Новости за 17.11.2023

The New York appellate judge who this week temporarily lifted a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on personnel in his civil court trial was naive about the risks the former president’s social media posts pose, a legal expert says

NEW YORK — Kool & the Gang co-founder and percussionist George “Funky” Brown is dead at 74. The band announced the death of the New Jersey native and “funkiest drummer” on Friday. “In loving memory of our dear brother, cofounder and the funkiest drummer the world has ever seen,” the band wrote on social media. “His beautiful soul is now at rest. We love you George. Thank you for giving us the sound of happiness.” Brown died from stage 4 lung cancer Thursday in Los Angeles, according to The Associated Press. Читать дальше...

New York Judge Arthur Engoron has denied former President Donald Trump's motion for a mistrial in the civil fraud case against him and his two adult sons.

When Nikki Haley proposed a requirement this week that social media companies ban users from posting on their platforms anonymously out of concern for national security, Ron DeSantis and his allies had a field day. His campaign staffers took to Twitter to accuse Haley of wanting to clamp down on constitutionally protected speech. DeSantis himself tweeted that anonymous voices are key to free speech rights in the United States, hearkening back to Founding Fathers like Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison... Читать дальше...

Alex Murdaugh, who was convicted of murdering his wife and son earlier this year, agreed to a plea deal Friday ahead of a trial in relation to financial charges leveled against him, The Daily Beast reported.

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis will meet separately next week with relatives of hostages held by Hamas militants and with a group of Palestinians with family members in Gaza, the Vatican said on Friday, confirming a Reuters report. "With these meetings, which are of an exclusively humanitarian character, Pope Francis wants to show his spiritual closeness to the sufferings of both," Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement. The meetings will be held on Wednesday in the Vatican. Читать дальше...

Confidential 2020 election records subpoenaed by a co-defendant in Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case cannot be publicly disclosed, a judge ruled Friday.

BEAUFORT, S.C. Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh on Friday afternoon pled guilty to a series of financial crimes he committed over more than 10 years in numerous South Carolina Lowcountry counties. The plea was a “negotiated plea,” means that the prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed Friday on not only the set of charges to which Murdaugh would plead guilty, but also the length of prison time he would serve — 27 years with possibility of parole after serving 85 percent of the sentence. Prosecutor Creighton Waters said the plea deal ... Читать дальше...

Fox News didn’t promote conservative propaganda that downplayed an insurrection and defamed a voting machine company to the tune of $1.6 billion because of deep-rooted political beliefs, a new analysis contends: They did it for cable company cash.

As part of their Project 2025 agenda, Donald Trump's MAGA allies have — according to reports in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Axios — been thinking long and hard about the type of MAGA Republicans they would like to include in a second Trump Administration.

New details about Rep. George Santos' (R-NY) allegedly criminal campaign finance operations are emerging. The Daily Beast is reporting that obscure footnotes in the House Committee on Ethics' recent report on Santos show a complex rabbit hole that eventually leads to a billionaire Florida lawyer.

Thanksgiving is expected to be hit by a storm that will affect vast parts of the U.S. as many Americans take off on what's expected to be a record travel period, forecasters predict.

A new digital ad is testing out an attack line for Donald Trump's presidential campaign targeting the courts and law enforcement officials involved in his criminal trials.

MIAMI — South Florida awoke Thursday to downed trees, roads closed due to debris and flooding, homes taking on water and massive puddles everywhere. Tens of thousands of homes were without power. The cause? A no-name storm, one that swept the region over two days and dumped up to 14 inches of rain in some spots, with gusts as high as 75 mph at Government Cut and Port Everglades. The damage was enough to rival some tropical storms that have swept the region in recent years, according to the National Hurricane Center. Читать дальше...

The Federal Election Commission sent Donald Trump’s presidential campaign committee an 88-page list of contributions that it says appear to exceed federal limits.

A federal judge has denied Donald Trump's request to remove language about the Jan. 6 insurrection from his indictment in the election subversion case.

Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has devoted an entire chapter of her new book to her infamous 2018 Facebook post where she insinuated that wildfires in California were caused by "lasers of blue beams of light" that were shot from space, The Forward reported.

An expert witness for Donald Trump in his New York City civil fraud trial seemingly contradicted himself under cross examination Friday, according to reports

Donald Trump launched an all-caps diatribe early Friday aimed at the Department of Justice for deciding not to ≠charge President Joe Biden for having sensitive government documents stored in two unsecured locations.

Former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis continued her war on the former president's fans and followers Friday after spending a great deal of time battling with them on Thursday

Donald Trump has a First Amendment right to declare “If you go after me, I’m coming after you” on social media because there is no proof such messages constitute a “public threat,” his lawyers argue in a new filing.

Donald Trump is targeting Latino voters by portraying himself as a victim of communist persecution — but he's giving one such voter horrific flashbacks.

Although Donald Trump is by no means universally loved in Christianity, he continues to be incredibly popular among a certain type: white fundamentalist evangelical Protestants, who have a different set of beliefs from Catholics and Mainline Protestants.

Following the release of the House Ethics Committee's damning report detailing the alleged actions of U.S. Rep. George Santos, largely focused on using at least tens of thousands of dollars of campaign cash for personal purchases, the Republican Ethics chair on Friday filed a resolution to expel the freshman New York Republican congressman. It sets up what will become a test of House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team – especially House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik... Читать дальше...

Should Donald Trump decide to take the stand in the federal trial where he faces charges of voting obstruction, he may see his previous testimony impeached by new comments he made about Jan. 6.