Новости за 04.08.2023

MIAMI — A federal grand jury is investigating allegations of bid-rigging involving Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Department of Education, charter school operators and the control of a small North Florida school district. Federal authorities issued a subpoena to the Jefferson County School District in June seeking communications between district officials, charter school lobbyists and former top officials in DeSantis’ education department. It also seeks records relating to the department’s attempt to steer... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge who oversees New York’s decades-old right-to-shelter mandate agreed in a court hearing Friday that Gov. Hochul must to do more to help alleviate the city’s spiraling migrant crisis, according to an attorney who participated in the proceeding. The emergency hearing before Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Erika Edwards was held to address concerns raised by the Legal Aid Society that the right-to-shelter mandate may have been violated this week after a large group of... Читать дальше...

MIAMI — The Lionel Messi Show hits the road this weekend for the first time as Inter Miami tries to keep its Leagues Cup win streak alive against FC Dallas in the Round of 16. Fans will have to pay a pretty penny to watch the Argentine star in person at Toyota Stadium Sunday. Tickets for the elimination match sold out in 15 minutes when they went on sale to the general public Thursday morning after all the presale tickets, which started at $199, were gone Wednesday night. Prices on the secondary market immediately soared. Читать дальше...

By Doina Chiacu and Jack Queen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Friday to three new charges related to his handling of U.S. classified documents after he left the White House in 2021, a court filing showed. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, also waived his right to be present in Florida federal court for his arraignment on the three additional charges on Aug. 10. The action came a day after Trump appeared in federal... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump on Friday issued a threat that he will be "coming after" anyone who "goes after" him.

Donald Trump and his allies are considering the creation of a new Justice Department unit that would be tasked with pushing the former president's election narratives that would be part of broad plans to exact revenge against the former president’s perceived enemies if he wins the 2024 election, Rolling Stone reports.

Former President Donald Trump's strategists have pushed a series of rules in the Republican primary process that makes it disproportionately easy for him to win delegates in the primary contest, reported POLITICO on Friday.

ORLANDO, Fla. — As Gov. Ron DeSantis plummets in the GOP presidential primary polls, his status as option number two in case anything happens to Donald Trump is getting more precarious. He’s battling native son and daughter Tim Scott and Nikki Haley in South Carolina. He’s neck and neck in some polls with businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and could become the target of everyone who doesn’t want to attack Trump directly. His campaign is laying off staff to try to cut spending as contributions dry up... Читать дальше...

A 34-year-old Manhattan sex worker, known for nearly three decades only as Jane Doe No. 7, was identified Friday through DNA evidence as the fifth victim in the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said during a press conference that Karen Vergata disappeared on Valentine’s Day 1996. Her legs and feet were found on the Bayside shore of Fire Island in April 1996, with her skull located 15 years later after the discovery of another slain woman, said the DA. Читать дальше...

A day after being arraigned in the Jan. 6 election conspiracy case, Donald Trump took to social media to vent his grievances, claiming repeatedly that he’s the victim of political persecution.

Former Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock appeared in court this Friday and pleaded not guilty to eight criminal charges she faces, 10 News reported.

You might think Jimmy Buffett has already been immortalized through his five decades of popular music and the business empire he has built since emerging from the Key West scene of the early-1970s. But a team of scientists, including a group from the University of Miami, has found another way to implant his name in Florida, where the Mississippi-born Buffett calls home. The team just named a newly discovered species they found in the watery depths of the Keys after the 76-year-old singer-songwriter. Читать дальше...

A Texas man who threatened two Arizona officials and their children and who called for polls workers to die in a mass shooting has been sentenced to prison, the Associated Press reported.

Six former Mississippi sheriff's deputies from a self-described "Goon Squad" pleaded guilty Thursday to subjecting two Black men to racialized torture and shooting one of the victims in the mouth after a neighbor called in a complaint about the men staying in the home of a white woman.

Donald Trump and his allies are plotting full-on revenge attacks against his tormenters if he can find a path back to the White House, reported Rolling Stone Friday.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis—also running for the Republican presidential nomination—slammed the National Basketball Association after the players' union, the National Basketball Players Association, condemned the Orlando Magic for making a donation to his super PAC.

A North Carolina church youth leader has been charged with felony child sexual offenses.

Passengers on a delayed United Airlines flight at Newark airport in New Jersey had to endure seven hours in extreme heat with no food or water made available to them, CBS 7 reported.

Federal regulators are going after Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro — again — for failing to follow the law.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Army on Friday became the second branch of the U.S. military to no longer have a Senate-confirmed leader, as a Republican senator continues to block military nominations, a move military leaders said threatens readiness and undermines retention of officers. Retiring Chief of Staff of the Army General James McConville relinquished command on Friday. It will be the first time in history the U.S. military will have two branches, the Army and the Marine Corps, without a confirmed leader, the Pentagon said. Читать дальше...

Conservative commentator Ramesh Ponnuru on Friday pointed the finger at Republicans in the United States Senate who he said ultimately let former President Donald Trump off the hook for inciting the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol building.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) has been as influential as he is polarizing. No one has done more to push the U.S. Supreme Court to the right than McConnell, who infamously blocked former President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland (now U.S. attorney general) in 2016 before ramming through all three of Donald Trump's High Court nominees.

Gwyneth Paltrow is finally making her lifestyle attainable — at least for a short while — as the Oscar winner prepares to list her guesthouse on Airbnb. The Goop founder, 50, took to Instagram to show off the Montecito home that will soon be available for two guests to rent on Sept. 9, via the home-sharing site. The “Goop-Inspired Stay,” as it’s dubbed in the listing, is part of Paltrow’s partnership with Airbnb, which notes it’s trying to make people feel less lonely by offering rentals from “unexpected” hosts. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's attorneys made one more last-ditch attempt to block potential indictments in Fulton County, Georgia, by seeking to disqualify district attorney Fani Willis.

A drug conviction was overturned after a Detroit judge said before the trial that the defendant, a Black man, "looks like a criminal to me, Reuters reported.