Новости за 13.03.2024

A historic spot in the nation's capital is about to get some genuine TLC.

A Texas man who spent most of his 78 years using an iron lung chamber and built a large following on social media, recounting his life from contracting polio in the 1940s to earning a law degree, has died.

Three Missouri men have been charged with federal firearms counts after a shooting at last month's Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl parade and rally left one person dead and roughly two dozen others injured, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

The United States' "greatest strategic failure" took place after the end of the Cold War in the promotion of China, a policy of engagement that has now produced a new existential danger to the nation, according to a new book by two top China experts in the U.S.

Kentucky Senate Republicans revealed their version of the state's next two-year budget Wednesday, proposing more funding for the main K-12 school funding formula and doubling the amount of performance-based funding that goes to public universities.

Federal civil rights investigators are looking into whether protected health information was exposed in the recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare.

Moments after Tampa Bay was eliminated from the NFL playoffs, Baker Mayfield spoke about the impending challenge the Buccaneers faced in trying to keep a talented roster together this offseason.

A Connecticut state trooper's fatal shooting of the 19-year-old man who had just crashed a stolen car following a high-speed chase was "overkill" and showed an "extreme indifference to human life," a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during closing arguments at the trooper's manslaughter trial.

AL Rookie of the Year Gunnar Henderson and catcher Adley Rutschman had their contracts renewed by the Baltimore Orioles without an agreement for the second straight season.

One of the last of four men charged in an international murder-for-hire plot that led to the 2018 abduction and killing of a Vermont man pleaded guilty on Wednesday.

The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York's Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a Manhattan pier on Thursday after a seven-month restoration, Intrepid officials said.

Seven people living at a Chicago shelter for migrants have tested positive for measles since last week, prompting the arrival of a team with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to guide city and state officials' response to the infections, including vaccination efforts.

The Kansas City Chiefs have restructured quarterback Patrick Mahomes' contract, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday, giving the Super Bowl champions some much-needed salary cap space.

There are more heralded names in the group of young prospects seen as the foundation of the Washington Nationals' future. But don't be surprised if Trey Lipscomb is the first to make it to Nationals Park.

Trader Joe's mini canvas tote is the latest item to cause a stir on social media, so much so that resellers are taking advantage of the hype.

As St. Patrick's Day approaches, potatoes, corned beef and cabbage are piled high in the supermarkets.

Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to some of the roughly 50,000 people who have signed up for its driverless ride-hailing service.

Since 2022, President Biden has used the Antiquities Act to create five national monuments, collectively spanning more than 1.5 million acres of federal land.

Sen. Katie Britt, the Alabama Republican panned by Democratic critics and pundits last week for her delivery of the GOP rebuttal to President Biden's State of the Union address, said they wanted to muzzle her because she's a conservative woman.

After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition.

Try to visualize a trillion dollars. Comparisons for a trillion of anything are difficult.

I spent last week living and studying at the Vatican as a guest lecturer at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, or PASS.

In President Biden's recent State of the Union address, he painted a rosy economic picture, touting what he called "Bidenomics" as the driving force behind what he claims is a robust economy.

In his recent State of the Union address, President Biden made clear that he opposes Israel's effort to unqualifiedly defeat Hamas, the terrorist organization that launched the unprovoked attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

The New York Times has issued a cease and desist notice to programmers who have copied the code of Wordle, one of the paper's most popular games.