Новости за 22.04.2023

A reliably Republican county in Michigan is now in turmoil after far-right commissioners took over the local government and vowed payback against those who imposed mask mandates on their community.

Dominion Voting Systems "was probably always going to settle" its massive defamation case against Fox News, and any talk of holding the media company accountable for its lies was likely a negotiating tactic to score the settlement, according to Slate writers who spoke about the issue on the outlet's podcast.

Former President Donald Trump has a slew of potential picks for who will run by his side in 2024, and, of those, the one who is "leading the pack now" is a "Confederate-wannabe troll" by the name of Marjorie Taylor Greene, according to a former GOP adviser on MSNBC Saturday.

On Saturday, CNN reported that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has chosen to not voluntarily testify before Senators who have questions about how the nation's highest court is dealing with the growing controversies swirling around Justice Clarence Thomas.

Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate, one legal analyst stated the former president's legal woes have just grown exponentially worse.

With a 2024 gubernatorial announcement by Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) expected on Saturday, Republican campaign consultants are fretting about a repeat of the 2022 midterm fiasco that saw Donald Trump-endorsed candidates crash and burn while seeking electable seats.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former GOP Rep. Dave Jolly (FL) was asked about Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on Disney and proceeded to make the case that the Florida governor should be charged with "public corruption."

Joy Reid, host of MSNBC's "The Reid Out" did not mince words while discussing the U.S. Supreme Court's Friday decision to stay a lower court ruling that would have blocked access to an abortion medication nationwide.

Former President Donald Trump kicked off his Saturday morning by snarling at the Wall Street Journal for publishing a poll that shows him beating Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination but also revealed the controversial Republican governor has a better chance of taking on President Joe Biden.

A newly-elected Democrat has had to take to Twitter to defend his decision to vote with House Republicans on a resolution tied to changing policing laws in Washington D.C. which has put him at odds with some of his constituents.

A retired U.S. Navy officer has declared war on the "religious fanatics" in Florida who are flooding school boards with demands to ban books, arguing in front of one board that they are engaging in "religious fascism."

An Arizona sheriff who made a name for himself by refusing to enforce Covid-19 protocols is throwing his hat in the ring for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) by moving even farther to the right and embracing QAnon conspiracy theories.

No one at the White House will openly tell you Joe Biden is announcing his 2024 re-election campaign next Tuesday. And no one will tell you he isn't.

Far-right House Republicans are reportedly "thrilled" with the debt ceiling legislation that Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled earlier this week.

It’s not that former President Donald Trump says one thing and does another. It’s that he says and does whatever he wants, but very purposefully. Both must provide him with some sort of personal, business or political advantage.

Though the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked an effective ban on medication abortion, anti-abortion groups are not giving up on trying to fast-track a national abortion ban. And that means continuing to try to squash nationwide access to the most common form of abortion post-Roe, by whatever means necessary.

The Supreme Court's decision to allow the so-called abortion pill to remain on the market for now may be merely "tactical," according to a former conservative Christian Republican.

A Georgia prosecutor investigating Donald Trump over allegations of election interference in 2020 has filed a motion that signals the case against those behind the fake electors and the former president himself is accelerating.

The general manager of a golf course in Virginia has been arrested for allegedly recording women in the restroom for months, Fox News reported on Friday.

"Craig Robert Luckey, 55, was arrested April 13 after an employee at the Potomac Shores Golf Club in Prince William County, Virginia, found a phone 'actively recording' in a stall in the women’s restroom at the golf club, the Prince William County Police Department said," according to the report. "'During the investigation, officers determined... Читать дальше...

In recent years, the Christian nationalist movement — an extreme ideology that holds America should be ruled by Christian law — has become bolder as it makes a play for power. A new group is even emerging to introduce Christian nationalist legislation in statehouses around the country.

Former president Donald Trump declared during a speech on Friday that, "We’re going to become the 47th President of the United States" and that "the path to victory is clear."

Martin Shkreli, the infamous former pharmaceutical executive Raw Story originally dubbed "Pharma Bro," is back on the scene — and according to The Daily Beast, he has a new venture: an artificial intelligence "health care assistant" known as DrGupta.ai, which is rife with potential legal and ethical problems.

House Republicans have struck a deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office that will allow an ex-prosecutor to testify before Congress in an inquiry over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

What’s the difference between heroin and Fox “News”?

Starting in 1898, the Bayer company of Germany marketed diamorphine as an over-the-counter cough remedy and pain reliever under the brand name Heroin, taken from the German word for “heroic”; it took a generation to discover how addictive it was, leading to it being banned in the US in 1924 and around the world in the 1930s.

Heroin’s power comes from its ability to reach below our level of conscious control and stimulate the body’s natural opiate system... Читать дальше...

Longtime Donald Trump adviser and right-wing media commentator Boris Epshteyn is scheduled to give testimony to a grand jury empaneled by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith to investigate the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.