Новости за 20.05.2023

Authorities are investigating the report of a driver captured on video going on a racist rant on a California freeway, The Daily Beast reports.

Amid a growing drumbeat in progressive circles urging Joe Biden to avert a debt-limit crisis by invoking the 14th Amendment, the president has signaled he’s unlikely to do so, Politico reports.

As Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor Fani Willis enters the home stretch before making a decision on filing charges in the election interference case, former January 6 Select Committee investigator Timothy Heaphy broke down on MSNBC Friday why Georgia was such a crucial linchpin of the plot by allies of former President Donald Trump to nullify his election loss.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday called on Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to "undo the yacht and private jet tax breaks the GOP passed for themselves" in response to McCarthy's call to rein in spending by the government.

Fox News has officially dissolved its investigative unit, Rolling Stone reports.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been accused of citing illegally leaked children’s medical records as part of a vendetta against trans kids and their families.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has reportedly promised there is no chance that he will let up on his battle against Disney, which recently announced it had scrapped plans for a nearly $1 billion office complex that was scheduled to be built in Orlando.

Former Montgomery County district attorney Bruce Castor, who recently represented Rudy Giuliani in a civil suit, filed a motion in court this Tuesday to be removed as Giuliani's lawyer in the case, The Inquirer reported.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to formally launch his presidential campaign next week, has tried to cast the Republican primary race as a two-man contest between himself and former President Donald Trump — a sentiment backed by national polling that suggests DeSantis is an underdog but the only candidate with double digit numbers consistently against the former president.