Новости за 18.08.2023

Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has no plans to resign despite a mountain of scandals surrounding his fabulism and federal fraud indictments — because, in his view, everyone basically tells the same lies on their resume as he did.

A Georgia city council member who promoted bilingual ballots for an upcoming election was censured by her colleagues just a week after the council agreed to allow residents to vote on her proposal, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

In his determination to choose a 2024 GOP nominee other than ex-President Donald Trump, right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch is interested in selecting Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, The Washington Post reports.

A Freedom of Information Act filed by former President Donald Trump's one-time personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen in an effort to find out why he was forced to sign an agreement not to write a tell-all book before being released from prison has been rejected.

PHILADELPHIA — Zach Rehl, head of the Philadelphia chapter of the Proud Boys, could spend three decades in federal prison if prosecutors get their way later this month at his sentencing hearing. The role that Rehl and three other leaders of the neofacist organization played in organizing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol “threatened the bedrock principles of our country” and warranted the significant punishment, government lawyers argued in a court filing late Thursday. Their recommendation... Читать дальше...

The search warrant used by police inMarion, Kansas, to carry out a controversial raid on a local newspaper last week named one resident as the victim of an alleged crime. That person was local restaurant owner Kari Newell. As a small business owner in Marion, a community of fewer than 2,000 people about 60 miles north of Wichita, Newell would not normally have seen her troubles make national news. But her allegations that the local newspaper, the Marion County Record, broke the law by accessing... Читать дальше...

A key Donald Trump ally in Arizona is feeling the heat as the state's criminal probe into a plot to overturn its 2020 election results kicks into high gear, Rolling Stone reports.

PONTIAC, Mich. — Prosecutor Karen McDonald said she will never forget having to show Madisyn Baldwin's mother the video of how she died at Oxford High School. The 16-year-old's instinct when faced with Ethan Crumbley holding a gun and shooting her classmates was to crouch to the ground in a fetal position and put her hands over her head. He shot her at point blank range. Madisyn was the seventh person the then-15-year-old shot in the hallways at Oxford High School in November 2021. He shot four more after her. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers are headed to Georgia early next week to negotiate his bail, sources told ABC News Friday.

Donald Trump is expected to team up with former top Fox News host Tucker Carlson instead of attending next week’s GOP presidential debate, furthering his battle with the right-wing cable channel.

Rapper Young Capone — who also went by Dopeboy Ra and RaRa — died at the age of 35, just weeks after it was reported he was missing. His publicist, Aleesha Carter, confirmed his passing this week on Instagram. She did not provide further details, leaving the rapper’s cause of death unclear. “This is with a heavy heavy heart that I’m even posting this. We made magic when we strategically put out projects, always,” She wrote. “Young Capone aka Dopeboy Ra aka Rara was one of my first hip hop/rap clients... Читать дальше...

It’s not easy being a wolf in northern Minnesota.

Every year dozens of the animals die of starvation, disease, parasites, vehicle traffic and poaching.

But the No. 1 killer of Minnesota wolves may come as a surprise: agents of the federal government, acting with the full force of the law.

In 2022, there were 174 documented wolf deaths in Minnesota, according to the latest state Department of Natural Resources data. Of those, 142 were killed by a relatively obscure arm of... Читать дальше...

Reacting to a request from Donald Trump's legal team to postpone his Florida trial to 2026 due to the massive amount of time that will be required to go through millions of documents obtained during discovery, former prosecutor Joyce Vance dismissed the idea of the motion out of hand.

As CNN reported: "In a filing Thursday evening, Trump urged US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC, to reject Smith’s proposal for a January 2024 trial, saying he 'seeks a trial calendar more rapid than most no-document misdemeanors... Читать дальше...

Disney filed a new countersuit against Ron DeSantis in an ongoing legal feud that started after the company criticized the Florida governor's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law.

During an August 10 appearance on MetroNews' "Talk Line," Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) noted that he is considering leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent. The centrist senator would not be the first prominent ex-Democrat to do that in recent years; Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii are now independents.

Ron DeSantis called for the summary execution of suspected drug dealers crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Disgracedonetime NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik has been identified as one of the 30 co-conspirators included in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia’s Fulton County, an attorney for Kerik confirmed. Kerik, who served three years in federal prison for felony tax fraud, is the person identified as co-conspirator 5 in the case. The ex-top cop and longtimeally of Rudy Giuliani is accused of taking part in several meetings with lawmakers in Pennsylvania and Arizona... Читать дальше...

French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.

Now that a Georgia judge has been assigned to oversee Donald Trump's case after he was indicted along with 18 co-conspirators for his attempts to tamper with the 2020 presidential election results, legal observers are anxious to see if any threats he subsequently makes will be handled.

The findings of a new study call into question the widely held belief that facial masculinity is a reliable indicator of a man’s potential for paternal involvement. The authors of the study did not find a significant relationship between facial masculinity and actual self-reported paternal involvement or perceived paternal involvement. This implies that facial masculinity may not consistently signal higher or lower levels of paternal investment in a reliable manner. The research, published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology... Читать дальше...

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Friday announced he is calling on Congress to investigate U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan and will file a resolution to "censure and condemn" the jurist who is presiding over the Washington, D.C. federal trial of Donald Trump on charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp doubts that Donald Trump will face trial in his state before the 2024 election.

Four Republican members of Congress have blown past a federal deadline for disclosing personal stock trades, with some more than a year late, a Raw Story analysis of congressional financial documents reveals.

A Proud Boy on house arrest disappeared days before he was due to be sentenced for his part in the Jan. 6 uprising, the Associated Press reported Friday.

A federal judge denied Donald Trump's latest attempt to delay a defamation trial with author E. Jean Carroll because he found that neither party was getting any younger.