Новости за 22.05.2024

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers don't care that a newly minted GOP senate candidate isn't a Donald Trump ally because he will ultimately ensure the party's dominance should he win election.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has found some surprising common ground with House Democrats — over a proposal to force disclosure of presidential tax returns.

Newly released grand jury transcripts show Donald Trump's attorney in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case refused to answer questions about his client during a contentious exchange.

What's more terrifying than a celebrity couple portmanteau? A celebrity couple portmanteau with Oval Office aspirations.

The criminal hush money trial in Manhattan is drawing to a close with the jury on track to start deliberating as soon as next week, wrote former White House ethics czar and impeachment counsel Norm Eisen for MSNBC — and that's a stunning rebuke to how the Supreme Court has tied up the former president's federal January 6 trial.

Law professor Alan Dershowitz argued that a witness in Donald Trump's hush money case had a "constitutional right" to taunt the judge.

Presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is known for liking physical printed copies of articles and social media posts, especially those that involve him in some way. According to The Bulwark's Marc A. Caputo, 32-year-old campaign aide Natalie Harp has done so much printing for Trump that others in Trump World have nicknamed her "The Human Printer."

A lockdown at the Republican National Committee headquarters Wednesday morning was reportedly spurred by a gory discovery: vials of blood.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, now running for governor on a platform that includes blasting social programs as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that creates "dependency" for Black people, actually owed his own personal and political fortunes to profiting off these programs in the first place.

The Colorado Republican Party is warning parents that there's a good chance their children will become transgender if they are educated in the public school system.

The Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington D.C. was on lockdown Wednesday morning as hazmat teams rushed to the building, according to multiple reports.

The Democratic National Committee is rushing ahead with an initiative to define Donald Trump's potential running mates as MAGA extremists.

Former Trump White House communications official Mike Dubke tried to defend Trump's back-and-forth stance on contraception this week on CNN — only to be laughed at by analyst Bakari Sellers.

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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest racist attacks on the judge overseeing his New York hush money trial, and he refused to let voters off the hook for supporting his bigotry.

CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams on Tuesday made short work of a new claim made by former President Donald Trump and his allies that President Joe Biden had authorized the FBI to assassinate him when it executed a search warrant as his Mar-a-Lago resort to retrieve top-secret government documents.

Donald Trump posted a video Monday featuring what the frontpage might look like if he wins the election. Beneath the headline “WHAT’S NEXT FOR AMERICA?” was this: “INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED DRIVEN BY THE CREATION OF A UNIFIED REICH.”

Donald Trump on Tuesday walked back remarks that he was open to restrictions on contraception, after an outcry that underlined his presidential campaign's vulnerability on reproductive rights issues.

The National Football League — by far the richest sports league in the world — paid for several U.S. House of Representatives aides to attend last month’s NFL Draft.

U.S. police said Tuesday they are investigating the ketamine overdose death of "Friends" actor Matthew Perry, who died at his luxury Los Angeles home last year.

"In 75th lawsuit against Biden, Paxton sues to stop new gender identity guidelines for employers" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.

Former President Donald Trump seemed to take a shot at Judge Juan Merchan's ethnicity this week when he said of the Colombian-born judge, "Take a look at where he comes from."

Israel walked back its decision to shut down an Associated Press live video feed of war-torn Gaza on Tuesday, following a protest from the US news agency and concern from the White House.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump's refusal to testify in his hush money trial after boasting that he would take the stand.

Former President Donald Trump furiously backtracked on Monday after he suggested he might restrict Americans' access to contraception in his second term.