Новости за 06.08.2020

(FOX NEWS) – New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that her office has filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and its leadership, including Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, looking to dissolve the organization. James accused the organization of having "a culture of self-dealing," taking millions of dollars for personal use and…

(WASHINGTON EXAMINER) – Joe Arpaio is trailing his old No. 2 in his effort to be reinstated as Arizona's Maricopa County sheriff for the seventh time. With 387,000 ballots counted in the Republican primary, Arpaio, 88, is behind his former chief deputy, Jerry Sheridan, 37% to 36%, or a margin of 572 votes. Arpaio, who…

A deputy to former special counsel Robert Mueller is urging Justice Department employees not to cooperate in the two investigations of the Obama administration's probe of now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion. Andrew Weissman, an ex-DOJ official who became known as Mueller's "pit bull" during the Russia probe, contended such involvement would be political. "Justice Department employees, in…

By Chris White Daily Caller News Foundation Twitter partially suspended President Donald Trump’s campaign Twitter account on Wednesday for posting a tweet containing a video of Trump suggesting children are “almost immune” to coronavirus. The post contains an interview Trump gave to Fox News Wednesday morning in which the president made the claim relating to…

By Mary Margaret Olohan Daily Caller News Foundation Disparity in actions taken by law enforcement in the District of Columbia over Black Lives Matter demonstrations smacks of “viewpoint discrimination,” an attorney tells the Daily Caller News Foundation. The DCNF spoke with a number of First Amendment experts regarding the Saturday arrest of two Students for…

Peter Hasson Daily Caller News Foundation Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice praised noted deserter Bowe Bergdahl in 2014, saying that Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction.” Bergdahl infamously walked off his Army post in Afghanistan in June 2009 and was then captured and held hostage by a Taliban-aligned group for nearly…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by the Daily Signal.] By Rob Bluey The Daily Signal TAMPA—Vice President Mike Pence portrayed a stark contrast facing America during a visit Wednesday to Florida. “We stand at a crossroads of freedom,” Pence said. “Before us lie two paths: One based on the dignity and worth of…

(FOX NEWS) -- The Washington Post sparked massive confusion Wednesday evening after erroneously reporting that President Trump was banned from tweeting because of a claim he made about the coronavirus. Both Facebook and Twitter were cracking down on clips that were shared from the president's interview on "Fox & Friends" earlier in the day, where…

(NATIONAL REVIEW) -- Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, signed an executive directive on Wednesday ordering state employees to undergo “implicit bias training.” Executive directives allow the Michigan governor to establish procedures or basic policy for employees of the state’s executive branch. According to the directive, current state employees will be required to undergo “implicit…

(POLITICO) -- When Hillary Scholten decided to leave her job as a civil rights attorney to run for Congress, there was no question what her party affiliation would be. She had been a policy adviser in Barack Obama’s Department of Justice, quit in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and has long been a…

(BUSINESS INSIDER) -- Former First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday said she has been "dealing with some form of low-grade depression" this year, attributing it, in part, to the "hypocrisy" of the Trump administration. "Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of…

Former President Barack Obama once again pulled out the race card for political gain, consequences be damned. This time at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis, Obama compared President Donald Trump to not one but two racial segregationists, former Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Steve Cortes Real Clear Politics By his own admission, Joe Biden concedes he is merely a placeholder, telling a fundraising audience in May: “I view myself as a transition candidate.” This “transition” increasingly means a statist agenda that empowers a political rodeo of…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Politics.] By Frank Miele Real Clear Politics If you wondered how America got to be a place where mobs on the street are considered to be “peaceful protesters,” you didn’t have to look any further than last week’s House Judiciary “hearing” with Attorney General William…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By Sharyl Attkisson Real Clear Investigations In announcing the formation of an independent oversight board with authority to allow or remove content from Facebook and Instagram, the board’s four co-chairs stressed the body’s diversity. “The board members come from different professional, cultural and religious…

  A controversy has erupted over Facebook's censorship of a pro-Trump ad that spotlights presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's view of defunding police. Facebook claimed there was false information in the ad, called "On Hold," which shows a woman calling 911 and being put on hold, Fox News reported. The ad then shows Biden…

A congressman is asking the Justice Department to ramp up its protections for religious liberty in response to "nearly a dozen" reports of attacks on Catholic churches in just the last few weeks. Churches have been vandalized in the riots associated with the Black Lives Matter protests since the death of George Floyd, noted Rep. Chuck…

Historian Allan Lichtman announced Wednesday that his statistical model, which has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984, forecasts Joe Biden as the 2020 winner. But there's another model that also has outperformed the opinion polls, correctly forecasting the winner in 24 of the past 26 elections. It's only misses came in the razor-thin Kennedy-Nixon…