Новости за 13.10.2023

France on Friday imposed its highest terror alert after a knife-wielding attacker killed one person and critically injured three others in a school in the country's north. Although police arrested the attacker, who is believed to be a former student at the Gambetta school in Arras, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne said she decided to implement the "emergency attack" measures anyway. This level of alert can be set up immediately after an attack or when an identified and unlocalized terrorist group becomes active. Читать дальше...

Rep. Jim Jordan has reportedly won the House GOP's speaker nomination, after losing the vote the first time around to Rep. Steve Scalise, according to numerous inside reports.

Former President Donald Trump demanded "proper credit" for the elimination of Islamic State terrorists in a rant posted to his Truth Social platform on Friday.

A former executive of Donald Trump's company testified in court Friday that one of the former president's deputies considered adding a “presidential premium” to his Trump Tower penthouse, Mar-a-Lago resort and other properties while he was president, the Associated Press reported.

A judge in Georgia will decide on the questions that both prosecutors and defense attorneys can ask of prospective jurors in the election racketeering case against two of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants on Monday, reported The Messenger.

Italy’s top court on Friday overturned a slander conviction against Amanda Knox — the American famously jailed in Italy and later acquitted in the 2007 murder of her roommate — and ordered that she face a new trial. Knox, a Seattle native, was studying abroad in the Italian city of Perugia when she was accused of killing Meredith Kercher with her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The case involved two convictions and two appeals before she was finally acquitted of murder in 2015. The court at... Читать дальше...

A year after the Los Angeles City Council's president engaged in a secretly-recorded conversation in which she called the Black son of a colleague a “monkey,” she told Telemundo she’s paid a “huge, huge price.”

In the weeks before Hamas carried out the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history this past weekend, U.S. Intelligence prepared at least two reports warning the Biden administration of threats, CNN reported.

GOP fundraising has dried up amid the chaotic scramble to elect the next House Speaker – and it's putting Republican control of the House in jeopardy, CNBC reported.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The Space Coast witnessed a rare launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket Friday on a mission for NASA that also featured the double sonic booms of its returning first-stage boosters. Flying for only the eighth time ever, and its ever launch for NASA, the Falcon Heavy, which is essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, avoided weather concerns for a 10:19 a.m. liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A. The rocket blasted through the haze of heavy... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP — a case dealing with gerrymandering in that southern state.

One of Donald Trump's core arguments in support of his election fraud claims has been debunked by new research at a prominent university, according to a report.

Reflecting on Donald Trump's comments in West Palm Beach this week about Israel, USA Today columnist Rex Huppke suggested that the former president is rapidly becoming more and more unhinged and is therefore increasingly dangerous.

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov was arrested early Friday for showing up to a pro-Palestine protest with a handgun, triggering a barrage of criticism from her colleagues and other elected officials across New York. The pistol-packing Republican, who represents Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay and other nearby neighborhoods, was seen in photos and videos with the gun clipped to her waistband while at the Thursday demonstration at Brooklyn College’s Flatbush campus. NYPD officials told... Читать дальше...

Some of Donald Trump's critics — including conservative legal figures — have been arguing that his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results were not only illegal, but also, disqualify him from running for president in 2024 under the insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.

About twice as many students have dropped out of a Florida college this year after Gov. Ron DeSantis installed a new president and board of trustees.

NEW YORK -- Migrant families with children will be able to stay in city shelters only for 60 days at a time under a new policy Mayor Eric Adams is expected to announce as soon as Friday, a source familiar with the matter told the Daily News. The policy comes on top of an Adams administration restriction limiting consecutive shelter stays for adult migrants without kids to 30 days. Since the restriction on adults was first implemented in July, migrant families with children have been the only category... Читать дальше...

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the large-scale terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel for the first time on Friday, almost a week after they took place. "Israel has been confronted with a historically unprecedented attack" both in scale and brutality, Putin said during a visit to Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, speaking on the sidelines of the Commonwealth of Independent States summit. "Israel, of course, has the right to ensure its security and guarantees for that security," the Russian leader said at a press conference. Читать дальше...

Donald Trump's recent speech in the wake of Hamas' terror attack against Israel – in which where he praised Hezbollah as "very smart" – has riled both Republicans and Democrats alike.

In a column for the Fresno Bee, the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law made the case that Donald Trump should not be slapped with a gag order by Judge Tanya Chutkan, but added that, should she feel compelled to do so, she needs to be prepared to have him taken into custody and jailed.

Noted constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky wrote that he is appalled by some of the comments that the former president has made about the prosecutors and investigators who have swamped him with 91 indictments ... Читать дальше...

To Never Trump conservatives, the best thing the Republican Party and the conservative movement could do is distance themselves from former President Donald Trump. But that isn't happening.

Donald Trump has drawn flak for his comments on the Israel attack by Hamas, and he made an apparent attempt to walk those back with a brief post on his social media platform Friday.

Indiana Democratic Party chair Mike Schmuhl decried a text message inviting voters to a “Free Palestine Rally” from an apparently fake group called “Progressive Democrats of Indiana” as a Republican dirty trick.

Under normal circumstances, news of a Democratic member of Congress being indicted on federal corruption charges would have their Republican counterparts climbing over each other to be the first to call for resignation, but the specter of Donald Trump is causing Republicans to hold their fire when it comes to Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), according to a report.

When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them.