Новости за 23.05.2024

Donald Trump apparently forgot to check with Russia before making his latest campaign boast.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants to overrule any ability of federal courts to hear accusations of rigging legislative maps based on race, wrote court watcher Mark Joseph Stern for Slate on Thursday — and in the process, he took aim at the landmark ruling that prohibited segregation in public schools.

Republican Rep. Andy Ogles, who was first elected to Congress via Tennessee's 5th Congressional District in 2022, is seeking a second term in 2024. Much of the controversy surrounding Ogles has involved his far-right positions, which have ranged from false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump to saying that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should face treason charges.

Republicans are already attempting to block House Democrats from investigating a meeting former President Donald Trump held with oil and gas executives that critics have called an act of "undisguised corruption," a new letter shows.

CNN anchor Boris Sanchez clashed with Bryan Lanza, former deputy communications chief for the Trump 2016 campaign, over the former president's record on race relations during a segment on Thursday.

Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday shattered former President Donald Trump's newest witch hunt conspiracy theory by sharing with reporters a single fact.

Alina Habba, Donald Trump's attorney, said liberals were using a "stupid little catchphrase" that "no one is above the law" to justify the prosecution of her client.

Donald Trump lost another appeal Thursday in his ongoing hush money trial in Manhattan criminal court, according to a new report.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) was publicly shamed Thursday for holding a hearing on antisemitism on college campuses the same week former President Donald Trump shared messaging said to "echo Nazi Germany."

Senate Democrats are investigating Donald Trump's alleged quid pro quo offer to oil executives last month at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser.

Revelations over the past week that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew flags associated with the January 6 insurrection and the far-right Christian nationalist movement at not one but two of his homes have drawn tremendous outrage, and heightened demands that Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) hold hearings on the jurist, and pass legislation to reform the Court.

Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro lost another bid to be released from prison after he was convicted of contempt of Congress for ignoring a subpoena from the Jan. 6 Committee.

An Arizona Republican got caught using the artificial intelligence site ChatGPT to craft legislation about the technology used to craft so-called deepfake videos, NBC News reported.

WASHINGTON — Democrats are asking who’s the treasonous one now that pictures have surfaced of an upside American flag flying at the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

It is entirely likely that Donald Trump won't get the same kind of warm welcome that he has grown accustomed to when he ventures into Crotona Park in the Bronx on Thursday night for a rare rally in non-MAGA country.

Republicans are trying to move protesters further away from their national convention site this summer, but the Secret Service and local officials in Milwaukee aren't letting them do it.

Many libertarians and Never Trump conservatives have been highly critical of the Libertarian Party for featuring former President Donald Trump as a speaker at its annual convention, which will be held this Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) used House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan's (R-OH) hearing on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to point out what would happen if Republicans succeed in abolishing the agency.

Urging Democratic lawmakers to use the power they currently hold in the U.S. Senate, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday night called on party leaders in the upper chamber to launch immediate investigations into the insurrection-linked flags that were seen flying outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's homes.

"The View's" co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, has been one of Nikki Haley's biggest supporters on television. Now, all of that has changed.

Special counsel Jack Smith Thursday handed over nearly 500 pages of materials to Donald Trump after the former president's lawyers accused him "extraordinary" misconduct in the classified documents case, court records show.

Reacting to a new report that Justice Samuel Alito displayed another flag associated with the Jan. 6 insurrection flying at his beach vacation home, CNN's Van Jones pounced on the controversial conservative justice for his casual disregard for observing ethical decorum.

Laurence Tribe, a top constitutional expert, is suggesting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's actions may be "close to treason," after the jurist flew flags associated with the January 6 insurrection and the far-right Christian nationalist movement at two of his homes.

Justice Elena Kagan appeared to take a shot at fellow Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito's upside-down American flag in her dissent to a ruling on South Carolina's gerrymandered election map.

Jurors come into a case with a lot of preconceived opinions, and former President Donald Trump's resistance to testifying in his hush-money trial could influence their final decision, one legal expert said.