Новости за 12.09.2023

Bodycam footage released on Monday shows a Seattle, Washington cop "audibly laughing and joking on a phone call the day after an incident where a fellow officer had hit and killed a pedestrian with their patrol car," KIRO 7 reports.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) appeared irritated on Tuesday when asked what "actual evidence" he had to back the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

A Pentagon-funded think tank released a report that says the potential for dementia among aging politicians is a national security risk, The Intercept reported.

WASHINGTON — Senators are mixed on Speaker Kevin McCarthy's launching of an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa football fans lobbed racist taunts at University of Texas Austin players during Saturday's game at Bryant-Denny Stadium, The Shadow League's Myles Berry reports.

MIAMI — There’s a chance YNW Melly may go home this week — at least as the rapper awaits a decision in his second double murder trial. On Friday, Melly will have a hearing that allows judges to set bonds for defendants charged with crimes that aren’t eligible for bail. In August, defense attorney Stuart Adelstein requested the so-called Arthur hearing to possibly set Melly a bond before the trial begins with jury selection on Oct. 9. Melly’s first trial ended in late July when Broward Circuit Court Judge John Murphy declared a mistrial. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — A majority of New Yorkers say the U.S. should live out welcoming words etched on the Statue of Liberty, but almost a third say the country does not need to continue welcoming any new immigrants, according to a new poll released as the state struggles with the strain of the asylum-seeker crisis. In the statewide Siena College survey, published Tuesday, the Statue of Liberty exhortation — “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” — received support from 69% of voters, with 21% opposed. Читать дальше...

FEC Commissioner Allen Dickerson, a Trump appointee, is pushing for a rule change that would make campaign finance violations more difficult to investigate, The Intercept reported.

By Ayman Werfali and Ahmed Elumami DERNA, Libya (Reuters) -More than 2,000 people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna. Officials expected the death toll to rise further after Storm Daniel barrelled across the Mediterranean into a country divided and crumbling after more than a decade of conflict. In Derna, a city of around 125,000 inhabitants... Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA — The search for Danelo Cavalcante entered its 13th day in northern Chester County on Tuesday with schools closed and residents being urged to lock their doors after the escaped killer stole a .22-caliber rifle with a scope from a home in South Coventry Township overnight. Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens said at a news conference Tuesday morning that Cavalcante — who broke out of the Chester County prison on Aug. 31 by scaling a wall in the exercise yard — had ducked... Читать дальше...

Former New York mayor and Donald Trump lawyer almost added political fixer for PayPal to his resume – before the company's then-CEO Elon Musk flew to NYC and met him face to face, the billionaire's biographer Walter Isaacson wrote in his new book.

In a 5-4 ruling in June, the U.S. Supreme Court infuriated Alabama Republicans by striking down a GOP-drawn voting map as racially discriminatory. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both right-wing Republicans, shocked legal experts when they sided with the High Court's three Democrat-appointed justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — and agreed that the map discriminated against Black voters.

The media has failed to accurately report Donald Trump's most "crazed" reactions to the criminal cases filed against him, according to a journalist and author.

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and congressional Republicans faced fresh backlash on Tuesday after the U.S. Census Bureau released new data showing that the nation's child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 compared to the previous year, thanks in large part to the expiration of the boosted Child Tax Credit.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal grand jury has indicted five former Memphis police officers over the death of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after being beaten by police in January, according to a court document filed Tuesday. Police video captured images of the officers beating and kicking Nichols, hitting him with a baton, spraying him with pepper spray and firing a stun gun at him on Jan. 7 following a traffic stop. The case renewed a national discussion of race relations and police brutality. Читать дальше...

Journalist and author Bob Woodward is trying to halt Donald Trump's nearly $50 million lawsuit that claims the writer needed to get the former president's permission before using taped interviews for Woodward's audio-book version of his 2020 publication "Rage," Reuters reported.

Though the two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination, former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, have a vicious rivalry, a new poll shows that their voters don't share the animosity. A plurality of Trump voters count DeSantis as their second choice, and vice versa.

Donald Trump's lawyers were in court Tuesday in Manhattan to argue that proceedings in the latest E. Jean Carroll defamation case must be delayed so they can work on an immunity defense.

An aggrieved billionaire this week lamented that workers had grown lazy and "arrogant" during the coronavirus pandemic and that many of them needed to be made unemployed for the situation to improve.

A court document submitted by a Michigan Republican charged in the fake elector scheme claims she and 15 others acted "at the direction" of Donald Trump.

Monday, September 11, 2023 marked the 22nd anniversary of al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. During a speech in Anchorage, Alaska, President Joe Biden called for Americans to "honor September 11 by renewing our faith in one another" and stressed that the United States has "an obligation, a duty, a responsibility to defend, to preserve, to protect our democracy."

Former Baptist pastor Mark Harris has announced he will run for U.S. House of Representatives after being investigated for election fraud.

NBC News reporter Ali Vitali explained that Speaker Kevin McCarthy's announcement of an impeachment inquiry might quiet the far-right, but that without an actual vote on House floor, there's nothing happening more than the Oversight Committee hearing that has been going on for the past several months.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced he was moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden on Tuesday, despite the fact that the Republicans' investigations have so far turned up no proof linking the president to his son's overseas business dealings.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) blasted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday for taking a "baby step" after he called for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.