“Beginning Saturday, January 15, 2022, at 6:00am, certain establishments will be required to verify that patrons ages 12 and older have received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine,” Mayor Murial Bowser said in a Wednesday press release, adding that residents will have another month to become fully immunized. The …
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“We are aware of the detention of a US citizen in Turkey. The individual is not a US diplomat,” the State Department said on Wednesday afternoon. They gave no further details, adding only that the US was “providing appropriate consular services” to the individual, who has yet to be named. …
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The billionaire brought the suit in response to the 2020 book ‘Putin’s People’, in which author Catherine Belton chronicled Putin’s rise to power and alleged, among other things, that he had directed Abramovich to buy the club in 2003 to expand Russian influence in the West. HarperCollins, the book’s publisher, …
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“I think it’s safe to say that the American people will hear from him on that day,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said at a news briefing on Wednesday, when asked if Biden would speak. Psaki said last week that Biden wanted to commemorate “one of the darkest days …
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The report on government spending highlighted more than $52 billion in government “waste,” broken down into topics of spending, including Covid, Afghanistan, and miscellaneous expenditures. Paul’s reports are known for highlighting odd research efforts that receive federal funding, and this year was no different. Included in the latest list of …
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Scanlon was walking to a parking lot on Pattison Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, around 2:45 pm local time, when she was approached by two armed men who demanded her car keys and personal effects. They took her personal and government-issued cell phone, and drove away in Scanlon’s 2017 Acura, spokesperson …
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In a statement on Wednesday, Biden claimed the US economic recovery was “one of the strongest ever,” but that “millions of student loan borrowers are still coping with the impacts of the pandemic and need some more time before resuming payments.” Payments on federal student loans were originally suspended in …
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Asked during a press briefing on Wednesday whether the US administration is concerned about the retaliatory measures promised by Moscow, Psaki said the ongoing diplomatic contacts were a “good sign” for strained US-Russia ties. “The good sign is that there’s an open line of diplomatic discussion and engagement that is …
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Speaking as part of an exclusive interview with RT on Wednesday, Sergey Lavrov said that Russia is facing a series of challenges on the world stage, both in terms of a growing standoff over Ukraine and in relations with other states. Freedom of Press According to the country’s top diplomat, …
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Moscow-based channel RT DE was taken off air by the European satellite service Eutelsat on Wednesday. The operator said it had done so at the request of Germany’s media regulator, MABB, as well as that of the EU-wide body the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services. Speaking to NTV …
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