Новости за 27.09.2021

The homicide rate was up a record 29.4% in 2020 over 2019, FBI figures released Monday show.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called on Mali not to delay its upcoming elections in his Monday speech before the U.N. General Assembly in New York City.

Around 179,000 deaths in the United States might have been prevented over the past decade if smokers had been forced to confront graphic images every time they reached for a pack of cigarettes, a new study suggests.

Harvard Business School announced Monday it will move some MBA students online, citing a rise in breakthrough COVID-19 infections.

A new survey -- published Monday in the journal PNAS -- suggests people thought a lot less about the future and other people during the lockdown.

The Biden administration on Monday proposed a new rule that would strengthen the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program two months after a judge in Texas ruled the migrant program is illegal.

An Australian man collected a lottery jackpot totaling nearly $150,000 from a ticket he received for free.

A federal judge said John W. Hinckley Jr. -- who shot President Ronald Reagan 40 years ago barely two months into his presidency -- can be freed next year from all restrictions that were imposed five years ago.

Organizers of the upcoming Saudi Arabian Formula 1 Grand Prix promoted the event by assembling the world's largest Lego Formula 1 car from 500,000 bricks.

The Jacksonville Jaguars acquired tight end Dan Arnold on Monday through a trade with Carolina Panthers, the teams announced.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Monday criticized Turkey for assisting insurgents in the northwest portion of the country in the country's long-running civil war that goes back to the 2011 Arab Spring.

Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro of "The View" confirmed they received false positive COVID-19 tests when they were pulled from Friday's show just before an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

President Joe Biden received his booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Monday.

An Iowa city's annual Pancake Day celebration featured a Guinness World Record being broken when a total 14,280 pancakes were served up at the festival.

Samsung Electronics paid out the biggest dividends in the world in the first half of 2021, substantially enriching heirs of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died last year.

People with high blood pressure that doesn't respond to treatment may have more success by following the DASH diet and joining a supervised diet and exercise program, a new study suggests.

Chuba Hubbard, Sam Darnold, Zack Moss and A.J. Green are among UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler's top fantasy football players to add and drop before your Week 4 matchup.

Blue Origin plans to launch people into space for the second time from Texas on Oct. 12, carrying two businessmen and two others to be announced later.

A teacher at a North Carolina school captured video of a mother bear and her cub playing on the playground slide outside the building.

Beck Bennett has exited "Saturday Night Live" as the long-running sketch comedy show adds three new cast members.

Facebook announced on Monday that it's decided to pause the rollout of an Instagram platform for children, in order to study the idea more carefully -- amid concern that such platforms might be harmful.

An Idaho man with multiple Guinness World Records for juggling combined two of his skills by catching 35 grapes in his mouth while juggling three balls for 1 minute.

Officials with the National Aviary in Pennsylvania said a Steller's sea eagle that escaped from its enclosure has been repeatedly spotted around Pittsburgh.

Eric Rosengren, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, announced on Monday that he's decided to retire nearly a year early due to concerns about a kidney condition.

K-pop star Key released the mini album "Bad Love" and a music video for the title track of the same name.