Новости за 17.03.2023

Mike Pence is doubling down on his homophobic and misogynistic attack against Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, his husband, and their infant children, just hours after Chasten Buttigieg accused the former Trump vice president of hypocrisy for not practicing what he preaches.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Erin Morrow Hawley, an attorney and wife of one of Missouri’s senators, is at the center of a federal lawsuit in Texas that could cancel approval of a common drug used to terminate pregnancies, threatening abortion across the country. Hawley is one of the key lawyers fighting to end the Food and Drug Administration’s decades-old approval of mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in medication abortions, after the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade. Hawley,... Читать дальше...

More than two years since he last posted on the social media site and more than a month since Meta announced it would lift its ban on the former president, Trump posted a short fundraising video.

Former President Donald Trump will surrender quietly if he’s indicted by a Manhattan grand jury investigating allegations that he made illegal hush money payments, his lawyer told the New York Daily News.

In response to controversy over lobbyists, dictators, and others with political agendas attending the National Prayer Breakfast, the organization that hosts the event implemented new rules limiting members of Congress to inviting either their spouse or a constituent.

A federal judge has ruled that an attorney for Donald Trump must testify before a grand jury in regards to the investigation into the former president's handling of classified documents, CNN reported. The publication described it as a "monumental ruling."

Five Black children, including an infant, were taken into custody after their parents were pulled over in rural Tennessee over tinted windows, and the Georgia family remained separated nearly a month later, Tennessee Lookout reports.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has asked to meet with New York Police Department officials to prepare for the possible indictment of former President Donald Trump, Fox News reported Friday.

Local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are beefing up security in anticipation of a possible indictment against former President Donald Trump that could come as early as next week, NBC Boston reported.

Global production of cocaine has jumped dramatically over the past two years following an initial slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the first report dedicated to the global cocaine market from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

According to a sworn affidavit from the U.S. Capitol Police's top lawyer, House Republicans ignored the agency's request to review and approve Jan. 6 video footage before it was made public, Politico reports.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday released a bizarre new campaign video in which he told American farmers that it was okay to not love their children.

A Colorado school hosted lightning-rod Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) for a speech and question-and-answer session, but many families chose to keep their children home due to safety concerns.

Bob Heleringer, a former Republican state representative from Kentucky, is calling out members of his own party for their new legislation targeting the LBGTQ community.

A popular Arizona radio host is urging the Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to join in and seek financial damages against former television personality Kari Lake for her unsubstantiated accusations of electoral fraud in 2020 that denied her the governorship of the state.

The daughter of former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway is taking jabs at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other Republicans with Twitter polls comparing them to fictional characters.

Xcel Energy in late November told Minnesota and federal officials about a leak of 400,000 gallons of water contaminated with radioactive tritium at its Monticello nuclear power plant, but it wasn't until Thursday that the incident and ongoing cleanup effort were made public.

Harmful chemicals known as PFAS can be found in everything from children’s clothes to soil to drinking water, and regulating these chemicals has been a goal of public and environmental health researchers for years. On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed what would be the first set of federal guidelines regulating levels of PFAS in drinking water. The guidelines will be open to public comment for 60 days before being finalized.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Mo. — The sheriff of Iron County and two of his deputies are accused of "criminal street gang activity" in what prosecutors allege was a parental kidnapping plot to help a friend. Jeff Burkett, in his first term as sheriff of Iron County, was in jail Friday in neighboring Washington County, along with the Iron County deputies and a fourth man, Donald Rickie Gaston. Prosecutors allege the sheriff and deputies tried last month to help Gaston kidnap his daughter after a fight with the child's mom over a $50 bottle of liquor. Читать дальше...

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out the "reverse psychology" that Donald Trump's lawyer was trying to use to stave off an indictment.

A new report issued by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee claims that former President Donald Trump and his family never disclosed nearly $300,000 worth of gifts they had received from foreign governments.

The Italian government plans to build a national Holocaust museum in the capital, Rome. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has agreed to the plan.

On April 4, voters in Wisconsin will go to the polls and the results from that day could have a major impact on the 2024 general election and the hopes of Republicans hoping to take back the Senate and the White House, according to an analysis by the Washington Post's Greg Sargent

Reacting to a report that a Fulton County grand jury heard a recording of Donald Trump speaking with Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and asking him to convene a special session of the legislature to the 2020 presidential election results, CNN's Eli Honig claimed the former president's legal team will be hard-pressed to dismiss Trump's call to Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger as a one-off venting of frustration.

Donald Trump's defense attorney in the Stormy Daniels case has an ethical conflict, according to a legal expert.