Новости за 12.04.2024

It's been a while - 40 years to be exact - since Venezuelan trap shooter Leonel Martinez last competed at the Olympics.

Oakland officials have voted in favor of changing the name of the city's airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, despite San Francisco threatening a lawsuit over what it says is a trademark violation.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been denied a fifth time for Secret Service protection by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The Royal Navy will have lasers capable of destroying drone and missile threats mounted on its warships in 2027, five years earlier than originally planned, the British Ministry of Defense announced Friday.

Kentucky has hired BYU's Mark Pope as men's basketball coach, bringing home a member of the Wildcats' 1996 national championship team to succeed John Calipari.

Almost a quarter of people who were dropped from Medicaid during the post-pandemic eligibility reviews are still uninsured and high costs are preventing them from getting on another plan, a new survey from KFF showed Friday.

President Biden will travel through Pennsylvania next week, hitting three major cities in the swing state to promote his plan to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations as he looks to sell his economic agenda amid soaring inflation.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is circulating a fact sheet demonstrating how changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act would prevent another Russia hoax, hoping to cajole GOP troops who are thwarting efforts to reauthorize the government's chief spying tool.

The House on Friday advanced a bill to renew the government's chief spying powers, recovering from a major hiccup earlier in the week when Republicans tanked the legislation.

The U.S. and Russia are in secret discussions about a possible prisoner swap that could see the return of jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a former Marine and corporate security executive now serving a 16-year jail prison sentence on espionage charges, according to a Russian state media report.

Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo rejected a subpoena by Senate Democrats demanding information on his relationship with some Supreme Court justices, saying he won't comply with the "unlawful and politically motivated" order.

Several authors have turned down awards and awards nominations from PEN America, citing unhappiness with the literary and free expression organization's stance on the war in Gaza.

The anti-Israel propaganda in Washington being spread by left-wing radicals should come as no surprise ("Anti-Israel propaganda in Washington reveals leftists' delusions," web, April 10).

The fate of hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants lies with the Supreme Court, which will hear a case Tuesday arguing that the obstruction law under which they were charged was never meant to apply to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

At a fundraiser last fall, President Biden said, "Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy" ("Biden saving a democracy: The religion of a party that doesn't believe in God," web, Dec. 16).

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court usurped authority it did not legally have, and snatched the issue of abortion from the state legislatures.

No, Israelis do not want a war with Hezbollah, or anyone else. But we cannot live like this with the threat of war and terror that they pose. It's necessary to stop them, but we know it will come with a grave price.

When language of gender inclusivity and reproductive freedom is used to limit women, and their families, that language tends to be a tool to acquire power, particularly in the law. People can see right through it.

"The Long Game" wedges in a lot of positive messages about overcoming adversity and standing true to what's right. There's nothing tongue-in-cheek about "Civil War." It's serious, bloody and ground-pounding carnage. And plenty of it.

There's a reason why President Biden and former President Donald Trump are spending so much time attacking each other -- people don't think either man has much to brag about when it comes to his own record. Americans generally think that while they were in the White House, both did more harm than good on key issues.

Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, the Vatican announced Friday, confirming the longest trip of Francis' papacy that is sure to test his health, stamina and mobility.

The U.S. government's auto safety agency has opened an investigation into a Ford recall for gasoline leaks from cracked fuel injectors that can cause engine fires, saying in documents that the remedy doesn't fix the leaks.

A top Chinese official arrived in North Korea and held talks on how to boost their cooperation, North Korea's state media reported Friday, in the counties' highest-level meeting in about five years.

A dog's plaintive wail. A courtroom couplet-turned-cultural catchphrase about gloves. A judge and attorneys who became media darlings and villains. A slightly bewildered houseguest elevated, briefly, into a slightly bewildered celebrity. Troubling questions about race that echo still. The beginning of the Kardashian dynasty. An epic slow-motion highway chase. And, lest we forget, two people whose lives ended brutally.

Long before the Bronco chase gripped a national television audience and the "Trial of the Century" captivated the country, O.J. Simpson was making his mark on the football field.