Новости за 14.02.2023

After having claimed that he was immune, as an executive, from having to answer questions from the January 6 Committee, former Vice President Mike Pence is now trying the opposite strategy to avoid a subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith and claiming, as President of the Senate, his actions at the time of the attack are shielded by the Speech and Debate Clause of the Constitution.

Republicans, still stung by Arizonans rejection of the party’s top nominees in the 2022 midterm elections, are calling for a hand-count audit of the election — but only in Maricopa County.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) will not seek re-election in 2024 after more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Joe Biden's 100th appointed judge, surpassing his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, NBC reports.

Taking the stand for the prosecution this Tuesday, a caretaker for Alex Murdaugh’s family dogs may have been more of an aid to the defense after he described the former South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son as loving and devoted husband and father, the Daily Beast reports.

By Steve Holland and Nandita Bose

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden challenged Republicans on Tuesday to release a budget proposal and let Americans decide whether they want to stay the course with his economic vision or pursue policies that he says would drive up the national debt.

Biden, who opposes putting conditions on a debt ceiling increase that is needed to cover outlays and tax cuts already approved by Congress, has pushed Republicans for details on what budget cuts... Читать дальше...

A New York appeals court on Tuesday rejected the attempt of Fox News to throw out a defamation lawsuit.

The Bradford Funeral Home in Summersville, Missouri announced that Teddy Joseph Von Nukem died on Jan. 30, 2023. He was perhaps most known for the photos of the tiki torch-wielding rioters at the head of the group in Charlottesville, tweeted activist and writer Molly Conger.

Some Democrats in the United States Senate are complaining that President Joe Biden's administration is setting up roadblocks for them as they try to gather more information about Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's deals with the Saudi Arabian government.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) credited Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) with his decision to expand AP African American studies in the state.

WASHINGTON — After U.S. air surveillance fine-tuned its radar to detect objects like the spy balloon from China and since have discovered a number of small objects that are floating over American skies, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Raw Story that the spy balloon "sorta got people thinking differently about how to set the information."

MIAMI — More than a year and a half after launching their investigation, U.S. federal agents arrested four suspects in South Florida Tuesday on charges of playing key roles in a plot to kill Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, who was shot to death in his home by an alleged team of Colombian commandos as his presidential guards stood down. The local arrests of the owner of a Miami-area security firm, his business partner, a financier and an exporter mark a turning point in the probe that is now focused on the weapons... Читать дальше...

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) will not seek re-election in 2024 after more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate.

Adam Frisch, the former Aspen City Council member who nearly pulled off a shock upset of controversial Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Silt last year, confirmed Tuesday that he will challenge Boebert again in 2024.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ran up a hefty legal bill in his unsuccessful quest to avoid testifying before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election – and he’s not shy about asking for help.

Hours after a man opened fire on Monday night at two locations at Michigan State University, killing at least three students and injuring at least five, a 21-year-old student at the school posted a TikTok video to share that this was not the first mass shooting she'd survived.

Following a late Monday night shooting that killed three Michigan State University students and injured five more — mere miles from the state’s Capital of Lansing — Democratic lawmakers are vowing to deliver more than empty words in order to prevent another tragedy.

Angry at lawyers being disciplined for making baseless election fraud complaints in Arizona courts, a Republican legislator says the State Bar of Arizona and the Arizona Supreme Court should be barred from punishing those attorneys and be heavily fined if they do so.

A Florida religious college abruptly cancelled a concert after learning that one of the Grammy Award-winning troupe's singers is gay.

A California man who used a taser on a Metropolitan Police Officer during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the assault and three other charges, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

By Sarah N. Lynch and Susan Heavey

(Reuters) -Republican former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is preparing to resist a grand jury subpoena for testimony about efforts to overturn then-President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection loss, a source familiar with his plans said on Tuesday.

Pence will argue that his role as president of the Senate - making him a member of the legislative branch - shields him from certain Justice Department demands, rather than cite executive privilege as then-vice president, the source said. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump has regularly railed against New York Attorney General Letitia James -- and now he owes her office more than $100,000.

A major French mental health study has found a huge rise in the number of young people reporting depression, with the most likely cause seen as Covid-19 and restrictions to control the disease.

The National Security Council and White House said Tuesday that the past three objects shot down over the United States might not have been spy balloons. According to John Kirby, they appear to be "benign" and possibly linked to research or commercial operations.

Former Trump Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has officially launched her 2024 presidential campaign, being the first to formally challenge her former boss, without once mentioning him in her three-minute announcement released at 6:48 AM Tuesday.