Новости за 03.08.2023

As Donald Trump entered a Washington, D.C., courthouse Thursday to be arraigned for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 election, his lawyer was busy outside, undermining his entire case.

Ron DeSantis has promised to start “slitting throats on day one” if he’s elected president.

The Manhattan District Attorney is officially allowed to use Donald Trump’s deposition from his sexual assault trial, meaning that the most devastating testimony in the upcoming trial over alleged hush money payments could come from the former president himself.

Presidential candidate Cornel West, who has spent most of his career advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy, owes the IRS more than half a million dollars in unpaid taxes.

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr destroyed Donald Trump’s argument that he shouldn’t be indicted a third time because he was only using his First Amendment rights.

Bernie Sanders arrived in Ann Arbor in late winter, his future to be decided in two days. Thousands of students thronged the University of Michigan campus, gripping their blue-and-white signs, one so overcome with emotion she battled back tears as Sanders spoke. Above a sea of expectant faces, his name was spelled out in enormous, yellow block letters: B.E.R.N.I.E. The students held them high and wouldn’t let go.

Asked to identify the most influential families in the United States, many Americans might name the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, or the Fords. These families, like many others, have been instrumental in shaping American life, politics, and culture—primarily because of their enormous fortunes and expansive philanthropic work.

By now, we’ve all heard the stories of tragic heat accidents and deaths. The hiker couple, their 1-year-old baby, and their dog—all dead of heatstroke on a familiar trail made alien by the rising mercury. The British King’s Guardsman tumbling to the ground with his trombone, a historic costume made unbearable in the heat (he lived). The 71-year-old hiker in Death Valley National Park, who told a reporter from the Los Angeles Times he was not deterred by the temperature just hours before dying on the trail. Читать дальше...

There are many ways to describe Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s flailing presidential campaign—his glitchy campaign announcement is arguably too perfect a metaphor; a three-second video of his awkward, honking laugh feels more poetic, if less precise. But one of the best summations of his general abjectness came in Monday’s disastrous New York Times/Siena poll: In a head-to-head race between DeSantis and Donald Trump, the former still trailed—by five points!—among the sliver of Republican voters... Читать дальше...

It makes eminent sense that Fitch, one of the “big three” credit-rating firms designated “nationally recognized” by the Securities and Exchange Commission, downgraded U.S. Treasurys on the same day that a federal grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election. “There has been a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years,” said Fitch. No kidding. Actually it’s been more like 40 years, with the steepest decline over the past seven... Читать дальше...