Новости за 23.09.2023

Ex-president Donald Trump found a way to attack Joe Biden and Boeing in an expansive rant about the recent Lockheed Martin F-35 crash on Saturday.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accused of numerous ethics violations as Americans learn more about his life behind the bench, and those new revelations warrant recusal from certain cases, a former federal prosecutor said on Saturday.

There are reportedly "whispers" among rank-and-file Republican lawmakers that their leadership is too focused on impeaching Joe Biden to govern.

Donald Trump Friday suggested that a retiring general who has criticized the former president deserves the "death penalty," prompting conservatives of various backgrounds to quickly condemn the comments.

The New York Times calls it the "wrecking ball caucus," and it refers to far-right Republicans who are bringing Congress to its knees.

According to a longtime political consultant who was a victim of a Project Veritas sting that rightwing media networks found so egregious they wouldn't touch it, the collapse of Donald Trump's MAGA movement could repeat the what happened to Veritas which shut down this past week.

Fingers are being pointed at House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) for squelching research to identify and clamp down on misinformation, the Washington Post is reporting.

According to a report from Mediaite, viewers who tuned in to NBC's highly publicized "Meet The Press" interview with Donald Trump broadcast last weekend did not get to see him argue with host Kristen Welker about the 2020 election that he still seems to believe was stolen.

As part of a seven-minute segment on MSNBC on Saturday morning during which he repeatedly ranted about House GOP dysfunction due to extremists holding the rest of the caucus hostage on the budget deal, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) was pressed to explain why he remains in the party.

Host Ali Velshi noted he turns to Bacon often to explain the "craziness in Congress" which led him to ask Bacon to justify not jumping ship.

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Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison couldn't contain himself on MSNBC early Saturday morning, laughing out loud when asked about the chaos engulfing House Republicans as they try to come up with a budget bill.

Noting that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is on the precipice of being ousted as the GOP's House leader due to a challenge from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Harrison admitted he can now sit back and watch Republicans tear each other apart in plain sight.

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Reacting to a report that Donald Trump has been quizzing his attorneys about what type of prison he likely will be sent to, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner stated that is not only an indication that he knows he's going to be convicted but also an admission of guilt.

Reacting to the transcript from a hearing in a New York court room where Judge Arthur F. Engoron harshly criticized lawyers representing Donald Trump in his $250 million fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner remarked that the hearing could not have gone worse for the beleaguered legal team.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Jonathan Capehart early Saturday morning, the former federal prosecutor noted the brutal language the judge used... Читать дальше...

More than a few House Republicans are growing increasingly worried that a imminent government shutdown will wind up costing them control of the chamber and all because House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) won't pull the trigger and work with Democrats on a budget bill that the Senate will agree with.

According to a report from Politico, the embattled McCarthy, who is locked in a death-match with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that could lead to the end of his speakership, is staring into the "abyss" as the deadline looms. Читать дальше...

US Vice President Kamala Harris took on a new role Friday fighting gun violence, a job likely to give her more visibility ahead of the 2024 election.

Working in industrial laundries at age 14, laboring up to 35 hours a week on top of school -- some US states are relaxing the barriers to employing minors, despite rising cases of exploitation.

Hours before ProPublica revealed new details about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' relationship with the Koch network, a group of Democratic senators filed a brief on Thursday warning that Koch-backed entities are closely involved in an upcoming case that could further gut the federal government's regulatory power—and enhance the strength of the conservative-dominated high court.

Amid a wave of right-wing efforts to quash abortion rights across the United States, a Nebraska judge on Friday sentenced Jessica Burgess to two years in prison after helping her teenage daughter end her pregnancy and bury the remains in early 2022.

Late Friday night Donald Trump launched into a bitter tirade aimed at broadcaster Howard Stern where he accused him of being "disloyal."

Stern has recently been in the news over his own attacks on comedian Bill Maher for his war on the "woke" and that apparently set off the former president who is facing four criminal indictments and a handful of civil suits.

Taking to his Truth Social platform, Trump raged at Stern and called him a "broken weirdo."

Ex-Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale, during Friday's episode of MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber, insisted that a fair trial for ex-President Donald Trump in his Georgia case could save democracy.

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man bit off the tip of an NYPD sergeant’s finger in a Queens police precinct holding cell after leading officers on a wild car chase, cops said Friday.

SEATTLE — A Seattle police officer was put on leave Friday as officials, for the second time this month, called for cultural reform within the department — this time over audio of the white officer using sexist and racist slurs in a dispute with his Chinese American neighbor.

UNITED NATIONS — Cuba’s government is considering allowing Cuban Americans to invest in and own businesses on the island, Havana officials told representatives of U.S. companies and Cuban Americans from Miami who met Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday.

Former Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro was "seen as a liability" by those working in the White House, according to a former representative of Trump.

During Friday's episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace spoke to ex-U.S. Attorney Harry Litman about ex-President Donald Trump's lawyers' lies about the size Trump's Manhattan penthouse at the Trump Tower in New York Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million fraud case against him, "making up the existence of 20,000 square feet that inflated the value of his property by more than $200 million in that instance alone," according to The Daily Beast.

A federal judge in Texas known for a ruling that attempted to ban a widely-used abortion drug is citing an extremist anti-LGBTQ group in his ruling allowing a ban on drag shows to stay in place.