Новости за 23.01.2020

Virginia's state senate has passed a bill that would allow law enforcement officers to confiscate guns from or prevent the purchase of firearms by people deemed to be threats to themselves or others, just days after a mas...

A public service announcement to honor Botham Jean and show the “human cost of police brutality” will air during the Super Bowl this year, the family's lawyer said.The PSA produced by Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation and the NFL was released Wednesday....

Sen. Susan Collins is walking a fine line in President Trump's Senate impeachment trial: The moderate Maine Republican has to demonstrate some independence from the president, but she can’t run too far away from him and alienate GOP voters.One of...

"His counsel might recommend against that," Trump attorney Jay Sekulow tells ABC News when asked about Trump saying he would "love" to attend his own trial but his counsel may not recommend it."That's not the way it works ... presidents don't do...

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is getting under the skin of Republicans after embracing fiery rhetoric during his first appearance in the Senate impeachment trial. The House Judiciary Committee chairman didn’t speak for the first time until...

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is getting under the skin of Republicans after embracing fiery rhetoric during his first appearance in the Senate impeachment trial.The House Judiciary Committee chairman didn't speak f...

Chaplain Barry Black opened the Senate on Wednesday with a simple request: Let them be civil. "Help them remember that patriots reside on both sides of the aisle, that words have consequences and that how something...

Multiple senators have taken to drinking milk on the Senate floor this week during the chamber's impeachment trial.“It’s true, I had some milk with my chocolate,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) tweeted Wednesday evening.“I guess I could’ve added vodka &...

An abortion protester briefly interrupted the Senate impeachment trial on Wednesday.The man appeared to try to burst into the public gallery overlooking the chamber before quickly being dragged out.He could be overheard yelling for several minutes...

President Trump on Wednesday shattered his previous record for most tweets in a day since taking office, tweeting more than 130 times while House Democrats made their opening arguments in his impeachment trial.The president had tweeted 132...

President Trump on Wednesday shattered his previous record for most tweets issued since taking office, tweeting more than 130 times while House Democrats made their opening arguments in his impeachment trial.The pr...

The Congress Hall Hotel on Capitol Hill was a home-away-from-home for hundreds of congressmen and senators from 1907 to 1930. Eighty-seven of them lived at the hotel during the 64th Congress, from 1915 to 1917, 66 with their wives and families. The...

Brazil's former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that the nation's widely denounced charges of cybercrimes against journalist Glenn Greenwald are a further sign that its current administration, headed by Jair Bols...

The president and chief executive of the Hallmark Channel is stepping down a month after the company ...

The American public and U.S. Senate got its first real introduction on Tuesday to Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who has been a key player on impeachment for President Trump.The former corporate lawyer had not been a major public...

The American public and U.S. Senate got its first real introduction on Tuesday to Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel who has been a key player on impeachment for President Trump.The former corporate lawyer had...

President Trump on Friday will become the first president to attend in-person the March for Life.Trump quote-tweeted a video of last year's pro-life event, adding "See you on Friday...Big Crowd!"The president addressed the gathering in 2018 via...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday invited President Trump to be a guest at his own impeachment trial after the president said he would “sort of love” to go.“Mr. President, would love to have you as my guest during this partisan charade,” Paul said...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday invited President Trump as a guest at his own impeachment trial after the president said he would "sort of love" to go.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said he would not take part in a witness swap in the Senate’s impeachment trial as Democratic senators similarly dismissed the idea on Wednesday.Biden was posed the question from a voter who asked whether the...

Happy Wednesday and welcome to Overnight Defense. I'm Rebecca Kheel, and here's your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. ...

A majority of Americans say that it isn't likely that anything revealed or said during the upcoming impeachment trial of President Trump would change their minds about whether Trump had committed a crime.In a poll from The Associated Press and the&...

CBS News announced Wednesday that it has hired former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to serve as a political analyst on the network.Priebus, who is also a former chairman of the Republican National Commi...

The prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York sexual assault trial called the movie mogul a “sexual predator” and “rapist” in their opening remarks on Wednesday. Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast argued that evidence in...

The impeachment trial of President Trump is keeping some senators from fundraising events ahead of a busy election year.Senate Republicans, in particular, have had to postpone a few Washington fundraisers because t...