Новости за 13.02.2020

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday expressed outrage at President Donald Trump for tying the blocking of New York residents’ access to Global Entry with the state’s lawsuits against him and his businesses. In a tweet posted earlier in the day, Trump listed demands he would make of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to get […]

Former US Attorney Patrick Cotter once had Bill Barr’s picture hanging on his wall — but not anymore. Speaking to MSNBC host Ali Velshi Thursday, Cotter explained that what’s happening at the Justice Department is like nothing he’s ever seen during his time on the job. “I will tell you the attorney general is appointed […]

A rocket slammed into an Iraqi base where American troops are stationed in the remote province of Kirkuk, Iraq’s military and a US security source told AFP on Thursday night. It was the latest in a string of nearly 20 rocket attacks since late October on US troops stationed across the country as well as […]

President Donald Trump pressed New York’s governor to end the state’s lawsuits against him ahead of their meeting — and many saw that as more than just a request. The Trump administration moved to block New York residents from the expedited Global Entry process at the border, and the president called for the state to […]

The late 1990s and 2000s show “The West Wing” gave liberals a unique opportunity to coalesce around a fictional president while former President George W. Bush was leading the country into two endless wars and ultimately the greatest recession in a generation. But History Channel host Rick Harrison, co-owner of Las Vegas’ World Famous Gold […]

The Republican pastor and author who ran against Steve Womack for Congress in 2018 penned an op-ed for Time Magazine, urging his fellow evangelicals to abandon their support for President Trump. According to him, Trump is an “anathema to everything I was taught to love about Jesus.” “His disdain for decency, disrespect toward basic tenets of […]

The US Senate voted Thursday to rein in President Donald Trump from attacking Iran, sharply rebuking his foreign policy despite a week earlier acquitting him in his impeachment trial. Eight senators of Trump’s Republican Party, which enjoys a majority, bucked their leadership to join Democrats, following a classified Iran session by the Trump administration that […]

In an interview with Sam Nunberg over the scandal developing around the Justice Department and Roger Stone’s case, MSNBC host Katy Tur shut him down for saying the DOJ works for President Donald Trump. Nunberg is demanding that the judge deciding the sentencing for Roger Stone be removed because she is an appointee of President […]

President Donald Trump cannot stop lying about his past embrace of the “stop-and-frisk” searches that were first implemented by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and were then expanded by his successor, Michael Bloomberg. According to CNN fact checker Daniel Dale, Trump told Geraldo Rivera that he supported stop-and-frisk under Giuliani’s administration because it was […]

President Donald Trump falsely claimed that former FBI director and special counsel Robert Mueller had been “proven” as a liar. The president spoke at length to Fox News broadcaster Geraldo Rivera for an interview on the Cleveland-based WTAM-AM, where he attacked the former prosecutors in Roger Stone’s case and lashed out at the special counsel […]

“This mass surveillance experiment does not belong in our public spaces, and certainly not in our schools.” Urging universities across the U.S. to reject sales pitches from technology companies that insist facial recognition technology makes campuses safer, digital rights group Fight for the Future on Thursday released a sign-on letter calling for a ban on […]

A professor at Ball State University in Indiana is banned from teaching the rest the semester after he called the police on a black student for moving to his assigned seat, Fox 59 reports. The outlet first reported last month that senior Sultan Benson said he discovered another student sitting in his assigned seat when […]

In a Thursday afternoon tweet, Trump announced that he was about to meet with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and demand that they stop suing the Trump Organization and the Trump Foundation. According to Trump, suing him is now a national security issue. “I’m seeing Governor Cuomo today at The White House. He must understand […]

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Thursday walked out of a hearing that featured women who detailed their experiences with being sexually harassed by male judges. According to Courthouse News reporter Megan Mineiro, Jordan left the House Judiciary Committee hearing on judicial sexual harrassment roughly one hour after it started. During the hearing, a former clerk […]

A former CIA officer is questioning the legality of former Trump communications director Hope Hicks‘ reported return to the White House, given she will be working on the president’s re-election campaign. “She’s being hired as a public servant at taxpayer expense — as a ‘Counselor to the President’ — to work on the re-election campaign? […]

President Donald Trump has rehired his former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former press secretary Sean Spicer almost three years after both men unceremoniously departed the White House. This article was originally published at Salon Priebus and Spicer will each join the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, according to a White House announcement Tuesday. As a […]

The patient is among a group of people who returned from Hubei Province, China who are under federal quarantine at a military base in San Antonio. The first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Texas was announced Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The individual who tested positive for coronavirus is isolated […]

Three years after he was sworn in as president of the United States, one thing that is painfully obvious about Donald J. Trump is that he insists on having unquestioning loyalists in his administration and has zero tolerance for those who aren’t. That’s why Attorney General William Barr, White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway, Secretary of […]

Harvey Weinstein’s defense team urged jurors to acquit the ex-Hollywood titan of rape and predatory sexual assault charges in closing arguments Thursday — even though a not guilty verdict would be unpopular. Lead attorney Donna Rotunno said prosecutors had created “an alternative universe” in which the “Pulp Fiction” and “Shakespeare In Love” producer preyed on […]

President Donald Trump on Thursday gloated that all four attorneys involved in prosecuting Roger Stone all withdrew from the case just hours after he criticized their work on his Twitter account. In an interview with Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera on Cleveland-based radio station WTAM, the president once again smeared the four prosecutors and said that […]

President Donald Trump is hiring several new staffers who were previously old staffers. After firing everyone who complied with subpoenas in the Ukraine scandal, Trump brought back his old body man Johnny McEntee, who previously had to leave the White House because a gambling problem made him a security risk. Former communications director Hope Hicks […]

In today’s most bizarre headline, the Washington Post released audio from a 1991 interview between People Magazine reporter Sue Carswell and “John Miller,” an alleged spokesperson for the Trump organization who just so happens to sound a hell of a lot like the reality TV star himself. In the audio, Definitely-Not-Donald-Trump speaks openly about his […]

A group of chemists and a local newspaper have busted a local church that has been luring in followers by claiming to have an oil-secreting Bible that can help cure sickness and addiction. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that a ministry called “His Name is Flowing Oil,” led by two men named Jerry Pearce […]

In 2000, Donald Foose was convicted and imprisoned for molesting an underaged relative. He lost his role as the principal of a Christian school, stripped of his teaching license, and deemed “a danger to the health, safety and welfare of students.” Nevertheless, Foose was still able to become the pastor of Oakwood Baptist Church in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, then […]

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right climate-change skeptic, lashed out at Pope Francis Thursday after the pontiff pleaded for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, and attacked the environmental group Greenpeace as “rubbish.” “Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his, the world’s, everyone’s,” said Bolsonaro, who has often railed against international criticism of his […]