Новости за 01.07.2023

Former president Barack Obama said Saturday that the indictment of Donald Trump reinforced the notion that nobody in the United States is above the law.

Dark energy and dark matter are enigmatic concepts targeted by a European Space Agency space telescope named Euclid that launched from the Space Coast on Saturday.

A DC judge has ordered a group of Proud Boys members to pay over $1 million for their role in destroying property belonging to a well-known, majority-Black, Washington, D.C., church in 2020, CNN reports.

A former prison nurse has been sentenced to six years after pleading guilty to smuggling more than 100 drug-soaked papers into a Miami detention center for federal inmates, who in turn paid him thousands of dollars and let him use a Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce for free.

The Ron DeSantis War Room recently posted an anti-LGBTQ video that attacked Trump for pro-LGBTQ statements and was criticized as homophobic by some Republican groups, but the tactic DeSantis backers are using comes straight from Trump himself, according to a report from the New York Times on Saturday.

Donald Trump has been criticized for years for purportedly inappropriate and even sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka, and those criticisms have ramped up recently with new allegations from Trump's time in office, but none of that is likely to matter to diehard Trump fans, according to a Guardian columnist.

Donald Trump has been reckless in his handling of classified documents to the point that it brings his own former press secretary to the point of anger.

The Dutch king apologized for the sufferings of hundreds of thousands of people under slavery and asked for forgiveness on the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) got a rough welcome in his home state on Saturday when he tried to address a crowd in Pickens, S.C., that showed up to see former president Donald Trump speak at an early July 4th celebration.

Reacting to a report from the Washington Post that Donald Trump reportedly called Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) and tried to pressure him to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, set off a flurry of commentary on Saturday with most saying the DOJ has another investigation to launch if it hasn't already.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, a former assistant U. S. attorney who helped prosecute Jan. 6 insurrectionists claimed that the DOJ got a boost from being able to speak with a close Donald Trump aide heard on tape looking at and discussing confidential documents with the former president after he left office.

Speaking with host Michael Steele, attorney Alyse Adamson claimed the audio recording of Trump and aide Susie Wiles talking and laughing about the documents is helpful, but... Читать дальше...

Reacting to reports that special counsel Jack Smith may swamp Donald Trump with dozens more indictments, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner suggested to an MSNBC host that the former president better gird his loins for what is coming.

Appearing on "The Saturday Show" with host Jonathan Capehart, Kirshner first stated that, if Trump aide Susie Wiles answer the special counsel's questions about the former president retaining classified documents and sharing them with her, that would put Trump in the "danger zone."

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With the Republican National Committee setting guidelines for the minimum requirements needed to participate in the GOP's 2024 presidential debates, a report from Politico suggested that, if those standards aren't changed, only Donald Trump and his four closest rivals will appear next month with the majority of candiadtes left watching on TV.

According to the report from Politico's Steven Shepard, a reliance on polls -- and the type of polls used -- is creating an uphill battle for low-polling candidates to set foot on the stage. Читать дальше...

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" early Saturday morning, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance agreed with the host that Donald Trump's sense of "bravado" is blowing up in his face as the prospect of jail time increasingly looms.

Reacting to the release this week of a tape of the former president boasting about having classified documents after he left office while an aide laughs, Vance smirked while explaining the increasing legal peril Trump is now in.

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According to former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki, a majority ruling that Chief Justice authored this week that derailed a radical plan to change federal election laws contained an open invitation for a different kind of political shenanigans.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans brought rainbow pride to the streets of Seoul on Saturday for an annual celebration of LGBTQ rights, while demonstrators against them snagged a prime site marchers had used since 2015.

Donald Trump placed a call to former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) just after the 2020 presidential election in an effort to pressure him to overturn the election results, reports the Washington Post.

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan Friday, Secretary of Education Miguel Cordona strongly criticized the hypocrisy of the Republican party's celebration of the decision.

Amidst bomb threats and boycotts against companies that sell products aimed at attracting the LGBTQ+ community, what is often being depicted as an organic response by consumers is instead, according to experts, a coordinated, violent hate campaign.

Gov. Kristi Noem is an investor in an ethanol plant that’s partnered with a company proposing a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline.

Condemning the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court as corrupt and "heavily politicized," U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna and Don Beyer on Friday reintroduced legislation to impose term limits for the nine justices in order to "restore judicial independence."

A new video shared by the DeSantis War Room on Twitter is being criticized by people across the political spectrum for its comparisons of Ron DeSantis to psychopaths and its anti-LGBTQ message.

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's former attorney and past New York mayor, could be signaling his intent to work with the prosecution in its fake electors case against Trump, a former prosecutor said on Friday.

A CNN political analyst said Friday that the Supreme Court’s recent rulings are likely to fuel blowback for Republicans.

The Supreme Court's decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, ruling for Lorie Smith, a Christian website designer who was afraid she'd be forced to serve a same-sex couple even though no such couples asked her to, ostensibly is just about compelled speech, and not a general broadside against all antidiscrimination law.