Новости за 07.02.2020

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have taken part in their first joint public engagement since quitting as working members of Britain’s royal family, Buckingham Palace said Friday. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attended a JPMorgan Chase event in Miami, where Harry gave a speech. The couple left Britain in a shock move last […]

Bill Taylor, the former top American diplomat in Ukraine who was hired by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, torched Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. In the interview, Taylor singled out Giuliani’s efforts to run a smear campaign against former American ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. “It of course bothers […]

A US-based Jewish advocacy group has launched a campaign to prevent Pink Floyd founder member Roger Waters from performing on tour in Mexico. Waters, 76, is due on stage in Mexico City on October 7 as part of his “This Is Not A Drill” North American tour that begins in Pittsburgh in July. But the […]

After President Gerald Ford, a Republican, publicly denied a nearly bankrupt New York City a federal bailout in 1975, one newspaper headline famously reported “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” On Wednesday, even before the GOP Senate had acquitted President Trump on his corrupt withholding of U.S. military aid to Ukraine for personal political gain, his […]

If you thought workers’ hourly pay was finally rising, think again. At first glance, the latest data – which came out on Feb. 7 – look pretty good. They show nominal hourly earnings rose 3.1% in January from a year earlier. But the operative word here is nominal, which means not adjusted for changes in […]

Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas hailed a car-ramming in Jerusalem that wounded 12 Israeli troops on Thursday as a “practical response” to US President Donald Trump’s controversial Middle East peace plan. In a statement, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the attack was part of “resistance” operations, including a series of demonstrations in the occupied West Bank, […]

Speaking to a gaggle of reporters this Friday, President Trump hinted that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was a key witness in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, could be on his way out of the White House, CNN reports. “I’m not happy with him,” Trump said. “You think I’m supposed to be happy with him? I’m […]

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) earned scorn this week after she was forced to quickly walk back her claim that President Donald Trump had learned his lesson after being impeached by the House of Representatives. In an interview with reporter Gregg Lagerquist of Maine-based local news station WGME, Collins admitted that it was premature for her […]

An Alabama cop is apologizing for a Facebook post where he said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) could be targeted with a roadside bomb for daring to tear up President Trump’s State of the Union speech, the Daily Mail reports. “Pelosi just ripped up his [speech],” Geraldine police department assistant chief Jeff Buckles wrote. […]

Climate change has contributed to a sharp drop in bumble bee populations across North America and Europe in recent decades, scientists said Friday. Compared to the period 1900-1974, bumble bee numbers across dozens of distinct species dropped, on average, 46 percent during the first 15 years of the 21st century in Canada and the United […]

British journalist Mehdi Hasan, now based in Washington, D.C. and known for his work for Al Jazeera and The Intercept, has a reputation for being a very tough interviewer when he’s talking to Republicans and supporters of President Donald Trump. And Republican Steve Cortes, a Trump adviser, saw just how tough things could get when Hasan grilled […]

“Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. on 9/11 and we went to war with Iraq. If this report is true, ISIS attacked the U.S. and we nearly went to war with Iran.” In a “bombshell” revelation that calls into question one of the Trump administration’s stated justificiations for assassinating Iranian Gen. Qasem Suleimani—a move that nearly sparked […]

Just one day after the Senate failed to convict him, the president made fools of allies and defenders Thursday during the annual National Prayer Breakfast. Before Donald Trump took the stage, host Arthur Brooks asked attendees to love their enemies and forgive them their trespasses. Trump said thanks but—yeah, seriously—no thanks. This article was originally published […]

President Donald Trump called Friday on Congress to “expunge” his impeachment for abuse of power following his acquittal in the Senate. “Should they expunge impeachment in the House? They should because it was a hoax,” he told reporters at the White House. Trump was impeached in December on two charges related to his campaign to […]

In a column for the conservative Bulwark, founder and editor-at-large Charlie Sykes pummeled member of his own party who are more than aware that Donald Trump is a disaster and unqualified to be president and yet refuse to do or say anything about it out of fear for their jobs. Under a headline that reads, […]

A new poll out of New Hampshire shows just how much Democrats in the state do not want President Donald Trump to win reelection in 2020. Per NBC News’ Sahil Kapur, a new poll from UMass Lowell asked New Hampshire Democrats if they would rather see President Donald Trump get reelected in 2020 or a […]

The nation’s leading manufacturing group announced an award to Ivanka Trump with language sounding an awful lot like one of the president’s glib banalities. The National Association of Manufacturers credited Trump, the president’s jobs czar, with boosting the creation of permanent and high-paying jobs in the trade sector “Ivanka Trump embodies the collaborative spirit and […]

In an op-ed for the Washington Post this Friday, the chief executive of the progressive digital messaging firm Insurrection writes that we already know that President Trump is a sore loser. What’s less known is how much of a “sore winner” he is. According to Elizabeth Spiers, Trump hasn’t displayed the “humility or relief you’d […]

So it turns out that at least some Republican leaders only care about faith when it moves the needle in their direction. Mitt Romney claimed that his Mormon faith had a lot to do with his vote to convict Pres. Trump on the first article of impeachment—abuse of power: Romney, a devout member of the […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives are in crisis mode after regional MPs sided with the far right in a key vote, causing nationwide outrage and testing her leadership. Merkel condemned Wednesday’s “unforgivable” vote in the small state of Thuringia, where her CDU party voted in the same camp as the anti-immigrant AfD to block the […]

Many of the ads that Democratic presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has been running on MSNBC and elsewhere have focused on policy, stressing the differences between him and President Donald Trump on health care and other issues. But journalist Scott Bixby, in a new article for the Daily Beast, examines […]

Appearing on CNN with host Kate Bolduan, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) expressed disgust with Donald Trump’s ugly tirade on Thursday where he ranted, name-called and levied bitter accusations at Democrats over his impeachment and subsequent acquittal by a Republican-controlled Senate. In a very brief candid moment, she noted her desire to flee Washington, D.C. and […]

President Donald Trump on Friday tried taunting Democrats for their horrifically botched Iowa caucus, but he wound up going on a bizarre and technologically illiterate rant. “I think they fried their votes on computer!” the president said, likely referring to the failed mobile app that the party used to report vote tallies from Monday’s caucus. […]

“Trump claimed to be ‘pro-worker’… If that was anything other than his usual phony rhetoric, Trump will push the Senate to pass the bill and sign it.” Union leaders and labor rights advocates applauded the Democrat-controlled U.S. House for passing landmark legislation Thursday night that supporters have called one of the most notable efforts to […]

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain isn’t usually shy about offering her opinions, but she had to be coaxed out of her shell to comment on President Donald Trump’s post-acquittal victory lap. The president attacked his enemies and lavished praise on his allies Thursday at a White House gathering, and three of the four panelists expressed […]