Новости за 17.04.2018

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) Chief Executive Kevin Johnson hopes to meet with the two black men arrested at one of its Philadelphia cafes last week to apologize for the incident, which has sparked accusations of racial profiling at the coffee chain. The men, who had not made...

The United States and Britain issued a rare and ominous alert Monday charging Russia of ramping up cyber attacks on American and British companies, government operations and infrastructure. Washington and London said the widespread, global campaign began in 2015 and could be escalated to launch offe...

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday cracked herself up as she was reporting on the Sean Hannity-Michael Cohen bombshell. “There’s been a lot of time and energy and ink spilled over the last 15 months or so over what the term ‘collusion’ actually means,” Maddow said. “But the allegations about Mich...

By William M. LeoGrande, Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs. Presidents Raul Castro and Donald Trump both canceled trips to April’s Summit of the Americas in Peru, avoiding a potential confrontation – though U.S....

Fox News’ Sean Hannity began his Monday night programming with a “special shoutout” to liberal viewers tuning in to see his response to news that he is Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s mysterious third client — and then went into a lengthy diatribe against fired FBI Director Ja...

Though he was ostensibly brought onto Fox News host Sean Hannity’s show to discuss fired FBI Director James Comey, regular guest Alan Dershowitz scolded the host for not disclosing to viewers that he has a personal (and likely professional) relationship with the president’s longtime atto...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper accused Fox News host Sean Hannity of failing to live up to the network’s (former) “fair and balanced” slogan after he chose not to disclose a relationship with longtime Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen–despite reporting on said attorney. Cooper was explaining a “stunn...

In the wake of news that the president’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen also represents pro-Trump Fox News personality Sean Hannity, a White House spokesperson appeared to trip over his words as CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked him about the president’s relationship with his l...

As news outlets rushed to report that the president’s attorney Michael Cohen also represents pro-Trump Fox News host Sean Hannity, right-wingers struggled to figure out what the big deal is about the revelation. As Vanity Fair‘s Tina Nguyen reported, “anger and stupefaction were th...

In the wake of the revelation that the president’s longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen also represents Fox News host Sean Hannity, The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert pieced together a hilarious fake intro to the Trump-loving anchor’s Monday night show. “The Late Show has ac...

Sean Hannity ‘Thrown Under the Bus’ by Cohen: Avenatti Fox News host Sean Hannity was “thrown under the bus” by Michael Cohen’s lawyers, Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti said Monday after Cohen’s counsel revealed that Hannity was a client. Related: Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Michael...

Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music on Monday, making him the first non-classical and non-jazz winner ever. Reforms put in place by Columbia University’s Pulitzer Prize Board between 1996 and 2004 aimed to expand the music prize to “larger forms” outside of modern classical music...

President Donald Trump last week called the FBI’s raid on his personal attorney Michael Cohen an “attack on our country.” According to a retired NATO commander, that rhetoric, which the president uttered while surrounded by military leaders who were ostensibly supposed to be discus...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain underwent surgery in an Arizona hospital on Sunday to treat an intestinal infection and was in stable condition on Monday, his office said in a statement. The 81-year-old Arizona Republican was diagnosed with brain cancer in July last year. He re...

A man who shot and killed six Muslims in a Quebec mosque in January 2017 told a court-appointed social worker that he wished he’d shot more people during the attack. The Montreal Gazzette reported Monday that shooter Alexandre Bissonnette in September 2017 refuted his initial claim that he was...

Earlier this month, Trump boasted about sending National Guard troops to protect the southern border. Trump proposed to send nearly 400 troops to the border. We are sealing up our Southern Border. The people of our great country want Safety and Security. The Dems have been a disaster on this very im...

In an interview with CNN host Wolf Blitzer,  Gerald Connolly, a democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, had zero remorse for Sean Hannity. “Sean Hannity has been among the lowest of the low, wrestling in the mud of Birther conspiracy, Seth Rich conspiracies about the y...

This article originally appeared on The Daily Signal. “Do you believe that gay sex is a perversion?” Believe it or not, that question was posed—repeatedly—in a Thursday Senate confirmation hearing to Mike Pompeo, the CIA director now nominated to be secretary of state....

White House chief of staff John Kelly contradicted the White House’s claims about David Shulkin’s departure as secretary of veterans affairs, a discrepancy that could lead to legal challenges of decisions made by Shulkin’s interim successor....

Fresh off her decision to compel the attorney representing the president’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen to reveal Fox News host Sean Hannity as his mysterious third client, U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood on Monday afternoon rejected a motion by the lawyer that attempted to bloc...

Reporters at both CNN and NBC News on Monday noted that spectators were shocked when U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood compelled the revelation that the president’s attorney Michael Cohen is also representing Fox News host Sean Hannity. “It truly is an extraordinary day and it was an ...

This article originally appeared on Verdict. In an earlier column, I wrote that the president’s attacks on the special counsel were not a threat to the rule of law. At least in the United States, anyone—even the target of a criminal investigation—can criticize the way the government goes about its b...

CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday reacted to the stunning news that Donald Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen is also a lawyer for Fox News host Sean Hannity, quipping, “go home 2018—you’re drunk.” Tapper was reporting on news Monday out of a Manhattan federal courthouse, where Cohen was forced to ad...

Ann Coulter, a conservative author and political commentator with a substantial social media following, has long been accused of harboring white nationalist sympathies for her repeated use of hardline anti-immigrant rhetoric....

During a press conference Monday, the attorney representing Donald Trump’s mistress Stormy Daniels blasted the president’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen for representing Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I said last Friday and this weekend that Michael Cohen was radioactive and...