Новости за 01.02.2023

Former President Donald Trump has replaced yet another attorney as his legal challenges grow in the battery and defamation lawsuit brought by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, reported Newsweek on Wednesday.

By Trevor Hunnicutt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy began talks on Wednesday on raising U.S. government borrowing limits, in a first test of how the two will work together and avoid a default that could shake the global economy.

The Democratic president and Republicans, who won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November's elections, are locked in a standoff over raising the federal government's $31.4 trillion U.S. Читать дальше...

Republican officials are worried that former President Donald Trump's recent 2024 presidential campaign appearance in New Hampshire will deter GOP voters from participating in early in-person voting, Bloomberg reports.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke with reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday about the vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Washington is deeply concerned over the release this week of a Sudanese man facing the death penalty in connection with the killing of a U.S. diplomat in 2008, the State Department said on Wednesday.

The House Oversight Committee held its first hearing this Wednesday to investigate whether federal money allocated for COVID-19 assistance was spent improperly. The committee the includes controversial Republicans like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA), Lauren Boebert (CO), Paul Gosar (AZ) and Jim Jordan (OH).

An early morning shooting spree that ended at a Washington, D.C. metro train station has killed a metro worker and injured three other people, as reported by ABC News.

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley on Wednesday previewed a "big announcement" she plans to make in two weeks, widely expected to be the launch of her 2024 US presidential run -- making her the first Republican to throw down the gauntlet to Donald Trump in the race for the White House.

With Republicans now in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives under Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s leadership, they are once again arguing with Democrats over the United States’ debt ceiling. Democrats, along with many economists, are warning that if the U.S. defaults on its debt obligations, that event could trigger a major financial crisis.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is calling on the Securities and Exchanges Commission to include newly elected Rep. George Santos (R-NY) in its investigation into the company where Santos once worked.

Former Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH), who was one of former President Donald Trump's first GOP backers in his 2016 run for president, is telling The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner that he's taking a wait-and-see approach to making an endorsement in the 2024 race.

The controller of the Trump Organization, Jeffrey McConney, will appear before a Manhattan grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s alleged role in a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, CNN reports.

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A Romanian appeals court rejected Wednesday a new bail request by Andrew Tate, the controversial influencer being investigated along with his brother for alleged human trafficking and rape.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) ripped his Republican colleagues for seemingly "cheering on chaos" by hyping drug busts at the border to attack President Joe Biden.

An FBI search of President Joe Biden's home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, found no classified documents.

You won’t hear any more fibs from U.S. Rep. George Santos. He gave his word. Santos, a New York Republican, told a right-wing news outlet that he will be strictly telling the truth from now on. “I’ve learned my lesson, he said in an interview with One America News Network Tuesday. “I can guarantee you that from now on anything, everything is always going to be aboveboard.” After months of damaging disclosures that he lied about almost every aspect of his life, Santos asserted that he has been “largely aboveboard” all along. Читать дальше...

Pop megastar Beyonce on Wednesday announced plans to tour Europe and North America later this year, following the release of her latest album "Renaissance" -- just days before a Grammy Awards ceremony where she is the most-nominated artist.

President Joe Biden handed over his keys to his Delaware beach house on Wednesday for the FBI to search for any additional possible classified information that could have made its way there after his time in the vice president's office.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell took a victory lap on Wednesday after appearing on The Jimmy Kimmel Show the night before.

Critics of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pounced on Wednesday after he advised his constituents to stay warm during unexpectedly cold weather.

As part of his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump is now declaring war against transgender people – especially transgender children – even vowing to use DOJ and Congress to make being transgender illegal under federal law, if elected President. He also promised to promote the "nuclear family," an attack on same-sex couples and families. And he pledged to use the Dept. of Education to file federal civil rights charges against local school teachers who support transgender children – or even the very concept of being transgender. Читать дальше...

Democratic strategists have been expressing their concerns about Arizona’s 2024 U.S. Senate race, fearing that if Sen. Kyrsten Sinema seeks reelection as an independent, a split between Sinema and liberal Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego among voters could give the GOP nominee — whoever that turns out to be — an advantage. Gallego’s recent announcement that he is seeking the Democratic nomination in that race was well-received by his party’s liberals and progressives; Gallego’s Senate campaign said it raised more $1 million in a single day. Читать дальше...

Members of the Proud Boys militant group plotted on social media for months ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection to take action against what they believed to be an election stolen from Donald Trump.

After more than two decades on air, Phil McGraw’s eponymous daytime talk show will come to an end in the spring. McGraw on Tuesday revealed his long-running advice show, “Dr. Phil,” will wrap with the current 2022-2023 television season, the show’s 21st. The announcement comes at the end of his most recent contract — which involved a five-season renewal signed in a 2018 mega-deal with CBS Media Ventures. “I have been blessed with over 25 wonderful years in daytime television,” McGraw said in a statement sent to PEOPLE. Читать дальше...