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Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon said Tuesday House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-Ca.) needs to take a leaf out of an arch-enemy's book.

DETROIT — An Oakland County judge is scheduled this week to hear evidence from prosecutors hoping to show the Oxford High School shooter is incapable of being rehabilitated and should be sentenced to life in prison, while the defense team plans to explain circumstances showing he deserves an eventual chance at parole. Oakland County prosecutors notified the court in November that they would be seeking a sentence of life without parole for shooter Ethan Crumbley after he pleaded guilty in October to 24 felonies... Читать дальше...

Former United States Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor recalled to Meidas Touch podcast host Brett Meiselas on Tuesday that he had to drastically dumb down national security reports to ensure that ex-President Donald Trump could interpret them.

Harvard Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe and former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut came together to pen a Slate column explaining how a recent Supreme Court decision could make it a lot easier for prosecutors to use Donald Trump's tweets against him.

Dwayne Johnson has stepped up for his fellow actors with a seven-figure donation to the fund helping keep striking artists afloat. “The Rock” is living up to his moniker with a gift that will help thousands of the actors who are losing income and don’t have funds to bridge the gap, SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance told Variety on Monday. The foundation is a nonprofit affiliated with the union headed by Fran Drescher. Actors were just emerging from the crisis engendered by the COVID... Читать дальше...

Volunteers and villagers abandoned the village of Gennadi in the south-east of the Greek island of Rhodes on Tuesday evening as wildfires closed in. Recent pictures showed flames blazing in the village and huge clouds of smoke rising in the sky. However, professional firefighters continued to battle the flames, which had already set warehouses and homes on fire. "Shortly before, people were still standing on the roofs of the houses with water hoses and buckets, but now they had to retreat," an eyewitness told dpa. Читать дальше...

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, is expected in court Wednesday to plead guilty to federal tax charges. It will mark the end of a yearslong investigation into Biden’s taxes and foreign business dealings that has been spotlighted throughout his father’s presidency. It’s also the first time the Justice Department has brought charges against a sitting president’s child. Biden, 53, is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses as part of a plea deal. The plea agreement in... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — A 12-day scouring of Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann’s cluttered Long Island home found a “massive amount” of potential evidence, with investigators still probing whether the killings were committed inside, the chief Suffolk County prosecutor said Tuesday. “We’ve haven’t ruled out anything in regard to that,” said Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney outside the defendant’s Massapequa Park home, adding the areas searched included a creepy walk-in basement vault at the suspect’s suburban residence. Читать дальше...

Two California police officers who were accused of excessive force and discrimination against children were ordered to complete additional training but were allowed to remain on the force, The Sacramento Bee reported.

The federal government has launched a civil rights probe into Harvard University’s use of legacy admissions, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday, increasing pressure on universities already grappling with intense backlash to the practice. The disclosure arrived three weeks after a Boston civil rights group filed a complaint with the Education Department over Harvard’s use of legacy admissions — the practice of advantaging the children of alumni in admissions decisions — and almost a... Читать дальше...

A new report from NBC News revealed there were eight search warrants and affidavits for the federal case against Donald Trump for taking documents from the White House.

Pope Francis told a young transgender person that “God loves us just as we are” in a new podcast released Tuesday by the Vatican. Francis’ comments were featured in the second episode of Vatican Media’s “Popecast” ahead of World Youth Day — a global event set to take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from Aug. 1 to 6. The leader of the Catholic Church listened and commented on audio messages left by young Catholics sharing their personal stories. In one of the messages, a transgender person named Giona... Читать дальше...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center continues to keep an eye on a system in the Atlantic with a small chance to develop into a tropical depression or storm as it approaches the Florida coast, but is also eyeing two more systems in the Atlantic. In its 2 p.m. Eastern time tropical outlook, the NHC said the weak trough of low pressure was located a few hundred miles south-southwest of Bermuda, but is expected to migrate toward the U.S. in the coming week. “Significant development of this... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Tuesday sentenced “prolific, heinous and predatory” ex-Columbia University gynecologist Robert Hadden to 20 years in federal prison, doling out the maximum justice decades after he began abusing his patients and seven years after he avoided jail time. Citing Hadden’s “out of control” and “depraved” abuse, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said the magnitude of Hadden’s case stood out because of the number of victims — at least 245 — and the “outrageousness” of his conduct. Читать дальше...

The Virginia Court of Appeals overruled a man’s misdemeanor conviction for fleeing from police after ruling the Lynchburg police officer who attempted to make the arrest didn’t get close enough to the suspect to have a realistic chance of grabbing him.

A lawsuit filed against a police department in northern California claims cops beat a man who was already face-down in a pool of blood for drinking a beer in public, The Sacramento Bee reported.

Christopher R. Browning, a historian of Nazi Germany who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has long resisted labeling former President Donald Trump a fascist, despite his authoritarian behavior.

Matthew Dowd, who previously worked for George W. Bush's campaigns, wants Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) to put up or shut up.

A Brussels court convicted eight men of murder and attempted murder on Tuesday for their part in the 2016 Islamist bombings in Brussels that killed 32 people and injured more than 300.

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has reportedly let go one-third of his campaign staff.

Vice President Kamala Harris took another shot at Ron DeSantis' Florida on Tuesday when she once again slammed the state's new curriculum standards that mandate teachers inform students of certain ways Black Americans benefited from being enslaved.

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Democratic U.S. Representative Greg Casar of Texas held a thirst strike at Congress on Tuesday to protest a new law signed by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott blocking local ordinances that mandate water breaks for workers. Casar, whose district includes parts of Austin and San Antonio, Texas, said would not drink water for eight hours while standing on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building, as temperatures in Washington rise to almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32°C). Читать дальше...

The Teamsters union and UPS shipping announced Tuesday that the two sides had reached a tentative agreement on a five-year contract that would avert a crippling strike across the United States.

Washington Post columnist Aaron Blake walked through the staggering crash of Gov. Ron DeSantis' (R-FL) campaign over the last few months.

Sixty-five years ago, in 1958, several government programs that had been pursuing spaceflight combined to form NASA. At the time, I was only 3 years old.