Новости за 21.01.2023

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance made a point of cautioning Donald Trump's lawyers that their client could flake out on them when it comes to him paying his part of a nearly million-dollar fine and that they won't like what comes next if he does.

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Pennsylvania – the “Chocolate Capital of the World” – doesn’t help either of us.

A new proposal coming from the House Republicans who have taken over the chamber after the midterm election is setting off alarm bells with members of the conservative Wall Street Journal's editorial board.

During the final days that Trump sat in the Oval Office after the Jan 6th insurrection, one key official in the West Wing was secretly working through an intermediary to keep President-elect Joe Biden's people apprised about the doings at the White House.

After being tracked down overseas, a Florida lawyer is headed to prison for over eight years after pleading guilty to wire-fraud and identity-theft charges that netted him $7.2 million in government funds.

The Supreme Court investigation into the leak of Associate Justice Sam Alito's draft that would lead to the dismantling of the Roe v Wade after fifty years came up empty according to a report this week, but it left behind a bitter aftertaste among clerks for the justices --some of whom feel it was not conducted thoroughly.

Teachers at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia saw their warnings about the six-year-old who is accused of shooting his teacher ignored up to the day he opened fire, according to texts obtained by the Washington Post.

As Republican contenders for the 2024 presidential nomination begin to test the waters with an emphasis on how they would fare against announced candidate Donald Trump, the former president is reportedly fixated on his main rival Ron DeSantis and could be contemplating a new strategy to end the Florida Republican's dream of becoming the party's standard bearer.

A civil war has broken out among Republicans in Texas after the state party paid for an attack ad aimed at the House speaker -- who is also a Republican.

According to the former U.S. House of Representatives' general counsel who served the Democratic-led chamber during Donald Trump's administration, his hope is that sanity will once again prevail after having worked on two impeachments and the investigation of the Jan.6 insurrection the former president inspired.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Saturday the histories of the United States and Africa were "intimately connected" by the "tragedy" of slavery, as Washington seeks to strengthen relations with the continent.

The publisher of the small newspaper that raised red flags about George Santos' bid for a House seat appeared on MSNBC Saturday morning and recalled an alarming first meeting with the then-candidate who came seeking his paper's endorsement.

There is growing unrest back in his district aimed at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), with his constituents believing that he is ignoring their needs because he is too caught up in his rise to power.

The U.S. Supreme Court Marshal "spoke with" the Court's justices as part of the investigation into the leak of the Dobbs draft decision that ultimately overturned the constitutional right to abortion, but unlike the dozens of other employees they were not asked to sign sworn affidavits, according to a statement released late Friday afternoon by the Court.

The “Rally against Censorship” featuring Kyle Rittenhouse has found a new venue in Conroe, days after a local brewery pulled out of the event.

Human civilization had a good understanding of how sex and reproduction worked long before the microscope was invented. But it wasn't until the 17th century that anyone knew what sperm actually were, or were aware of their strange appearance. And when sperm finally were formally discovered, by Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, he was so uncomfortable he wished he could unsee what he'd just observed.

The Sundance Film Festival added a new documentary to its lineup that intentionally slams the FBI for its probe into Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanuagh’s sexual assault allegations, Mediaite reports.

Republicans in the Iowa House introduced legislation this month that would impose a slew of fresh restrictions on the kinds of food people can purchase using SNAP benefits, sparking outrage among local groups who say the measure would exacerbate hunger in the GOP-dominated state.

After expressing disappointment over the cancellation of a "rally against censorship" event that was to be held at a Texas brewery towards the end of January, Kyle Rittenhouse has been hit with another shut down that he blames on the "woke mob."

The Massachusetts Republican Party is in turmoil after revelations that party chair Jim Lyons paid for private investigators to tail and collect opposition research on fellow Republicans, reported the Boston Herald on Friday.

Profanity was exchanged in a contentious cross-examination between federal prosecutors and Richard "Bigo" Barnett, the Arkansas window salesman who was famously photographed putting his feet up on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk while storming the Capitol on January 6, POLITICO reported on Friday.

The saying "all politics are local" has received an entirely new meaning in Ohio where a staunch environmentalist is sick of the garbage coming from his Trump-supporting neighbors -- so he took matters into his own hands and repeatedly littered on their front lawns with literature about the environment, Democratic candidate marketing material, and even hand-written notes bashing his neighbors for their conservative Republican stances.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 2022 midterm cycle, has ambitions of running for president — and according to Tara Palmieri for Puck, he is considering a plan to tear down one of his most bitter rivals: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A Republican donor in New Mexico has told the New York Times that he regrets backing failed GOP candidate Solomon Pena, who earlier this week was arrested for allegedly orchestrating shootings at the homes of multiple state Democratic officials.

Diners at Anna's Greek Restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky were caught totally off guard when a local Republican group showed up to hold an event for one of the police officers from the raid that killed Breonna Taylor — and aired body camera footage from the incident in front of all the patrons.