary election in his quest for reelection. He'll have to do it without the support of the state Republican Party, which has endorsed his primary challenger.

A Columbia graduate ripped up her degree and wore a zip tie on her hands during the weekend's commencement to protest Israel's war on Hamas and the university's crackdown on student protesters.

A large group of Republican attorneys general on Monday took legal action against the Biden administration and California over new emissions limits for trucks.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is planning to raise money for former President Donald Trump in the coming weeks, putting into action the commitment he made at a meeting with Trump last month to help his former rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Monday night's game between the Washington Nationals and Chicago White Sox has been postponed by rain.

China is engaged in information warfare across multiple sectors of Taiwan and plans a takeover of the self-ruled island through political coercion and cyber spying influence operations, with military force a key option, according to two new think tank reports.

The Detroit Lions and quarterback Jared Goff have agreed to a $212 million, four-year contract extension, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that he has signed a new law regulating transgender people's use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings, making Mississippi at least the 12th state to restrict transgender students from using facilities that align with their gender identity.

Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan on Monday drew the No. 5 post position in Saturday's Preakness, when the colt will look to sweep the first two legs of horse racing's Triple Crown -- though he's not favored to do so.

As North Carolina's public university system considers a vote on changing its diversity policy, the system's flagship university board voted Monday to cut funding for diversity programs in next year's budget.

Baseball Hall of Famer David Ortiz was honored by the New York state Senate on Monday for his prolific career and philanthropic work.

Vice President Kamala Harris got passionate while speaking with young people Monday at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Legislative Leadership summit, and dropped an expletive to make her point.

A political action committee that helps Republicans get elected to Congress is doing the unusual - spending more than $450,000 to defeat a GOP incumbent. That incumbent, conservative two-term Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., voted to remove former Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker last fall.

Crews conducted a controlled demolition Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Republican leaders are urging the Secret Service to widen a security perimeter around the site of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to protect delegates and attendees from potentially dangerous clashes with pro-Palestinian demonstrators who plan to swarm the event in July.

Federal investigators have secured a third guilty plea in connection with an investigation into U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas on charges that he accepted nearly $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico.