Новости за 17.07.2024

Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) months-long blockade of military promotions was roundly criticized for jeopardizing national security. Now that it's over, some senators are vowing that those senior officers will get compensated for the pay they lost due to Tuberville's obstruction.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani appears briefly in a new article — mainly about how hard it is to get My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell to stop talking — drenched in sweat and barking.

Walking out beneath a banner that read "Make America Safe Once Again," Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continued the GOP's attacks on LGBTQ Americans into Tuesday night at day two of the Republican National Convention, despite the party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump, vow to unite the nation.

The Republican National Convention hasn't performed well in television ratings, and former President Donald Trump, who is notoriously obsessed with crowd sizes, is being ridiculed for the failure.

MILWAUKEE — Democrats remain in the midst of a destructive conflict over whether President Joe Biden should quit the 2024 race.

Following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at his Pennsylvania rally last weekend, his allies at the Republican National Convention are downright elated over the turn of events, wrote Amanda Marcotte for Salon — and already making plans to use it as a political weapon.

The Democratic National Committee will no longer try to nominate President Joe Biden on an accelerated timeline.

Residents of Union City struggled to beat the 100-degree heat on Tuesday afternoon. And across the Hudson River in a Manhattan courtroom, U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, the city’s former mayor, failed to beat the rap.

Reacting to the conviction of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges Tuesday, one of his former Democratic colleagues in the Senate unleashed a harsh tirade on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" — and lamented she couldn't use profanity to describe him.

The Republican National Convention carries a general sense that former President Donald Trump's allies are already measuring curtains for the Oval Office, onlookers have said.. Following weeks of intraparty Democratic turmoil and a voter base energized by last weekend's attempted assassination of the former president, Republicans feel that victory in November is all but assured.

Writer Jonathan Chait Wednesday morning used a four-letter word to describe conservative intellectuals' new spin on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump: "Dumb."

Comcast, which owns NBC News, triggered an internal revolt when they moved to take "Morning Joe" off the air after former President Donald Trump faced an assassination attempt on Saturday — and they're now scrambling to contain the mess, CNN's Reliable Sources reported.

On Wednesday morning, MSNBC's "Morning Joe' co-host Joe Scarborough lashed out a Democratic campaign consultants and "pod bro" insiders for continuing to undermine President Joe Biden, who is going forward with his 2024 presidential bid.

Sharing graphics of the latest polls taken weeks after Biden's disastrous debate performance on CNN, the MSNBC host pointed out that the election remains tied — just as it was before the debate.

Using the numbers, he took aim — while also singling... Читать дальше...

Former Republican pollster Sarah Longwell thinks that former President Donald Trump made life easier for Democrats when he picked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to be his running mate.

On Monday, July 15 — the opening day of the 2024 Republican National Convention — the GOP, for the first time in U.S. history, gave its presidential nomination to someone who is facing three criminal indictments: Donald Trump.

Republicans speaking at a concealed carry event on Tuesday, just days after a gunman attempted to kill their presidential nominee, insisted the party won’t change its stance on Second Amendment rights.

Reacting to Nikki Haley's full-throated endorsement of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough took time on Wednesday morning to read off some of the former South Carolina's governor's harshest criticisms of the man she has continually labled "unhinged."

After showing Haley speaking to the GOP crowd -- and also being booed — co-host Mika Brzezinski started out by using a clip of Haley saying, "We need a commander in chief who can lead 24 hours a day... Читать дальше...

Trae Crowder – a comedian and progressive influencer known as "the liberal redneck" — just revealed what Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is like when the cameras aren't rolling based on a personal experience with the presumptive 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee.

Eastern Europe, once seen as immune to the opioid crisis wreaking havoc across North America, has been ramping up its fight against the rise of the dangerous, synthetic drugs.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a temporary halt to a convicted murderer's execution, shortly before the man was set to be given a lethal injection in Texas.

Exactly 72 hours after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, neither his campaign nor his doctors have released any relevant information about the extent of his injuries, or any update on the health of the 78-year old man who just became the Republican Party's presidential nominee.

Colorado’s status as a hotbed of the election denial movement is in the spotlight of a civil rights trial in federal court this week.

During an appearance on CNN early Wednesday morning, Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) college roommate when they both attended Yale Law School called into question the GOP senator's purported belief in Donald Trump's MAGA philosophy.

Speaking with CNN host Kasie Hunt from Spain, Josh McLaurin — now a Democratic state senator in Georgia — first began by stating that he thought long and hard about releasing the now-notorious text he received from Vance where he called Trump "America's Hitler," but... Читать дальше...

The Washington press and pundit corps are this week working hard to convince you that the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is the superlative example of what happens when polarization goes too far.

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