Новости за 25.08.2023

Joe Biden hasn’t been saying much about his predecessor’s ongoing legal troubles, but the president on Friday broke his silence about Donald Trump’s mugshot.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit accusing a Texas crane company of subjecting four Black employees to racial discrimination and harassment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday filed a speedy trial demand in Fulton County in connection with the Georgia election conspiracy case, according to court documents obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Tamar Hallerman.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) could face new corruption charges as prosecutors meet with lawyers to weigh a decision, reported the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

A fifth co-defendant in Donald Trump’s Georgia election conspiracy case reportedly wants her case moved to federal court.

People in Texas are once again being told to prepare for rolling blackouts, prompting criticism of the state's governor, Greg Abbott, Newsweek reported.

Beleaguered Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales has come under heavy fire after refusing to resign on Friday over kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after the women's World Cup final. Players and clubs widely condemned Rubiales' refusal to step down, Hermoso dismissed his claim the kiss was consensual, and Spain's Higher Council for Sports (CSD) announced it would aim to have him suspended. The world governing body FIFA launched an ethics probe against him on Thursday... Читать дальше...

A Washington Post columnist on Friday assailed a legal expert’s defense of Donald Trump in connection to accusations that the former president tried to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election result.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A tropical depression or storm has a high chance of forming from a system that’s moving north toward the Gulf of Mexico with the potential to hit Florida, the National Hurricane Center said Friday. “I’ve directed @KevinGuthrieFL & the FL Emergency Management team to prepare for a potential tropical system currently moving across the Yucatán Peninsula,” Gov. Ron DeSantis posted on X on Thursday night. “Residents should remain vigilant and prepare for possible impacts early next... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's mugshot goes hand in hand with his recent promises of revenge, a presidential historian said on Friday.

Donald Trump's dominance over the GOP field is so strong that he has successfully created a subsidiary candidate, according to a conservative writer on Friday.

NEW YORK — More than $500,000 in royalties earned by R. Kelly will be garnished to pay victims of his sex trafficking scheme, a Brooklyn judge ruled this week. Universal Music Group has held the money since Kelly was charged with several sex trafficking and child pornography crimes in New York and Chicago. UMG must pay $520,549, according to Billboard. Federal prosecutors had initially targeted UMG and Sony Music Entertainment for the garnishment. However, Universal held $567,444, enough to cover the entire debt... Читать дальше...

A total of three of Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia RICO case have reportedly told prosecutors that they became false (or "contingent") electors at the request of the former president himself or his attorneys.

The family of a Marine killed in Afghanistan has filed a new version of their lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin, accusing him of unleashing his social media followers against them, the Marine Corps Times reported.

Former top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway has teamed up with the hard-core conservative anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) to urge Republican candidates to take a strong anti-abortion stance. On Thursday in a Washington Post op-ed, Conway and SBA's president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, attacked GOP candidates for not pushing harder against abortion, writing: "If they want to win, Republicans need to go on offense on abortion."

Former United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and MSNBC political analyst Joyce Vance told host Andrea Mitchell on Friday that ex-President Donald Trump's "likely" first potential conviction will lead to harsher sentences if he is found guilty of the dozens of criminal charges that were filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was once a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York. But in late August, his mugshot was taken at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, where Giuliani is among the 18 co-defendants in District Attorney Fani Willis' sweeping prosecution of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Some legal experts believe a Georgia jury may acquit Donald Trump on racketeering and other charges as a form of protest, but a former federal prosecutor argued that the risk of that was low.

William Beals, a violent Three Percenter who was involved in the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol, went on to link up with neo-Nazis in Tennessee to harass drag shows.

Sen. Tim Scott is having a hard time standing out amongst the 2024 GOP field, with most national polling showing him at below four percent. But according to MSNBC's Steve Benen, Scott seems to think his line of attack against Attorney General Merrick Garland will help his poor poll numbers.

Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark was officially arrested overnight and is out on bail, but he must return to the Washington, D.C. metro for a hearing over his legal license.

Donald Trump jostled share prices for his prospective business partner when he made a surprise return to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

The fact that Donald Trump, a self-described billionaire, sought help from a bail bondsman led to questions as he was arrested on Thursday, Salon noticed.

As Antarctic sea ice dwindled to match record low levels last year, it caused "catastrophic breeding failure" in four emperor penguin colonies.

Education and community organizations can apply to receive a living piece of spaceflight history to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: a seedling grown from a tree seed that flew around the Moon on the NASA’s Artemis I mission in late 2022. NASA and the USDA Forest Service will distribute Artemis Moon Tree seedlings of five different species to create new ways for communities on Earth to connect with humanity’s exploration of space for the benefit of all. Nearly 2,000 seeds were flown to space. Читать дальше...