Новости за 04.06.2022

The ongoing debate over gun control is expected to dominate this week’s Sunday show circuit, with lawmakers from both parties set to appear on the networks as Congress attempts to reach a deal on gun reform.  High-profile shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and a hospital in Tulsa,...

Former President Trump and three of his children will participate in up to seven hours of questioning in a lawsuit started in 2018 over multilevel marketing company ACN Opportunity, lawyers for the defendants and plaintiffs said in a signed letter to a judge dated Friday, a court filing shows. The former president and his children...

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden were temporarily evacuated while in Rehoboth Beach, Del., on Saturday after a small plane entered into restricted airspace, apparently by accident. “A small private plane entered restricted airspace, all indications are by mistake, and precautionary measures were taken,” a White House official said, according to Politico. “There was...

Former reality star Josh Duggar is appealing his conviction after being sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for possession of child pornography. Lawyers for Duggar filed the appeal Friday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. Duggar was convicted in December in an Arkansas court and sentenced to 151 months...

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, took an apparent swipe at former President Trump, saying that in an election, "you don't tear the place up if you lose." During an an interview published Friday with CNN, Thompson, 74, talked about growing up in Mississippi...

Black voters’ support for President Biden remains the highest among most demographics, but it has weakened since he took office, according to a recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll. The poll of about 1,250 Black Americans found that 70 percent approve of how Biden is handling his job, but only 23 percent “strongly approve.” The results may...

President Biden’s decision to cancel billions in student debt for former Corinthian College students is raising pressure on the White House to offer more extensive relief. The White House has signaled it is considering eliminating up to $10,000 in student loans per borrower, and the cancellation for the former Corinthian students is being seen by progressives as a pivot...

The White House illuminated itself in orange while celebrities wore the color on National Gun Violence Awareness Day in the aftermath of several high-profile shootings in New York, Texas and Oklahoma. Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund marked Friday as the start of a weekend campaign to wear...

A 911 dispatcher who allegedly hung up on a Buffalo, N.Y., Tops supermarket employee during the deadly shooting that took place last month has been fired, officials confirmed.  The Erie County Department of Personnel confirmed to CNN that the dispatcher was fired on Thursday and that, since May 16, had been on paid administrative leave....

Three employees from a Los Angeles County area hospital were injured Friday after a male suspect allegedly entered the hospital and stabbed them, Los Angeles Police reported. The Los Angeles Police Department said that one doctor and two nurses had been injured during the incident, which had taken place earlier at the hospital that day....

The drama surrounding the work of the January 6 committee ramped up Friday with the news that former Trump advisor Peter Navarro had been indicted on two charges of contempt of Congress. The charges, each of which carries a maximum penalty of a $100,000 fine and one year of jail time, stem from Navarro’s refusal...

The partisan divide over guns couldn’t be more stark even after the nation’s most recent mass shootings — including the killings of 19 children at a Texas elementary school. Rather than uniting the country behind a shared vision for how to keep the public safe, the massacres have deepened the chasm between congressional lawmakers when...

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, said in an excerpt of an interview released Friday that “there is absolutely a cult of personality around Donald Trump.” “We have too many people now in the Republican Party who are not taking their responsibilities...

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) claimed in a speech on Thursday that “the right wants a strongman daddy figure” in describing his political party while asserting that Democrats want “a powerful, nameless but supposedly benevolent bureaucracy.” “In the 2016 presidential campaign, you had two candidates with wildly different solution sets, but their fundamental diagnosis was really...

Businessman and former GOP New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is set to jump into the race to represent New York’s 23rd District with the backing of House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.). Paladino confirmed to The Hill Friday evening that he is running for the seat, saying that he heard that there were...

Hours after the last C-17 transport jet departed Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport last Aug. 31, President Joe Biden addressed the nation to remind us that he had kept his campaign promise to end the war in Afghanistan. The irony of the president focusing on an honored commitment relating to Afghanistan has haunted many of...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) railed against the indictment of former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro while saying in an interview on Friday that “if you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you.” Gohmert, speaking to Newsmax in an interview on Friday, was...

An aide to former Vice President Mike Pence warned a U.S. Secret Service agent of his concerns for Pence’s safety in advance of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection last year, according to a report from The New York Times. The Times’ Maggie Haberman reported Friday that Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, called the...

CMA Fest says no Confederate flag imagery will be allowed at the 2022 Country Music Festival in June. “Confederate flag imagery of any kind” was listed under the festival’s prohibited items after the event had been canceled the past two years because of COVID-19. “In line with our first CMA Fest lineup announcement in early...