Новости за 03.05.2024

Yemen's Houthi rebels have threatened to target ships bound for Israeli ports in the Mediterranean Sea, as the group on Friday announced further escalation in what they say is retaliation for Israeli attacks in Gaza.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Hope Hicks, the former White House spokesperson for then-president Donald Trump, took the witness stand Friday in his criminal hush money trial.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Donald Trump started the 11th day of his criminal trial clearly peeved with his lawyer.

The auditor being used by the parent company of President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform has just been hit with allegations of what the Securities and Exchange Commission describes as "massive" fraud.

Over the weekend independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke at a fundraiser for a far-right anti-government group in Erie County, New York – a slice of the country that had a large proportion of residents arrested and charged for crimes related to the January 6 insurrection. Kennedy, a conspiracy theorist and vaccine denialist, increasingly is embracing the far-right.

The Justice Department is expected to announce the indictment of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), according to sources familiar with the matter.

It's not clear what longtime aide Hope Hicks might tell the jury in Donald Trump's hush money case, but a close friend made clear that she's not eager to testify against her former boss.

Donald Trump's recent sit-down with Time Magazine for a wide-ranging interview under the title "If He Wins" provides clues that he has become increasingly "unfit" to hold office again, according to a professor from Arizona State University.

MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT — Donald Trump's judge launched into Friday's hearing by fact-checking the former president's claim that a gag order was stopping him from taking the stand in his own defense.

Donald Trump complained about the "salacious" coverage of his hush money trial involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

CNN's Alyana Treene on Friday quickly slapped down a false claim by former President Donald Trump about the gag order in his hush-money trial.

A “bizarre and brazenly unethical” secret recording of Donald Trump made by his then-lawyer Michael Cohen could be the weapon that clears the former president in his hush money case.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who’s in the midst of a controversy over admitting to killing her dog, was in Baton Rouge to meet with Gov. Jeff Landry’s cabinet Thursday at the Capitol, multiple attendees at the meeting confirmed to the Illuminator.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's hopes of becoming presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate may have been destroyed by the puppy shooting controversy. Noem has been drawing widespread criticism — even among fellow Republicans — for an anecdote in her new book "No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong With Politics and How We Move America Forward" in which she describes taking a dog to a gravel pit on a farm, shooting it and killing it.

Appellate judges listening to arguments Thursday in Kari Lake’s challenge to her 2022 election loss had to keep reminding her lawyer how appeals courts work.

Donald Trump's attorneys appeared to be following their client's orders to attack witnesses and even jurors in his hush money trial, but a legal expert showed how that strategy was already backfiring.

Back in 1984, President Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign famously posed the question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Donald Trump's recent outrage at the campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza is less of an expression of support for Israel than it is in handing his hardcore MAGA a justification to riot if he loses the 2024 presidential election.

Former Bush speechwriter David Frum on Friday argued that former President Donald Trump all but admitting this week that he wanted to lead a war against the American constitutional order.

Both jurors and voters have been hearing details about the "unseemly" world of tabloid publications as part of Donald Trump's hush money trial, but a legal expert explained that prosecutors must show the former president was a willing participant in those "tawdry" schemes.

As a marching band played and the crowd chanted "four more years," US Vice President Kamala Harris looked like she was enjoying being out of Joe Biden's shadow.

Grover Cleveland is the historical standard among American presidents who lose or leave office then seek to regain it. The reason is simple: he achieved his goal.

The wife of U.S. writer Paul Auster, who died due to lung cancer complications, said Thursday that her family was "robbed" of "dignity" after a friend quickly confirmed his death to media outlets.

Progressive policy experts took aim at corporate greed and profiteering during a Thursday U.S. Senate hearing on "shrinkflation," the process of reducing the size or quantity of a product while selling it at the same price.

Work has begun in a small Japanese town to erect a barrier blocking views of the country's most famous sight, Mount Fuji, after locals complained of bad behavior by photo-hungry tourists.