Новости за 12.05.2023

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin is friends with CNN's Anderson Cooper, but she was angered by his defense of a town hall hosted by his network featuring Donald Trump.

The dead body of an Arby's manager was found in the restaurant's freezer by workers, according to a report by KPLC reported. Police are treating the death as suspicious.

Standing in solidarity with striking writers, Mayim Bialik is sitting out the final week of “Jeopardy!” tapings. The current host of the long-running game show reportedly departed her role one week before the end of the season in support of the Writers Guild of America strike, which kicked off last week. Season 39 of “Jeopardy!” is scheduled to wrap production at the Sony Pictures lot in Culver City, California, between May 16 and May 19. According to Deadline, the show will go on with popular champion Ken Jennings... Читать дальше...

It isn't hard to understand why public approval of the U.S. Supreme Court has sunk to historic lows. Between ProPublica's bombshell reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas' relationship with billionaire GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, efforts by far-right activist Ginni Thomas (Justice Thomas' wife) to overturn the 2020 presidential elections results, and the fact that three of the justices were appointed by a former president who is now facing a 34-count criminal indictment... Читать дальше...

A Kenyan lion believed to have been the world's oldest in the wild has died after being speared by herders, wildlife officials said on Friday.

Several members of the Kansas Republican Party are up in arms over a new plan by some officials to remove its own minority, women's and youth groups from positions of party leadership.

Asked about Donald Trump's performance in the much-criticized CNN town hall televised on CNN on Wednesday, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia warned his GOP colleagues he sees no path for the former president to do any better in 2024 than he did in 2020.

For many years, President Ronald Reagan was the most influential figure in the Republican Party. 2008's GOP presidential primary candidates were mocked for invoking Reagan's name incessantly during one of their debates; whether they were being asked about taxes, U.S. foreign policy, the war in Iraq or abortion, they somehow found a way to mention Reagan.

In a near-unanimous vote on Thursday, local Missouri officials approved a resolution declaring Kansas City a sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people after Republican state lawmakers passed legislation that would ban gender-affirming care for minors and some adults—part of a nationwide GOP assault on trans rights.

Two new Holocaust-themed textbooks have been rejected by Florida’s state education department and another book was forced to change a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to be approved by the state, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.

Former White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin said that it was common knowledge throughout the Trump White House that the former president engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior around young women, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

CNN continues to mitigate the fallout from its controversial Wednesday town hall with former President Donald Trump. There has been widespread criticism if not outright condemnation of the network over its decision to host Trump and a cherry-picked audience at Saint Anselm College — where Trump spent the better part of seventy minutes rehashing conspiracy theories, lies about the 2020 election, defaming E. Jean Carroll, and belligerently refusing to answer moderator Kaitlan Collins' questions.

The 2024 GOP presidential field continues to grow. Although former President Donald Trump remains the clear frontrunner, he has his share of challengers — including Nikki Haley (former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and ex-governor of South Carolina), former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and radio host Larry Elder. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be gearing up for a presidential run, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) launched a presidential exploratory committee in April.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) insisted she hadn't seen any Donald Trump supporters who could be considered extremists.

A Trump-supporting school board candidate in the Upstate New York community of Carmel has been exposed for a series of offensive and extremist social media posts, reported The Examiner News on Friday.

Under the influence of Donald Trump the Republican Party has given up all pretense of caring about governance and making the lives of Americans better because they are too busy appealing to the worst instincts of the Trump MAGA crowd, according to the Daily Beast's David Rothkopf.

An Alabama state lawmaker who ran on a platform of "medical freedom" when it came to vaccines now has a bill that could potentially send women to prison for having abortions, reported Law & Crime.

It's called break-bone fever by some, and for good reason. Dengue Fever, for sure, is not something you want to catch. Perhaps worse again is Yellow Fever, which leaves an estimated 12% of sufferers with jaundice. Small percentages of those infected by either can develop severe hemorrhagic variants that can prove fatal.

Early Friday morning, newly hired MSNBC host Jen Psaki shared a clip of Gov. Chris Sununu (R-NH) uncomfortably addressing the fact that voters in his state were seen laughing at Donald Trump's attacks on E. Jean Carroll during the Wednesday CNN town hall.

Fast radio bursts – intense, milliseconds-long flashes of radio energy from outer space – have puzzled astronomers since they were first spotted in 2007. A single burst can emit as much energy in its brief life as the Sun does in a few days.

How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they’ve already been asked by other species elsewhere in the Universe, potentially very much older than that.

The former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) recently issued a mocking warning to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as speculation mounts about him possibly running for president in 2024.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed at the Republican Party's investigation of President Joe Biden's family, which now appears to have flopped.

The indictment of Rep, George Santos (R-NY) on charges wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements to Congress by the Department of Justice could be a preview of similar charges being levied against Donald Trump.

The faces of the Roma community's best and brightest beam down at visitors from a multicolored wall inside one of France's top museums.