Новости за 29.06.2023

A federal judge on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the former president defamed E. Jean Carroll by denying her allegation that he raped her in the mid-1990s, Reuters reports.

The leader of the prominent American civil rights group NAACP on Thursday joined conservatives in assailing affirmative action – albeit for a very different reason.

After President Joe Biden's $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill was signed into law in 2021, the White House says it has distributed around of $42 billion across America to expand internet access to rural and isolated communities and fund roads and bridges, public transit, water infrastructure, power grids, and airports.

Parkland school security officer Scot Peterson wept Thursday as he was found not guilty of charges relating to his failure run into the school as a shooter killed 14 students and three staffers.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Lee Householder was given the maximum prison sentence possible by U.S. District Judge Timothy Black on Thursday.

The Independent reported an old photo of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) – along with the relentless mockery that went with it – has resurfaced.

Donald Trump could soon be facing additional indictments from the Department of Justice, The Independent reports.

A Cole County judge on Wednesday ordered the state to pay more than $240,000 in legal fees as part of a ruling that found the attorney general’s office “knowingly and purposefully” violated open records law while it was being run by now-U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.

Presidential candidate Mike Pence received $550,000 last year for speaking to an offshoot of the Unification Church, whose current leader is bitterly opposed to her gun-loving, Trump-supporting son who was close enough to the Jan. 6 insurrection to be tear-gassed.

Florida Republicans think the Biden administration may have played a role in the Southern Poverty Law Center categorizing the conservative group Moms for Liberty as an "extremist" group, ABC45 reported.

Former Vice President Mike Pence was among the Republicans that raced to microphones to comment on the U.S. Supreme Court bringing down affirmative action in higher education.

Researchers have discovered the first genetic marker associated with a faster progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), paving the way for new treatments to be developed for the lifelong condition. The global study of more than 22,000 people with MS involved 70 global institutions led by scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in the US. The immune system of people with MS attacks their brain and spinal cord, resulting in symptoms such as fatigue and problems with vision... Читать дальше...

The Florida grand jury that indicted former President Donald Trump hasn't finished its work, thus raising the possibility that even more criminal charges could be coming.

Madonna has gone home after a several-day stay in the hospital and was "feeling better," a source close to the matter told AFP Thursday.

Republicans are gearing up for possible impeachment inquiries of top administration officials and possibly even President Joe Biden himself, but a report Thursday claims Democrats are confident those efforts will backfire.

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a motion to support a new trial after he was found liable for the sexual assault of writer E. Jean Carroll.

An IRS agent has been doing the rounds on various media outlets claiming, to be a whistleblower revealing that Hunter Biden was given preferential treatment during a five-year investigation into his son's tax evasion.

Conservative podcast host Charlie Kirk on Thursday celebrated after the U.S. Supreme Court banned Affirmative Action programs based on race. The ruling could result in fewer Black college students.

On Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court released its anxiously awaited decisions on the use of affirmative action at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) — and ruled that race can no longer be a factor in college admissions.

He was called the n-word. He was turned away from a table of white students. He was told to “go back to picking cotton.” But after reporting these acts of racism to school officials in the rural town of Ottawa, Kansas, the mother of the 12-year-old bi-racial boy being targeted said her son didn’t trust adults at the school to protect him from his bullies. In fact, the mom said since the family moved to Ottawa in 2019, he’d dealt with repeated acts of racism and bullying. The Star is withholding their names for their safety. Читать дальше...

Starting Saturday, most Florida hospitals will start collecting data on patients’ immigration status, bucking advice from clinicians who warn this could deter sick people from seeking care. A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May, SB 1718, requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to inquire about immigration status on patient admission forms. The hospitals are required to then de-identify this data and submit quarterly reports to the Agency for Healthcare Administration, which will calculate... Читать дальше...

House Republicans plan to focus the bulk of their agenda on impeaching top Biden administration officials -- and maybe even the president himself.

The U.S. Department of Energy reported a major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion science in December 2022. For the first time, more energy was released from a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it.

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has received a "cease and desist" letter from an Iowa Republican leader after he was accused of busing in supporters to an Iowa event.

Attorneys for a Colorado web designer using her personal Christian beliefs to sue over the state's anti-discrimination law have reportedly included in their court filings a claim that a man, after their case was initially filed in 2016, asked her to create a website for his upcoming same-sex wedding.