Новости за 06.05.2023

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday asked President Joe Biden to extend the federal government’s coverage of 100% of debris cleanup and disaster mitigation costs stemming from the March 31 tornadoes that hit Arkansas.

Evidence from the prosecutors investigating efforts by former president Donald Trump and others to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia shows that it's likely only a matter of time until an indictment is filed, a former U.S. Attorney said on Friday.

People are finding huge, scaleless fish with sharp fangs and bulging eyes on the beaches of Oregon — and it's not clear why it's happening, according to the Associated Press.

Former President Donald Trump is resorting to his old playbook to try to make the civil rape case brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll go away, argued Trump biographer David Cay Johnston on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Friday.

A medical group behind the effort to ban the abortion drug mifepristone that describes itself as a “secular, scientific medical association” appears to be far less secular and science-oriented than it claims, according to new reporting from Wired.

Former president Donald Trump's "lackluster deposition performance" could help his accuser in a civil rape and defamation case win a "credibility battle" between the two parties, a former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama said on Friday.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is effectively able to "launder money" through his wife, argued Gabe Roth of the watchdog group Fix the Court on MSNBC Friday.

Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves, who has the highest firearm mortality rate in the entire country, this week launched his re-election campaign with a video depicting him as Clint Eastwood shooting people of color.

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Donald Trump made a bizarre statement in his videotaped deposition that may have blown up his entire case, a CNN analyst said Friday.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Grayson Sherrill on Friday apologized for his actions during the Capitol riot, particularly when the-then 21-year-old Gaston County man struck a police officer with a broken metal pipe outside the building. “I really want to say that I recognize that what I did was wrong,” Sherrill, now 24, told U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in her Washington, D.C., courtroom. “I’ve had two years to really think about it. At the time, I let the chaos control what I did.” Chutkan made sure... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers are in an impossible position trying to explain and defend former President Donald Trump's actions surrounding the alleged concealment of classified information at Mar-a-Lago, former Republican Chair Michael Steele said on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" on Friday.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Carlos Reales Dominguez was arraigned Friday afternoon in Yolo County Superior Court. The 21-year-old former University of California, Davis student, who police and prosecutors believe is responsible for the killings of two Davis men and the attempted murder of a third woman, was formally charged in the slayings that paralyzed the college town. He entered not guilty pleas to all the charges. The legal quest to what may have motivated Reales Dominguez to allegedly commit the... Читать дальше...

A Kentucky man was just handed down the harshest-yet sentence among those who have been charged in connection with the insurrection attempt in January 2021, according to reports.

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan commission in charge of investigating the misdeeds of lawyers says nine attorneys who attempted to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election committed misconduct and should face discipline, according to a complaint obtained by The Detroit News. The document, dated Monday, reveals that the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission is seeking to formally penalize some of the most vocal proponents of the legal effort to reverse Republican Donald Trump's loss, including... Читать дальше...

An attorney on MSNBC on Friday said former president Donald Trump's deposition video, which some legal experts have said could be devastating to his defense in the case in which he has been accused of defamation and rape, shows that Trump faked his initial reaction to the release of his infamous recordings bragging about committing sexual assaults because he's famous.

As Britain prepares to officially crown its first monarch over 70 years in a lavish ceremony Saturday, some citizens in its former and current territories are calling on King Charles III to publicly acknowledge the United Kingdom’s role in the atrocities against enslaved Africans and its oppression of indigenous people. The push for what has been called reparative justice, including an apology for slavery, comes as several British descendants of slaveowners, including a cousin of the monarch,... Читать дальше...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ performative ongoing feud with Disney reflects the breach of an “uneasy truce” between politicians and corporations that served a purpose, Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle contends.

Eight of the 16 fake "electors" who convened to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of Georgia in 2020 have accepted an immunity agreement from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

Former Justice Department official Mary McCord suggested on MSNBC's "Deadline White House" on Friday that special counsel Jack Smith needs to investigate whether former President Donald Trump intended to show his stash of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to the Saudi government to grease the wheels of his deal to host golf tournaments backed by the Saudis at his properties.

Former Attorney General Bill Barr slammed Former President Donald Trump when asked by Geraldo Rivera whether Trump is "fit" to be president.

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has invited Mayra Flores, a former Republican member of Congress from Texas who shared conspiracy theories on her Twitter account, to speak at the party’s state convention in La Crosse next month.