Новости за 17.12.2020

US President-elect Joe Biden has chosen congresswoman Deb Haaland to serve as the first Native American interior secretary, US media reported Thursday, in a move that could recast the department’s often troubled ties with indigenous tribes. Haaland is a first-term Democrat from New Mexico in the US Congress and a member of the Laguna Pueblo […]

The scope of the massive cyberattack on the U.S. federal government continued to expand on Thursday. “The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, […]

It’s been happening for decades — but the transformation is now complete. This article was originally published at Salon It started with the Whitewater investigation, went through all of the Benghazi investigations, and ramped up in recent years when Republicans turned around to falsely claim that the investigation into Donald Trump’s ties with a Russian conspiracy to interfere with […]

In the wake of the viral audio clip where actor Tom Cruise angrily rips into the crew of the “Mission: Impossible 7” set, TMZ is reporting that his outburst sparked an exodus of at least five staffers who were upset with his approach. “Apparently, things haven’t cooled off around set since the epic rant heard round […]

Rolling Stone columnist Peter Wade is naming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) the Scrooge of 2020. McConnell, who has held up COVID-19 stimulus funds for Americans for seven months now wants to slice further assistance ahead of the Christmas holiday. The angry and stingy miser depicted in Charles Dickens’ holiday novella “A Christmas Carol,” […]

President Donald Trump notoriously told members of the far-right organization Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” before the 2020 presidential election. Since Trump lost, the Proud Boys have no longer been standing by. Over the weekend in DC, there were multiple instances of violence and the Proud Boys were accused of burning Black […]

After opposing another round of stimulus checks for months in the face of deteriorating economic conditions and widespread suffering, Republican congressional leaders have finally agreed to include direct payments in a coronavirus relief package that could be approved by the end of the week. During a private GOP conference call Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) […]

A French model scout accused of plying Jeffrey Epstein with new victims has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Paris on charges of rape and sexual trafficking. Jean-Luc Brunel was slapped in cuffs while attempting to board a flight to board a flight to Dakar in Senegal, according to French newspaper Le Parisean. The septuagenarian […]

One of President Donald Trump’s neighbors in Florida claims his security system is hurting her brain. The bizarre claim was made in a letter sent this week to town officials in Palm Beach and the U.S. Secret Service stating their opposition to Trump living at Mar-A-Lago full time and reminding the president of a decades-old […]

After her rebuke of the Trump campaign’s claims of massive voter fraud, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky received an influx of angry voice messages on her court phone line, The Progressive reports. “You got a lot of guts,” one anonymous caller said. “You refer to Trump as a king? Yet you are the tyrant […]

Meet U.S. Congressman Ken Buck, a Republican of Colorado. Buck on Thursday called for President-elect Joe Biden to be prosecuted for supposed crimes after he leaves office. Biden is not under investigation nor is there any proof he has committed any crimes, but that didn’t stop Buck from making the accusation on live national television. […]

Attorney General William Barr has been one of President Donald Trump’s most aggressive defenders, from the Mueller Report to the Ukraine scandal and the president’s impeachment trial. But when the 70-year-old Barr acknowledged Joe Biden as president-elect during a recent interview with the Associated Press and said that there was no evidence that widespread voter fraud occurred […]

It has been four days since it was announced that Russia hacked the U.S. government and President Donald Trump hasn’t said a word about it. That among several other major incidents prompted The Bulwark’s editor, Jonathan Last, to ask “where is the president of the United States?” This week, the U.S. saw substantial COVID-19 deaths […]

Anti-government extremist Stewart Rhodes again called on President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy the U.S. military against his domestic opponents. The Oath Keepers leader posted an open letter Monday urging the president to order “trusted military units” to “seize” the databases of CIA, DNI, FBI, NSA and state election systems and […]

A French court on Thursday jailed for life a Moroccan man who planned a terror attack on a Paris-bound international train in 2015 but was thwarted by passengers including off-duty US soldiers. The Paris court convicted Ayoub El Khazzani, now 31, over the August 2015 plot on the Amsterdam-Paris high-speed Thalys train and also issued […]

Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has had a very busy year that has included getting caught with his hands in his pants by Sacha Baron Cohen, losing countless election lawsuits, and getting hospitalized after contracting the novel coronavirus. Despite this jam-packed schedule, the man formerly known as “America’s Mayor” has also found time to hawk gold […]

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed hope that incoming US President Joe Biden would present an opportunity for improved relations between their two countries, before attacking Western aggression towards Russia. Speaking at his annual marathon end-of-year press conference, Putin began by striking a conciliatory tone towards Western countries, with which Russia has seen its relations […]

A New York state judge just ordered the Trump Organization to turn over all documents regarding a property at the heart of a civil investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into the company’s financial and tax practices. This article was originally published at Salon New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron told the Trump Organization to give James’ […]

A video posted to Reddit this Wednesday shows a woman confronting Trader Joe’s employees after she was banned from the store the day before for allegedly refusing to abide by the store’s mask policy. The video starts out showing store employees ignoring the woman’s demand for service. Eventually, the manager comes over and reminds the […]

The women of “The View” unleashed on Republicans for losing their minds over a top aide to President-elect Joe Biden referring to some members of the U.S. Senate as “f*ckers.” “President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon has some up in arms, though I don’t get why because in the interview […]

President Donald Trump Thursday again threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a military spending bill that was passed in both chambers with veto-proof majorities. The president has been exceptionally obsessed with vetoing the bill, insisting if he does veto it, China will be “very unhappy.” I will Veto the Defense Bill, which […]

Never Trump conservatives as well as Blue Dog Democrats often cite the Reagan era as a more dignified time in conservative politics — a time when Republicans, policy differences and all, were willing to compromise with Democrats and weren’t obsessed with “owning the liberals” the way they are now. But liberal economist Paul Krugman, in […]

Yet another election lawsuit filed by Republicans has bitten the dust. As reported by Politico’s Josh Gerstein, Judge James Randal Hall, the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, quickly shot down a lawsuit filed by Georgia Republicans against Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad […]

Republicans are falling all over themselves to criticize a top female adviser to President-elect Joe Biden because she said the “F-word” in an interview. Writing for the Washington Post on Thursday, Karen Tumulty suggested someone give Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) a “cold compress.” Biden talks about unity and healing, but you want to know what […]

Writing in the Washington Post this Wednesday, a co-founder of the anti-Trump conservative PAC Lincoln Project says that even though President Trump will be leaving office soon, the fight against Trumpism is only beginning. “Trump’s allies and abettors, including more than 100 lawmakers and 18 Republican state attorneys general, tried to poison our political system […]