Новости за 17.05.2023

A North Carolina Republican lawmaker’s cringeworthy remark sent a state House debate over school choice off the rails.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on judicial ethics, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) mentioned that the "latest chapter" in the "assault on the United States Supreme Court as an institution" is the "fairytale of Supreme Court corruption."

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson praised Moms for Liberty, a conservative group that opposes transgender rights, as the modern-day equivalent of Betsy Ross, Rosie the Riveter and Rosa Parks.

The star expert witness in Kari Lake’s imminent election challenge trial did work for the Arizona Senate’s debunked 2020 partisan election “audit” and was one of the speakers at the infamous Election Committee hearing that led to former Rep. Liz Harris being kicked out of the legislature.

A long and uncomfortable silence stopped a CNBC interview with Elon Musk on Tuesday. It was broken when the billionaire quoted the 1987 film "The Princess Bride."

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her co-accused and former lover Sunny Balwani were ordered late Tuesday to pay more than $450 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Holmes, the founder and former CEO of the now-defunct Palo Alto, California, blood testing startup, has said in court filings that she “continues to work on ideas for patents” but “has essentially no assets of meaningful value” and “has incurred substantial debt from which she is unlikely to recover.” In his restitution order... Читать дальше...

Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday falsely claimed that a Georgia activist killed a state trooper earlier this year in what the far-right congresswoman from claims is part of a growing trend of violent left-wing extremism, The Independent reports.

Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared at a bill signing event at a Christian evangelical school in Tampa on Wednesday, touting measures banning transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and an expansion of a law to prohibit classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity through the 8th grade.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was sued this week by a former employee alleging, among other things, sexual harassment and assault. Giuliani denies the allegations. Now he's being sued again by a Staten Island ShopRite employee.

Former President Donald Trump has taken aim against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' new law banning most abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy, saying that “many people within the pro-life movement feel that that was too harsh.”

Two House Republican leaders on Wednesday in a letter to CIA Director William J. Burns threatened to subpoena the agency over documents that they say show a coordinated effort to falsely discredit an ongoing Hunter Biden investigation.

Appearing before the Subcommittee on Government Operations, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was grilled by Rep. Nanette Barragán (D-CA), who demanded answers about working conditions for postal employees.

At a major meeting with advertisers Wednesday executives from CNN unveiled their primetime lineup plans ahead of the 2024 presidential race, revealing a promotion for a Trump-favored host, Kaitlan Collins. And Fox News reportedly is moving Sean Hannity to what was Tucker Carlson's slot, while loading its primetime lineup with even more extreme hosts, according to one news outlet.

Donald Trump's handpicked postmaster, Louis DeJoy, is still in office, and now he's angering the members of the far right.

Attorney Tim Parlatore abruptly decided to step down as a Trump defense lawyer this week, and now reporter Hugo Lowell of The Guardian is starting to fill in some details about the reasons for his resignation.

WASHINGTON — Freedom Caucus members trashed former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) ahead of the unveiling of his portrait at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. But it was their contrast to Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) that revealed more about today's House GOP.

Jacqueline Onigkeit, a witness for Kari Lake's election challenge, burst into tears before an Arizona judge on Wednesday.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a series of bills on Wednesday taking aim at transgender treatments for minors, pronouns in schools, bathroom use and keeping children out of drag shows. “We are not doing the pronoun Olympics in Florida,” DeSantis said during an event at a Christian school in Tampa. “It’s not happening here.” He spoke at a lectern with a sign that read, “Let Kids Be Kids.” LGBTQ advocates dubbed the measures the “slate of hate,” calling it the most extensive package of anti-LGBTQ legislation... Читать дальше...

The North Carolina Legislature voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto and pass a bill banning abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, with Democrat-turned-Republican state Rep. Tricia Cotham giving the GOP the support it needed to ram the measure through in the face of significant public opposition.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Wednesday spoke out in defense of the husband she is divorcing.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who last year led Democratic House leadership’s self-aborted effort to ban congressional stock trading, just became the latest lawmaker to violate the STOCK Act with up to $265,000 in late financial disclosures, according a Raw Story analysis of financial records.

As Republicans and Democrats appear at an impasse on raising the debt ceiling, President Joe Biden last week suggested he was open to another option: paying the country’s bills without the help of Congress. Biden has dismissed some of the other last ditch suggestions that have been thrown around — like minting a trillion-dollar coin — but his staff is looking into whether his administration has the constitutional authority to ignore the debt ceiling and keep paying the country’s bills to avoid an unprecedented default. Читать дальше...

A writers group and major publisher have sued a Florida school district over its Ron DeSantis-sanctioned removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities.

The cruelty is the point, New York Times editorial board member David Firestone said about the House Republicans' demands in budget negotiations.

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has dissolved the country's parliament in the middle of impeachment proceedings against him.