Новости за 30.12.2023

NEW YORK — Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates could face the heat of the public spotlight Monday under a federal judge’s order to unseal scores of documents pertaining to the late multimillionaire sex predator.

The threat of disease is intensifying in temporary shelters in the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of people fleeing Israeli bombardment are living in cramped conditions, according to the UN emergency relief organization OCHA.

Donald Trump may get a win at the Supreme Court when it comes to state-based insurrectionist ballot bans, but one former prosecutor is "much more pessimistic for Trump" as to how things will turn out for him when it comes to presidential immunity from criminal charges.

Special Counsel Jack Smith on Saturday filed his brief debunking Donald Trump's arguments related to presidential immunity from criminal charges while he was in office, stating simply, "He is wrong."

More than 100 people were safely rescued from an ice floe that detached from the shoreline of a northern Minnesota lake Friday night, authorities said.

Reacting to Donald Trump's continuous late-night tirades on Truth Social, as well as his ugly "Rot in hell" attack on special counsel Jack Smith on Christmas day, MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton said the ex-president's legal problems are getting to him.

Speaking with fellow MSNBC host Alex Witt on Saturday, Sharpton pointed out Trump shows all the signs of being "rattled" as of late.

With Witt pointing out that Sharpton has known Trump for years, she asked, "Rev, what do you make of all of this?"

An open-label study involving Chinese adolescents with depression compared the effects of treating depressive symptoms using the antidepressant Paxil alone to those of a combination of Paxil and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplements.

Reacting to the news that Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a ban on gender-affirming care in his state, Donald Trump raged at the popular Ohio Republican and let him know he would no longer be welcome at his rallies.

On Friday DeWine declared he would not sign a bill from the GOP-dominated legislature that would not only ban gender-affirming care for residents of Ohio but also those from neighboring states who are forced to travel because their own states have blocked them.

Announcing his decision... Читать дальше...

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks advised the Republican party to think twice about making Donald Trump their 2024 presidential nominee when there is a reasonable chance the Supreme Court could make him ineligible to serve should he win.

Speaking with fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., the legal analyst said she feels the decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that the former president should not be allowed to run for office... Читать дальше...

Infighting within the Republican Party's ranks has not only been apparent in the halls of Congress: It's now also threatening the stability of the GOP's operations in a state that's played a deciding role in the last two presidential elections.

Donald Trump's drive to round up as many GOP delegates as part of a legal strategy in his battle with U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan is unlikely to persuade her to go easy on him.

That is the opinion of a former prosecutor when asked if Trump is a guaranteed lock for the 2024 presidential nomination would that bolster his argument that his prosecution is politically motivated.

According to a report from the Messenger's Marc Caputo, the former... Читать дальше...

The city of Venice will ban tourist groups consisting of more than 25 people accompanied by tour guides and will also outlaw loudspeakers on such tours, the city council decided on Saturday.

In a column for MSNBC, Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson pointed out that, in all of the challenges so far to Donald Trump's eligibility to be on the 2024 ballot, only twice has Section 3 of the 14th Amendment been taken into consideration.

The Supreme Court has the right and ability to not wade in on the disputes in multiple states considering banning Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and they should take advantage of it.

King Charles III on Friday announced awards for showbusiness royalty Shirley Bassey and Ridley Scott while a bereaved father who took on social media giants over harmful online content is also recognized in Britain's traditional New Year's Honors.

In the middle of the night Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to issue a warning to his own party and then attack Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

On Friday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) issued a veiled threat to states considering the disqualification of former President Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot.

The nonprofit run by the Republican National Convention's host committee is reportedly having to use "finesse" to win over donors, according to a new report.

The Southern Baptist Convention and others have reached a confidential settlement in a high-profile lawsuit that accused a former leader of sexual assault, ending a six-year legal drama that helped prompt a broader reckoning over child sexual abuse in evangelical churches, expanded victims’ rights in Texas and showed that a prominent conservative activist and Texas House candidate repeatedly downplayed abuse allegations.

A judge on Friday refused a bid by Arizona Republican legislative leaders to block an anti-dark money law that voters passed in 2022, concluding that their claims that the new state law is unconstitutional don’t pass muster.

Laura Loomer is threatening to leverage her "millions" of Republican acolytes to abstain from voting if Trump is scratched from the ballot and she's being pilloried by none other than convicted Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, who mocked her cache and called her "Loomer Tunes".

How would you react if one day you were sitting at home and the phone rang and when you picked it up you heard a man shout:

New audio recordings released by CNN revealed that ex-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro had lots of grievances with the ex-president's campaign, but it also points to potentially new defendants, according to an ex-prosecutor.

Blame James Madison.

President Donald Trump's former aide David Urban and deputy assistant attorney general Elliott Williams clashed on CNN over the basis as to why states have disqualified Trump and stricken his name from the ballot.

Urban hasn't seen anything proving Trump's guilty of insurrection.

"I hear lots of feelings, right, lots of people's feelings," he said. "'We feel that Trump is this,' or 'We feel that Trump is that,' — we're short on facts... Lots of prosecutors... Читать дальше...

Former President Donald Trump may or may not escape disqualification from the ballot thanks to the Supreme Court, said former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on his "Justice Matters" show Friday — but even if he does, the justices are highly unlikely to reverse the determination by lower court judges that he engaged in insurrection, for one simple reason.