Новости за 12.07.2023

Enraged over the FBI's investigations of former President Donald Trump and driven by a number of other conspiracy theories, Republicans have increasingly pushed to strip funding from the federal law enforcement agency, as a sort of punitive measure. But that is going to blow up in their faces, warned Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), himself a member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, on CNN Wednesday.

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed stricter regulations for lead exposure in residential buildings and childcare facilities. Any amount of lead found in a building will be regarded as hazardous, according to the proposed rule from the EPA that would lower its lead dust hazard level to any level greater than zero. The rule will, therefore, require disclosures for home buyers, and in certain cases for the paint or source of the lead to be removed. Читать дальше...

Washington (AFP) - US consumer inflation cooled in June to its lowest rate since early 2021, according to government data released Wednesday -- an encouraging sign for policymakers battling cost-of-living pressures. The key inflation gauge, the consumer price index (CPI), rose 3.0 percent from a year ago last month, the smallest increase since March 2021 and down from 4.0 percent in May, said the Labor Department. The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates rapidly over the last year to ease demand and bring down price growth. Читать дальше...

Prosecutors at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday concluded their case against Kevin Spacey, who is being tried on 12 counts of sexual assault. The two-time Academy Award winner previously pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him, including sexual assault, indecent assault and causing a person to engage in nonconsensual penetrative sex. Four men, now in their 30s or 40s, testified about offenses that occurred between 2001 and 2013, spanning most of the time Spacey lived in... Читать дальше...

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) used a congressional hearing on Wednesday to spread a conspiracy theory that the FBI was behind the Jan. 6 riots.

Houston man Rudy Farias says he felt “brainwashed” by his mom, Janie Santana, during the period of time he was considered missing. Farias was reported missing by his mother in 2015 when he was 18 years old and was purportedly located last month. However, the story quickly fell apart, with police concluding he was never actually missing and had been living at home with his mom the whole time. An investigation is ongoing but so far no charges have been filed. The motive for Santana’s years of deception is currently unknown. Читать дальше...

By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn, two allies of former U.S. President Donald Trump, must answer questions under oath in voting technology company Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against right-wing media outlet Newsmax, court records showed on Wednesday. Florida-based Smartmatic served subpoenas on Bannon, who served as a White House strategist under Trump, and Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser, on Wednesday, according to documents filed in Delaware state court. Читать дальше...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Ca.) plans to hold a fundraiser Wednesday in support of embattled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Punchbowl News reports.

FBI Director Christopher Wray was faced with a number of hostile Republican lawmakers in the Judiciary Committee Wednesday who accused him of being a liberal who was going after conservatives.

An intense search for a suspect was underway in Birmingham, Alabama, after two firefighters were gunned down Wednesday in what authorities suspect was a targeted attack. The violence unfolded at Station 9 in Birmingham’s Norwood community before 8:30 a.m. CT, around the same time firefighters started their shifts for the day, AL.com reported. They were doing routine maintenance when the shooter entered the fire station through the bay door, which is typically left open in case residents need help or some type of assistance... Читать дальше...

The prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar said the now-incarcerated former sports doctor provoked the attack when he made a lewd comment while they were watching a tennis match on TV, the Associated Press reported.

With former President Donald Trump pulling into a clear lead as the Republican nominee, calls from within the party are growing to draft a candidate who could appeal to moderates in a general election.

Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign continue to hope that he will pull ahead of former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primary, but so far, that isn't happening. An Economist/YouGov poll released on July 12 shows DeSantis trailing Trump by 26 percent.

Judge Amit Mehta acquitted Oath Keeper member James Beeks on Wednesday, the first Jan. 6 rioter to be cleared of all charges thus far.

An event featuring white nationalist Nick Fuentes drew the ire of GOP officials and county Republican parties who said that they were not consulted before their names were listed as speakers and supporters on a flier promoting the event.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) methodically took apart Republican complaints about the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI during a contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.

While many people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, with the top-secret Trinity test, on July 16, 1945. This forms the dramatic center of Christopher Nolan’s new Oppenheimer epic, coming to theaters on July 21. That has been true, in fact, about every movie about the making and use of the first atomic bomb, going back to the very first film in 1947. Читать дальше...

Two Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday sent a scathing letter to committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) for seemingly being tricked by man who was indicted months ago for being an unregistered agent for the Chinese government.

Over the past 20 years huge swathes of the world's oceans have changed color, displaying a subtle greening towards the tropics that researchers say points to the effect of climate change on life in the world's seas.

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi wasn't happy after watching Republicans grill FBI director Christopher Wray in the House Wednesday.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is sparking speculation about a potential third-party 2024 run due to his planned headlining of an event in New Hampshire sponsored by the bipartisan group No Labels, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

The Florida Republican Party spent years trying to get their voters to take part in early voting and vote by mail, until Donald Trump came along.

Taylor Taranto, a fanatical Trump supporter who was recently arrested near former President Barack Obama's D.C. residence with a van full of guns, was ordered to be held in detention ahead of his trial.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence supports forcing women whose fetuses have zero chance of survival to carry them to term – in other words, to literally carry a fetus inside them that will not survive after birth, or might be born dead. The former Trump vice president claims he's heard many stories of women who were told they would give birth to a baby that could not survive, but did.

After a seven-month investigation, a group of congressional Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders released a bombshell report Wednesday showing that private tax prep firms have been secretly sharing U.S. taxpayers' sensitive personal information with tech giants for years, a practice that the lawmakers condemned as outrageous and possibly illegal.