Новости за 17.12.2020

During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and fellow Republican Christopher Krebs — who formerly led a cybersecurity office at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security — expressed very different views on the security of the 2020 presidential election. Krebs, during his testimony, emphasized that the election was […]

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican of South Carolina, has tested positive for coronavirus, just hours after he addressed Congress on Wednesday in a speech praising President Donald Trump for the COVID-19 vaccine. “Earlier this evening I learned that I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Wilson said in a statement, as The Daily Beast reports. […]

A government accountability watchdog group filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday, demanding Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Tx., be expelled from Congress for his alleged role in what a federal investigator described as a concerted effort on the part of top Veterans Affairs officials to smear a sexual assault victim. The complaint, filed by the Campaign […]

Seven Tyson Foods plant managers who were accused of betting on how many employees would get coronavirus were fired Wednesday, the company said. The suspected pool at Tyson’s pork plant in Waterloo, Iowa, was first reported in a November lawsuit filed by the son of a Isidro Fernandez, a plant employee who died from COVID-19. […]

Joe Biden and Vice President Mike Pence are locking in plans to get vaccinated for the coronavirus — but the most powerful man in the nation hasn’t followed suit yet. Donald Trump, who is only president for 35 more days, has yet to make arrangements to get inoculated for the vicious respiratory virus, even though […]

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Superior Court judge on Wednesday ruled two strip clubs can remain open and operating during the most recent COVID-19 shutdown orders from the state, in a ruling that appeared to extend to the county’s beleaguered restaurant industry and allow those businesses to reopen to some extent. The ruling by […]

US intelligence agencies have warned a “significant” cyber attack on several federal departments uncovered over the weekend remains ongoing as the government rushes to assess the extent of the breach. “This is a developing situation, and while we continue to work to understand the full extent of this campaign, we know this compromise has affected […]

A deal for a new round of recovery funds appeared to be just around the corner on Wednesday, as signals emerged from Congress that Democrats and Republicans are coming closer to consensus on a new spending bill. One quote from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggests why. According to both CNN and Politico reporter Jake Sherman, McConnell told his […]

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at […]

Atlantic City will auction off the right to press the button to implode a former Trump casino, all in the name of a good cause. The Trump Plaza, closed since 2014, was US President Donald Trump’s first property in the US coastal gambling town in which he came to own several properties. The former casino, […]

A new report from a leading progressive advocacy group reveals a majority of Americans regardless of partisan affiliation don’t want President-elect Joe Biden to appoint corporate executives, consultants, or lobbyists to his Cabinet and administration. While preparing its report—entitled Americans Want a Progressive Biden Administration (pdf)—Demand Progress surveyed 1,075 likely voters chosen from a representative […]

When Hillary Clinton lost the election in 2016, she was spotted taking the family dog for a hike in the woods. President Donald Trump will have to permanently move to the woods if he intends to have a home that will accept him, joked “Late Night” host Seth Meyers during Wednesday’s show. New York has […]

The National Review is the latest conservative outlet to trash Dr. Jill Biden for achieving a doctorate in education. But unlike the now infamous Wall Street Journal column, the National Review takes their attack to a whole new level of elitism. After attacking Biden for her dissertation, film critic Kyle Smith claimed, “As for Biden, […]

Former campaign aide and communications director Anthony Scaramucci told CNN on Wednesday that President Donald Trump couldn’t possibly care less about his “legacy.” Speaking to host Chris Cuomo, Scaramucci explained that history only matters to those he leaves behind. He joined the panel with former Trump lawyer Jim Schultz to discuss the kind of fake […]

On CNN Wednesday, Chris Cuomo exploded with fury over new reporting that former Health and Human Services science adviser Paul Alexander urged for a strategy of more people being infected with COVID-19. “We now know a former top Trump appointee repeatedly urged other top health officials to adopt a herd immunity strategy. That would mean […]

A CNN report detailed the sketchy investments of Georgia Republican David Perdue, who is currently up for reelection in a January runoff. After making an overwhelming number of stock trades while in office, it became clear upon investigation that Perdue was trading in corporations that he was also overseeing as part of his committees. While […]

On MSNBC Wednesday, anchor Joy Reid discussed a new report from The Daily Beast that Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA)’s mansion was mysteriously devalued down by $6 million — potentially saving her and her husband huge amounts of money in property taxes. “Early voting in the Georgia runoff, which will determine the control of the United […]

>Fresh off publicly noting the reality that Donald Trump came in a distant second in the 2020 presidential election, Sen. Moscow Mitch McConnell has discovered that getting COVID-19 relief to millions of starving millions is suddenly urgent. >But don’t think for a second that McConnell has developed a political soul. It turns out there’s something […]

On CNN Tuesday, White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins reported that one of the main reasons President Donald Trump wants to appoint special counsels to investigate Hunter Biden and the 2020 election results is that he views it as “payback” for the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. “The new person who’s taking own […]

President Donald Trump’s final days are bringing with it speculation that he could pardon dozens of top aides and allies that aren’t even known to have committed crimes. Speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnet Wednesday, former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman explained that such pardons are indicative of a four-year-long “widespread culture of corruption.” Akerman said that […]

Palm Beach County lawyer Reginald Stambaugh is representing the DeMoss family, who lives next door to Mar-a-Lago. For years, they’ve dealt with increased security, Marine One landing next door, as well as a flood of people and MAGA fans in the area. The idea that President Donald Trump is going to live at his exclusive […]

An extensive CNN report Wednesday revealed that President Donald Trump has thought about staging a sit-in and refusing to leave the White House during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. In most presidencies, the handoff is part of a peaceful transfer of power where the outgoing president attends the day’s festivities while a SWAT-team-like moving crew helps […]

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) serves as the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee. It’s a key appointment for the ally of President Donald Trump given the number of intelligence scandals throughout the course of the administration. But after Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was revealed to have had a relationship with a Chinese woman […]

On Wednesday, according to Vanity Fair, current and former DOJ officials believe that Attorney General William Barr’s departure could take the pressure off prosecutors at the Southern District of New York who might want to investigate outgoing President Donald Trump and his associates. “Barr — whose departure from the office of attorney general was announced […]

Fox News on Wednesday published a report billed as an exclusive that the Trump administration would blow past a deadline to publish a report on foreign election interference in the 2020 election. “The 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment focused on foreign election influence will be delayed, Fox News has learned, amid a dispute between senior intelligence […]