Новости за 12.06.2023

A former adviser to Donald Trump said Monday that the indictment against the former president is already bad enough that it should end his political career.

The most powerful House Republican in Congress says it’s OK Donald Trump hid top secret government documents in his lavish resort’s bathroom, because, well, at least the door locks.

The Ohio State Supreme Court delivered a partial blow to an ongoing effort to make it harder for Ohioans to pass constitutional amendments—which would directly affect things like abortion rights.

Republicans are livid that Donald Trump was indicted, slamming it as a political attack and the greatest injustice of all time. Their proposed solution? Defund the Department of Justice.

As one-third of the nation comes out of an ominous smog from rampant wildfires, tens of thousands of dead fish washed up along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Aileen Cannon, the judge initially assigned to oversee Donald Trump’s latest indictment lawsuit, could single-handedly sabotage the Justice Department’s case against the former president.

“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.”

Actor Denée Benton compared Ron DeSantis to the leader of the KKK while she presented an award at the Tony’s, a clear jab at the Florida governor’s recent attacks on human rights.

Earlier this month, the self-described moderate outside group No Labels wanted everyone to know that another governor had joined its ranks: former North Carolina Republican Governor Pat McCrory. In an email invitation to supporters, former Senator Joe Lieberman and Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis—No Labels’ founding chairman and its national co-chair, respectively—wrote that McCrory would help the group “communicate our message to the tens of millions of Americans who are looking for a new approach to national leadership.”

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America’s largest, fastest-growing political party isn’t led by Joe Biden or Donald Trump. It’s the Independent Party. At least, that was one of the biggest takeaways from a Gallup poll this spring. It found that 49 percent of Americans—roughly the same amount as the number of voters who identify as Democrats and Republicans combined—think of themselves as “independents.” (An identical poll a month later found slightly less eye-catching numbers.) That’s a huge jump from just 20 years ago, when... Читать дальше...

Last week the Chamber of Commerce and Merck both sued the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to halt the first-ever round of Medicare drug-price negotiations. A third lawsuit, by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a lobby group, will likely follow. If Big Pharma could sue Congress, it would do that, too, because its real beef is with last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, which established a procedure for Medicare... Читать дальше...