Новости за 17.02.2023

Reporters are shocked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) decision to absolve Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of sex trafficking charges after a nearly three-year-long investigation, Salon reports.

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Jurors on Friday got a much clearer picture of Alex Murdaugh’s movements the night his wife and son were murdered. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division agent Peter Rudofski led jurors through data from Murdaugh’s car that recorded his movements and speeds on June 7, 2021, including around the times his wife, Maggie, and youngest son, Paul, were shot and killed near the dog kennels at the family’s rural Colleton County home. Prosecutors and investigators only received the data Feb. Читать дальше...

An object shot down by the U.S. Military over the Yukon last weekend may have belonged to an Illinois hobbyist group, Politico reports.

Several key senators are weighing retirement instead of running for re-election, and that could cost Democrats in an election where they must defend 23 seats compared to 11 for Republicans.

On Wednesday, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to "receive treatment for clinical depression," according to a statement from his chief of staff, Adam Jentleson.

A sanitation company in the United States has paid $1.5 million in penalties for hiring over 100 children in "hazardous occupations" and having them work at meat processing facilities, the Department of Labor said Friday.

The explosive court filing made this week by Dominion Voting Systems revealed multiple Fox News hosts and producers didn't believe many of the false claims that were airing on their network.

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Britain's prime minister told Northern Ireland politicians on Friday that progress had been made on easing post-Brexit trade rules as he sought to keep the province's sceptical unionists on side in a final push for a deal with the European Union. After weeks of intense London-Brussels talks, momentum has been building towards a deal to revise the Northern Ireland Protocol - the arrangements agreed to avoid a hard border with EU member Ireland when Britain exited the EU in 2020. Читать дальше...

A scaled-back proposal to repeal Virginia’s antiquated constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was blocked Friday by the Republican-controlled House of Delegates, despite supporters’ attempts to win bipartisan votes by stripping out any language overtly backing LGBTQ equality.

As eastern Australian humpback whale populations have recovered over the years, males have adapted their mating strategy in a highly strategic way, new research finds.

Since the discovery of penicillin in the late 1920s, antibiotics have “revolutionized medicine and saved millions of lives.” Unfortunately, the effectiveness of antibiotics is now threatened by the increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria globally.

Florida Republican Rick Scott is disavowing his plan to for Social Security and Medicare and took to the conservative Washington Examiner to complain that he has not been treated fairly by both President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on the subject.

Tiger Woods's apparent bid to prank playing partner Justin Thomas by handing him a tampon during the first round of the PGA Genesis Invitational has sparked some criticism of the 15-time major champion.

On July 26, 2017, out of the blue, President Donald Trump in a series of tweets falsely claiming he had consulted with his generals, announced all transgender service members would be kicked out of the U.S. Armed Forces. There was no legitimate basis for the Commander-in-Chief's decision, no scientific basis, no financial basis, and indeed, doing so would have stripped America's military of some of its experts.

A Michigan college is home to what may be the largest collection of racist memorabilia in the United States.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump doesn’t want the jury at his upcoming civil rape trial to see or hear the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape — in which he quipped about molesting women — nor anything about his multiple sex crimes accusers. In court papers filed late Thursday, Trump’s lawyers Joe Tacopina and Alina Habba asked Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan to bar E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers from introducingthe tape into evidence when the case unfolds on Apr. 25. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and a handful of Republican freshman lawmakers traveled to the U.S. – Mexico border Thursday, where they continued to blame the Biden administration for the fentanyl drug crisis.

A little over two months after surviving a challenge to his leadership, Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Michael Butler is resigning.

At least three Arizona Republican state legislators have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, Jack Smith, as part of the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss.

Responding to reports that failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake plans to appeal yet another legal setback in her effort to prove the 2022 election was stolen from her, one Arizona columnist suggested it's about time she exhibits a tiny bit of dignity, admit she lost and move on.

Lawyers representing Dominion Voting Systems unearthed a message from Fox News' Maria Bartiromo in which she expresses a distaste for talking about having a peaceful transition of power to President Joe Biden for fear of alienating Trump-loving viewers.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Katie Porter on Thursday demanded answers from the five largest egg producers in the United States over recent price surges that companies have blamed on an avian flu outbreak—a narrative that advocates view as an effort to distract attention from rampant profiteering in the industry.

In an interview with the hosts of the Daily Beast's 'The New Normal," former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that special counsel Jack Smith's decision to subpoena three of Donald Trump's lawyers has the legal community sitting up and noticing since it is such an unprecedented move.

In a post to Twitter this Friday, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake shared an article from the Gateway Pundit claiming that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was "endorsed by George Soros" -- a claim that is not true.

"CNN This Morning" anchor Don Lemon had to offer a "groveling apology" to his coworkers at CNN on the daily editorial call, after he made comments about former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's age that offended women, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.