Новости за 09.02.2023

Former President Donald Trump’s suspensions on Facebook and Instagram have been lifted, more than two years after his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, parent company Meta confirmed Thursday. Meta had suspended Trump from its platforms after “his praise for people engaged in violence at the Capitol,” the company’s global affairs president, Nick Clegg, said in a previous announcement. Trump’s Facebook page, which has 34 million followers, and his Instagram page, which has 23.4 million followers... Читать дальше...

Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) was put out in a House Judiciary Committee hearing when Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett pointed out, in conversation with a witness, that he has not made any effort to establish amicable dialogue with agencies he wants to oversee before immediately rushing to issue subpoenas.

LANSING, Mich. — Republican Perry Johnson, a Michigan businessman and former candidate for governor, is launching a campaign committee to potentially run for president along with funding Super Bowl ads to back his possible bid in the key state of Iowa. Johnson announced the formation of his presidential committee Thursday, a step that will allow him to begin raising and spending money. In a statement, Johnson said he supported former President Donald Trump, a Republican, in 2016 and 2020 and "could... Читать дальше...

Lawyer Jonathan Turley has become one of the Republican Party's favorite lawyers. A self-proclaimed Democrat, he frequently appears in Congress as an expert witness for Republicans.

MIAMI — The Florida High School Athletic Association on Thursday walked back a controversial proposal to require female high school athletes to disclose information regarding their menstrual history, following scathing criticism from students, parents, physicians, advocacy organizations and some lawmakers. The FHSAA Board of Directors voted 14-2 during an emergency meeting to instead require students to submit just one page to schools to indicate if they are healthy enough to compete, or only able to participate partially... Читать дальше...

A rioter who carried a Confederate flag through the halls of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 36 months in prison, CBS News reports.

It has been over seven months since former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, but his takes on former President Donald Trump are just now being revealed to the public.

Some conservatives are looking to slow Donald Trump's momentum towards a 2024 run at the White House in favor of some new faces, Bloomberg reports.

Former President Donald Trump accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of engaging in "grooming" behavior in his latest attack against his top rival for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

After being forced into submission by people like Donald Trump and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one would think Speaker Kevin McCarthy would have downgraded his own self-assessment as a master negotiator. But no, ever since he finally secured his seat after 15 humiliating rounds of his own caucus voting against him, McCarthy has forged ahead with what he clearly thinks is a genius plan to trick President Joe Biden into destroying Social Security and Medicare for him: Mobster tactics.

Abortion rights advocates are "watching and hoping that evidence-based care will prevail" in a federal court case in Texas, said one physician this week as a judge appointed by former President Donald Trump is expected to rule as soon as Friday on the Food and Drug Administration's authority to approve one of two drugs commonly used for medication abortions.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) accused Republicans of using "psychological projection" to obscure their efforts to use a congressional investigation to restore Donald Trump to the White House.

A northern Kentucky mother was banned from refereeing youth basketball games because she's a lesbian.

Although Democrats generally performed much better than expected in the 2022 midterms, Florida was the one state where the red wave that Fox News pundits were predicting really did materialize. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis campaigned from the far right and was reelected by 19 percent; Sen. Marco Rubio, another Republican, defeated Democratic challenger Val Demings by 16 percent.

The death toll from earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria has climbed above 20,000, a tally that is expected to rise further as crews comb the rubble of thousands of toppled buildings.

The new House panel investigating the "weaponization of the federal government" held its first hearing this Thursday, and is looking to probe claims that the Department of Justice, FBI and other federal agencies are biased against conservatives.

Most Chief Justices of the Supreme Court craft a code of ethics, but after nearly 20 years the Court has operated without any rules. According to the Washington Post, it's because he wants all of the other justices to agree.

While President Joe Biden has been taking hits from some Republicans and Democrats over his handling of a Chinese spy balloon that entered American airspace last week, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said that he believed the president had taken the right course.

Repetition is one of the most essential principles in marketing. It is how a brand creates a relationship with consumers. If the marketing campaign is successful, the consumer will link the brand with certain emotions, images, and ideas. In the most effective marketing campaigns, the consumer embraces a given brand as exemplifying those qualities to the exclusion of the competing brands.

By Rachael Levy

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens.

A Department of Transportation spokesperson told Reuters about the probe after the Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-welfare advocacy group, wrote to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg earlier on Thursday to alert it of records it obtained on the matter. Читать дальше...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -At least 12 people were killed on Thursday in a gas explosion in a housing block in the city of Novosibirsk in Siberia, Tass news agency said, in Russia's second fatal gas explosion in three days. The agency cited local officials as saying another three people were missing. The regional health ministry earlier said the dead included a two-year-old child. Russia's Investigative Committee, which is responsible for major crimes, said it had opened an investigation and detained two... Читать дальше...

According to Telegram messages introduced as evidence in court Wednesday at the trial of five Proud Boys who are charged with seditious conspiracy, the right-wing group was energized after former President Donald Trump told members of the right-wing extremist group to "stand back and stand by" during a September 2020 presidential debate, USA Today reports.

Is it true that women’s sexual desire fluctuates over time, while men’s remains stable? A series of three longitudinal studies published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior tested this common assumption. Findings revealed that over the short-term, there were no sex differences, while over the long-term, women more so than men experienced variability in sexual desire. “I was broadly interested in how sexual desire changes over time. People have been studying sexual desire as a state that can be fluid... Читать дальше...

US lawmakers on Thursday unanimously denounced China's use of a suspected spy balloon that flew over North America last week.

A hometown columnist took Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to the woodshed for attacking President Joe Biden's response to a surveillance balloon launched by China.