Новости за 06.05.2024

Former President Donald Trump shared a rare post on Truth Social Monday, mere moments after the day's proceedings in criminal hush money trial concluded, of a famous actor and vocal critic condemning the Supreme Court's delays in his presidential immunity case.

A witness in Donald Trump's criminal trial Monday revealed that all personal checks from the ex-president's account were personally signed by him, reporters said.

Kari Lake, the probable Republican candidate this year for the U.S. Senate in Arizona, made more money last year just from speaking and writing than she would make as a senator, according to Raw Story’s analysis of her most recent financial disclosure.

Biden administration officials are working on a plan to limit just how much damage former President Donald Trump and his loyalists could cause if he is re-elected back into the Oval Office with a fully Republican Congress to support him, according to a report.

Right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk used his Monday program to praise a white fraternity member who was seen on video making monkey noises at a Black woman.

Donald Trump was punished for his tenth violation of a gag order in his Manhattan criminal court trial Monday — but onlookers lashed out that the judge was not willing to go far enough.

Kevin Spacey, the Oscar-winning actor whose career was derailed by multiple allegations of sexual abuse, made a surprise endorsement of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday.

Michigan's Republican Party has been beset by vicious infighting and power struggles since Donald Trump's election loss there in 2020 — and a report warns the GOP it's a possible preview of what it's going to face in other states.

Former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the longest-serving independent senator in American history, said Monday he will seek a fourth term in an announcement touting his record over 16 years and taking aim at US military funding for Israel.

Columbia University, the epicenter of U.S. student protests against the war in Gaza, on Monday cancelled its main graduation ceremony, as colleges seek to contain the demonstrations that have rocked campuses for weeks.

Americans who aggressively promote far-right conspiracy theories online are often stereotyped as older white males who live in red states, never attended college, and are avid followers of Alex Jones' Infowars or Steve Bannon's "War Room."

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) said Monday that he will vote for President Joe Biden this year because Donald Trump has "disqualified himself."

The nonprofit Conservative Partnership Institute has enjoyed a substantial boost in fundraising after becoming a nerve center for the MAGA movement, but recent tax filings show much of that money has been funneled to corporations led by the group's leaders or their relatives.

Former President Donald Trump appears to have what Semafor reporter Dave Weigel is describing as a "soft spot" for certain members of the Democratic Party.

Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem continues to make media appearances promoting her new book, which has received massive attention for the story about her shooting to death her 14-month old dog, Cricket, and a goat, and her reportedly false claim she met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

Legal analysts spent the 12th day of Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan discussing testimony from a controller from the Trump Organization about hush money payments.

Reacting to a report that Donald Trump equated President Joe Biden's administration to Germany's Nazi regime and legal authorities pursuing him for criminal activity as the Gestapo, MSNBC host Jose Diaz-Balart first blew up and then lashed out at the ex-president.

Advocates are gearing up to put a proposal on the November ballot to increase the minimum wage in Ohio to $15, which has led state Republicans to introduce their own wage-hike bill to “fend off” the constitutional amendment.

"The View's" co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, trashed politicians desperate to be Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate Monday, saying they're compromising everything and lying about their background.

The glitzy and frightfully expensive Met Gala scheduled for the first Monday of May every year was on the receiving end of a thrashing hours before it kicked off with one critic labeling it as a "vainglorious display of self-congratulatory decadence" despite its charity trappings.

Aimee Dupre had always kept silent about the rape of her mother by two American soldiers after the Normandy landings in June 1944.

The French Foreign Ministry has emphasized its "firm opposition" to Israeli plans to launch a military ground offensive against the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

A jury heard evidence Monday that then-President Donald Trump personally signed some of the checks used to repay former attorney Michael Cohen for a hush money agreement with adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

The Insurrection Act gives presidents sweeping authority to suppress uprisings, domestic violence and conspiracies — but the rarely used law specifies few limits to those powers.

Georgia resident Chuck Hand is among the many Donald Trump supporters who faced federal charges after breaking into the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.