Новости за 14.07.2023

A federal judge on Friday ordered failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, along with her attorney Alan Dershowitz and fellow right-wing fringe candidate Mark Finchem, to pay a $122,000 fine for their pursuit of a “frivolous” lawsuit to overturn the 2022 election, The Messenger reports.

A Louisiana man faces hate crime charges after allegedly attacking a Black priest in Melville with a machete, reported KLFY on Friday.

As Donald Trump continues his campaign for another term in the White House, his recent indictment and other legal headaches have forced him to embrace the role as the victim of a "witch hunt," Matt Lewis writes in an op-ed for The Daily Beast.

Scandal-ridden far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has seemingly settled up — financially — with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

The Republican party’s attacks on the FBI have roots in the ideology Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh that were promoted decades ago, Salon reported Friday.

A Florida columnist savaged his state’s Republican politicians Friday for sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring reality.

The Republican Congressman who called Blacks “colored people” on the house floor backtracked Friday, saying he simply “misspoke.”

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 6-3 ruling in Biden v. Nebraska in late June, President Joe Biden vowed to keep fighting. And on Friday, July 14, the Biden Administration laid out its Plan B for student loan debt.

Four House Democrats crossed the aisle on Friday and voted for an $886 billion military policy bill containing Republican amendments aimed at rolling back abortion access and gender-affirming care for service members, as well as a measure that would bar the Pentagon—a major emitter—from carrying out President Joe Biden's climate-related executive orders.

We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be a regular star and too massive to be a planet.

Assisted reproductive technologies are medical procedures that help people experiencing difficulty having or an inability to have biological children of their own. From in vitro fertilization to genetic screening to creation of viable eggs from the skin cells of two male mice, each new development speaks to the potential of reproductive technologies to expand access to the experience of pregnancy.

Sweltering temperatures are sizzling across Europe with some regions facing temperatures expected to climb well above 40 degrees Celsius, the European Space Agency said. The Acropolis in the Greek capital of Athens was closed on Friday between noon (0900 GMT) and 5 pm due to extreme heat. In the morning, a tourist suffered a mild heat stroke while visiting the Acropolis, Athens' archaeological landmark. She was taken to hospital but is not in danger, the emergency services said. Similar conditions prevailed in Cyprus. Читать дальше...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign is off to a lackluster start, and some conservative donors who are desperate to be rid of former President Donald Trump are telling him to shape up.

A Detroit police commissioner caught in his pickup truck with a sex worker insists the woman unexpectedly jumped into the vehicle.

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Friday that nearly half of the $350 billion in COVID-19 assistance to state, local, tribal and territorial governments was budgeted as of March 31 for uses from lost revenue replacement to housing, broadband and job training. Data released by Treasury on the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) showed these governments will continue to have substantial resources to make investments that will boost economic growth, health care... Читать дальше...

On the third anniversary of Benjamin Keough’s death, actress Riley Keough and Priscilla Presley honored his memory on social media. Riley posted to her Instagram story on Wednesday, sharing a heartfelt throwback photo that featured her late brother, Benjamin, and her late mother, Lisa Marie Presley, Entertainment Tonight reported. Thephoto captured a young Benjamin making a funny face and posing next to his famous mom. “Missing you both,” the actress wrote. Priscilla, Benjamin’s grandmother, also shared a message... Читать дальше...

A new study published in Child Development explores the relationship between autistic traits, theory of mind abilities, and self-conscious emotions in children. The researchers examined whether autistic traits were associated with deficits in theory of mind, meaning the ability to understand others’ mental states and predict their behaviors, and whether these deficits were related to the experience of self-conscious emotions, specifically shame-like avoidance. The results indicate that children... Читать дальше...

Author and right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter, who is anti-abortion and supported the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, has been warning fellow Republicans that passing ultra-severe abortion bans is hurting them politically in key swing states. And she reiterated that warning in April after liberal Janet Protasiewicz enjoyed a double-digit victory over far-right Christian nationalist Dan Kelly in a Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

A Rhode Island man accused of being part of the Jan. 6 riots left his phone charging in a U.S. Capitol office – and had cops retrieve it for him when he was kicked out, according to a report.

The British government on Friday approved the construction of a controversial road tunnel near the historic Stonehenge site in southwestern England.

A one-cent campaign contribution flagged by the Federal Election Commission as exceeding federal campaign contribution limits?

Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump on Friday made a last-minute plea to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from indicting him or his associates for their efforts to overturn his loss in the Peach State in the 2020 election.

A woman in Florida entered a hospital's Neonatal intensive care unit, took her three-day-old baby off a ventilator and stabbed hospital workers as they tried to stop her leaving, ABC4 reported.

By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's 2024 re-election team said on Friday that it and his Democratic Party raised $72 million during the first quarter since the campaign launched, lending firepower to his efforts to seek a second term. Biden, who launched his campaign on April 25, had $77 million in cash on hand at the end of June across several affiliated fundraising entities and the Democratic Party. Those funds give him the ability to push out advertisements... Читать дальше...

Younger Floridians are fleeing the state in record numbers and business dollars are drying up as the state is increasingly seen as the place “where empathy, decency and kindness go to die,” a columnist wrote Friday.