Новости за 22.01.2024

The nation’s highest court ruled on Monday that federal agents could snip or move razor wire Texas agents placed along the Rio Grande section of the U.S.-Mexico border, siding with the federal government and President Joe Biden that Texas had overstepped its authority in national border enforcement.

House Republicans started the week with a new, even smaller majority that could set the chamber up for a remarkably unproductive session.

Republican Representative Nancy Mace, an outspoken sexual assault survivor, has endorsed rapist Donald Trump for president, yet another example of her constant stunning hypocrisy.

Electoral saboteurs are already leveraging the tools of the day to throw the New Hampshire primary.

Even a Trump campaign rally in New Hampshire wasn’t far enough away to allow Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to escape his past.

Donald Trump is freaking out about E. Jean Carroll—again—in his longest posting spree against her yet.

Donald Trump’s campaign nixed access for a pool reporter to a New Hampshire rally on Sunday—even though he was there to represent five major news networks.

You have to hand it to Ron DeSantis: the man successfully brought a divided country together. Just not in the way he wanted.

Staring down the barrel of a tough reelection fight, the White House still has not selected a nominee to lead the Department of Interior office charged with cleaning up this country’s festering stock of toxic old coal mines. The decidedly unsexy sounding Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, or OSMRE, has not had a director since the Trump administration. Its job is only getting bigger. For example: In 2021, auditors working for the Republican-controlled West Virginia state legislature... Читать дальше...

The common denominator of the best ghost stories, from the canon to the campfire, is closure. Or a lack thereof; as Salman Rushdie asked in The Satanic Verses, what is a spirit but unfinished business? The voices that whisper in the night, whether they’re in the walls or in our heads, are trying to tell us something, even—and sometimes especially—if it’s too late.

I know that you come here for my honeyed prose and can’t bear the idea of turning away, but I have to recommend that you watch the video below. It’s a clip of Donald Trump speaking in Concord, New Hampshire, last Friday night. He’s laying into Nikki Haley. That’s nothing new; he’s been doing a lot of that. What’s new is the topic. He’s criticizing Haley for her failure to act on January 6.