Новости за 23.08.2020

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s top homeland security official said on Sunday that his department does not have the authority to send law enforcement to polling sites during the November election despite Trump’s suggestion that federal officers could be deployed to guard against election fraud. “That’s not what we do at the Department of...

A former senior reporter at the New York Times has come under fire for an ugly attack on Melania Trump — saying he was “furious” that the first lady is a “foreigner” who “had the audacity to wreck the Rose Garden.” Kurt Eichenwald — who spent two decades at the Gray Lady — was ripped...

GOP Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik — whose video about “the reality for black people” in Baltimore went viral — will speak at this week’s Republican National Convention, officials announced Sunday. Klacik, who is running for the late-Rep. Elijah Cummings’ seat, caught the president’s attention with her video, in which she blamed Democrats who have governed...

John Oliver dumped on the wrong Connecticut town. The British comedian took the piss out of Danbury on his HBO show last week — so officials are naming the local sewage plant after him. “We are going to rename it the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant,” Mayor Mark Boughton said Saturday in a Facebook video....

Dana White did not hold back. The UFC president was asked Saturday night what he thought about Oscar De La Hoya making a return to boxing at the age of 47. “Cocaine isn’t cheap,” White said. “It’s expensive. Gotta make money.” De La Hoya recently told ESPN he was coming out of retirement, 12 years...

Every week since the novel coronavirus pandemic hit in March, canceling most of the Big East Tournament and the entire NCAA Tournament, the league’s athletic directors have met virtually. And as the fall nears, and the college basketball season gets closer, they have begun talking about the possibility of a bubble for men’s and women’s...

A West African official beat his Big Apple employee with a broom and then bound her wrists before taking her to get help — but was not arrested because he has full diplomatic immunity, according to police and sources. The diplomat — named by police sources as Sylvestre Compaore from Burkina Faso — allegedly assaulted...

Characters such as Black Lightning, Black Panther, Blackmanta and now Black Adam have caused the rapper to say enough is enough.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has fallen into a coma, a former South Korean official is claiming on the heels of reports that the northern leader has ceded over some of his power to his younger sister. Chang Song-min, a former aide to late-South Korean president Kim Dae-jung, has alleged that the Hermit Kindom’s...

President Trump on Sunday is expected to announce the emergency authorization of convalescent plasma as a treatment for coronavirus patients. The president is set to issue an emergency order which would make it easier for some patients to obtain the treatment, White House officials told the Associated Press. This comes after the Food and Drug...

The owners of a New Jersey gym that famously defied Gov. Phil Murphy’s order to remain closed amid the coronavirus, only to be arrested, say they are reopening as a campaign headquarters for a GOP candidate. “We took a stand for our constitutional rights and for the rights of all small business owners throughout the...

A pack of young punks trespassed on a New Jersey farm late Saturday, riding and abusing animals in an ordeal that left the creatures “shaken and skittish,” according to a Facebook post from the farm and a report. “The sheer disrespect that some people have is truly infuriating,” Jimmy Abma, of Abma’s Farm in Wyckoff, NJ,...

The werewolf novella was part of the 1988 horror anthology Night Visions 5, a collection that included works by Stephen King and Dan Simmons.

Sources told People the “Glee” star and husband Zandy Reich welcomed a baby boy on Aug. 20.

"Both of them were good and kind souls and they will be greatly missed."

A second chance sometimes is not given to a starter who gets relegated to the bullpen during the middle of his career, but the Atlanta Braves are giving Josh Tomlin that opportunity, and he will look to seize it Sunday. Tomlin primarily has been used as a reliever the past two-plus seasons but made his...

Drew McIntyre defends the WWE Championship against Randy Orton at SummerSlam!

A 16-year-old girl died Saturday afternoon when she fell from a cliff in western New York, authorities said. The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office said it received several 911 calls about the incident around 5:40 p.m. at the Zoar Valley, which is a popular hiking destination with gorges and waterfalls. No further details were released about...

On what would've been Kobe Bryant's 42nd birthday, Vanessa Bryant penned an emotional tribute to her late husband.

Penn says he doesn’t see the value in giving Admiral Brett Giroir advice on how to improve testing capacity.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the city Finance Department postponed a lien sale scheduled for May on the outstanding taxes, citing the COVID-19 outbreak.

The House bill to give the US Postal Service $25 billion ahead of the November presidential election is just a “political statement,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday. The bill passed by the Democrat-controlled chamber Saturday “has nothing to do with voting,” Meadows said on “Fox News Sunday” and “has everything to...

Portland police stood by for more than two hours Saturday as alt-right and anti-police protestors faced off with guns, smoke bombs and even liquid-filled condoms during the 86th consecutive day of unrest in the Oregon city. The melee broke out as about 100 far-right activists, including members of the Proud Boys, staged a “Back the...

He went to shell and back. A 150-pound tortoise is back at his Tennessee home after being on the crawl for 74 days — a journey that ended less than a mile from where it began. Solomon the sulcata tortoise somehow escaped his home in Ashland City on June 8 and hit the road, according...

Thanks, but no thanks. Marc-Andre Fleury appreciated the support, but he asked his agent to take down his controversial Twitter post anyway. His goal, he told reporters, is to win, even if it means he’s not on the ice, and so his agent, Allan Walsh, deleted the picture he posted of his client with a...