Новости за 25.01.2023

Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has issued a rare response to Donald Trump after his repeated attacks against her with racist undertones.

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin noted that the Democrats have a two-pronged plan to win the debt ceiling battle with Republicans. One is what Democrats have already implemented: show how Republicans are recklessly handling the economic stability of the United States. The other is more unique.

A former Alabama state representative believes that he was arrested for sexual abuse because he supported former President Donald Trump.

The so-called "Fair Tax" plan being pushed by some House Republicans is facing even steeper hurdles to passage now that one of its cosponsors has withdrawn his support.

Could we feed a city on Mars? This question is central to the future of space exploration and has serious repercussions on Earth too. To date, a lot of thought has gone into how astronauts eat; however, we are only beginning to produce food in space.

Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our ancestors’ life cycle – like pregnancy or gestation – that leave no obvious trace in the fossil record?

Donald Trump has gone into legal retreat after failing to challenge the New York attorney general's fraud lawsuit, and legal experts say he's suddenly in real jeopardy.

During a segment on The View this Wednesday, the topic of discussion was the recent discovery of classified documents in the possession of yet another political figure, this time former Vice President Mike Pence.

Actor Jeremey Renner was trying to stop his snow plow from striking his nephew when he was pulled under the vehicle and crushed on New Year’s Day, police said. The Pistenbully snow groomer started to slide sideways shortly after the “Hawkeye” actor used it to free his nephew’s truck from a snowbank just outside Reno, Nevada, according to a redacted Washoe County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by CNN. When he could not stop the plow, 52-year-old Renner, leapt from the vehicle without engaging the emergency break. Читать дальше...

Failed Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, a state senator, is saying he will submit legislation to ban drag shows in public by reclassifying them as "adult-oriented businesses," amid right wing uproar over a high school's "queer prom."

Donald Trump famously refuses to communicate by text or email, which his advisers have said probably kept him out of legal trouble, but that began to change recently.

The director of the civil rights drama “Till” condemned Hollywood’s “unabashed misogyny towards Black women” after her film was shut out of the 2023 Oscar nominations. Chinonye Chukwu’s biographical movie depicts Mamie Till’s fight for justice following the 1955 lynching of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till. “We live in a world and work in industries that are so aggressively committed to upholding whiteness and perpetuating an unabashed misogyny towards Black women,” Chukwu wrote in an Instagram... Читать дальше...

Many right-wing media consumers got a surprise Wednesday morning when they turned on their televisions to find Newsmax was no longer on the air. The far-right-leaning cable station was cut from DirecTV’s lineup at midnight after negotiations between the satellite service and the media outlet fell apart. “On multiple occasions, we made it clear to Newsmax that we wanted to continue to offer the network, but ultimately Newsmax’s demands for rate increases would have led to significantly higher costs... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The discovery of classified information at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence has prompted a question about whether the classification system of secret documents needs to be changed to ensure documents don't end up being taken to the homes of major leaders after leaving office.

A secretly made documentary purporting to shed new light on the allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh doesn't reveal any new bombshells, according to Slate's Sam Adams.

A new study in Personality and Individual Differences sheds light on who is vulnerable to fake news and what can be done to help people falling for it. The findings indicate that those with more schizotypal, paranoid, and histrionic personality traits tend to have trouble detecting fake news. In addition, these individuals suffered more anxiety and engaged in more cognitive biases. Study authors Alex Escola-Gascon and colleagues recommend combating the Barnum Effect and teaching critical thinking... Читать дальше...

Fox News host and commentator Jesse Watters and a few of his Republican colleagues on Tuesday shared their discontentment with news that “about a dozen” classified documents have been discovered in former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, Huffpost reports.

In a clip from Fox News Tuesday night show "The Five," Watters suggests that because documents were found in Pence’s home, all the fun Republicans were having with President Joe Biden’s classified document matter is officially over. Читать дальше...

Any lingering doubt about House speaker Kevin McCarthy's support for Donald Trump should be laid to rest by his latest fundraising email.

The lawyer for the family of Virginia teacher Abigail Zwerner says there were multiple incidents with the student who ultimately shot her, the Washington Post and NBC News reported.

Trump 2024 campaign attorney Christina Bobb blasted Republicans as "cowards" for appointing judges who rejected election challenges — even though some of them were appointed by former President Donald Trump.

The final report from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election might be readable, but nested in the text are footnotes that resulted in dozens of pages information, some of which were previously unknown to the public.

Mike Lindell is running for Republican National Committee chair, but no one seems sure whether he's serious.

After spending the Trump administration cutting taxes for the wealthy and massively raising military spending, congressional Republicans are back to caterwauling about deficits. This was as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. When Republicans are in power they give away the store and then when the Democrats are called in to clean up their mess, Republicans immediately rant and rave about government spending and the debt. This has been going on for decades and it would have been short-sighted... Читать дальше...

U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is continuing his campaign of obfuscation, just one day after amending his campaign finance report telling the Federal Elections Commission on Tuesday the half-million dollars he claimed to have personally loaned his campaign was not actually from his personal funds.

US tech giant Microsoft said on Wednesday it had suffered a global outage that limited access to software including Outlook and Teams for several hours.