Новости за 16.12.2019

In his capacity as President Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani says that on his recent trip to Ukraine he gathered new evidence of massive corruption involving Hunter and Joe Biden. Giuliani wrote in a series of tweets Sunday that he found "clear" evidence of money laundering by Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid…

The Trump administration reportedly expelled two Chinese embassy officials this fall after they attempted to drive onto a military base near Norfolk, Virginia. The New York Times reported on Sunday, "American officials believe at least one of the Chinese officials was an intelligence officer operating under diplomatic cover, said six people with knowledge of the…

When Democrats embarked on their congressional impeach-the-president agenda they hadn't quite worked out the reasons for which they wanted impeachment. After all, at the time they announced, he'd only been sworn in as president for a few minutes. Then they came up with collusion with Russia, which failed, then quid pro quo, another failure, then…

With a House vote looming on impeaching President Donald Trump, one Democrat reportedly is jumping ship as the pressure builds on others to follow. Multiple news media outlets. including The New York Times and Fox News, reported that Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey is planning to switch parties. Van Drew, who opposed the…

My wife, Gena, and my hearts broke (again) when we heard about the tragic act of terrorism and barbarism on the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, in which three heroic sailors and patriots were gunned down in cold blood and eight more were injured by a rabid gunman. The Pensacola tragedy brought us back…

The White House has rejected comparisons between the president's rarely seen 13-year-old son, Barron Trump, and globe-trotting 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, despite critics insisting otherwise. First lady Melania Trump had publicly bristled after an impeachment inquiry witness dropped Barron's name in a laugh line at a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month. "A minor…

(WHBQ) -- MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A woman in Tennessee got an early surprise Christmas present this year: a baby boy. Lauren Chalk found out shortly before Thanksgiving that she was pregnant – and she was already 38 weeks along, WHBQ reports. Chalk has Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, which causes her to have irregular menstrual cycles. That’s…

Whatever James Comey was hoping for, this wasn’t it. When the former FBI director sat down with Chris Wallace of Fox News on Sunday, Comey was clearly trying to put the best spin possible on last week’s report by the Justice Department’s inspector general. After claiming in a Washington Post commentary piece on Tuesday that…

If Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is the party's perpetual gaffe machine, is Hillary Clinton its scandal machine? The latest is that she did not inform the State Department of a $1 million donation from Qatar while she was secretary of state. Reuters reported the Clinton Foundation confirmed receiving the gift. It was taken "without…

(STUDY FINDS) -- OKINAWA, Japan — Move over elephants, giant land tortoises may just be the kings of the animal kingdom when it comes to memory. Historically, these large reptiles haven’t been considered especially intelligent, but a new study conducted at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology is suggesting both their overall brain power…

(HAARETZ) -- Christians in the Gaza Strip will not be allowed to visit holy cities such as Bethlehem and Jerusalem to celebrate Christmas this year, Israeli authorities said on Thursday. Only some 100 Gazan Christians will be granted permits to travel abroad but none will be allowed to go to Israel and the West Bank,…

As talks between North Korea and the United States remain stalled, North Korea has conducted what it termed a "crucial test" at a site dedicated to launching intercontinental ballistic missiles and satellites. The test was conducted on Friday at the Sohae satellite launch site, Reuters reported. The official news agency KCNA announced the test without…

(CNBC) -- Wedding website Zola will no longer run advertisements on the Hallmark Channel after the network removed four commercials that featured two brides kissing each other. Hallmark removed the commercials after One Million Moms, a division of the conservative American Family Association that defines its mission as the “fight against indecency,” urged the network…

He was a British jihadist who had been through a de-radicalization program. But Usman Khan, on supervised early release from prison, killed two people and wounded several others near London Bridge on Nov. 29. Patrick Dunleavy, a former deputy inspector general for the New York State Department of Corrections described Khan as the "tip of…

More than 1,000 Christians have been murdered by Islamic militia in Nigeria within the last year and more than 6,000 since 2015. It's the key finding of a new report, "Your Land or Your Blood," from the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust, according to the Church Times. The report was presented at the International Organisation for…

The Supreme Court is being asked to strike down special privileges the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan, created for a giant mosque that Muslims want to build in a residential neighborhood. It would be tens of thousands of square feet and nearly six stories tall. The American Freedom Law Center has filed a petition to…

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and leader of the push to impeach President Donald Trump was fiercely booed and shouted down in his home state of California on Saturday. Schiff was appearing at the Glendale Central Library at an event meant to thank the House of Representatives for passing…

Google's new political ad policy that seeks to stop campaigns from targeting very specific groups of viewers is being denounced by Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. “It is a removal of free speech. It is a voter suppression activity,” Parscale told Fox News. Google recently announced a new political ad policy that takes effect…

During the World Series back in October, fans of the Washington Nationals were basically sainted en masse when they booed President Trump. This was predictable. Once the former Expos decamped from Montreal and settled in the District back in 2005, fandom of the team became a hip accoutrement for 10 out of 10 government lifers.…

Oprah Winfrey is getting flak from rapper 50 Cent and record executive Russell Simmons about an upcoming #MeToo-themed documentary about sexual misconduct in the music industry. The movie is expected to hit Apple+ next year. Variety reported that the film will tell the tale of "a former music executive who grapples with whether to go…