Новости за 14.06.2023

A man who fired shots into a lesbian woman's house while she was inside and then targeted other LGBTQ+ residents in the community was sentenced to 18 years in prison, prosecutors announced.

The Trump-appointed federal judge randomly assigned to preside over former president Donald Trump's classified documents case has been called into question over her ability to act as an objective arbiter after the conservative-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rebuked her previous ruling.

Among the first actions of Donald Trump's legal team will likely be a procedural motion his former attorney Tim Parlatore teased Tuesday to ask that pieces of evidence be excluded because they were obtained from notes taken by Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran and should be covered by client-attorney confidentiality, a legal expert said Wednesday.

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has spent years promoting countless conspiracy theories on topics ranging from COVID-19 to climate change, apparently isn’t sold on House Republicans’ claim that when President Joe Biden was a vice president, he took a $5 million bribe and there are taxes to prove it.

The city of Hamtramck in Michigan has banned Pride flags on public property after a contentious municipal meeting, Fox 2 reported.

A California taqueria chain under investigation for wage theft hired a person it identified as a priest to compel employees to confess to ‘workplace sins,’ the U.S. Department of Labor said.

In a discussion Wednesday about Donald Trump's indictment in the Mar-a-Lago document case, legal experts Harry Litman and Norm Eisen deviated to address concerns they have about the pending case in Fulton County, Georgia.

A candidate for a New York council position has lost the support of the town's Republicans after complaints that he stands completely naked behind the screen door of his house in full view of passersby, ABC 7 reported.

The long hunt for extraterrestrials just got a big boost.

Scientists have discovered that phosphorus, a key building block of life, lies in the ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The finding was based on a review of data collected by NASA's Cassini probe, and was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature.

Cassini started exploring Saturn and its rings and moons in 2004, before burning up in the gas giant's atmosphere when its mission ended in 2017. Читать дальше...

Environment activists on Wednesday smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting at Stockholm's National Museum, police and the museum said.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) apologized to a committee witness on Wednesday after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) divulged details about the witness' home.

An Illinois man who had his Firearm Owners Identification Card revoked has been charged after he accidentally shot himself while dreaming that his home was being broken into, according to a press release from the city of Lake County.

Lawyer Thomas A. Durkin has spent much of his career working in national security law, representing clients in a variety of national security and domestic terrorism matters. Joseph Ferguson was a national security prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where Durkin was also a prosecutor. Both teach national security law at Loyola University, Chicago. The Conversation U.S.‘s democracy editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with the two attorneys about the federal... Читать дальше...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that Republicans wouldn't accept an indictment of Donald Trump on charges related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's indictment from the grand jury turned top Republicans in the Senate to look for ways to go on the attack.

Fox News on Wednesday addressed a caption that aired on Tuesday night that labeled President Joe Biden as a "wannabe dictator."

A former National Security Agency employee was sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Before an audience of invited guests that included some of the most far-right media propagandists in the country, and just hours after his arraignment on 37 federal criminal felony charges, Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s leading candidate for President of the United States delivered what could be called one of his most extreme attacks on the Biden administration and the federal government to date.

The San Diego City Council voted 5-4 Tuesday to adopt a controversial policy to ban homeless encampments on public property after hearing hours of public testimony. The ordinance was supported by Councilmember Stephen Whitburn, who proposed it, and Councilmembers Marni von Wilpert, Jennifer Campbell, Raul Campillo and Joe LaCava. Mayor Todd Gloria also supported what they referred to as an unsafe camping ordinance, with he and Whitburn saying it would address a public safety issue while also helping... Читать дальше...

Chino Valley Unified School District staff would be required to out transgender children to their parents or guardians, under a proposal being considered by the school board Thursday. If approved, that policy would put the school district at direct odds with the California Department of Education, which has issued guidance to school districts to protect the privacy of transgender students who may not be out at home. A spokeswoman for the CDE said that the department stands by its guidance, “which... Читать дальше...

The co-hosts of "The View" recalled a kind of "greatest hits" of things that Donald Trump did over the years that were objectionable – before his former White House aide struck out against her own party, saying that the reason this kind of behavior continues is that the GOP refuses to eradicate it.

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday published an editorial written by Michael Bekesha of the right-wing organization Judicial Watch that declares former President Donald Trump innocent of any crimes based on precedent established during litigation surrounding the Presidential Records Act.

A 28-year-old woman posed as a 17-year-old and attended a Louisiana high school during the 2022-2023 school year, Nola.com reported.

For years now, national security experts have warned about the difficulty in securing former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida from potential foreign infiltration.

Michigan Republicans are doubling down on the MAGA extremism that cost them last year's midterm elections in the state, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.