Новости за 02.03.2023

A teacher's aide in a South Carolina school has been charged with cruelty to children after she allegedly duct-taped a 4-year-old's legs to a chair, WJBF reported.

The ally of a former Colorado official facing obstruction charges testified against her on Thursday, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel’s Charles Ashby reports.

A lawyer for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) shot down a recommendation to launch an ethics investigation into expenses incurred — and paid — by the lawmaker linked to her 2021 appearance at the annual Met Gala fundraiser in Manhattan.

The annual far-right conference CPAC is a ghost town, according to some photos of the conference space.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for an American “divorce.”

She apparently sees herself as a modern-day John C. Calhoun, a demagogue who serves the interests of the white oligarch class and, in turn, receives their support, and the power and wealth that come with it.

She’s started a secession propaganda campaign much like Calhoun and his buddies did when he left the White House as VP in 1833, the same year England outlawed slavery on British-territory plantations and talk of abolition in the US kicked into high gear. Читать дальше...

Fox News' Rupert Murdoch, the Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro and firebrand author Ann Coulter are among the right-wing Republicans who have been pushing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as an alternative to Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Coulter has been insisting that Trump’s base of support within the GOP is wildly exaggerated and that Trump is "done" and "over" among Republicans. As Coulter sees it, DeSantis should have no problem defeating Trump in the primary if he runs for president. Читать дальше...

In other campaign video outlining his “agenda,” Donald Trump falsely accuses President Joe Biden of creating a “Marxist equity enforcement squad” for the executive branch, and promises if voters return him to the Oval Office he will “immediately terminate” all staffers and programs associated with Biden’s “woke takeover of the entire federal government.”

During the defense’s closing statement in Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial, defense attorney Jim Griffin slammed law enforcement as incompetent and biased, Law&Crime reported.

Editor-in-Chief Dave Levinthal this week detailed Raw Story's plans for the newsroom's investigative reporting — and dug into a pair of new investigations already published.

CHICAGO — Nearly a year after being sentenced to five months in jail, only to be released on bond days later, former actor Jussie Smollett has filed his long-awaited appeal claiming his indictment by a special prosecutor was invalid due to double-jeopardy concerns and that the trial judge was biased against him. The 102-page brief filed Wednesday with the Illinois Appellate Court tread mostly familiar ground in the well-worn case against Smollett, the onetime “Empire” star who was convicted by... Читать дальше...

OXON HILL, Md. — Pillow magnate Mike Lindell was on hand at CPAC on Thursday, where he blasted Fox News in a conversation with reporters.

Maricopa County is spending nearly $1,000 for each hour that a team of investigators works to find out what went wrong on Election Day in November, according to new information obtained by Votebeat.

Jay Leno’s recovery from serious facial burns is no joke. The comedian appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” where the host marveled at how good Leno looks less than four months after he was badly injured in a car fire. “You’d think there’d be a zipper here, but no,” Leno joked of his face during Wednesday’s episode. “This is like a brand-new face. Only for the second time in my career am I the new face of comedy. ... That’s a brand new ear.” Leno is an avid car collector who hosts the CNBC series... Читать дальше...

Republicans in Michigan took an unexpected beating in last year's midterm elections, and the party responded by doubling down on extremist personalities by electing election-denying conspiracy theorist Kristina Karamo as its chairman.

Jewish-led peace groups on Wednesday called on the Biden administration to bar Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the U.S. ahead of a planned visit over his recent comments about the Palestinian town of Hawara, which was the target of a deadly rampage earlier this week by Israeli settlers.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming absolute immunity from any accountability for the speech he made at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, in which he called on the crowd to march to the Capitol.

Wayne Shorter, the storied saxophonist considered one of America's greatest jazz composers and among the genre's leading risk-takers, died on Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

The ex-Republican group Lincoln Project is up with a new video ridiculing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for pulling out of CPAC. The organization is facing a lot of backlash from Republicans after the chair of the group was accused of groping a male staffer on Herschel Walker's Senate campaign.

Police revealed a list of sinister items they seized from a home belonging to an Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger's parents.

The Federal Election Commission has sent a letter to scandal-plagued Rep. George Santos (R-NY) informing him that his campaign has accepted an apparently illegal campaign contribution.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Thursday revealed that she was a target in an anti-Semitic plot that involved murdering Jewish elected officials.

Rudy Giuliani has seen a downward spiral of his professional reputation since falling in with former President Donald Trump and, more recently, the crowd of conspiracy theorists trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, including the suspension of his law license in New York and a recommendation of disbarment from D.C. ethics officials.

Former US Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney has been appointed as a professor at the University of Virginia, the school said Wednesday.

Protesters turned out to reject a campus visit from conservative activist Charlie Kirk at the University of California.

A Florida GOP State Senator has proposed a bill that would officially abolish the state's Democratic Party, NBC reports.