Новости за 15.02.2023

Jon Stewart did not mince words when he slammed both Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) for their reaction to the Ohio train derailment.

Disgraced conservative Christian activist Josh Duggar has been placed in solitary confinement at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas, according to a new report from the tabloid Radar Online.

DETROIT — A federal judge Wednesday said former Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley will stand trial July 31 in Washington on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol after prosecutors and Kelley failed to negotiate a plea deal. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper set the trial date after repeatedly giving both sides time to negotiate a potential plea deal in one of the more high-profile cases among the more than 948 people nationwide charged with Jan. 6 crimes. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was in the news again this week after she attacked President Joe Biden for getting his information from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

In an interview with CNN this Tuesday, California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom talked about his ex-wife-turned current girlfriend to Donald Trump Jr., saying she was a "different person" when they were married and that she "fell prey" to the culture at Fox News.

As former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) takes the national stage to embark on her campaign for U.S. president, her initial push back is coming from her own backyard.

Two Idaho legislators on Tuesday described how they felt upon learning that a family member was transgender. Their surprise and confusion gave way to acceptance and empathy, they said, as they came to understand what it meant for their loved one to identify as a gender that differed from the sex they were assigned at birth.

During his confirmation hearing this Wednesday, President Biden's nominee for the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Michael Delaney, was peppered with questions over his past representation of a New Hampshire private school that was criticized for how it handled the sexual assault of a female student.

U.S. coffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday told the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that interim CEO Howard Schultz has no intention of testifying before the panel as Chairman Bernie Sanders requested last week, sparking speculation that the progressive senator could use his subpoena power to compel the billionaire executive to appear at an upcoming hearing.

Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that opponents compare to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, which seeks to limit the way teachers and others responsible for caring for minors can answer questions about the child’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign is unprecedented in many ways. Never before in United States history has a twice-impeached ex-president decided to run again, and never has the U.S. had a presidential candidate who was facing so many legal problems at once. Trump is presently being investigated not only by the U.S. Department of Justice, but also, by Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis, New York State Attorney General Letitia James and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Читать дальше...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Wednesday that the criminal charges filed against NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert after he was arrested during a news conference in East Palestine have been dismissed.

Scientists studying Antarctica's vast Thwaites Glacier – nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier – say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in Nature journal showed on Wednesday.

Students at a Utah high school were disciplined for shouting racist slurs and barking like dogs at Asian American and Polynesian players on an opposing basketball team.

Every Arizona voter would be purged from the rolls once a decade and have to re-register under a proposal Republicans in the state Senate advanced this week.

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will soon have to declare whether he plans on running for re-election -- and CNN is reporting that House Republicans are dreading a "nightmare scenario" where he actually goes through with it.

MIAMI — Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, one of 11 defendants accused in the plot to kidnap and kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, was so emboldened as an FBI informant that the Miami-area resident met with agents and promoted “regime change” in Haiti ahead of the brazen presidential assassination. Ortiz’s FBI ties, first reported by the Miami Herald in a series about how the plot to overthrow Haiti’s president was partly rooted in South Florida, were laid out in a criminal complaint Tuesday charging... Читать дальше...

The governor of Ohio warned residents living near the site of a toxic train derailment to drink bottled water Wednesday, as authorities investigate potential environmental fallout from the accident earlier this month.

A white supremacist who murdered 10 Black people during a live-streamed supermarket rampage in New York state last year was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday during an emotional hearing that saw a man lunge for the shooter.

A recent study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy compared neural responses of preschool children with and without autism to videos presenting a human and a humanoid robot. Neural activity of children with autism differed in the situation when they were interacting with a video containing a humanoid robot compared to interacting with a video containing a human being. Neural activity of children without autism, in contrast, was similar in these two situations. The study was published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology. Читать дальше...

Alex Murdaugh assumed he would die in a botched murder-suicide plot alongside a South Carolina road, according to his lawyers.

The Editorial Board of the Miami Herald issued a scathing piece Wednesday accusing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) of adopting a Donald Trump tactic to manipulate the public's attention away from real problems Floridians suffer under.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is reportedly off the hook for potential sex trafficking charges.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) took a swipe at former President Donald Trump during her announcement for a 2024 presidential run.

U.S. coffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday told the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that interim CEO Howard Schultz has no intention of testifying before the panel as Chairman Bernie Sanders requested last week, sparking speculation that the progressive senator could use his subpoena power to compel the billionaire executive to appear at an upcoming hearing.