Новости за 27.12.2019

Why is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still keeping secret literally hours of testimony before the intel committee, whose chief, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., carried much of the load for Pelosi in her impeach-the-president campaign? That's the question raised anew on Friday by Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. He talked about the issue with Fox News: "They…

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson scolded California's leadership for putting politics ahead of people when it comes to solving the state's crisis of homelessness. During a Thursday appearance on Fox News' "The Story," Carson upbraided Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and other officials in the state for a lack of urgency in forming the…

The border crisis has been taken off of the front page by more pressing concerns -- most of which, these days, have to do with Ukraine -- but that doesn't mean the problem has gone away. If you needed a reminder that one of the more pressing issues of the last decade isn't going to…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- The Kennedy family’s political clout will be tested at the ballot box in 2020. One member of the nation’s most famous political dynasty will face voters in late summer, with a second leaning toward a late spring contest. Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Joseph Kennedy III, first elected to the House in 2012,…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) -- Amy Klobuchar’s late surge in Iowa could make her a target when the top 2020 Democratic presidential candidates next debate in Des Moines on Jan. 14. And here’s one possible line of attack: the Minnesota senator's prosecutorial record. “She’s a cop” rhetoric didn’t help California Sen. Kamala Harris’s failed White House bid,…

(FOX NEWS) -- A plane carrying nearly 100 passengers and crew on board crashed into a two-story building in Kazakhstan shortly after taking off Friday, killing at least 12 and injuring more than 54. Officials said the Bek Air aircraft – identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner – had just taken off…

Kanye West and his Sunday Service Choir released their new album "Jesus Is Born" on Christmas. West had told DJ Zane Lowe that "Jesus Is Born" was going to be released on Christmas Day during his Beats 1 interview back in October. Critics doubted that West would have the album out on time in light…

The United Kingdom's experiment with electric police vehicles has seemingly ended in failure after the cars have been revealed to be practically useless for crucial law enforcement activities. As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, hundreds of the vehicles have been purchased across the country by different police forces. The total cost of the green vehicles…

(FOX NEWS) On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed an overwhelming victory in a primary election for leadership of the ruling Likud party ahead of the general election next year. Official results announced early Friday showed Netanyahu with 72 percent of the votes, compared to 28 percent for challenger Gideon Saar. The win gives…

Just a week after California Gov. Gavin Newsom spit blame toward the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Trump administration for the lack of action on his own state's homelessness problem, President Donald Trump threatened federal intervention if Newsom doesn't "fix the problem." The high rate of homelessness in California is startling. In…

(UNITED WITH ISRAEL) The online retail giant Amazon is selling books that promote extremism according to a report in the UK’s Express newspaper. Egypt’s Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Terrorism also filed a complain regarding the matter. Several of these books were outlawed by British prison officials since 2015 due to concerns that they are used…

(THE HILL) A student at Columbia University has filed a complaint with the Department of Education alleging anti-Semitism on campus, with lawyers representing him saying he is the first to do so under a new executive order from President Trump. A press release on the complaint from The Lawfare Project accuses Columbia's administration of knowing…

(NBC NEWS) A Louisiana pair is facing up to 15 years in prison after skateboarding down an Interstate bridge and putting the stunt on social media. On December 22, Louis C. McGlone posted a video on social media that showed him skateboarding on the Interstate 210 bridge in Lake Charles, Louisiana. McGlone, 26, and Lindsey…

(CAPITOL PUBLIC RADIO) As California seeks to crack down on worker misclassification, predatory lending and consumer data privacy, some companies are fighting back — by flat-out refusing to comply with new laws that they say don’t apply to them. Facebook, for example, says it doesn’t need to change its web tracking service when California’s new…

(ISRAEL HAYOM) The Israel police on Thursday unveiled a new laser system designed to intercept airborne incendiary threats sent from the Gaza Strip. According to Channel 12 News, while the system is operational a deploy date was not immediately given. Dubbed Light Blade, the system is said to resemble the Iron Dome defense system in…

You're on a late-night errand to pick up some food. Your tired kids are in the car, and you just need to pop in really quickly. Instead of hauling them all out of the car, you leave the car running and hop out yourself. It's a quick run. Your kids are old enough to mind…

(DAILY STAR) Christmas drugs shootings in Mexico have seen at least 16 people killed in territory ruled by a rival to El Chapo’s cartel. Mexico has seen 34,579 murders this year that equates to 94 each day, and there has been no let up over Christmas with at least 16 people killed on Christmas Eve…