Новости за 31.07.2023

A Cuban American columnist skewered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Sunshine State’s Department of Education over its controversial new academic standards that suggests some slaves benefited from the skills they acquired in captivity.

New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver was hospitalized and will be “unable to discharge the duties of acting governor,” a position she temporarily took over after Gov. Phil Murphy left for vacation last week, the governor’s office said Monday. Senate President Nicholas Scutari assumed the duties of acting governor Monday morning. According to the New Jersey state constitution, the lieutenant governor fills in as acting governor when the governor is not in the state. If the lieutenant governor is unable to do so, the Senate President takes over. Читать дальше...

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis earned at least $1.1 million from his new book, more than tripling his personal wealth from last year, according to a new federal disclosure filing.

Before being named the special counsel tasked with investigating Donald Trump, Jack Smith in his role as an international war crimes prosecutor gained unique insight into the authoritarian leader’s playbook for beating criminal charges that the former president is currently using, a geopolitics expert writes for The New York Times.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is concerned about reports of intimidation and political violence during protests in Bangladesh over the weekend against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday. Police on Saturday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at stone-throwing opposition party supporters, who called for Hasina to step down and for elections due in January to be held under a neutral caretaker government. "We encourage the government... Читать дальше...

A mental health clinician working on Rikers Island was stabbed in the face and arm by a detainee accused of stabbing a man to death on a Manhattan subway train, the Daily News has learned. The clinician was attacked in a clinic in the troubled jail’s George R. Vierno Center on Saturday, according to multiple sources. He was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital where he needed stitches for his wounds, Correction Department sources said. The 6-foot-3 319-pound White was taken to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric evaluation after the attack.

DETROIT — The third day of the hearing to determine whether the Oxford High School shooter is sentenced to life without parole in prison or a term of years is scheduled to begin Tuesday morning, when his lawyers will resume arguing for him to get a chance at parole. Ethan Crumbley's attorneys began presenting their case Friday afternoon for why the teen should be sentenced to a term of years in prison — which would be no less than 25 to 40 years at a minimum and no more than 60 at a maximum —... Читать дальше...

A Mar-a-Lago employee targeted by investigators in the classified documents probe has "almost certainly" flipped against Donald Trump, according to a report.

Fighting back tears, O’Shae Sibley’s best friend described on Facebook Live the horror of watching his pal die in his arms — but vowed gay New Yorkers will not cower in the face of hate. “They killed my brother right in front of me,” Otis Pena said in the nearly 15-minute long video he posted hours after Sibley was stabbed to death at a Brooklyn gas station. “I’m covered in his blood. They murdered him because he was gay, because he stood up for his friends ... I’m trying to put pressure on the wound. Читать дальше...

Republicans launched investigations Monday into Hunter Biden's plea deal that fell apart last week, The New York Post reported.

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -Quest Diagnostics on Monday launched the first direct-to-consumer blood test to detect abnormal levels of beta amyloid, a key Alzheimer's disease protein that can appear years before dementia symptoms arise. The $399 test, called AD-Detect, uses the same technology as a blood test the company began selling for use by doctors in early 2022. "One of the advantages of having an amyloid test is that it lets you know, potentially years in advance of even being symptomatic... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump may be cruising in all 2024 Republican presidential polls.

A Texas man has been charged with taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot after a relative sent investigators a picture of him – and then a mystery package containing his cell phone turned up at their office, Houston Public Media reported.

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan State Capitol Commission is poised to ban all firearms from the Capitol after a Monday meeting where members discussed a broader gun prohibition and the start of installing pass-through weapons detection devices next week in preparation for the policy change. The commission on Monday released a draft policy that would ban all weapons inside the Capitol — a stricter ban than the prior policy banning the open carry of guns inside the building — and expects to adopt the policy... Читать дальше...

Popular podcaster Joe Rogan on Monday spread the same Jan. 6 conspiracy theory that's already caused a defamation lawsuit to be filed against Fox News.

A date has been set for Donald Trump to be deposed in a $500 million defamation lawsuit the former president filed earlier this year against his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

A famous Portland-based doughnut chain is set to open a new location in New Orleans, but its name and symbolism is causing outrage, Willamette Week reported.

Indicted Trump employee Carlos De Oliveira had his arraignment delayed on Monday when he revealed he had not yet found a Florida-based attorney to represent him in his case.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) emerged from an interview with a business associate of President Joe Biden's son and said he had no reason to believe the president was involved in corrupt dealings.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Monday afternoon, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance slapped aside comments made by Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba who maintained her client can't be charged with obstruction of justice because he never deleted Mar-a-Lago surveillance videos.

Habba, who no longer represents the former president in criminal cases, having been moved over to acting as counsel for his Save America PAC, took to Fox News on Sunday with host Shannon Bream to push back at new charges filed by special counsel Jack Smith. Читать дальше...

Hunter Biden's longtime friend and business partner, Devon Archer, says he was told by Biden in 2018 that both of them would have the "last laugh" in criminal probes against them, Fox News reported.

A new New York Times/Siena College poll finds that even after two criminal indictments and ahead of possibly two more, Donald Trump is "dominating" the entire GOP presidential primary field, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis "by a landslide 37 percentage points." Trump, the poll shows, currently has the majority of likely Republican primary voters. Some experts point to "racial anxiety" and "GOP hostility to changing gender roles," some to "the loss of white straight male privilege," and... Читать дальше...

Jack Smith is urging the judge in Donald Trump’s classified documents case not to let extra charges filed last week push back the former president’s trial date.

Conservative podcaster and activist Charlie Kirk predicted that Devon Archer, a former business associate of Joe Biden's son, would prove that the president was the "mastermind" behind a vast criminal enterprise.

For decades, an increasingly powerful movement of conservative lawyers, born from the Texas Office of the Attorney General, had been shouldering its way into the federal judiciary, filing lawsuit after lawsuit in an attempt to slowly reshape the nation’s jurisprudence to its liking.