Новости за 02.06.2023

A former security guard at the Destiny USA Mall in Syracuse, New York, who allegedly threatened to "shoot up" the premises along with a nearby Pride parade, could face hate crime charges, the Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick said on Friday, according to CNY Central.

A couple in Connecticut says the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) put a camera on a bear with the intention of illegally filming their property. Now they've filed an injunction to have footage from the camera destroyed, the Connecticut Post reported.

Donald Trump on Friday unleashed an all-caps Truth Social post aimed directly at Fox News, the conservative network the former president accuses of "pushing Ron DeSanctus" over him.

Two days after jubilantly announcing that security camera footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol would soon be released, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has apparently had a change of heart.

Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) is facing criticism after issuing a Pride Month proclamation that appeared to have all references to LGBTQ people removed from it, Axios reported on Friday.

A coalition of Arkansas book enthusiasts is suing the state and its Republican governor over a restrictive new law that threatens librarians with jail time for making banned books available to minors, The Daily Beast reports.

YouTube has reversed a policy that previously banned false claims about the 2020 election, according to a statement on the site.

Because New York State has gone Democratic in every presidential election since 1992, it has a reputation for being reliably blue. Yet parts of Upstate New York lean conservative, and people who voted for Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) more than once are quick to point out that New York City doesn't reflect the entire state.

We already knew that the deal struck between the president and the House Republicans, to lift the debt ceiling, was going to place new work requirements on childless adults between the ages of 50 and 54 in return for food stamps.

A long list of polls from 2022 and 2023 have shown the United States' reputation continuing to suffer. Gallup, for example, found that approval of the High Court has sunk to only 40 percent.

In a post to Truth Social this Friday, former President Donald Trump posted a new conspiracy theory, claiming that the nation's top law enforcement agencies are controlling the Democrats' campaign for the White House in 2024.

The U.S. House and Senate have now both approved the deal struck by President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy to suspend the nation’s debt limit through 2025 in exchange for a range of cuts sought by Congressional Republicans. While the deal is not as draconian as the debt bill that passed the House earlier this spring, it includes no new revenues even though tax cuts of the past few decades have been the primary driver of deficit growth. And one provision of the deal—to claw back important funding... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO -- High above the heads of business professionals gathering for lunch downtown Thursday, the tail feathers of a peregrine falcon popped out over a concrete ledge on a large building. Joe Bisognani, who works for Wabtec, a technology company across the street in the Loop, stood on the Monroe Street Bridge, squinting up at the tiny shadow protruding in the sky. The Palatine resident said he heard about the falcon in the news. “I thought about taking a different route, but this was on the... Читать дальше...

A North Carolina pastor and his son have been charged with dealing drugs out of a church, according to a report.

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake this week promoted a conspiracy theory about former President Donald Trump having won the state of California in the 2020 presidential election -- and even some of her fellow conservatives are saying enough is enough.

Florida got a tiny scare on the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season with the formation of Tropical Depression Two in the Gulf of Mexico and a threat it might form into Tropical Storm Arlene. The depression, though, did not gain strength overnight according to the National Hurricane Center is expected to lose steam as it heads south toward Cuba and away from the Sunshine State. In its 11 a.m. advisory said the center of the system was located about 270 miles west of Fort Myers with maximum... Читать дальше...

Drag queens Brittany Lynn and Morgan Wells read Giraffes Can't Dance, a book promoting self-acceptance, to children in front of Independence Hall in a new Pride Month public service announcement encouraging LGBTQ+ travelers to book a trip to the city. Visit Philadelphia unveiled the 30-second clip on Friday. Starting next week, the ad will air on CBS stations in the Philly and New York markets for the rest of the month. The $250,000 Pride Month campaign comes two decades after city tourism officials... Читать дальше...

By Jacqueline Thomsen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oath Keepers militant group member David Moerschel was sentenced on Friday to three years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by then-President Donald Trump's supporters.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said that Moerschel transporting weapons, including a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle, to the Washington area ahead of Jan. 6 brought "its own degree of danger" because of his political motivations. Читать дальше...

Christian finance guru Dave Ramsey has been sued over a failed company that promised to free its customers from their timeshare obligations, according to a report.

Clarence Thomas’s corruption has recently received attention from the mainstream media. As readers probably now know, he’s flown off on a half million dollar vacation to Indonesia luxuriating on a private jet and yacht paid for by Republican billionaire Harlan Crow, smoked cigars (smuggled Cubans?) at one of Crow’s private luxury resorts with Federalist Society guru Leonard Leo, allowed Leo to secretly pay his MAGA wife tens of thousands of dollars, sold a house he inherited to Crow who lets his mother live there rent free... Читать дальше...

Former reality TV stars Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are speaking out about a new docuseries that claims to expose "the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv’s favorite mega-family," CNN reported.

During a recent appearance on the Real America's Voice network, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that Democrats orchestrated their own "political narrative" surrounding the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

An Iowa high school employee was placed on leave after he hurled racist abuse toward a student, according to a report.

Some emails contained vitriolic screeds. Others expressed concern for gay teachers. One offered a plaintive plea from a high school student bewildered by the conduct of adults.

Former President Donald Trump bragged about having a classified document that involved secret military plans to launch an attack on Iran -- but his lawyers could not find it when asked to retrieve it by the United States Department of Justice.