Новости за 11.02.2020

According to a report from CNS News, a talk show host in San Francisco went off on Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) after he appeared on Fox News to complain about the media which he believes is hostile to Republicans. Speaking with host Laura Ingraham last Thursday, the Republican lawmaker who has been filing lawsuits against […]

The attorneys representing several New Jersey residents alleging they were sexually abused by Boy Scoutsleaders have requested the organization turn over files showing the organization was “aware of the dangers posed to children for decades,” according to a law firm.The New Brunswick-based law firm Rebenack, Aronow and Mascolo announced that they had officially served the […]

On Tuesday, writing for The Nation, Joan Walsh scorched the GOP as a “party of thugs” for its complicity in President Donald Trump’s shattering of institutional norms — and his post-impeachment rampage against intraparty figures and administration officials who he perceives to have wronged him. “With his Friday ‘reassignments’ of Army Lt. Cols. Alexander and […]

President Donald Trump regularly crows about the performance of the stock market during his presidency, but that particular talking point is likely to fall flat with ordinary American voters. The Financial Times reports that new research from Goldman Sachs shows that “the richest 1 percent of Americans now account for more than half the value […]

Is President Donald Trump paving the way to pardon his best buddies, the former campaign advisors who helped him win the White House? The answer to that question may be in a tweet Trump posted in the dead of night. Clearly something was bothering him at 1:48 AM, nearly an hour after he had returned […]

President Donald Trump tweeted — but then deleted — a post showing video of Mike Bloomberg defending New York City’s “stop-and-frisk” police policy, but it stayed up long enough to generate some reaction. The president called the former mayor and current Democratic presidential candidate a “total racist,” and other social media users noted the irony. […]

On Tuesday, a video from 2013 resurfaced showing former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defending “stop and frisk” — the policy of New York City police subjecting passersby to random searches that disproportionately targeted people of color, most of whom had done nothing wrong: Mike Bloomberg defending Stop-and-Frisk in 2013: “I think we disproportionately […]

An audio recording of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defending his city’s profiling of racial minorities has caught the attention of President Donald Trump. In the recording, Bloomberg defends his cities “stop-and-frisk” policies by saying that he had to send police specifically into minority communities because that’s “where the crime is.” Trump on […]

During a panel discussion on CNN’s “New Day,” regular contributor Bakari Sellers laughed and then schooled guest political analyst Krystal Ball’s contention that the legacy of former President Barack Obama is on the line in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. Speaking with host Alisyn Camerota, Ball, who hosts a program for The Hill, claimed that a […]

Construction crews building President Trump’s border wall in southern Arizona are blasting apart a mountain on a protected national monument that includes areas sacred to Native American groups. Crews began blasting sites at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which was designated as a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve in 1976, “in preparation for new border wall system […]

They’re calling it the “Death Star.” While supporters of the various Democratic candidates for president pummel each other online, Grand Moff Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, is deploying this appropriately nicknamed $1 billion disinformation machine with the real potential to obliterate even the most perfect Democratic ticket this fall. For starters. Among other things, this raises an extraordinarily important […]

The Republican Party’s surrender to President Donald Trump was complete with the Senate acquittal in his impeachment trial. Every GOP senator but one — Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) — voted to acquit the president, although several expressed concerns about his behavior that House Democrats decided was impeachable, but it’s becoming clear Republicans will do nothing […]

Joseph Shabalala, founder of South Africa’s multiple Grammy-winning choral group, the Ladysmith Black Mambazo, has died, the choir said on Tuesday. He was 78. Shabalala passed away at a Pretoria hospital following complications from back surgery that left him wheelchair-bound, according to local media. “Our Founder, our Teacher and most importantly, our Father left us […]

Iran taunted the United States on the 41st anniversary Tuesday of the ouster of its ally the shah, as huge crowds took to the streets to mark the historic occasion. Waving national flags and holding portraits of the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the crowds converged on Tehran’s iconic Azadi Square braving […]

After spending nearly six days on the ground in New Hampshire, tootling around from one campaign event to another through the snowy landscapes that so inspired Robert Frost, I can come away with only one prediction: This ain’t over, kids. The leading contenders for the Democratic nomination — Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Sen. Elizabeth […]

An emotional Thai army chief on Tuesday urged a nation in mourning over a mass shooting “not to blame the army” after a soldier gunned down at least 29 people in a rampage linked to a debt dispute with a senior officer. General Apirat Kongsompong, an arch-royalist more commonly prone to rants against pro-democracy figures, […]

According to a report in the Daily Beast by Russian media expert Julia Davis, commentators on Russian state media are rubbing their hands in glee at the acquittal of Donald Trump by the GOP-controlled Senate and see the president as, once again, easy prey for Kremlin manipulation. As she notes, “Having predicted this outcome for his impeachment […]

Iraqi officials on Tuesday commemorated Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the senior commander killed in last month’s US drone strike that targeted powerful Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Muhandis was the deputy head of the Hashed al-Shaabi, a loose network of paramilitary groups formed in 2014 to fight jihadists that has since been absorbed into the Iraqi state. […]

Sinn Fein on Tuesday became Ireland’s second largest parliamentary party after winning the popular vote in a weekend election — shattering the political landscape and thrusting the one-time fringe party with historic links to paramilitaries into a likely role in the next government. With counting completed in the early hours of Tuesday Sinn Fein had […]

The toll from China’s deadly coronavirus outbreak passed 1,000 on Tuesday after President Xi Jinping called for more “decisive” measures to tackle the outbreak in a rare visit to a frontline hospital. The Chinese president donned a face mask and had his temperature checked while visiting medical workers and patients affected by the deadly coronavirus […]

President Donald Trump is hyping a clip from the long-running “Curb Your Enthusiasm” that shows star Larry David nearly running a biker off the road in his electric BMW. The clip is titled “TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!” and is pinned to the top of the president’s Twitter account page, and shows the biker angrily challenging […]

President Donald Trump was up at nearly 2 a.m. Tuesday worrying about his longtime associate Roger Stone, who’s facing seven to nine years in prison. Federal prosecutors called for a higher-end sentence for Stone, who was convicted of lying to Congress and tampering with a witness related to his efforts to learn about hacked Democratic […]

In a scathing sentencing memo made public Monday, the Justice Department recommended Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentence Roger Stone to between seven and nine years in prison on charges first brought by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Roger Stone obstructed Congress’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lied under oath, and tampered with […]

Friday, February 7, is being described as the President Donald Trump’s “Friday Night Massacre” because of all the firing that went on: Trump not only fired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Gordon Sondland (U.S. ambassador to Ukraine) but also, Vindman’s brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, an attorney for the National Security Council (NSC). Legal experts […]

Maybe President Donald Trump never knew he had friends like former Sudanese refugee Philip Tutu, a Kansas City, Mo., computer systems engineer who not only voted for Trump in 2016, but worked hard for his election.So how did that turn out? First, the Trump administration rewarded Sudan’s genocidal Islamist dictator, Omar al-Bashir, who Tutu and […]