Новости за 05.12.2023

CHICAGO — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration moved to officially scrap Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to build a migrant camp on a controversial Southwest Side lot, the state announced Tuesday morning while issuing a scathing rebuke of the city’s evaluation of the land’s potential environmental hazards. In a statement, Pritzker’s office said an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency review of the city’s environmental report — which was released late Friday evening — indicates “concerns related... Читать дальше...

By Nandita Bose BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks. Speaking at a political fundraiser in Boston, Biden said accounts of "unimaginable cruelty" had been shared over the past few weeks. "Reports of women raped — repeatedly raped — and their bodies being mutilated while still alive, of women's corpses being desecrated... Читать дальше...

Eric Trump suddenly ditched plans to testify Wednesday in his family's $250 million fraud trial in a move legal analyst Lisa Rubin says could be a delay tactic for his gag-ordered dad.

In the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, supporters of Donald Trump were using their power to demand others fall in line.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed on Monday evening that she secretly listened in on a campaign call by Donald Trump's team on coordinating Jan. 6.

New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron denied a request to postpone Donald Trump's testimony in his $250 million civil fraud trial.

By Nandita Bose and Jarrett Renshaw BOSTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden kicked off a December fundraising blitz on Tuesday that will show off the Democratic Party's star power while raising millions of dollars, according to invitations reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the planning. The sprint includes at least nine fundraisers before the end of the month starting on Tuesday in Boston, where Biden will hold three events, capped with an evening concert by James Taylor. Biden used... Читать дальше...

A weekend storm is gearing up to cause a "menagerie of meteorological mayhem" across the Eastern United States, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

One of former President Donald Trump's proposed education policies should he win a second term in the White House has been panned by one of the most influential conservative voices in Washington, D.C.

Special Counsel Jack Smith plans to introduce as evidence election fraud claims former President Donald Trump made during his successful 2016 campaign, new court filings show.

U.S. House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) — the second-ranking Democrat in the House — is the latest member to become entangled in an epidemic of thefts affecting public officials.

Let me get this out of the way quickly: I wouldn’t buy Liz Cheney’s book with her money.

The New York Times has compiled a lengthy list of what it describes as "menacing" statements made by former President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell rebuked an attorney for Rudy Giuliani after his client failed to attend a hearing in his defamation case.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) writes in her new book that her impression of "wunderkind" Jared Kushner was that his self-aggrandizing arrogance didn't match reality.

A Palm Beach realtor came up with a novel reason to get off the phone with his father on Tuesday, according to reporters.

Anti-Trump attorney George Conway on Tuesday shut down a Trump supporter who on Tuesday suggested that Conway abandoned the former president just to get publicity.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) curbed a line of questioning on Tuesday after a Department of Justice official informed him that an investigation into Elon Musk's SpaceX was opened during former President Donald Trump's administration.

Judge Arthur Engoron Tuesday shut down an expert defense witness in Donald Trump’s fraud trial who tried to testify that Mar-a-Lago was worth as much as the former president said it was, according to reports.

Christian Ziegler, the Donald Trump-endorsed Florida Republican Party chair who is reportedly under criminal investigation for alleged rape, and had a consensual three-way sexual relationship with his wife and the woman who is now accusing him, could face some form of discipline from party leadership if he does not resign.

Lawyers for Prince Harry on Tuesday began a legal challenge over his security arrangements in the UK, after he quit frontline royal duties and moved to North America.

"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin on Thursday briefly mentioned some of the rage that Donald Trump has shown behind closed doors — and how it endangers the United States.

A Michigan Republican is suing a former ally for defamation after claims that he operated a "pay to play" scheme involving a far-right activist and possibly the state GOP and Donald Trump.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said on Tuesday that House Republicans are taking steps to protect people who illegally broke into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been running on a campaign of ending the "weaponization" of government — but his hometown newspaper blasted him for Thursday for building a state machinery for which "anyone's a target."