Новости за 23.10.2023

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond — a Republican — is bucking his own party in a new lawsuit aimed at preventing what would be the first publicly funded religious school in America from opening.

Donald Trump said Monday that Jesus Christ would be the only viable candidate for speaker of the House.

Fulton County Judge David McAfee has scheduled a hearing to examine the validity of various subpoenas filed by attorneys for Harrison Floyd, the former leader of Black Voices for Trump, a co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case.

A group of House Democrats is calling for a classified intelligence briefing investigating how the chaos and infighting among House Republicans is helping China.

Freshman U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has sold up to $100,000 in stock he owned in Walmart — a full two years after he bashed the company for using “slave labor” and robbing middle-class Americans of jobs.

A white supremacist who threw Molotov cocktails at an Ohio church that was hosting a drag-queen story hour event has pleaded guilty Monday to a federal hate crime charge, Cleveland.com reported.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley issued a statement Monday based on a recent Raw Story article, calling on former President Donald Trump to pay law enforcement who protect his presidential campaign events.

By Emily Rose and Crispian Balmer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As Israel prepares to invade the Gaza Strip, many families of hostages seized by Hamas are pleading with the government to rein in the war effort and instead negotiate the release of their loved ones. Highlighting the appalling dilemma facing the whole country, other relatives warn mediation could take years and say their best hope lies with the military, hoping ground forces could find the missing men, women and children before it is too late. Читать дальше...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed that he has new evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, and he's releasing it "next week."

A loophole that allows political parties to bypass campaign finance limits now faces a new legal challenge from watchdog groups in Washington D.C.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan — The United Auto Workers said Monday it has expanded its strike of the Detroit automakers to Stellantis NV's Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, adding 6,800 members to picket lines and dealing another blow to the automakers' profitable truck plants. Workers at SHAP make Ram 1500 trucks. The week before last, the UAW significantly expanded its unprecedented simultaneous strike of all three U.S. automakers when it took down Ford Motor Co.'s largest and most profitable plant... Читать дальше...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who spent years as one of Trump’s chief defenders in Congress, received the former president’s backing for his speaker bid days after a group of eight Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy (R-CA.) But Jordan’s bid for the speakership hit a wall of opposition flamed out over three failed floor votes last week.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has submitted a bill to parliament to approve Sweden's application to join NATO, meaning that a conclusion to the long-running diplomatic saga is now one step closer. Erdoğan signed the accession protocol and forwarded it to the Grand National Assembly for ratification, Turkey's presidential office said on Monday. Approval is considered likely as Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its partners hold a majority in parliament. Lawmakers are to meet in Ankara on Tuesday... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump appears to be toying with a Republican lawmaker who has ambitions of becoming the next GOP speaker.

Eminem's "Rap God" is already a Guinness World Record holder, and now it's a member of Spotify's Billions Club as well. The 2013 single has passed the 1 billion streams threshold on the streaming service, making it Eminem's eighth single to cross the digital barrier. "Rap God" was the third single from Eminem's 2013 album "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," following "Berzerk" and "Survival." The song features Eminem rapping at an accelerated clip, at one point cycling through 97 words in 15 seconds. Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump is due in court Monday in the ongoing E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit, and he's apparently planning to argue his former job prevents him from being held accountable in civil court.

After publishing a midnight rager on Truth Social aimed at New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron, Donald Trump has been non-stop posting on his social media platform where, in one instance, he attacked the hosts of Fox & Friends for ignoring him and his accomplishments.

With Trump's financial tax fraud trial in Manhattan postponed until Tuesday, the former president has been filling his downtime with online rants and, based upon his Fox News comments, watching TV. Читать дальше...

Sen. Lindsey Graham tore into Newsmax reporter Daniel Cohen because he was asked to condemn Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) during a trip to Israel.

An off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot who was sitting in the cockpit of an in-flight plane attempted to shut down the engines and had to be subdued, The Seattle Times reported Monday.

The US auto workers union halted work at a giant Stellantis truck plant on Monday, expanding a five-week strike hitting Detroit automakers.

Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) after he suggested that the former president represented "a failure of character."

Former President Donald Trump over the weekend tried to distance himself from conspiracy-spouting attorney Sidney Powell after she pleaded guilty last week to misdemeanor charges in the Georgia election racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Local Republicans’ last-gasp effort to punish the Georgia prosecutor who charged Donald Trump with a slew of election-linked crimes will probably be “dead on arrival,” according to a legal expert and state records.

Rudy Giuliani has claimed that the Biden administration has been infiltrated by spies from Iran.

Using fears of a possible major war after Hamas militants attacked Israel, and combining them with the Republican party's hot button talking points about the U.S. border crisis, Donald Trump made wild accusations that strapping young men from the Middle East have already invaded the U.S. and are bringing the war "home."