Новости за 28.04.2023

PARIS, Texas — The letter propped up inside Joshua Keith Beasley Jr.’s casket was from his father. It was unopened. By the time it arrived at the Texas juvenile detention facility where it had been mailed, Joshua had already been transferred to an adult facility. He had just turned 16.

Earlier this month, the largely white Tennessee House of Representatives, with its heavily gerrymandered Republican supermajority, expelled two members, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, the two youngest Black representatives in the House. They stood accused of breaching House “decorum” for nonviolently protesting the chamber’s inaction on gun violence in the wake of a mass school shooting in Nashville. Days after their expulsion, both Jones and Pearson were temporarily reinstated to their seats by local authorities. Читать дальше...

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney on Friday blasted fellow Republicans who continue to support Donald Trump after reports surfaced that the ex-president was seen hugging a Jan. 6 rioter who called for the execution of members of Congress.

Former president Donald Trump's recent letter asking House Republicans to bail him out of the Department of Justice investigation into his mishandling of classified documents shows that he has "no viable defense" in that case, according to a former prosecutor.

Speaking to NPR, former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg claimed that the “antisemitism and the bullying and the gaslighting and the misogyny” she allegedly experienced while working on Tucker Carlson's show caused her to call a crisis hotline, The Wrap reported.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ wife earned $10.3 million in commissions for her work for elite law firms, one of which argued a case before her husband, Business Insider reports.

A phone carrier is suing Rudy Giuliani's consulting firm for unpaid bills, The Daily Beast reported.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The newly Republican-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday reversed two decisions made by the same court last year when it had a Democratic majority on redistricting and voter ID, and issued a third ruling denying voting rights for some felons. The court under Democratic control had struck down districts drawn by the Republican-led General Assembly on the grounds that they were illegally gerrymandered for partisan reasons. The justices had also struck down a 2018 voter ID law... Читать дальше...

Most everyday Republicans and those with guns in their home support implementing new gun restrictions including background check enhancements, putting them at odds with the Republicans in Congress who claim to represent their constituents, according to an analysis from the Washington Post.

Michigan attorney Jamie White, who is known for his work with sexual assault victims, says that Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina blew Trump's chances of prevailing in the rape civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll.

WASHINGTON — A top Republican election lawyer recently caused a stir when she told GOP donors that the party should work to make it harder for college students to vote in key states.

A Texas Republican known as one of the most extreme members of the state House of Representatives now stands accused of trying to cash in on children’s safety.

WASHINGTON — The showdown occurred — as they often do with Sen. Josh Hawley — in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The committee meets in a large room in the Hart Senate Office Building, with most senators seated behind a carved wooden desk. It’s from there that the Missouri Republican peers down on his witnesses and begins his inquiries — combative moments that later get chopped and put on social media and land him an interview on Fox News, where he’ll get another five minutes to sound off on his... Читать дальше...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' allies have put forth an elections bill that eliminates a potential roadblock to him declaring his candidacy for president, which many expected him to do next month, The New York Times reported.

A Wisconsin teacher is back in the classroom despite making anti-Asian slurs in the classroom.

By Doina Chiacu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he was worried about the future of American democracy, taking a veiled swipe at former U.S. President Donald Trump during a visit to New York.

"You guys are the greatest democracy in the world," Trudeau said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. "Right now, it's not just that it's being taken for granted by so many citizens, it's actually being devalued."

Canada's Liberal... Читать дальше...

Abortion bans have fallen short of passage in two heavily Republican states, signaling more political turmoil for the GOP as it seeks to enact restrictive policies. A handful of Republican state senators in both South Carolina and Nebraska defected from their party late Thursday to derail proposed near-total bans on abortion. In South Carolina, all five of the chamber’s female lawmakers, including three Republicans, united to lead a filibuster against the bill that would have banned abortion from conception. Читать дальше...

Michigan attorney Jamie White, who is known for his work with sexual assault victims, says that Donald Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina blew Trump's chances of prevailing in the rape civil suit brought by E. Jean Carroll.

Donald Trump used a baffling pronunciation of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin's name at a campaign stop in New Hampshire.

Recent research published in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging explored the relationship between choosing to delay gratification, neural functioning, and success or failure in smoking cessation. The findings indicate that individuals who chose immediate rewards rather than delayed ones are likelier to relapse and continue smoking. In addition, fMRI scans reveal differences in brain activity of those who choose to delay gratification compared to those who do not. This research can help practitioners... Читать дальше...

In what’s become an annual tradition in the Colorado General Assembly, Democrats in the majority are spending the final weeks of the legislative session passing bills aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, while their Republican colleagues persist in outright denial of the scientific consensus on manmade climate change.

Censured and removed from the Montana House floor, Rep. Zooey Zephyr arrived for work on Thursday morning and made a makeshift “Desk 31,” her desk number assigned by the Legislature, down the hallway just feet away from where 99 other representatives were seated.

"The View" co-hosts ganged up on Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley for suggesting President Joe Biden wouldn't live through a second term.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday scolded a journalist for asking him about his time working as a naval judge advocate general at the U.S. penal colony in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

When officials in a small New Mexico city sued the governor and attorney general over their ordinance placing restrictions on abortion clinics earlier this month, they argued that a late 19th century federal anti-obscenity law superseded state law. In March, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law a measure prohibiting public entities from interfering with reproductive and gender-affirming care access.