Новости за 08.12.2023

There is a method to the madness behind former President Donald Trump's antics around his impending criminal trials, argued Salon writer Gregg Barak on Friday — it's his innate confidence man skills at play.

An impeachment of President Joe Biden could blow up in Republicans’ faces ahead of the 2024 election, MSNBC's political analyst Jonathan Lemire said Friday.

During a townhall event with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump remarked that during a second term, he would not be a dictator "other than Day One."

Minnesota Republicans haven’t won a statewide race since 2006, and thus far they have failed to recruit a serious 2024 challenger against U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar — likely because candidates don’t want to play the part of the sacrificial lamb.

Donald Trump's defense lawyers have made their fourth unsuccessful attempt to end his New York business fraud trail, ABC News reported.

An appeals court Friday upheld key parts of the gag order against former President Donald Trump in his Washington D.C. election inference case, court records show.

In a playground worthy rebuttal from the nation’s leading conservative presidential candidate, Donald Trump this week said he’s not deranged, Chris Christie is.

President Joe Biden's son Hunter has been indicted on nine federal tax charges that, according to federal prosecutor David Weiss, could result in up to 17 years in prison. This is in addition to the gun charges he was already facing.

The Democratic chair of the Senate Budget Committee rebuked his Republican colleagues on Thursday for demanding action to reduce the U.S. debt after adding roughly $10 trillion to it with tax cuts for the rich and large corporations.

Missouri Republican lawmakers are pushing a pair of bills that would allow for women to be charged with murder for getting an abortion in the state.

Donald Trump paid an expert witness for his defense substantially more than had been previously indicated.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY ) is being showered with praise from both sides of the aisle after she grilled the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT over school policies about hate speech on their respective campuses — specifically related to calls for genocide aimed at Jewish students.

A Jewish man was attacked on a Brooklyn street by a bigot who beat and robbed him and derided him as a “dirty Jew” on the first day of Hanukkah, police said Friday.

During an appearance in pop star Moby's podcast, Hunter Biden claimed that his father's opponents are trying to "kill" him by forcing a relapse of his drug addiction, The Guardian reported.

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team faces a tough decision about whether to let their gag-ordered client testify in his $250 million civil court trial Monday, according to legal analyst Lisa Rubin.

A hybrid Jewish-Japanese restaurant in the Brooklyn's hipster Williamsburg neighborhood was set on fire in what cops are investigating as a hate crime, The New York Post reported.

A white supremacist gang leader threw a tantrum in court this week after he was sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping and beating of a former girlfriend.

The District of Columbia court clerk set a deadline for later this month for filing key paperwork in Donald Trump's effort to halt his prosecution.

The monthly jobs report released Friday is being heralded as “robust,” “upbeat,” and “stronger than expected” as unemployment dropped to a near-50-year low (3.7%) while the economy added another 199,000 jobs.

As part of a deep dive into what to expect in the 2024 presidential election, one noted Democratic strategist claimed the outcome between presumptive nominees Donald Trump and President Joe Biden could hinge on just 400,000 voters.

A severe storm will slam the eastern U.S. with rain, thunder, wind, snow and possibly a tornado, weekend predictions show.

Donald Trump's allies are developing new methods to potentially steal the 2024 election after removing a safeguard in several Republican-led states, according to a report.

Former President Donald Trump made a bold prediction about winning a deep-blue state in next year's presidential election — even though he got positively blown out there on two previous occasions.

Despite a ruling in Colorado that found Donald Trump can remain on the 2024 ballot even though his actions on Jan. 6 effectively made him an insurrectionist, a law professor from the University of Notre Dame has filed a legal brief citing past cases that blocked presidential candidates from the vote, Newsweek reported.

Top Republican Senate recruit Tim Sheehy, who is hoping to challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, has characterized himself as a self-made entrepreneur who pulled himself up by his bootstraps. But according to The Daily Beast, his biography to voters leaves out some critical details that make that narrative fall apart.