Новости за 23.04.2023

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, confessed that he invited Chief Justice John Roberts to answer questions about the lack of ethics in the Supreme Court because he didn't think Clarence Thomas would come to the Senate.

The proposal from House Republicans for the budget would slash critical services for American soldiers that have left the field, the Veterans Administration explained in a release.

According to the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' avalanche of ethical problems may not bring him down, but the ensuing cover-up could.

Rudy Giuliani on Sunday continued to insist that the 2020 presidential election was "stolen" from former President Donald Trump despite a massive $787 settlement in Dominion's defamation case against Fox News.

Donald Trump's war on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is being bolstered by former associates of the Florida lawmaker who have their own axes to grind and are providing tips for how to get under the skin of his possible rival for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) condemned Fox News host Tucker Carlson for allegedly inciting violence with his broadcasts.

Reacting to comments Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made in Utah on Saturday where he appeared to attack Donald Trump without mentioning his name, a CNN "State of the Union" panelist was flabbergasted at how "pathetic" the Florida governor is when it comes to taking on the former president.

Former Vice President Mike Pence suggested two men who shot people because they mistakenly went to the wrong home were simply responding to "fear" of a "crime wave."

During an appearance on MSNBC early Sunday morning, the former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics trashed Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for saying nothing and doing nothing about the cloud of scandals hovering over Justice Clarence Thomas.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) could not say if he had the votes to pass a bill raising the debt ceiling while enacting massive spending cuts and forcing Medicaid recipients to work for health care.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) lost his temper with CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash on Sunday morning after she corrected him over a claim he made about late-term abortions.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) predicted Republicans would "lose huge" in the next election if they do not tone down their anti-abortion extremism.

Fox News host Shannon Bream suggested that former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) would struggle to defeat former President Donald Trump because he is lagging in the polls.

Donald Trump's decision to stay away from the E. Jean Carroll trial this week where a jury will decide if he sexually assaulted her in a department store between the fall of 1995 and spring of 1996 could be a major tactical error according to one former prosecutor.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy expressed frustration at plans to bolster green energy in coming months.

The state of Alabama's top early education official was forced out Friday by Gov. Kay Ivey over a teacher resource guide—one that promotes inclusion of various kinds of families and acknowledges the reality of racism in the nation's history—the Republican leader denounced as too "woke."

Long before the final field of contenders for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination has been settled, the primary season has already spiraled into smears, petty insults and vicious attacks -- mainly coming from Donald Trump who is making his third bid to be president.

Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems have agreed to settle Dominion’s defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million. (Dominion had sued for $1.6 billion over allegations that Fox defamed the voting company by knowingly or recklessly airing false claims tying voting machines to a conspiracy to undermine the 2020 presidential election.)

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of throwing a 'tantrum' in his written dissent to Friday night's ruling over the abortion medication mifepristone and said the Court's right-wing majority has become an ideological political force that must be checked by the two other branches of government.

With writer E.Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Donald Trump set to open this week, the former president is faced with the very real possibility that he could continue his bid for a second term as president with the label "rapist" forever linked to his name.

Plenty of Americans own guns, but not enough of them have high-quality weapons training, a professor wrote for Slate Saturday.

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) celebrated Earth Day Saturday by attacking climate change and calling out liberals for trying "to divide us."

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is trying to make some headway against former President Donald Trump in the race for the Republican nomination for president for the 2024 election cycle by making a trip to Utah, during which he reportedly claimed that his home state is "the Utah of the Southeast."

Authorities in Texas have launched an investigation into "suspicious cattle deaths" that have been reported in at least three counties.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) claimed on Saturday that New York City was "destroyed" in part by a "third world crime problem."