Four main contenders for the presidency and many candidates for the Senate, House of Representatives and local councils. On a major election Tuesday, Americans will have to reflect on more than who will be the next boss (or mistress) of the White House. These elections can mark ...
House Democrats ended a sit-in calling for a vote on gun control legislation. The protest took place for more than 24 hours. As protesters walked onto the steps of the Capitol, they were greeted with applause. “Thank you for your support,” Lewis said. "Do not give up,…
If a 25-year-old Jewish woman can lure thousands of her peers to the polls on June 7, and they vote in favor of the California Democratic Party, then she can easily become the youngest person in the US House of Representatives (lower house of the United States Congress) - ...
A native of Moldova, Yuri Siretsky, who moved to the United States at the age of 19, is registered as a candidate in the elections to the US Congress, which will be held simultaneously with the presidential elections on November 8. Siretsky, who is in business, lives in the state capital of California, Sacramento. In 2014 he ...
The hero of the television series House of Cards, an American politician named Frank Underwood, is often treated to fancy restaurants and presented with expensive gifts. In real life in the US it would be called simply and clearly - corruption. And it would be prosecuted. IN…
The Oscar-nominated film "Winter on Fire" about the events of the Euromaidan was shown on the most politically important screen in the American capital - the US Congress. The viewing of the tape was organized jointly by the office of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur and the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States. “There are thousands of people in Ukraine ...
The US Supreme Court today decided to consider the case on the legality of President Obama's decree on measures to provide legal status and work permits to migrants who entered the United States illegally as a child, or those who have children with American ...
US President Barack Obama vetoed a bill that seeks to overturn key provisions of the current administration's health care reform, known as Obamacare, and to strip federal funding for the Planned Parenthood Foundation. Thus, the bill will return to Congress, the majority in which belongs to the Republican ...
The head of the US White House, Barack Obama, announcing tightening controls over the sale of firearms in the country, could not hold back his tears when speaking about the victims of the attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2013, when 27 people were killed...
After consultations with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Chief James Comey, US President Barack Obama decided to announce measures to strengthen arms control despite years of congressional opposition. As confirmed in the press service of the White House, the head of state will announce ...