Новости за 06.10.2023

The televised debate to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives is off—for now.

If there’s one thing former President Donald Trump loves doing, it’s claiming that other people can’t hold him accountable. He argued for some form of presidential immunity while in office, often with little success. This week, he took it even further to argue that the Constitution had given him a get-out-of-jail-free card for his actions leading up to January 6, 2021.

Donald Trump is so sick of winning that he withdrew two major lawsuits in 24 hours just to give himself a break.

Donald Trump allegedly shared sensitive nuclear information with a random member of his Mar-a-Lago club, who then went on to share that information with dozens of other people.

It was inevitable from the beginning of the 119th Congress that Kevin McCarthy’s speakership would hang by a thread and probably be challenged frontally within his first year. And Matt Gaetz was always going to be the one to deploy it.

Just days before he successfully booted Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, Representative Matt Gaetz dismissed the Republican impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as a pointless stunt.

I took a trip last week to meet up with some old college friends. We live all around the country, so we’d chosen New Orleans as our meeting place. One of my friends went to medical school there, and he and his wife could drive there from their home in Houston—with a 6-month-old baby I was aching to meet.

There’s a new senator in Washington, D.C., this week: Laphonza Butler, a former president of Emily’s List, was tapped by California Governor Gavin Newsom to fill out the term of the late Dianne Feinstein. Butler’s path to the Senate—where she will be the lone Black woman in the upper body and the first to call that chamber home since Vice President Kamala Harris—was partly due to a set of baroque promises Newsom made in advance of Feinstein’s death: to select a Black woman for the post and to... Читать дальше...

The housing market is not great right now. High prices and higher interest rates are squeezing out first-time homebuyers. Rents are jumping in big cities as leasing companies try to offset their losses in the commercial real-estate space. Americans hoping to find a better place to live are being asked to spend more and get less.