Новости за 23.08.2022

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will present one of the awards at this year’s “Portrait of a Nation” gala, as honorees’ portraits are hung in a Smithsonian exhibit. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday announced the presenter lineup for this year’s awards, noting that each presenter has “a special relationship” with the honoree...

A state judge on Tuesday sentenced Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband, Paul Pelosi, to five days in jail for driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, the Napa County District Attorney’s Office announced. A Napa County Superior Court judge also dismissed a second charge of driving with .08 percent blood-alcohol level or higher causing...

A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the State Department to take action in the case of Marc Fogel, the American teacher who is currently imprisoned in Russia. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, the nine senators asked that the department designate Fogel, who has been incarcerated in Russia...

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said on Tuesday that he did not need to “act frightened” during his scene in “The Dark Knight” with actor Heath Ledger’s Joker. Leahy told CNN’s John Berman on “New Day” that the fear came naturally to him during his scene in the 2008 Batman movie, in which the Joker holds...

Meghan Markle, the duchess of Sussex, talked ambition with tennis star Serena Williams in the first episode of her new podcast series, “Archetypes." The duchess invited Williams, who recently announced she’s “evolving away” from tennis, to discuss what Markle called “that dirty, dirty word when it comes to women — ambition.” The 23-time Grand Slam...

Former President Trump's Save America PAC is helping finance the presidential portraits of Trump and former first lady Melania Trump, according to the Smithsonian Institution.  Linda St. Thomas, a spokesperson for the Smithsonian, confirmed to The Hill that $650,000, which a federal expense filing describes as a “charitable contribution,” would be going toward financing the...