Новости за 13.07.2024

As much of America baked in heat waves this week, the relatively poor New York borough of the Bronx suffered disproportionately.

Jury deliberations began Friday in the high-profile trial of a powerful U.S. senator charged with corruption after gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash were found at his home.

Storm-chasing for science can be exciting and stressful – we know, because we do it. It has also been essential for developing today’s understanding of how tornadoes form and how they behave.

Of the more than 74,000 known meteorites – rocks that fall to Earth from asteroids or planets colliding together – only 385 or so stones came from the planet Mars.

The Republican National Convention (RNC) kicks off in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday, and the GOP is still unsure how to make its presumptive 2024 nominee palpable to mainstream American voters.

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.

MILWAUKEE — For attendees of the Republican National Convention, there’s nothing remotely subtle about the role of the Heritage Foundation — the Washington, D.C.-based conservative group behind the highly contentious Project 2025 "presidential transition" plan.

A Republican strategist said his group will "hold the line" to ensure former President Donald Trump doesn't win a second term and slammed the media and Democratic Biden defectors.

Two politically opposed guests sparred on Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night, with CNN contributor Bakari Sellers, a former representative from South Carolina, taking media host Ben Shapiro to task over his support for Donald Trump.

Donald Trump late Friday evening complained about fellow Republicans purportedly responsible for the failure of a bill that would defund the various prosecutions of the former president.

Bill Maher on Friday evening put former GOP lawmaker Kevin McCarthy on the spot on HBO's Real Time.

The more Americans learn about the Heritage Foundation's authoritarian Project 2025 initiative, the more they dislike it. That may be why both former President Donald Trump and groups allied with him are now trying to keep it at arm's length.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner raked Rudy Giuliani over the coals on his latest "Justice Matters" episode after a judge dismissed Giuliani's bankruptcy proceedings, proclaiming that he "can't even do bankruptcy right."

Heritage Foundation chief Kevin Roberts, the man overseeing the far-right Project 2025 plan to transform the entire federal government into a loyalist army for the Republican Party, is "projecting" his own authoritarian impulses when he attacks the Democratic Party, said former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele on MSNBC Friday evening.

President Joe Biden came out swinging at his campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday, armed with a volley of zingers against former President Donald Trump, self-deprecating jokes about his own age, a laundry list of his policy accomplishments and plans for a second term, and unabashed defiance against the punditry and members of his own party who have spent weeks raising doubts about his ability to stay in the race.

Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk found himself under fire on his own app, X, after reports surfaced Friday that he donated to a super Pac working to elect former President Donald Trump — a candidate who just this week asked MAGA supporters, "Who wants to drive an electric car for the rest of your life?"

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is considered one of former President Donald Trump's top frontrunners to be chosen as his 2024 running mate. But he could face a serious distraction at next week's Republican National Convention, where Trump's selection will be revealed: the appearance of an old friend of his charged with ties to a communist regime.

In the debate over how President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are aging, two experts agree: "It's a tale of two brains."

President Joe Biden delivered a fiery rally in Detroit on Friday, laying out both his policy accomplishments and his contrast with former President Donald Trump — when he was confronted by a heckler who attacked him for the U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza.

Elections lawyer Marc Elias of Democracy Docket desperately wants America to "wake up" and pay attention to the people working each day trying to circumvent the 2024 election.

Two political strategists sparred Friday on CNN during a discussion over what former President Donald Trump said following a violent rally in Charlottesville that saw white supremacists clash with counter-protesters.

Rupert Murdoch has some ideas for former President Donald Trump ahead of next week's Republican National Convention, and not the least of which is, according to a report, pick anyone except Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance for veep.

Former President Donald Trump wants to take presidential immunity even further now — and use it to wipe out the civil judgments against him in the E. Jean Carroll case.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) took to X on Friday to triumphantly announce the securement of $550 million to upgrade a bridge on I-10 from Mobile to Baldwin County — one of the largest federal grants ever given to an infrastructure project in Alabama.

Special counsel Jack Smith's team is pushing back as District Judge Aileen Cannon weighs a legal theory propounded by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas that Smith's appointment is unconstitutional.