Новости за 03.08.2023

Donald Trump has mostly escaped consequences from a lifetime’s worth of falsehoods, but the former president could soon face a reckoning, a columnist writes.

CHICAGO -- Two men convicted in the slaying of a college basketball standout in Chicago 30 years ago are in line for a $25 million payout from the city under the terms of a settlement agreement in their long-running federal lawsuit, court records show. Tyrone Hood and Wayne Washington sued the city in 2016, alleging police, including then-Detectives Kenneth Boudreau and John Halloran, fabricated evidence and coerced testimony to win murder convictions in the May 1993 killing of Marshall Morgan Jr. Читать дальше...

By Boureima Balima and Abdel-Kader Mazou NIAMEY/ABUJA (Reuters) -Hundreds of supporters of Niger's junta marched in the capital Niamey on Thursday to protest against West African sanctions, as regional defence chiefs discussed possible intervention to restore democracy. General Abdourahamane Tiani, the former head of Niger's presidential guard, confined President Mohamed Bazoum to his residence last Wednesday and declared himself head of state in the seventh coup in West and Central Africa since 2020. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — The Trump circus is back to witness the former president, Donald Trump, make history again: One insurrection, two impeachments and now three separate arraignments on felony charges.

A staunch conservative believes that Donald Trump could win the presidency again – and is sounding the alarm.

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, defended her client to reporters outside a Washington, D.C. courthouse as the former president was being arraigned for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's historic indictment of former President Donald Trump for allegedly executing an illegal plot to subvert American democracy after he lost the 2020 election is unprecedented. The forty-five-page document contains four charges against Trump, each of which are federal felonies:

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday rejected a gun rights group's challenge to an assault weapons ban the state of Connecticut adopted after an armed gunman in 2012 killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The National Association for Gun Rights filed a lawsuit in September, arguing the 2013 ban violated the right to bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment, citing a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that expanded gun rights. Читать дальше...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida will not allow public school students to take Advanced Placement psychology because the course includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity, topics forbidden by the state, the College Board said Thursday. That could mean that a week before school starts in many districts, about 5,000 Central Florida students and about 27,000 statewide may not be able to take a class they signed up to tackle in the 2023-24 school year. “We are sad to have learned that today... Читать дальше...

Dozens of migrants who have been camping outside the Adams administration’s asylum seeker arrival center in Manhattan were moved inside early Thursday after some of them spent nearly a week sleeping on the sidewalk amid overcrowding in the city’s shelter systems. The arrival center operated out of Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel is where newly-arrived migrants are supposed to go to be processed to get a bed in a city shelter. Last weekend, some adult migrants who showed up at the Roosevelt were told... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump released an ad attacking Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis as he was en route to being arrested on charges that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election for president.

The judge randomly assigned to Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 election conspiracy case is a tough draw for the former president according to lawyers who have tried cases before Tanya S. Chutkan, Rolling Stone reports.

A Colorado woman was caught on video donning brown face paint and walking into a Target store, demanding to know where the Pride section is.

(Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer Lizzo on Thursday denied claims made in a lawsuit filed by three of her former dancers that she created a hostile work environment by engaging in denigrating behavior and body-shaming, calling the accusations "false" and "outrageous." Lizzo's response on the social media platform X comes two days after the dancers filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It alleges harassment based on sex, religion, race and disability. In addition to Lizzo, whose... Читать дальше...

(Corrects to "affect" from "effect" in paragraph 10) By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -About half of Republicans would not vote for Donald Trump if he were convicted of a felony, a sign of the severe risks his legal problems pose for his 2024 U.S. presidential bid, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday. The former president and current front-runner in the Republican nomination contest for the November 2024 presidential election, Trump is due to appear in court on Thursday... Читать дальше...

Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in late 2020 hyped a video of Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as a "smoking gun" proving claims of election fraud in the Peach State.

A pair of MSNBC hosts grilled one of Donald Trump's former lawyers before a legal expert blew a hole in his defense of the former president's efforts to remain in office despite his election loss.

How many ways could Trump mount a coup?
At first, we all thought there were just one or two!
But no, there were many as it turns out.

WASHINGTON – While some lawmakers on Capitol Hill thought former president Donald Trump would never face the justice system over the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) tells Raw Story she never doubted the day would come.

Former President Donald Trump's campaign issued a statement attacking special counsel Jack Smith and his wife just hours before being arraigned in Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump's shocking deposition from a rape trial can be used as evidence in his business fraud hearing in New York.

A critic of Donald Trump taunted the former president on Thursday by dressing up in a large, inflatable likeness of him and crying like a baby about the prospect of being sent to prison.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon as Donald Trump heads to Washington, D.C., where he will be arraigned on new charges of multiple conspiracies to steal the 2020 presidential election, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel ridiculed supporters of the former president for coddling him like a giant "toddler."

Speaking with hosts Chris Jansing and Andrea Mitchell, the SAGT made the point that the former leader of the free world was perfectly capable of understanding that... Читать дальше...

Demonstrators took to the streets of Niger's capital Niamey on Thursday in a show of support for the country's new leadership, a week after a military coup in the West African country. People rallied on the streets of Niamey to signal their support for de facto President Abdourahmane Tchiani and his junta, a dpa correspondent in the capital reported. The demonstrations followed a call by civil society associations, according to reports. They came on the 63rd anniversary of Niger gaining independence from former colonial power France. Читать дальше...

(Refiles to change 'Democrat' to 'Democratic' in headline and first paragraph) (Reuters) -The two Democratic lawmakers who were expelled from the Tennessee legislature earlier this year after angering the Republican majority with a protest against gun violence are expected to win a special election on Thursday to serve out the remainder of their original terms. Republicans in the state's House of Representatives voted to expel Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, both young Black men, on April 6 as... Читать дальше...