Новости за 13.04.2023

Originally published by The 19th

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Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has backed a plan to allow residents who are 18 and older to receive birth control from a pharmacist without a prescription. The Republican-controlled Senate last month approved legislation to permit it.

But the bill is moving through the statehouse as a rift is growing in the Republican Party over birth control... Читать дальше...

Multiple disruptions, demonstrations and protests erupted Thursday morning as abortion rights protesters threw handfuls of stickers and small pieces of paper on lawmakers as House members tried to discuss the 6-week abortion ban.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, far-right MAGA conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers angrily railed against vaccines — falsely claiming, with zero evidence, that they were dangerous. President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, his top White House medical adviser, pushed back against their claims and assured Americans that the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer and others were perfectly safe.

A former Capitol Police officer was sentenced to 120 days of home detention Thursday in connection with his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, The Washington Post reports.

Calling the decision of District Attorney Alvin Bragg to indict former president Trump a prosecutorial overreach, one Trump-loving congressman has decided to try to actually punish Bragg for taking that unprecedented step.

Former President Donald Trump released a new video statement on Thursday threatened to unleash a torrent of misery against the American legal apparatus, local prosecutors, Jewish philanthropist George Soros, the United States Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the multiple probes into his alleged criminal activities escalate.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday announced plans to return to the Senate.

Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon is being tested for the degenerative brain disease CTE following the deadly rampage Monday, his father said. Todd Sturgeon gave the update to the local TV station WLKY, which reported the news Thursday. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is known to occur in people with a “history of repetitive brain trauma,” including athletes, according to the Boston University CTE Center. Connor Sturgeon had a history of concussions and wore a helmet when he played basketball at Floyd Central High School... Читать дальше...

A Jan. 6 rioter who has praised Adolf Hitler and expressed support for Nazi ideology was sentenced to three years in prison this Thursday for possessing unregistered firearm silencers, The Washington Post reported.

An actress and model who hosts a popular podcast has drawn rebuke for trafficking in an anti-Semitic trope, The New York Post reports on its celebrity gossip Page Six.

A Republican National Convention fundraising event scheduled this weekend could go without flowers after a florist in Nashville, Tennessee, reportedly refused to provide its services over the GOP's gun positions.

Federal law enforcement has identified and arrested a suspect in the leaking of secret defense and intelligence documents that have circulated online for weeks, according to reports.

This Monday, April 17, the trial in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is scheduled to begin. Defamation, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan back in 1964, is extremely difficult to prove. And attorneys for Dominion have to show that Fox News acted with "actual malice" when, in late 2020 and early 2021, it promoted the bogus, repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion's voting equipment was used to help... Читать дальше...

A leaked audio recording obtained by The Tennessee Holler reveals furious infighting among Tennessee Republicans as they took criticism for the ouster of Black Democratic State Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson.

WNBA star Brittney Griner showed up without notice at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s annual convention in Manhattan on Thursday, marking her first public appearance in New York since her release from a Russian prison. Griner, who was behind bars in Russia for 10 months last year after being caught at a Moscow airport with a vial of cannabis vaping oil, voiced gratitude to Sharpton for the role he played in helping broker her release back to the U.S. in December. “It means everything to be here today,”... Читать дальше...

During an appearance on the Operation Chicago podcast, a north Texas realtor who partook in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, said she had been drinking wine when she decided to enter the Capitol building that day.

According to an attorney who has made his distaste for Donald Trump clearly known during his many cable television appearances, the former president and his legal team have legitimate legal points that could be used to quash his 34-felony count indictment in Manhattan but that is not the way Trump likes to play.

Paul Simon is marking a return to music with the new opus “Seven Psalms,” described as a “33-minute, seven-movement all-acoustic composition.” The project, due out May 19, was reportedly made with the intention to be listened to in its entirety. The heavily-lauded singer-songwriter behind “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Kodachrome” and “You Can Call Me Al,” announced the opus on Wednesday alongside a promotional trailer describing its inspiration as a dream he had a few years ago. “The dream was so strong that I got up and I wrote it down... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — Billy Porter’s dream role of playing writer James Baldwin has turned into reality. The Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner has been tapped to co-write, co-produce and star in an upcoming biopic about the cultural icon for Allen Media Group Motion Pictures. The film will be based on the 1994 book “James Baldwin: A Biography,” written by David Leeming. The University of Connecticut emeritus English professor was an assistant and friend of the trailblazing scribe for 25 years. Porter will... Читать дальше...

South Florida has been experiencing historic flooding this week, but the mayor of one city in the region says that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be missing in action.

Oscar-winning US actor Jamie Foxx has been hospitalized with an unspecified medical complication but is in recovery, his family says.

In May and June of 2018, Australia’s first near-complete skull of a sauropod – a group of long-tailed, long-necked, small-headed dinosaurs – was found on a sheep station northwest of Winton in Queensland.

A federal appeals court has declined to rule on whether then-President Donald Trump was acting within his scope of employment when he allegedly defamed writer E Jean Carroll after she claimed to have been raped by him.

No presidential candidate in U.S. history has had more legal problems than Donald Trump. The former president and 2024 GOP presidential frontrunner is not only facing a 34-count criminal prosecution from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr., but also, two federal criminal investigations from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith and a state criminal investigation from Fulton County Georgia DA Fani Willis. And Trump has civil worries as well.

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is facing strong criticism for mocking and attacking the U.S. Armed Forces and a U.S. Navy JAG Officer who spoke in a video published Wednesday by the U.S. Navy JAG Corps on its Instagram account.