Новости за 26.03.2019

President Trump on Tuesday officially nominated Transportation official Jeffrey Rosen to serve as deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice upon Rod Rosenstein's departure.Rosen currently serves as deputy secretary of Transportation, and...

Labor union officials said Tuesday that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), does not go far enough to protect workers.Officials stressed to lawmakers...

The Senate on Tuesday blocked the Green New Deal, a progressive climate change resolution that Republicans view as prime fodder heading into the 2020 presidential election.The Senate voted 0-57 ...

The Trump administration's surprise call for the courts to strike down ObamaCare upended Capitol Hill on Tuesday, putting Republicans in a bind while giving Democrats new talking points on one of their favorite issues for...

Senate Democrats are demanding an update from the Trump administration on its efforts to help Puerto Rico’s recovery from 2017 hurricanes that ravaged the territory and killed roughly 3,000 people.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...

Spanish officials said a group working for the "liberation of North Korea" offered the FBI stolen data from the North Korean embassy, according to the Asso...

A federal judge struck down a North Carolina law Monday that banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, Reuters reported.The law, introduced in 1973, created small exceptions in the case of a medical emergency. A further tightening...

Several lawmakers hung transgender pride flags outside their Capitol Hill offices this week ahead of Sunday's International Transgender Day of Visibility. Several lawmakers posted pictures of their flags on social media...

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos defended budget cuts to programs including the Special Olympics on Tuesday. Appearing before a House subcommittee Tuesday to review the department's proposed budget for th...

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has determined the second man found dead in the home of Democratic donor Ed Buck died of...

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order directing federal agencies to identify the threats posed by potential electromagnetic pulses (EMP), which are believed to be potentially dangerous to critical infrastructure like the electric...

Late-night host Stephen Colbert joked late Monday that the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election "must be 1/17 of a weight" off of President Trump's shoulders.The...

The family of a Texas man who was killed in a car crash involving two reporters at The Weather Channel has sued the network for $125 million, arguing that the network's executives ignored the reporters' history of alleged...

Attorneys for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán are calling for a new trial for the drug kingpin, claiming the jurors who...

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) is teaming up with former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to push for redistricting reform, saying he wants to "terminate" gerrymandering.Schwarzenegger joined Holder for an event Tuesday at the...

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos said Tuesday that his lawyers have asked for a pardon from President Trump.“My lawyers have applied for a pardon from the president for me,” Papadopoulos said in an interview with Reuters...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Tuesday brought posters depicting babies, a Star Wars creature, Aquaman and one of former President Ronald Reagan firing a machine gun while riding a dinosaur to argue against the Green New Deal as lawmakers...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he believes in human-caused climate change, but that the progressive Green New Deal wasn't the way to tackle the problem."I do. The question is how do you...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Tuesday he believes in human-caused climate change, but that the progressive Green New Deal wasn't the way to tackle the problem. "I do. The question is how do you address it. … The way to do...

President Trump received a prolonged standing ovation Tuesday when he walked into a lunch meeting of the Senate Republican conference to take a victory lap after special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence of collusion in the 2016 election....

The chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee said Tuesday that Deutsche Bank has begun providing records of its dealings with President Trump for the panel's probe into the president's finances....

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed Tuesday to use the appropriations process to fight against President Trump's national emergency declaration to obtain funds for a border wall.Her announcement comes after the H...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) vowed Tuesday to use the appropriations process to fight against President Trump’s national emergency declaration to obtain funds for a border wall.Her announcement comes after the House Tuesday failed to...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) mocked Republican Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) on Tuesday after the lawmaker criticized her Green New Deal proposal.In a tweet, the New York Democrat quipped that Lee's assertion that a number of...

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told the House Armed Services Committee he has ordered a new review into failures that led to the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger in October 2017, ...