Новости за 26.05.2023

Seven children were found being neglected in a Pennsylvania mobile home, with some having "maggot-infested hair" and almost all of them showing serious signs of malnutrition, according to a local news report.

Ron DeSantis on Friday blasted big city progressives and public education, claiming that Chicago children are “more likely to get shot” than receive a good education, The New York Post reported.

Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers Clayton Kershaw posted to Twitter that the team would be restarting its Christian Faith and Family Day.

Ron DeSantis on Friday appeared to side with a parent with ties to an extremist group that promotes violence who was behind an elementary school's ban of a book by National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.

A deceased nun whose exhumed body showed minimal signs of decay is drawing crowds of people to Missouri after rumors a miracle has occurred, Newsweek reported.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) proclaimed last week to be “Impeachment Week” – and it’s probably fair to say it has nothing to do with a GOP-led Texas House committee’s recommendation to impeach the state’s attorney general.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen continues to sound the alarm about the United States' debt ceiling crisis, warning that the U.S. could begin to default on its debt obligations as soon as Wednesday, June 1 — which is less than a week away.

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is under fresh fire after launching his presidential campaign and declaring he believes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and even the U.S. Dept. of Justice are not “independent” agencies, and they should be subject to the scrutiny of the President of the United States.

New York City Councilman Chi Ossé is the subject of a complaint from the Italian-American caucus accusing him of making bigoted comments about a contractor with an Italian name, the New York Daily News reported.

NEW YORK — People who are overweight, tall or short in New York City will now be protected from discrimination rooted in those characteristics under a bill Mayor Adams signed into law Friday — a measure advocates hope will prompt other cities to follow suit.

Republicans in the state of Michigan are taking heat for pushing a bill that Democratic critics liken to "religious indoctrination."

A Florida sheriff's deputy who was being investigated for setting a man on fire with a taser is due to be charged, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced earlier this month that District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Lt. Shane Lamond had been indicted on four federal criminal charges: one for obstruction of justice, three for making false statements. DOJ prosecutors allege that Lamond shared police information with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and tipped him off about a case against him: the one in which he was arrested for his part in burning a Black Lives Matter sign that had... Читать дальше...

A Colorado Republican state legislator is walking back his support for theories promoted by the sovereign citizen movement, according to a report.

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When the clerk at VJ’s Food Mart confronted Corey Stingley, the 16-year-old handed over his backpack. Inside were six hidden bottles of Smirnoff Ice, worth $12, and the clerk began pulling them out one by one.

Stingley watched, then pivoted and quickly moved toward the door, empty-handed. But there would be no escape for the unarmed teen in the light blue hoodie... Читать дальше...

The Scientific American's editorial board is highlighting the dangers of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' "antiscience agenda."

A restaurant owner in Pennsylvania told a Black customer that he was just making a joke when he printed the N-word on her receipt.

A California elementary school made major revisions to its sixth-grade performance of "The Sound of Music."

Reacting to announcements that CNN will be holding town halls for 2024 GOP presidential nomination contender Nikki Haley to be followed by another one starring former vice president Mike Pence, former CNN contributor Wajahat Ali shook his head at the network execs who have failed to learn from blowback after the Donald Trump town hall.

Former Special Counsel John Durham, who recently ended his four-year investigation into the FBI's decision to launch an investigation into Russia's attack on the 2016 election and any possible connection Donald Trump or his campaign had to those efforts, will testify before the Republican-majority House Judiciary Committee next month.

Despite all his legal woes, far-right State Attorney General Ken Paxton has been a resilient figure in Texas politics. Paxton was indicated on criminal fraud charges in 2015 (the case still hasn't gone to trial) and has been investigated by the FBI, yet he was elected to a third term in 2022.

The FBI earlier this month conducted a mysterious search at the property of Tim Burke, a former journalist who worked at both Deadspin and the Daily Beast.

"Due to a feverish state, Pope Francis did not receive an audience this morning," said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, without giving more details.

A report from the New York Times that investigators working for special counsel Jack Smith have issued a subpoena demanding information from the Trump Organization regarding its international business dealings led Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton to suggest Smith and his people should place their emphasis on financial ties to the ruling family in Saudi Arabia.

A Pennsylvania nurse has been charged with administering massive doses of insulin that killed two patients, according to a press release from the state's Attorney General Michelle Henry.