Новости за 06.06.2023

A Pittsburgh man who was seen in images using a baseball bat to smash through windows in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison, Patch.com reported.

U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden on Tuesday said that "nothing is off the table"— including a subpoena — after a lawyer for Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow continued to duck questions about the billionaire's gifts to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his relatives.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Tuesday that migrants fleeing climate change were unsafe in the United States due to many natural disasters.

A spokesperson for a Donald Trump super PAC on Tuesday issued a statement mocking Chris Christie's weight while, at the same time, attacking Ron DeSantis.

Bill Barr, once Donald Trump‘s favorite attorney general and the one who was seen as his “faithful protector and personal henchman” for his “willingness to enable Trump’s darkest impulses,” came out swinging against his former boss Tuesday, refuting his “witch hunt” claims, and saying the ex-president “jerked” DOJ around over hundreds of classified and top secret documents he refused to return.

Two mothers who lost their children to reckless drivers have launched a hunger strike in an effort to force New York state to let New York City set its own speed limits, Streets Blog reported.

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Florida state law that banned minors from receiving gender-affirming care was discriminatory and he blocked the state from applying it to three children whose parents sued.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus sought to punish House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after the debt ceiling was raised.

Republican members of the California Assembly walked off the floor on Monday after a Pride month celebration hosted by the house included members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. The group calls itself an order of queer and trans nuns.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requested — and the Federal Election Commission granted — more time for the newly minted presidential candidate to reveal details about his personal finances.

Following a series of bombshell reports by ProPublica, the Senate Judiciary Committee has been investigating U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' relationship with billionaire GOP donor Harlan Crow. In May, Crow declined an invitation to meet with Committee members. But according to Reuters, a letter released on Tuesday, June 6 shows that Crow's attorney, Michael Bopp, has offered to meet with them.

Merck on Tuesday became the first pharmaceutical company to sue the Biden administration over a recently enacted law that empowers Medicare to directly negotiate the prices of a small number of high-cost prescription medicines with drug makers—a change that could threaten Merck's bottom line.

Kari Lake has once again filed her intent to appeal the outcome of her bid to overturn the results of Arizona’s 2022 gubernatorial election, after it failed in Maricopa County Superior Court.

The men's PGA agreed to merge with the LIV Golf tour in a huge announcement Tuesday – much to the chagrin of families of 9/11 victims that have spoken out against the Saudi-backed LIV group for months.

Speaking to The New York Post this Tuesday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) claimed that an informant who allegedly has information about a $5 million bribery scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden is afraid for their safety.

During a Monday night, May 5 appearance on CNN, Democratic strategist and former Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod wasn't optimistic about Sen. Joe Manchin's (D-West Virginia) chances of being reelected in 2024.

A Cape Cod bar and restaurant owner was recorded on video making violent and racist threats against a Black man who reported him for drinking and driving.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who owes over a billion dollars to Sandy Hook families, is concerned that he might also have to pay reparations for slavery.

Former U.S. Attorney and Los Angeles Times legal analyst Harry Litman thinks that everything is already in place to move forward with an indictment of Donald Trump – and all that is left is to have the vote before the grand jury.

Chris Christie's starting again where it all ended for him last time. The former New Jersey governor is launching his second presidential bid Tuesday night in a college auditorium in New Hampshire, where his primary ambitions were torched in 2016 when he finished sixth in the state. Christie's second bid is all about unleashing his tell-it-like-it-is Jersey toughness on former President Donald Trump and a growing field of Republicans who thus far have been tepid about engaging directly with the front-runner. Читать дальше...

Indicted Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has lost his bid to block the public from knowing the identities of the donors who bailed him out.

Within minutes of a state charter school board in Oklahoma approving a plan on Monday to open what would be the first religious charter school in the United States, advocates for the nation's bedrock laws separating church and state announced plans to file a legal challenge against the proposal.

Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian singer whose soft, beguiling voice made "The Girl from Ipanema" a worldwide sensation in the 1960s and provided a huge boost to the budding bossa nova genre, has died at age 83, her family said.

Fox News' willingness to promote the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump has cost the right-wing cable news outlet a lot of time and money.

An Indiana man has been charged after he allegedly threatened state GOP Rep. Jim Banks, the Indiana Capitol Chronicle reported.