Новости за 24.02.2020

A wealthy Ohio businessman avoided prison for violently assaulting his wife during an argument. Jeffrey Couch, of West Chester, pleaded guilty last month to aggravated assault and was sentenced to five years of community control and 100 hours of community service, reported WLWT-TV. The owner of RV Nation and his wife got into an argument […]

Attorneys for Harvey Weinstein on Monday vowed to appeal after the former movie mogul was convicted on two counts of rape and sexual assault. “We couldn’t find a juror that had never heard of Harvey Weinstein,” defense attorney Donna Rotunno told reporters. “We will absolutely be appealing. Our fight is not over. It is absolutely […]

Hillary Clinton on Monday denounced President Donald Trump as a “danger to democracy” and defended her scathing comments about former rival and Democratic primary frontrunner Bernie Sanders. Clinton also warned that Russia would once again try to influence the presidential election in 2020, and said she would back any candidate taking on Trump. “I will […]

President Trump is currently enacting a purge of his administration, a purge that many see as retribution against those who’ve crossed him or who’ve failed to adequately support him in public. But according to Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent, Trump isn’t just getting revenge, he’s shoring up his ability to corrupt the rule of law. […]

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is headed to jail after being found guilty for two felony counts in New York. While Weinstein still faces charges in California, he’ll begin his sentence immediately. New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. named the survivors at the press conference and said that they made history. “Rape is […]

Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie “Hidden Figures,” died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said. Johnson’s calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the 2017 Oscar-nominated film told the stories of three black women who […]

Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano called the verdict in Harvey Weinstein’s trial a “significant victory” for the defense. On Monday, a New York City jury found Weinstein guilty on two of the least serious of five counts of sexual assault and rape. But Weinstein was found not guilty on the three most serious charges […]

Hollywood producer Havey Weinstein was found guilty on two of the five counts of criminal sexual acts on Monday and federal prosecutors think that he’ll be immediately hauled into prison. Former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne explained that Weinstein has already attempted to get out of his house arrest monitor and would absolutely be considered a […]

In a column for Just Security, a constitutional law professor at the Georgia State University College of Law who urged U.S. senators to reject the nomination of now-Attorney General Bill Barr admits he understated the case against the lawyer who has been far worse in his job than even he had expected. Co-author of Separation of […]

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain tried to make the case that the Russians have really always wanted to help Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) more than President Donald Trump. It was a theory that was shot down by her colleagues, who noted that the main focus of Russia was to sow discord among the American public. […]

Human rights advocates are demanding that the Israeli military immediately open a criminal investigation into the incident. [Warning… Graphic footage contained in or linked to in this article… Some people may find disturbing.] Human rights advocates expressed outrage and called for a criminal investigation after video footage of an Israeli military bulldozer dragging the body […]

Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted of a first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape, but cleared on three charges. Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in the four-week rape trial, where prosecutors laid out evidence the 67-year-old Weinstein had raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another […]

As Bernie Sanders’s runaway win in Nevada cements his position as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, the Democratic Party establishment and much of the mainstream media are openly expressing concern about a self-described democratic socialist leading the presidential ticket. His opponents have also attacked his ambitious agenda. Last week during the primary debate in […]

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 800 points in early Monday trading, as fears grew about China’s government being unable to contain the deadly coronavirus. On Fox Business, however, host Charles Payne said that the true culprit behind the drop was Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) big upset win in the Nevada caucuses over the […]

President Donald Trump’s newly appointed director of national intelligence has been busted again for past work for another country’s government without registering as a foreign agent. Richard Grenell, was appointed to oversee U.S. spy agencies on an acting basis, did public relations work aimed at the U.S. media for a project funded by Hungary’s far-right […]

Osmel Martinez Azcue took a work trip to China last month, but when he returned to Miami he started developing flu-like symptoms, making him wonder if he’d contracted coronavirus. Taking what he felt was the responsible course of action, he went to Jackson Memorial Hospital to get himself tested. Azcue, who has a very limited […]

The World Health Organization warned countries on Monday to be ready for a “potential pandemic” as new deaths and infections in Europe, the Middle East and Asia triggered more drastic efforts to contain the new coronavirus. The number of fatalities in China — where the virus emerged late last year — also continued to soar, […]

Several people were injured Monday when a car drove into a carnival procession in central Germany, police said, adding that the driver had been arrested. A spokeswoman for police in the town of Volkmarsen where the incident took place told AFP “it is too soon” to say whether the driver ploughed into the crowd on […]

President Donald Trump went to India for the first time in his presidency, but he can’t stay at his own Trump properties, because they’re not as far along as he would probably like. “It’s a little different situation than him going to his own club and being able to hold court there,” Alyssa Ayres told […]

In December, President Donald Trump nominated Jessie K. Liu (a former U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia) for a position in the U.S. Treasury Department on the recommendation of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. But on February 11, Trump withdrew the nomination — and a key factor, according to Axios’ sources, was a memo that criticized Liu’s […]

Appearing on a local TV station on Sunday, a district court judge in Assumption Parrish in Louisiana owned up to racist comments she made about African-American employees in her courtroom that she texted to her then-police officer boyfriend. According to WAFB, Judge Jessie LeBlanc initially denied using the N-word about a black sheriff’s deputy and […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear a case that could determine if taxpayer-funded religious organizations, including adoption and foster care agencies, can legally discriminate against LGBTQ people. Monday morning the conservative-majority court agreed to hear Fulton v. Philadelphia, which is being litigated by the far right wing Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. […]

An attorney for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused the Trump administration of extortion in a London court on Monday. The WikiLeaks attorney appeared at Woolwich Crown Court along with U.S. prosecutors, who argued that Assange should be extradited the United States, where he faces 18 charges and up to 175 years in jail. Attorneys for […]

A longtime announcer at high-school basketball games in Oklahoma sparked outrage last week when he said that black players on the Crooked Oak High School lady’s basketball team had “disgusting” names. Local news station KFOR reports that the announcer made the remarks during a game between Crooked Oak and rival Newkirk High School on Friday. […]

Emerging in a stadium to the appropriate strains of the Village People’s “Macho Man” as 100,000 people cheered on, US President Donald Trump looked like he was at a campaign rally in America’s Midwest. But the US leader was thousands of miles away, sweltering under India’s scorching heat as he kicked off his first official […]