Новости за 24.02.2023

Alex Murdaugh clashed with prosecutor Creighton Waters on Friday after he suggested that someone inspired by social media had targeted his family. The powerful South Carolina attorney is facing charges that he killed his wife and son.

A man who confessed to double murder and who wants the death penalty for himself smiled and thanked the judge for granting him his wish, Law&Crime reported.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s response to Donald Trump’s refusal to accept any responsibility for the impact his massive deregulations have had went viral on Thursday as video of him encouraging the ex-president to support the Biden administration’s efforts went viral.

Despite the existence of ample evidence to disprove election fraud claims in Arizona, elected Republicans in that state held yet another hearing this week that gave conspiracy theorists space to air false accusations about the 2020 election being stolen from former President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to turn over thousands of hours of never-seen-before video taken at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot incited by Donald Trump to a Fox News personality could have the unintended consequences of ending the California Republican's speakership after the 2024 general election.

Prosecutors confronted Alex Murdaugh for the first time about his presence at the dog kennels where his wife and son were killed. The disbarred Lowcountry attorney emphatically denied killing his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, at the family’s rural Colleton County home on June 7, 2021. But he admitted first on the witness stand Thursday that he lied to investigators about being with Maggie and Paul at the property’s dog kennels shortly before the murders, after a video shot on Paul’s cellphone captured his voice at the scene. Читать дальше...

A Florida high school student has been arrested and charged after he tackled and viciously beat a teacher who took away his Nintendo Switch during class, FOX 35 Orlando reported.

Reacting to a Washington Post report that showed that former Arizona Attorney General Attorney General of Arizona Mark Brnovich speaking at the 2019 Inauguration of Governor Doug Ducey (R) misrepresented and then buried a report that affirmed there was no election fraud in the 2020 presidential election, two legal experts asserted that he should face legal sanctions including disbarment.

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams on Friday said that prosecutors had done a good job of impugning the credibility of accused murderer Alex Murdaugh but he warned that they may not have enough evidence to convict him.

Brazilian Amazon deforestation reached its worst-ever February level in the second month of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's presidential term, provisional data showed Friday.

Several legal experts say Dominion Voting Systems' new filing against Fox News for airing blatant lies about the 2020 election despite knowing the truth poses a "serious threat" to the conservative cable news channel, CNN reports.

Governor Ron DeSantis is denying any responsibility for new Florida restrictions on the First Amendment that ban protests at the state Capitol unless groups requesting a permit are sponsored by a state official and their protest "aligns" with his administration's mission. On Wednesday, DeSantis joked about the January 6, 2021 insurrection while downplaying it as he spoke about the new state policy effectively curtailing the right to protest the government.

A sequel to How The Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr Seuss has been announced by the publisher.

Villagers in Cramant in France's Champagne are being treated to a rare sight: little pigs grubbing around the vines that produce the region's famed bubbly, an alternative to chemical or mechanical means of fighting weeds and pests.

Not so long ago, Earth’s interior was thought to be made up of four layers: the crust, mantle, (liquid) outer core and (solid) inner core.

CNN is reporting that investigators working for special counsel Jack Smith wants some answers about the box of government documents recovered in December from Mar-a-Lago and why they weren't there when the FBI previously investigated and hauled away the files that should have been left in Washington, DC.

During an appearance on conservative comedian Alex Stein's new show on The Blaze, Alan Dershowitz was peppered with questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and an alleged massage he received at Epstein's mansion.

For the second day during his trial for the murder of his wife and son, disgraced former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense — and was hammered by prosecutors over a significant confession he made the previous day.

The leader of one the nation’s largest religious-freedom groups warns “America cannot stay America” without a renewed commitment to fighting back against extremists emboldened by former President Donald Trump.

The first of five students hospitalized after the Feb. 13 shooting at Michigan State University has been discharged to go home, according to the MSU police. The student, who was not identified in the update, had previously been listed in serious condition, police said. The student's release leaves four other students still receiving care at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing — one in fair condition; two in serious, but stable condition; and one still in critical condition. The students were injured and three others killed on Feb. Читать дальше...

According to First Amendment scholar Jeff Kosseff, who teaches cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, the brief from Dominion Voting Systems that contains private texts and emails between Fox News execs and on-air hosts is a "nightmare" for the network as it tries to stave off a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.

Rep. George Santos came under fire Thursday for co-sponsoring a law that would make the deadly AR-15 assault weapon the “national gun” of the U.S. The Long Island Republican lawmaker is joining a right-wing push to lionize the killer weapon that has been used in many recent mass shootings in American workplaces and schools. Santos, who has mostly faced attacks for his serial lying, had already worn an assault weapon lapel pin to Congress to show opposition to gun-control regulations like the proposed... Читать дальше...

Minutes before Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat entered her first Seattle Opera production meeting for an adaptation of the novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns," she learned that her hometown of Herat had fallen to the Taliban.

A new trend on Tiktok, known as #TeacherQuittok, is showing masses of teachers sharing their stories as they leave their increasingly hostile workplaces, VICE News reported on Friday.

The arrest of a Florida man who allegedly shot and killed three people including a local news reporter and a 9-year-old girl was captured on a police body cam, showing police take him to the ground as he screams, "They're killing me!"