Новости за 09.01.2023

Now that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has finally taken charge, former President Donald Trump has started making demands of the newly minted Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

As newly elected New York Representative George Santos continues to be a political pinata and his time serving in Congress seems severely limited, he has found political consultants and staff willing to come on board as his brand and career sinks.

An editorial written by the New York Daily News editorial board on Monday delivered a scathing rebuke to former President Donald Trump over his recently released tax returns, which the editors argued should dispel any remaining notion that he is a business genius.

At 5:00 PM ET Monday the House will reconvene to vote on the rules for how the 118th Congress will operate – discussions which consumed now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants last week as they wheeled and dealed to get him the gavel. Few know all the details of what McCarthy gave away to win the coveted Speaker’s seat, but it took five days, fifteen different votes, some last-minute begging, and a Republican-on-Republican near-fist-fight on the floor of the House of Representatives before he was able to cinch the deal. Читать дальше...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro is being treated for “severe” abdominal pain at an Orlando-area hospital, a day after supporters of the right-wing leader stormed government buildings in his home country, according to Brazilian media reports. Bolsonaro went to AdventHealth Celebration, a 220-bed hospital close to where he is staying in the Reunion community near Kissimmee, the Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported. An AdventHealth spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Orlando Sentinel. Читать дальше...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained on Monday that she is receiving hate from the MAGA movement because she supported Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for House Speaker.

Bob Saget’s widow recognized the one-year anniversary of his death Monday with an effusive essay remembering him as a great comedian whose top priority was helping others. Kelly Rizzo, who married Saget in 2018, is grateful for the support she continues to receive following the star’s sudden death, she wrote in the piece for People. “Bob changed my life just by being the person who he was,” Rizzo wrote. “Complicated, brilliant, compassionate, hilarious, neurotic, opinionated, loving, adorable, complex, determined, loyal and sweet. Читать дальше...

Rapper and music producer Dr. Dre is calling out Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for using his music without permission, TMZ reports.

A federal judge ordered portions of a deposition unsealed in a defamation lawsuit brought against Donald Trump by his rape accuser.

According to CNN's Melania Zanona, Republican House members are slated to vote on rules changes later on Monday but many are still in the dark about all the concessions and political maneuvers newly-elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) agreed to in order to squeak out a narrow victory in balloting just after midnight on Saturday.

Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon on Monday celebrated concessions Kevin McCarthy made to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Stemming from the internal fight amongst Republicans over who would be the next Speaker of the House, the growing rift between Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is showing no signs of slowing down.

In a column for the New York Daily News, Donald Trump biographer and business reporter David Cay Johnston claimed that if Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg plans to indict Donald Trump for tax fraud based on what he already has, the former president's recently released taxes filled in all the blanks he needs.

An individual paid by George Santos' campaign called wealthy donors pretending to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff, according to a new report.

The public school district in the US city of Seattle has filed a lawsuit against big tech companies for allegedly causing mental harm, depression and anxiety among students.

The Georgia special grand jury investigating whether former President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn the 2020 election has completed its work and will issue a final report that will serve as a mechanism for the special grand jury to recommend whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should bring indictments.

According to a report from William Saletan at the conservative Bulwark, new Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) secured support for his bid to be handed the gavel as Republicans become the majority party in the House by making a bargain assuring a super PAC with strong ties to him will stay out of key GOP primaries in 2024.

Fox News host Harris Faulkner accused President Joe Biden of threatening a border official by merely clearing his throat.

Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) likes to tout her record on the environment, but she has in recent months been buying up stock in a power company that relies heavily on fossil fuels.

Now that Speaker Kevin McCarthy has taken control of the House after four days and 15 grueling votes had to be taken to put down a rebellion by Republican Party members, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to urge a similar takeover in the Senate.

On Monday, Lawfare's Anna Bower reported that the "special purpose" grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia investigating election interference by former President Donald Trump has concluded its work and disbanded, by order of state judge Robert McBurney.

NEW YORK — When a Bronx man was shot to death by his upstairs neighbor over a long-simmering noise dispute, it was the mortally wounded man’s wife, a 911 dispatcher, who relayed the information to her supervisor — without realizing who the victim was. “The girl who was dispatching, she said, ‘Can you give the supervisor this job?’ ” Junita Reed-St. Clair, who was finishing her shift just as her 39-year-old husband, Dillon St. Clair, was killed in a quarrel with their neighbor, explained to the Daily News. Читать дальше...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will face one of the first tests of his leadership since finally winning control of the gavel.

The Supreme Court has denied a longshot lawsuit from three brothers who sought to remove President Joe Biden from office and reinstate Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Meta Platforms Inc's WhatsApp pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.