Новости за 12.05.2023

Former President Donald Trump will have to attend a hearing specifically to be told to stop trying to intimidate witnesses.

The right is jumping to the defense of Daniel Penny, somehow arguing that arresting someone for manslaughter is actually “pro-criminal.”

Alabama Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would charge people who get abortions with homicide, an outrageous move that mimics similar bills in other states.

Elon Musk’s pick for the new Twitter CEO is perhaps as jacked-up on the conspiratorial far-right happy gas as he is.

CNN’s town hall with twice-impeached, criminally indicted, convicted sexual abuser Donald Trump was a glorified campaign rally, and the former president is already capitalizing on it.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that would shield all of his past and future travel records from public access, a measure widely slammed as an attempt to hide his movements.

Apparently CNN told the audience of its diet Trump campaign rally that they could definitely applaud but they absolutely could not boo.

Some of the purest politics around—true struggles over competing interests, limited resources, and ideological worldviews—can be found in the world of crypto. But it’s only pure in the sense of potency, not morality: The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraudulent crypto empire revealed a vast political influence operation that has led to multiple indictments, with more likely on the way.

In the halls of power of Washington, D.C., pork is usually associated with Congress. But on Thursday, it was pig husbandry day at the Supreme Court, where the justices declined to overturn an animal-welfare law in California that regulated how pork products are sold in the state. Pork producers sued because they claimed the law would unjustly force them to change how their operations work far beyond the Golden State.

When Joe Biden and his political team set about to create his reelection rollout video, they wanted to make sure it offered a preview of what his bid for another term in office would look like. The end result was an emphasis on abortion rights, a few January 6 shots—and a lot of Vice President Kamala Harris. The three-minute video featured Harris in a dozen clips, a number that struck nearly every commentator as noticeably high.

During the last Writers Guild of America strike in 2007, Jesse Plemons killed a guy. Or rather, his character, Landry, on Friday Night Lights, did. Nobody saw it coming. One moment he was a mild-mannered kid living in rural Texas, playing in a Christian speed-metal band and supporting his best friend, the quarterback of the Dillon Panthers. Then, next thing you know, he is bashing some guy’s lights out with a pipe in a parking lot. This turn of events—in the second-season opener—is widely regarded... Читать дальше...

House Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would destroy the process to gain asylum in the United States.

A man who says he is from Long Island and charged with committing unemployment fraud has voted to pass a bill to prevent unemployment fraud.