Новости за 02.07.2024

Nearly 100 people were crushed to death at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India on Tuesday, with many others injured, a senior government official said.

America faces an immediate future of military occupations, political executions and concentration camps unless millions of its citizens unite against “dictator” Donald Trump, a furious and frightened political analyst wrote Tuesday.

Manhattan prosecutors Tuesday acquiesced to Donald Trump’s request to postpone criminal sentencing in his criminal hush money trial, according to a new report.

Cleta Mitchell, a far-right lawyer who routinely pushes election conspiracy theories and is laying much of the Trump world's groundwork to challenge the legitimacy of the 2024 election if it doesn't go their way, wasn't always like this.

Demand Justice, the progressive judicial advocacy group that spent $1 million to support and promote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination, reveals it’s planning a $10 million campaign to advocate for reforms to the nation’s highest court – including expanding it – and protect the institution from a possible Trump second term.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) lashed out at her Republican colleagues after former White House strategist Steve Bannon began his four-month sentence in a Connecticut prison.

Donald Trump exploited the presidency in his first term to financially benefit himself and his family, ethics experts wrote Tuesday. And they warned the grifting would only get worse in a second term.

A school board member in Virginia has been sentenced to jail for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — but has no intention of resigning his office, according to NBC4 Washington.

White House insiders Tuesday warned a tight cabal of senior officials shield Americans from President Joe Biden's declining state as they wield increasing control over national politics — a characterization a White House spokesperson characterized as flatly false.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is alleged to have had inappropriate contact with a 23-year-old babysitter for the Kennedy family when he was 45, according to an explosive new Vanity Fair report.

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A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday establishing a legal standard for presidential immunity could further slow down Georgia’s 2020 presidential election interference case, several legal experts predict.

Donald Trump has made clear he intends to test the boundaries of the presidency immediately if he's re-elected to a second term, and MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski reacted in horror upon hearing his plans.

The Missouri Republican Party must replace 54 national convention delegates and alternates selected at its chaotic state convention because of “alarming irregularities” in the process, the Republican National Convention Committee on Contests ruled Friday.

Lost in the shuffle of the outrage over the conservative majority Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to hand Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card with their expansive presidential immunity ruling on Monday, was presiding Justice John Roberts sneering attack on the three dissenting judges, Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson in his brief.

President Joe Biden and Democrats have a path forward after last week's debate debacle, former Donald Trump 2016 campaign adviser Jason Osborne told CNN's John Berman on Tuesday — particularly in light of his strong national address Monday going after the Supreme Court for giving Trump partial immunity from prosecution.

Mass shooters don’t just snap — whether it’s changes to their behavior or personality, comments or jokes about self harm and violence, or obsessing over past mass shootings and perpetrators, they leave behind a trail of warning signs that can sometimes span years.

If Donald Trump takes power this November (perish the thought), he’ll owe his victory in no small part to one of the richest Americans alive in 1920: Pittsburgh banker and industrialist Andrew Mellon, who was treasury secretary for Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.

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Between the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling on Monday, Project 2025 (Donald Trump allies' detailed blueprint for a second Trump Administration), and President Joe Biden's widely criticized debate performance during his first 2024 head-to-head with Donald Trump, many Democrats — along with some Never Trump conservatives — have been sounding the alarm about what may await the United States in 2025 if Biden is voted out of office.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that grants partial immunity to Donald Trump introduced new chaos into White House governance, according to a former cabinet official.

A Trump-appointed judge on Monday blocked the Biden administration's pause on approvals of new liquefied natural gas export permits, the latest move by the nation's conservative-dominated judiciary to stop the federal government from taking action against the worsening climate emergency.

The Supreme Court's stunning ruling that extended immunity protections covering a wide array of criminal acts allegedly committed by Donald Trump did leave open the door for Judge Tanya Chutkan to hold hearings that could damage his election prospects.

The U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the election interference case against Donald Trump by granting partial immunity to the former president — and Justice Clarence Thomas may have given federal Judge Aileen Cannon ammunition to remove special counsel Jack Smith.

WASHINGTON — The cycle continues: Clarence Thomas has former President Donald Trump’s back, Trump has Senate Republicans in his back pocket and Senate Republicans, in turn, have Thomas’ back.