Новости за 21.02.2021

The loud boom was unmistakable aboard United Flight 328 just after takeoff on Saturday. Something had clearly gone very wrong.

A United Airlines flight was forced to return to Denver International Airport after it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff, sending aircraft debris raining down on soccer fields, homes and yards in a Denver suburb. CNN's Lucy Kafanov reports.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday he is working with President Joe Biden to gather the support needed to confirm Neera Tanden as director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The Biden administration has partially caught up on its delayed vaccine shipments, having delivered about 2 million of the 6 million doses backlogged by the deadly winter storms in Texas and other states, administration officials said Sunday.

Brian Stelter calls out reckless headlines about Covid vaccines that cause undue fear. Dr. Leana Wen says "the media should do a lot more when it comes to talking up the extraordinary benefits of the vaccines."

The former president is continuing to lie about the election he lost. But fact-checkers are now focusing on Biden, not Trump. PolitiFact editor-in-chief Angie Drobnic Holan says her team is still fact-checking Trump, but "will be judicious about our choices."

Jeff Jarvis says Rupert Murdoch's lobbying led the Australian government to propose making tech companies pay for news. "If anybody should pay anybody, the publishers should be paying the platforms for the value that they get," Jarvis says. He also talks about an American hedge fund's planned takeover of Tribune Publishing.

Steven Guilbeault, the Minister of Canadian Heritage and a member of parliament, says he and his counterparts in other countries want to "ensure that Google and Facebook compensate fairly the media for their use of their content." He says "this battle is at the very heart of democracy. Without a healthy media and news sector, we cannot have sustainable democracies."

President Biden and Vice President Harris are seeking "a bigger tent" by participating in interviews to a variety of media outlets. The former president is reclaiming the center stage of his party with phone calls to far-right TV channels and a planned speech at CPAC, Carol Leonnig says.

Actor Regé-Jean Page stars as the Duke of Hastings in the romantic Netflix series "Bridgerton." Page graced the "Saturday Night Live" stage with jokes about his heartthrob status.

The majority of power outages in Texas over the past week came from losses in coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, according to the state's own energy officials. But right-wing media has zeroed in on another, far smaller culprit: wind turbines and solar energy.

Bhutan, a small country that borders China and India, has only seen one death as a result of the coronavirus, compared to the worldwide death toll which is nearing 2.5 million deaths. CNN's Fareed Zakaria looks at how Bhutan was able to curve the pandemic.

Fareed looks into how a small and relatively poor nation tackled the pandemic so well, and the lessons wealthier nations can learn from it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that it's "possible" Americans will still need to wear masks in 2022 to protect against the coronavirus, even as the US may reach "a significant degree of normality" by the end of this year.

Brian Stelter recounts how amateur sleuths tracked Senator Ted Cruz's trip to Cancun and called him out for leaving Texas in the middle of an emergency: "Crowdsourcing turned to crowd-shaming." Carol Leonnig discusses the role of leaks and the motivations of leakers.

Texas-based journalist Emily Ramshaw stresses the importance of local news, saying, "you can't count on anybody else in a crisis like this." Ramshaw and Brian Stelter also discuss how reporters have operated in the field despite the infrastructure failures.

Progressive Democrats on Sunday argued to keep the $15 minimum wage increase in President Joe Biden's stimulus package, as the provision faces skepticism on Capitol Hill over its place in the $1.9 trillion relief effort.

CNN reporter and fact-checker Daniel Dale and PolitiFact Editor Angie Drobnic Holan discuss how fact-checking has evolved after Donald Trump's presidency.

House Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal tells CNN's Dana Bash that President Biden should not lower the income threshold for direct payments in the virus relief bill below $75,000 for individuals.

Texas Congressman Michael McCaul tells CNN's Dana Bash that "a lot of people are hurting right now" in his state after a winter storm left millions without power or water.

An atmospheric river event is bringing heavy rain, high winds, and feet of snow to the Pacific Northwest. These conditions combined with warm temperatures has triggered avalanche warnings across the region.

Congressman Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells CNN's Dana Bash that President Biden needs to keep US troops in Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from taking over.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson tells CNN's Dana Bash that he won't criticize New York Andrew Cuomo's handling of covid deaths among his state's nursing home residents, but says that every governor needs to be held accountable for their actions.

House Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal tells CNN's Dana Bash that President Biden should forgive $50,000 in student loan debt, even though Biden has rejected the idea.