Новости за 03.02.2020

Despite his lectures to Americans when it comes to showing respect during the National Anthem, President Trump was caught on video putting on a less-than-respectful display while the Anthem played at his Superbowl party this Sunday. The video shows Trump adjusting his jacket, moving his chair around, and waving his hands in the air as […]

MSNBC host Ari Melber was floored by Sen. Angus King (I-ME) when the two spoke after the close of the impeachment trial in the Senate Monday. After both sides did their closing statements, King said that he couldn’t understand how Republicans are so ignorant to the reality of what they’re doing. The normally quiet and […]

Rush Limbaugh, who announced this week that he has advanced lung cancer, has a history of praising the practice of smoking. Speaking to a caller in 2015, Limbaugh said that Americans should thank smokers. “Earlier you were saying about smoking, that people ought to be thankful that there are smokers, because the money gotten from […]

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Monday delivered a sharp argument to sum up why President Donald Trump deserves to be convicted and removed from office. During the final arguments at the impeachment trial, Schiff argued that Trump’s abuse of his office and his serial dishonesty about his actions were not a one-off incident but part […]

In an article published at Vanity Fair this Monday, reporter Gabriel Sherman writes that in the wake of his likely acquittal, President Trump is looking to target his adversaries for criminal prosecution. “It’s payback time,” Sherman says a prominent Republican told him last week. “Trump’s playbook is simple: go after people who crossed him during impeachment,” […]

President Donald Trump spent $11 million on a campaign ad during the Super Bowl to tell the country he’s created the best economy in American history. But for the 1.5 million children struggling with homelessness in the United States, it isn’t exactly the case. As Trump biographer David Cay Johnston explained Monday, the economy isn’t […]

The US said Monday a ban on travelers from China meant to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak was based on the best science, adding there would be more evacuations of Americans. It came as the number of confirmed US cases rose to 11, including the second confirmed person-to-person transmission inside the country, this one involving […]

Super Bowl halftime shows are the stuff of legends. Rarely, however, do they make the political statements the way Jennifer Lopez and Shakira did. Not since Beyonce’s 2013 halftime show has an artist dared to go there. With her Puerto Rican roots, Jennifer Lopez brought much-needed attention back to the tiny American island that has […]

The United States has requested a closed door UN Security Council meeting Thursday for President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, to present the administration’s new Mideast peace plan, diplomatic sources told AFP Monday. Kushner intends to set forth the plan that Washington unveiled last week and to listen to the positions of the […]

Jay Sekulow, an attorney for President Donald Trump, said on Monday that the Constitution requires U.S. senators to “stand firm” and find the president not guilty of high crimes. During closing remarks in Trump’s Senate trial, Sekulow reminded senators that they “took an oath” to the Constitution and that they vowed be impartial jurors. “This […]

During closing arguments at President Trump’s Senate trial this Monday, Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow gave a video presentation that disparagingly painted Democrats as bitter partisans with an agenda to take down Trump since the early days of his presidency. But it wasn’t so much the framing of Sekulow’s narrative that rubbed people the wrong way […]

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday dodged questions from CNN reporter Manu Raju about whether it was appropriate for President Donald Trump to try shaking down the Ukrainian government to get it to investigate his political opponents. Raju caught up with Blackburn in the Senate and asked her what she made of Sen. Lamar Alexander’s […]

Fireflies are in deep trouble, with many species facing extinction due to habitat loss and exposure to pesticides, according to the first major review of their global status, published Monday. Adding irony to injury, one of Nature’s most entrancing spectacles is also being snuffed out by artificial light pollution, researchers reported in the journal BioScience. […]

Attacking Entire LGBTQ Community One South Dakota Republican state legislator is pushing several bills he has authored that would attack the entire LGBTQ community, and make it harder for anyone, regardless of who they married, to get divorced. South Dakota state Rep. Tony Randolph‘s HB 1215 would make it illegal for two people of the […]

Ken Starr once again mystified and infuriated many viewers during the Senate impeachment trial. The former independent counsel during the Clinton impeachment has argued before the Senate that President Donald Trump had not committed an impeachable offense, and the spectacle has been discordant for many each time Starr speaks. Ken Starr If you want the […]

Ken Starr, an attorney for the president, invoked Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his closing defense at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. “We hear the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream-filled speech about freedom,” Starr told the U.S. senators in attendance. “The Lincoln Memorial, which stood behind Dr. King as he […]

During President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Senate Republicans have offered a variety of arguments against removing him from office. Legal writers Ryan Goodman and Danielle Schulkin examine the different strains of anti-impeachment thought among Senate Republicans in a February 3 article for Just Security, noting the ways in which they are problematic and short-sighted. Senate Republicans, Goodman […]

At Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Donald Trump will surely claim he has created a great economy. Trump will try to lower expectations, hoping people forget his towering 2016 claims and promises. My spring 2019 analysis of Trump economic performance was a grade of C , average. Yet Team Trump claims it is […]

White supremacist Andrew Anglin, founder of the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, bitterly announced on Monday that he is laying off writers because the website’s readers aren’t sending him enough money. As flagged by Ars Technica reporter Jon Brodkin, Anglin on Monday published a post on his website titled, “We’re Laying Off Staff Because You […]

Without Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement, “the climate issue would not have been on the agenda to such an extent as it is today.” Swedish 17-year-old Greta Thunberg, founder of the global youth-led climate action movement Fridays for Future, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second consecutive year. “The […]

House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) on Monday threaten to subpoena Trump Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos after her office “stonewalled and delayed” finalizing a date for her to testify. Politico reports that Maloney sent DeVos a letter Monday demanding that she come testify about important issues ranging from her oversight of federal student loans […]

According to an exclusive report from Axios, the White House has fired Veterans Affairs deputy secretary James Byrne this Monday. The White House reportedly confirmed to Axios that Byrne is no longer with the department. While the reason behind Byrne’s firing isn’t immediately clear, the department has been wracked with inner turmoil after federal authorities declined […]

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) defended House staffers who endured threats to their safety as they pursued impeachment evidence against President Donald Trump. The California Democrat thanked the staffers, and condemned the threats, during closing statements in the Senate impeachment trial. “I want to take a moment to say something about the staff who have worked […]

Before Donald Trump’s presidency, Max Boot was a proud Republican — and the conservative Washington Post columnist is still decidedly right-wing. But Boot left the GOP because of Trumpism, which he believes has been terrible for the conservative movement and terrible for the United States. And following Senate Republicans’ vote against featuring any witnesses during […]

Raúl Hernández Romero’s family says he received threats regarding his work campaigning against illegal logging in the weeks before he disappeared. Human rights defenders on Monday demanded a full investigation into the death of a second conservation activist in Michoacan state, Mexico, after the body of a tour guide in one of the country’s largest […]