Новости за 30.12.2020

President-elect Joe Biden has accused President Donald Trump and his loyalists of obstructing the new administration's incoming national security team. When retired Adm. James G. Stavridis — former supreme allied commander of NATO — appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, he made it clear that he shares Biden's concerns and warned that there could be "real-world consequences" if the president-elect's team isn't adequately prepared from a national security standpoint.

In an op-ed for CNN this Wednesday, authoritarianism expert and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes that the Holiday video posted to social media this Christmas featuring Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle contained a low-key insult aimed at Guilfoyle.

It is obvious by now that President Donald Trump is a narcissist desperately afraid of being thought of as a "loser." This is why he has gone to such incredible lengths to deny the results of the 2020 election: A man who regularly used the epithet "loser" as a go-to insult long before taking office will now be remembered as one of only a handful of sitting presidents to seek another term and be rebuffed by the American people.

Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia blasted fellow Republicans on Wednesday for taking a series of actions to undermine the U.S. election system.

Despite opposition from the public and some members of Congress, the Trump administration in its waning days is rushing through weapons sales to a handful of Middle East nations with records of human rights abuses, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose U.S.-backed blockades and airstrikes have exacerbated civilian suffering and death in Yemen's ongoing civil war.

In the wake of a maskless indoor Christmas party hosted by the Whitestone Republican Club in Queens, New York, earlier this month, at least one person has been hospitalized with the coronavirus, the Queens Daily Eagle reports.

Josh Hawley is the junior US senator from Missouri. He made news this morning, saying he'd help the president in his attempt to stay in power by objecting to the certification of electors on Jan. 6. That means the US Senate will debate the merits of the allegations, which are nil, before voting to approve the Electoral College vote.

Kentucky's auditor has tested positive a day after receiving his first dose of the vaccine.

The United States is expected to approve the low-cost AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine in April, a senior official said, more than three months after Britain's green light on Wednesday.

The leader of the Republican Party chapter in Parker, Colorado has apologized after he declared "war" on public health officials and publicized their home addresses.

The conservative anti-Trump PAC Lincoln Project is launching an ad campaign in South Florida with the hopes that President Trump, who is currently vacationing in the region, will see them.

Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor John Fetterman on Wednesday fact-checked President Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud in his state.

Hundreds of conservative Christians packed into a Missouri convention center for sermons, speeches and concerts.

Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff refused to back down on Wednesday when a Fox News reporter attempted an impromptu interview on live television.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Wednesday denounced his colleague Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for making a last-ditch attempt to delay President-elect Joe Biden from taking office.

Activists plan a car blockade to stop Sean Feucht, an evangelical Christian singer who has a history of defying COVID guidelines, from moving forward with his "massive outreach" event at the Skid Row homeless encampment in Los Angeles this Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports.

President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Kathleen Hicks to be deputy secretary of defense, making her the first woman to hold the number two position in the Pentagon if she is confirmed by the Senate.

A group of United Nations experts on the use of mercenaries said Wednesday that President Donald Trump committed an "affront to justice" last week when he pardoned four former Blackwater security contractors for the war crimes they were convicted of in 2015.

If the Trump administration's coronavirus vaccine distribution effort continues at its current sluggish pace, it would take nearly a decade for the United States to inoculate an adequate number of Americans to rein in the deadly pandemic.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and members of his caucus for refusing to provide Americans with $2,000 relief payments that are supported by President Donald Trump.

As 2020 comes to a close some New York residents can add another woe to the long list this year has wrought: vicious squirrels.

The upcoming Georgia runoff elections will determine control of the United States Senate -- and some Republican politicians have found it to be a goldmine for their own political operations.

Vice President Mike Pence defended the administration's distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the face of criticism from President-elect Joe Biden and numerous medical experts.

On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) became the first senator to officially announce he will formally object to the certification of the Electoral College results when presented to Congress.

One year ago today, in the wake of the House of Representatives voting to impeach President Trump, the New York Times published a deeply reported insider account of the president's dealings with Ukraine the previous summer and how the White House had reacted to it. The story brought home just how alarmed the president's own henchmen had been at what he was attempting to do. So, as we headed into 2020, the anticipation was palpable.