Новости за 14.04.2023

After his wife Heidi was fatally shot, Nicholas Firkus had told police and his wife's family that a "black guy" broke into their St. Paul home and, during a struggle over a shotgun, Heidi was fatally shot.

By Joseph Ax

(Reuters) - When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban on April 14, 2022, he held a morning ceremony at a church in front of an enormous "Protect Life" sign, flanked by women and children.

On Thursday, exactly one year later, DeSantis – now a likely 2024 Republican presidential candidate – signed a six-week ban with decidedly less fanfare. The bill signing took place at 10:45 p.m., with no advance notice to the national media.

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Wayne LaPierre, the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), suggested any lawmakers who back common sense gun legislation will suffer severe consequences from the organization during its annual meeting Friday.

Donald Trump, who in recent weeks has spoken and posted almost exclusively about being politically persecuted amid a torrent of criminal investigations and civil litigation, on Friday delivered what by comparison seemed like a more traditional campaign speech.

Former President Donald Trump has filed his public financial disclosure report as of this afternoon after two extensions totaling 90 days, according to files received by Raw Story from the Federal Election Commission.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has issued an administrative stay in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, according to Reuters, putting on hold a controversial decision by a far-right Texas judge revoking the Food and Drug Administration's certification of the abortion drug mifepristone.

Former president Donald Trump tore into his potential challenger for the 2024 Republican nomination for president of the United States on Thursday, saying Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) "got outplayed, outsmarted, and embarrassed by Mickey Mouse and Disney."

A man from Maine is facing a civil rights complaint and terrorizing charges after he allegedly threatened the life of a Black woman and her family via a voicemail that also included a racial epithet.

MIAMI — A small neighborhood, Edgewood, sits just north of Fort Lauderdale’s airport. The streets, with tightly packed houses, are usually filled with working people who like to help each other. Now they’re filled with water. And misery. This small piece of Broward County is one of the hardest hit areas after a four-day stretch of torrential downpours and flash flooding. Dozens of cars stuck as floodwaters reach above their hoods. Homes partially submerged and filled with a few inches to many feet of water. Читать дальше...

Former Vice President Mike Pence was met with a chorus of boos in his home state of Indiana as he gave a speech to the National Rifle Association's (NRA) annual meeting.

Last week, Texas Army Sergeant Daniel Perry was found guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of BLM protester Garrett Foster. Now, in the wake of reports that Texas Gov, Greg Abbott is working "swiftly" on a pardon for Perry, Foster's father is speaking out, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The right-wing social media site Parler on Friday is now under new ownership and has temporarily shuttered amid what it described as a “strategic reassessment” of the business, the company said in a statement.

The Trump Organization made as much as $160 million in international business deals while Donald Trump was president, a report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) shows.

A top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling for the U.S. Dept. of Justice to open an investigation into the questionable or even possibly unlawful actions over the past two decades of Justice Clarence Thomas. Two bombshell reports from ProPublica over the past week have led some to label the financial dealings and refusal to disclose massive luxury gifts “corruption” by the far-right Supreme Court justice who has sat on the nation’s highest court since 1991.

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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) hit out at what he called President Joe Biden's lies on Friday – and was hit be a tidal wave of mockery.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is doubling down on her defense of the man who has been charged under the Espionage Act for his alleged release of confidential military documents.

Vincent Gillespie, a convicted Capitol rioter hailing from Athol, Massachusetts, received a prison sentence on Friday that was higher than the one he would have received had he not rejected an earlier plea deal.

By Andrew Chung

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The abortion pill mifepristone may not be available for months if limits on it set by lower courts are allowed to take effect, President Joe Biden's administration and the drug's manufacturer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday as they fight to defend access to the drug.

The Justice Department filed an emergency request asking the justices to put on hold a ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas that would significantly restrict... Читать дальше...

A Tennessee National Air Guardsman has been charged after he allegedly submitted his resume to a parody website that he thought was looking to hire contract killers, The Daily Beast reported.

US President Joe Biden, winding down an emotive visit to Ireland, broke down in tears Friday during a chance encounter with the priest who read the last rites to his late son.

Smithsonian Institution officials scrambled to respond to numerous media requests — and alert Donald Trump's political action committee — when news broke last year that the Trump PAC was funding a portrait of the 45th president destined for the National Portrait Gallery, according to government records obtained by Raw Story through a Freedom of Information Act request.

Reacting to multiple reports from ProPublica that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife have been living the good life paid for by their "friend," conservative Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) vowed his committee “will act."

The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News — which starts Monday, with jury selection tomorrow — has uncovered a trove of damning text messages and emails showing that Fox News hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham knowingly lied to their viewers about false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is wooing white evangelical Christians in an effort to tempt the vital election bloc away from former President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported Friday.