Новости за 05.01.2024

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was handed a $12,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission for illegally fundraising for Stop Socialism Now PAC in 2020, according to a conciliation agreement signed last month and made publicly available on Friday.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday told the judge overseeing the massive civil fraud trial against former President Donald Trump and his family that she would seek a $370 million penalty—far greater than the quarter-billion figure she estimated in 2022.

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National Rife Association CEO Wayne LaPierre, who led the powerful gun lobby organization for over three decades and oversaw its rapid decline in recent years, announced his resignation Friday ahead of a civil corruption trial.

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Cher said her son has gone missing and again raised concerns over him and his finances due to “severe mental health and substance abuse issues,” according to Thursday court documents obtained by Page Six.

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The hosts of The View on Friday tore into Nikki Haley after the GOP presidential hopeful tried to once again clean up her Civil War slavery gaffe by claiming she “had Black friends” as a child.

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The White Lotus has started casting its next round of wealthy imbeciles, who will head to Thailand for Season 3 of Mike White’s hit HBO series. Although revered White Lotus guest Jennifer Coolidge will not be returning as Tanya—being dead and all—her pal from Season 1, Natasha Rothwell (who starred as Belinda) was the first cast member reported to join the third installment.

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Dominican prosecutors claimed this week that Wander Franco, the MLB star accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl, paid tens of thousands in hush money and gifted a car to his alleged victim’s mother.

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Nicholas Rossi, a 36-year-old fugitive who tried to pass himself off as an Irish orphan in Scotland before his true identity and alleged criminal past were uncovered in 2021, has reportedly been extradited back to the U.S.

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From the Stephen King school of what-object-can-we-haunt comes Night Swim, this year’s annual first-weekend-in-January horror movie. Yes, it really is about a family that moves into a new house and encounters a haunted swimming pool. That’s the kind of concept inevitably preceded by “proof of” in someone’s enthusiastic pitch meeting, and sure enough, this 98-minute movie began its life as a short film that, sans credits, runs about as long as a typical trailer.

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Kathy Swarts might’ve had a bit of a feud simmering with Gerry Turner’s new wife, Theresa Nist, during the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor, but on Thursday night, she (respectfully) stole the show at their Golden Wedding.

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David Soul, the actor best known for his starring role in the TV series Starsky & Hutch, has died, his wife said in a statement Friday. He was 80.

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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday night tried to defend herself from criticism she received over comments she made about the causes of the Civil War—that infamously failed to mention slavery—by mentioning that she “had Black friends growing up.”

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Donald Trump rounded off a day of relentlessly posting about E. Jean Carroll on Thursday by sharing the same message about her 30 times, for some reason.

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An American father and his two young daughters were killed when a light aircraft smashed into waters off a Caribbean island Thursday, authorities said.

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On Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn defended the halls of Congress as a violent mob of right-wing extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building and staged an insurrection.

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The hosts of a British neo-Nazi podcast who called for the deaths of both Prince Harry and his 4-year-old son, Archie, were sentenced to a combined total of 15 years in prison on Thursday following their conviction on terror charges.

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Disgraced Olympian Oscar Pistorius was released from prison in South Africa on parole on Friday after serving almost nine years for the murder of his girlfriend.

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If recent reports are true, Israel could be looking to procure the services of Alan Dershowitz—the esteemed attorney and Harvard Law professor noted (positively and negatively) for his reputation as a defender of civil liberties, his success as a high-profile defense attorney (including O.J. Simpson’s double murder trial), and his role on the defense teams of Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.

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Action movie insanity has escalated so deliriously during the past decade-plus—thanks to everything from Gareth Evans’ The Raid and Chad Stahelski’s John Wick to Jung Byung-gil’s The Villainess and Carter—that the bar is now set at absurd heights. To wow audiences currently requires a massive degree of over-the-top choreographic madness, and it’s that peak which Mayhem! strives to reach. A French import (in theaters and on VOD Jan. 5) which is... Читать дальше...

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The Curse has taken us back to Iosheka Jeans. Am I having a fever dream? I feel like, everywhere I look, there’s Iosheka Jeans. We cannot escape Iosheka Jeans.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week arrested a Connecticut military veteran for what they said was a series of threatening messages to members of Congress and government employees—as well as an alleged incident in which he tried to enter the offices of a U.S. representative with knives strapped to his back.

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