Новости за 09.04.2024

Camilo Villegas wasn't just trying to refine his golf swing as he prepared to play in the Masters for the first time in nine years.

With a compact mirror in one hand and an eyelash curler in the other, Grace Xu told her roughly 300,000 TikTok followers she was likely about to be laid off.

Houston's Yordan Alvarez might be the top left-handed hitter in Major League Baseball. Teammate Framber Valdez ranks among the best left-handed pitchers, too.

James Harden was the last U.S.-born player to win MVP, and that was in 2018. International players have gotten 456 of a possible 503 first-place MVP votes since (there are 100 voters, and there was an extra "fan vote" in three of those years).

Europe's highest human rights court ruled Tuesday that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the ill effects of climate change, but still threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Russian space officials on Tuesday aborted the test launch of a new heavy-lift rocket from its far-eastern launch pad.

American GM Hikaru Nakamura picked a bad time to play a bad game. Nakamura came into the Candidates riding a 47-game unbeaten streak at classical time controls. But after an exciting Round 1 draw with Caruana, he saw that streak come crashing to a halt in Round 2 against GM Santosh Vidit, one of three Indian GMs making their debut in this Candidates cycle.

Bulgaria's Parliament on Tuesday formally approved an interim government to run the EU member country until snap parliamentary and regular European Parliament elections on June 9.

The parents of a Michigan school shooter are asking a judge to keep them out of prison as they face sentencing for their role in an attack that killed four students in 2021.

UConn delivered the latest of its suffocating basketball beatdowns Monday night, smothering Purdue for a 75-60 victory to become the first team since 2007 to capture back-to-back national championships.

A judge in Washington state ruled Monday that the state's ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines is unconstitutional - but the law will remain in effect while the state appeals the decision.

Louisiana's Republican-controlled Senate advanced a bill Tuesday that would empower state and local law enforcement to arrest and jail people in the state who entered the U.S. illegally, similar to embattled legislation in Texas.

Maryland lawmakers approved a plan to rebuild Baltimore's storied but antiquated Pimlico Race Course and transfer the track to state control in the waning hours of the state's legislative session on Monday.

A person with a ticket matching all six Powerball numbers in Saturday's $1.3 billion jackpot came forward Monday to claim the prize, Oregon officials said.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team urged the Supreme Court on Monday night to reject former President Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, took a swipe at national security hawks over their insistence that the government's top spying tool be reauthorized without a warrant requirement.

A federal judge slapped lengthy prison sentences Monday on two siblings who smuggled young illegal immigrant girls into the U.S. and then forced them into vile conditions, making them serve as cooks and cleaners at home and to get jobs, then stealing their paychecks.

Tesla has settled lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company's semi-autonomous driving software.

The Mavericks are two games clear of seventh with four games remaining, and face 19-win Charlotte on Tuesday night. Dallas holds the tiebreaker on the next three teams in the standings. What that means is Irving and Doncic are on the verge of their playoff debut together.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the Democratic lawmakers who control the Virginia General Assembly have spent months at odds over taxes.

I am glad to see that Pope Francis is taking a stand against some of the 'wedge' issues in our body politic today with his recent doctrine of "Infinite Dignity" ("Vatican says 'gender theory,' surrogacy, euthanasia among violations of human dignity," Web, April 8).

The wolves (the Democrats) are circling their prey (untold numbers of innocent and helpless unborn babies).

Republican primary voters in North Dakota will have an assortment of choices for the state's only U.S. House seat, with candidates ranging from the little-known to a former Miss America.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Monday he plans to meet with members of Congress this week to discuss support for rebuilding the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which has blocked the main shipping channel at Baltimore's port for nearly two weeks.

The United States risks losing a new space race with China unless American and allied space industries are strengthened and bureaucratic logjams reduced, according to a study by Pentagon space experts made public Monday.