Новости за 12.02.2020

The British government said Wednesday it plans to allow its broadcast regulator to police the internet and issue substantial fines when social media giants fail to remove “online harm”. Media minister Nicky Morgan told parliament she was “minded to” give the Office of Communications (Ofcom) the powers to oversee online user-generated content. But she said […]

The Department of Justice and the House Judiciary Committee have confirmed that Attorney General William Barr will testify at the end of next month. In a statement, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said that Barr would appear before the committee on March 31 “to address numerous concerns regarding his leadership of the Department of Justice and […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday erupted over the alleged mistreatment of Roger Stone, his longtime political aide. Trump railed against the prosecution of Stone, calling it a disgrace. “They ought to apologize,” the president said. Stone was convicted last year of lying to Congress, tampering with a witness and obstructing an investigation into whether the […]

Roger Stone has reportedly lost a motion to have his case retried by the federal court system. According to CNN’s Shimon Prokupecz, the motioned was filed under seal and was not revealed until Wednesday, when it was denied by Judge Amy Berman Jackson. A federal judge has denied Roger Stone a new trial after he […]

In the wake of an Illinois pediatrician’s suicide, investigators are looking into whether or not some of the vaccinations he gave his young patients were fraudulent, according to CBS Chicago. Clues were found in a suicide note left by Dr. Van Koinis, which indicated there was a problem with the records he kept regarding the […]

President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr have been receiving widespread criticism following the U.S. Department of Justice’s abrupt reversal on sentencing guidelines in Roger Stone’s case. On Monday, the DOJ was recommending a sentence of seven to nine years in federal prison for Stone — who, in November, was convicted on seven federal counts […]

Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg stepped forward Wednesday as undisputed frontrunners in the race to take on President Donald Trump in November after finishing first and second in the New Hampshire primary. The 78-year-old leftist senator from neighboring Vermont and the young former mayor of South Bend, Indiana took 26 and 24 percent of the […]

When Donald Trump was running for the presidency, one of his signature promises was that Mexico would pay for his border wall. That never came to pass, but during one of his campaign rallies in January, he offered the following explanation: “You do know who’s paying for the wall, don’t you? Redemption. From illegal aliens […]

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was accused on Wednesday of scuttling requests for documents from Democratic lawmakers. The topic came up at a Senate Budget Committee hearing when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) questioned the treasury secretary about a Democratic request for President Donald Trump’s tax returns. “With respect to responding to requests on congressional oversight,” Wyden […]

Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced the wrath of the internet after appearing on Fox News on Tuesday night to criticize Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. “If he continues to rise, he is gonna have serious problems with women, with African-Americans. His record, his language is offensive and atrocious. Then again, maybe […]

Even though the Department of Justice has lowered its sentencing recommendation for Trump-supporting felon Roger Stone, one former U.S. attorney told CNN on Wednesday that it’s still possible that Judge Amy Berman Jackson will throw the book at the president’s convicted ally. Specifically, attorney Harry Litman said that the DOJ’s decision to backtrack on its […]

Over the last quarter of a century, the number of people claiming no affiliation to any sort of religion has grown exponentially. But according to research released this week by three political scientists, that trend might be slowing. According to their findings, Generation Z (those born from 1981 to 1996) isn’t looking any less religious than […]

A top U.S. Senator says Attorney General Bill Barr “has no choice” but to resign after his “brazen assault on the independence and integrity of the Justice Department.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal  (D-CT), who serves on the Judiciary Committee, is blasting Barr after the DOJ intervened in the case of Roger Stone, President Donald Trump’s confidant and former campaign advisor. […]

Over the past week, President Trump’s Circus Maximus of American fascism reached full bloom. In ancient Rome, the Circus Maximus was the largest coliseum. It hosted chariot races, gladiatorial combat, hunts of wild animals, sporting events, parades and other grand happenings. Like the Roman Empire in its decline, the United States is now vomiting up […]

The feud between veteran attorneys Alan Dershowitz and David Boies has been growing increasingly bitter, and Dershowitz has escalated their battle by filing a defamation lawsuit against Boies. In his lawsuit, filed in Manhattan on February 10, Dershowitz  accused Boies of carrying out a “war of defamation” against him and “engaging in a sustained campaign to […]

PHILADELPHIA — Maggie Gaines understands why her daughter’s teacher at Valley Forge Elementary School went to the principal after the 6-year-old pointed her finger at the teacher like a gun and said, “I shoot you.”What she doesn’t understand is why she and her husband had to end up on a conference call with the Tredyffrin […]

A tow truck company repossessed a car in East Orange Wednesday morning with a 1-year-old still inside, authorities said.The 1-year-old’s father had briefly gone into a residence around 9:30 a.m. when the trucking company came to repossess the Acura, East Orange spokeswoman Connie Jackson said. It was not immediately clear who had called police.East Orange […]

Israel has pitched the controversial US Middle East peace plan as an offer for a future, “pragmatic” Palestinian leader, saying it was always going to be rejected by president Mahmud Abbas. But Israeli officials may be disappointed if they think an Abbas successor will look more favourably on President Donald Trump’s deeply controversial terms. On […]

Peapod, the grocery delivery pioneer, is ceasing operations in the Midwest, a move that will mean the loss of 500 jobs.Customers in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana won’t be able to place online grocery delivery orders through Peapod starting Feb. 18, its parent, grocery store giant Ahold Delhaize, announced Tuesday. About 50,000 people use Peapod in […]

MIAMI — In a Mar-a-Lago trespassing case, a jury Wednesday acquitted a woman from China who claimed she was innocently sightseeing on President Donald Trump’s property two months ago.But Lu Jing was found guilty of a second misdemeanor charge, resisting a police officer without violence during her arrest on Worth Avenue.Palm Beach County Judge Mark […]

Google and the EU battled in court Wednesday as the search engine giant tried to persuade judges that it was unfairly accused of ill-treating rivals of its Shopping service. The Silicon Valley juggernaut is appealing a 2.4 billion euro ($2.6 billion) fine from 2017 that was the first in a series of major penalties imposed […]

Anthony Scaramucci, the former Trump White House communications director who was fired after just 11 days on the job, had some unkind words for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) after she issued yet another limp criticism of President Donald Trump’s efforts to meddle with the Department of Justice. Murkowski, who last week voted to acquit the […]

You may think we know exactly what’s in our solar system–considering we’ve identified celestial bodies billions of lightyears away from our solar system and have even sent space probes outside of it–but you’d be wrong.We’ve identified over 800,000 objectsin our solar system, but a massive telescope that is nearing completion could help us identify millions […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The white nationalist movement, tarnished in the aftermath of Charlottesville, is repackaging its bigotry through a new mainstreaming strategy that focuses on college campuses and Trump supporters, according to a report released Tuesday by a national watchdog organization.Its first test case: a new group at Kansas State University launched by a […]

CHICAGO — As an actor, working the camera — addressing us directly, in a confidential key — only looks easy. Phoebe Waller-Bridge in “Fleabag”: a genius, deadpan one second, fantastically expressive the next. John Cusack in the 2000 film version of the Nick Hornby novel “High Fidelity”: also a direct-address genius.Cusack had it tougher, in […]