Новости за 20.02.2020

(THE BLAZE) Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said this week that she would not be interested in joining former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg as his running mate. The possibility originated when unnamed Bloomberg campaign sources told the Drudge Report that Bloomberg was considering Clinton and thought they…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Roger Stone to 40 years in prison Thursday after the Justice Department recommended a nearly decade long sentence last week before Attorney General William Barr controversially intervened and walked it back. But two big questions remained unresolved: the Republican operative’s pending request for a retrial as well as…

A historic World War II-era memorial cross will be allowed to remain in a park in Pensacola, Florida, after the 1th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed U.S. Supreme Court precedent on the issue and concluded that removing it would "strike many as aggressively hostile to religion." At issue was the Bayview Cross, one of…

A majority of Likely U.S. Voters believe "senior federal law enforcement officials" turned criminal in their effort to attack then-candidate Donald Trump and prevent him from winning the presidency, a poll reveals. But a bigger majority say those same officials are among the elite in society and will not be punished. It is Rasmussen Reports…

Former Vice President Joe Biden has long counted on South Carolina to vault him to the top of the Democratic presidential primaries. A new poll suggests those hopes may be inflated. A poll conducted by the Change Research for the Democratic group The Welcome Party reported that Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is tied with…

On Wednesday, a former New York City mayor joined an elite lineage that stretches all the way back to the introduction of the Edsel back in 1957. It includes the Arch Deluxe in 1996 and the Segway in 2001. Now we have the Michael Bloomberg campaign in 2020: an incredibly expensive, incredibly promising product that…

A Chick-fil-A employee and his manager have been applauded for turning in nearly $1,000 to a customer who inadvertently left the money inside a Georgia restaurant. Chase Withers told WAGA-TV in Atlanta he was sweeping underneath tables in the lobby of the McDonough, Georgia, Chick-fil-A when he almost swept up an envelope. Withers noticed the…

(FOX NEWS) -- The presidential hopefuls at the 2020 Democratic debate sent shockwaves after all but Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., rejected the notion that the candidate with the "most delegates" should become the Democratic nominee. An intense primary battle has been heating up between several of the candidates, and concerns from the Democrat Party have…

(FOX NEWS) -- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's brother-in-law, Pastor Rhyan Glezman, slammed the Democratic hopeful for his comments Tuesday night, when the candidate claimed he doesn't see "any compatibility" between supporting President Trump and the teachings in Scripture after declaring that God "does not belong to a political party." "Yeah, in the height of…

The severity of the COVID-19 virus has been underscored by a pair of coronavirus-caused deaths that have rocked Iran, a country that has previously reported zero cases of the deadly illness. The BBC's Persian-language site reported the two deaths on Wednesday. The two men tested positive for the virus before dying in the Iranian city of…

(AP) -- LAS VEGAS -- From the opening bell, Democrats unleashed an aggressive verbal assault on New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg and raised new questions about Bernie Sanders’ take-no-prisoners politics in a contentious debate Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip. The former New York City mayor was forced to defend his divisive record on…

Actor Ben Affleck is starring in a new film titled "The Way Back," playing a character who has undeniable similarities to Affleck's personal life. The movie follows the life of a high school basketball coach battling alcoholism while coming to terms with his failed marriage. Affleck is intimate with the pain and suffering of both,…

  The advance of Shariah, that Islamic religious law that also addresses politics, finance and more, has sustained a huge blow at the hands of the Court of Appeal, the second-highest court in England and Wales. That judicial body ruled that the Islamic marriage contract, known as nikah in Arabic, is not valid under English…

The FISA situation in Washington isn't at all good these days. That's the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act law that includes a special secret court to give permission to American agents to spy on Americans in some cases. People now know that it was that procedure, that court system, through which the Obama administration submitted false…

  Stacey Abrams, who lost the 2018 governor's race in Georgia to Republican Brian Kemp but obstinately refused to concede, now says the nation needs to "go around" its Constitution to take out parts she doesn't like. That would be the Electoral College. The Media Research Center pointed out Abrams was on a television talk…

The U.S. Navy has reportedly disciplined a number of sailors for violating Pentagon regulations by wearing a uniform patch with the slogan “Make Aircrew Great Again” during President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan last year. Sailors aboard the USS Wasp were photographed in May 2019 with the patches -- which bore a likeness of the…

This week, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after mounting sexual abuse claims and allegations of sexual misconduct by adults within the organization. Apparently, sexual abuse settlements have severely strained the BSA's finances; this has been exacerbated by some states having recently passed laws that allow victims to sue…

Do you ever feel like Luke Skywalker when he walks into the alien bar where the bizarre is portrayed as normal? Just considering a recent Democratic proposal in Alabama makes it feel as if we have awakened to find ourselves surrounded by drunken space creatures. It seems that a Democrat Alabama state legislator has lost…

  President Trump long has described most of the legacy media outlets, the old newspapers, the television networks and such, as "fake news." He's not without grounds, given the reporting by those organizations about the "Russia collusion" claims, the Mueller report and its conclusions (before they were released) and such. But now two of those…

More than 1,100 former Department of Justice officials are allegedly upset with Attorney General William Barr for overriding the DOJ's draconian sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, convicted of something or another in the misbegotten Mueller probe. "Such behavior is a grave threat to the fair administration of justice," the former officials affirmed. "In this nation,…