Новости за 19.06.2023

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) posted what was meant to be a supportive tweet marking Juneteenth — a federally-recognized holiday marking the emancipation of the final enslaved persons in the U.S. — but his remarks were roundly criticized for whitewashing the horror of slavery.

Former Justice Department official Mary McCord, in a Q&A about the recent indictment of Donald Trump, has given her view on his case so far – and what she would do differently if tasked with defending the former president.

The U.S. Coast Guard is currently searching for a deep-water submersible that went missing while exploring the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. According to The Daily Beast, British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding is among the five people on board the the missing vehicle, The Daily Beast reported.

With cameras banned during Donald Trump appeared in court on Tuesday, it was left to sketch artists to capture the moment. The flatteringly young Trump that was drawn opened the artist to questions..

As campaigning for the 2024 election heats up, some are wondering if the lawyers behind the pro-Trump effort to subvert the last election could repeat their Big Lie because of a lack of punishment, writes USA Today's John Fritze.

Conservative writer Vince Everett Ellison compared the Democratic Party to the Gestapo in an interview on Monday.

Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick says that he doesn’t believe that capitalism would allow for the end of white supremacy.

Donald Trump could land a plea deal in his classified documents case because evidence is so top secret that prosecutors don’t want it revealed at a trial, the New York Times reported Monday.

Republicans try to position themselves as the party that's "strong on defense," but recent stunts by MAGA extremists have rendered that meaningless, a Washington Post columnist suggests.

Conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk dedicated his Monday program to opposing Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the freeing of slaves in the United States.

The Republican Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is being accused to using his position to secure sexual favors.

A new campaign ad released on Monday suggests Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared war on a new enemy.

As homophobic and transphobic rhetoric ramps up as the far-right tries to pin society's problems on LGBTQ people, it's looking like people beyond the GOP's base are fighting back.

Three women were slashed the legs in unprovoked attacks from a stranger on a Manhattan subway line, police said Monday. Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect, wearing a Boston Red Sox baseball cap, and asked the public’s help identifying him and tracking him down. The first two victims were attacked about 4:14 p.m. Sunday at the E. 86th St. station on the Lexington Ave. line. A 19-year-old woman got off a downtown No. 4 train and was walking up the stairs to the mezzanine when the... Читать дальше...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Monday reacted with alarm to a new report in the Washington Post showing that the Department of Justice and the FBI dragged their feet for more than a year in launching an investigation into former President Donald Trump's role in inciting the January 6th Capitol riots.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the far-right Christian fundamentalist legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). A long list of Religious Right organizations had gained considerable influence in the Republican Party by the time ADF was founded in 1993, from Focus on the Family to the late Rev. Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition to the Family Research Council. But ADF, formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, was focused specifically on pushing anti-gay and anti-anti-abortion laws.

Activists are calling on Australia to ban Donald Trump Jr. ahead of a visit next month.

A Massachusetts middle school teacher is resigning and moving out of town after he says a 12-year-old student barraged him with antisemitic harassment, The Berkshire Eagle reported.

The National Hurricane Center has given a system headed to the Caribbean a 100% of forming into tropical depression or storm with advisories expected later today. In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said satellite imagery shows the area of low pressure halfway between Africa and the Lesser Anilles has become more organized since Sunday. “If current trends continue, advisories could be initiated on a tropical depression later today,” the NHC stated. “This system is forecast to move generally... Читать дальше...

Two people were shot and killedon Sunday night during a Father’s Day barbecue in Roseland, police said. One person is in critical condition and two others are in fair condition. A 37-year-old man was pronounced dead on the scene with a gunshot wound to the head. A 33-year-old man was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the neck and later pronounced dead. A 27-year-old man was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition while a... Читать дальше...

President Joe Biden is making a campaign stop Monday in Palo Alto, where he is expected to announce $67 million in funding to upgrade California's power grid.

The number of suspicious packages and letters reportedly sent to public officials across Kansas continued to rise, totaling more than 100 as of Sunday, federal authorities said. Alarm over the mail, which contain a white powder, was initially raised Friday when the Kansas Bureau of Investigation announced more than 30 letters had been sent to Kansas lawmakers and other public officials. Kansas Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach was among the recipients. The total more than doubled to about 70 letters on Saturday, authorities said. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump on Monday reacted with anger to a poll from Quinnipiac that shows him losing the 2024 election to President Joe Biden.

Republican lawmakers are joining forces with far-right activists to attack universities and even private businesses that are investigating the spread of disinformation online — claiming that this amounts to an effort to silence conservatives on the internet, according to a report.

A Florida judge ordered Donald Trump's defense lawyers not to release any evidence related to the classified documents case to the media or the public, The Guardian reported.