Новости за 02.05.2024

A Republican candidate from West Virginia is seeking higher office based on his participation in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.

A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These two qualities are reflected in its name: dark matter.

Keith Davidson, the attorney who worked with Michael Cohen to arrange hush-money payments to one-time Donald Trump mistresses Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, testified on Thursday about his seemingly horrified realization that he may have helped the now-former president get elected in 2016.

During a hearing Thursday over claims Donald Trump again defied a gag order issued by the judge in his hush money trial, the former president's lead lawyer agreed with Judge Juan Merchan — and that appeared to infuriate his client.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog has issued a message of support to Jewish communities around the world in response to a "dramatic resurgence in anti-Semitism" and the "intimidation" of Jewish students on some protest-hit U.S. university campuses.

While Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s hush money case is moving along at a rapid pace, it appears unlikely that either of special counsel Jack Smith's federal cases against the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee will go to trial before the November election.

Justice Juan Merchan appeared to lose patience with Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, in the hearing on Thursday about potential violations of a gag order, legal analysts and reporters in the courtroom posted on social media.

A former Donald Trump official ran into a brick wall on Thursday morning when he tried to defend his old boss for calling Jan. 6 insurrectionists "patriots."

Embattled South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem, under fire the past week after an excerpt from her new book revealed her boasting about shooting to death her 14-month old puppy she "hated," has repeatedly defended her actions as proof she can do hard things that need to be done.

New York Justice Juan Merchan corrected Todd Blanche, an attorney for Donald Trump, after he said a gag order prevented the former president from responding to his opponent, President Joe Biden.

Donald Trump's use of a pseudonym in a non-disclosure agreement with adult movie actress Stormy Daniels has left legal experts bewildered.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has come out with a new way to spin her story about killing a family dog that she said she "hated."

Concurrent with Donald Trump's hush money trial finishing up its second week of prosecution testimony, the former president's emails to his supporters are becoming increasingly over-the-top and shrill, leading to speculation he is not only having donation problems but also the pressures of his legal problems are getting to him.

The Wall Street Journal has written a lengthy story about the longshot presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris sought to make Donald Trump the face of Florida's strict new abortion ban Wednesday as Democrats hammer the issue ahead of November's presidential election.

Heading into the November election with Donald Trump likely at the top of the ticket for the third time, the leadership of the minority Republicans in the Senate is hedging their bets and not promising the "red wave" they hyped up in the last two national elections.

Hundreds of police and protesters were in a tense stand-off early Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles as unrest over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza simmers on US campuses.

Laura Loomer, the Trump-loving activist who is too extreme even for former QAnon-believing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), is the subject of a Washington Post profile in which she takes brutal criticism even from many MAGA allies.

As Democratic and Republican leaders on Wednesday unveiled competing visions for the next Farm Bill, green groups sounded the alarm about the GOP proposal that "slashes nutrition programs and climate-focused conservation funding in order to boost commodity crop production."

Former President Donald Trump suggested a link between his criminal trial and the nationwide campus protests over Israel's war in Gaza.

Donald Trump refused to rule out election violence if he loses in November, and a panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" sounded alarm bells.

It’s the 8th anniversary of an epic anti-Donald Trump rant, one of the best rants in modern political history.

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Newly uncovered emails from jailed Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg may provide a goldmine of information for prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office that could bolster the hush money trial of Donald Trump, which is now in its second week of testimony.

Eric Trump showed up this week to attend his father's hush money trial, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin thinks that the appearance was a calculated effort to demonstrate family solidarity.