Новости за 25.04.2022

Former President Donald Trump told Fox News on Monday that he won't return to Twitter even if Elon Musk, the platform's new owner, invites him back. Instead, Trump will stick to his own social media app — TRUTH Social.

Elon Musk has entered into an agreement with Twitter to purchase the social media company for around $44 billion, or $54.20 per share, Twitter announced Monday.

A Texas appeals court has delayed the execution of Melissa Lucio to allow a lower court to review new evidence she claims will exonerate her, The Associated Press reports Monday. 

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who is currently fending off a constitutional challenge to her congressional candidacy, said in court on Friday that she could not recall whether or not she implored former President Donald Trump to impose martial law to stay in power after the 2020 election, Insider reports.

A New York judge ruled Monday to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt of court and fine him $10,000 per day for failing to comply with subpoenas ordering him to hand over records by March 31, Bloomberg reports.

Elon Musk-owned aerospace company SpaceX announced a deal on Monday to provide Hawaiian Airlines flights with its Starlink satellite internet service, The Verge reports. The company recently made a similar deal with charter carrier JSX.

In a slightly different universe, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) would be America's vice president right now instead of Kamala Harris. A new book reports that it almost happened, except that Joe Biden was worried about having to spend the campaign against Donald Trump fighting "birther" accusations. 

Over two years into the pandemic, the U.S. is approaching the "once-unthinkable" threshold of 1 million COVID-19 deaths, The Wall Street Journal reports Monday.

Democrats can rage all they want — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) seemingly isn't going anywhere.

The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in the case of a Washington state high school football coach who lost his job for praying on the 50-yard-line in violation of school district orders, The Washington Post reports. It will be the second time the case, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, has been considered by the high court.

Liberals across the Western world are rejoicing at the news that incumbent Emmanuel Macron roundly defeated the right-wing antiliberal candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of France's presidential election on Sunday.

In Dolen Perkins-Valdez's new novel, Take My Hand, a Black nurse looks back with regret to 1970s Alabama and to two teenage girls she tried to help. Below, the author of the 2010 best-seller Wench recommends six other recent historical novels.

Anti-woke politics might be great for rallying GOP voters, but it also makes for lousy governance.

Elon Musk and Twitter's board of directors were in advanced talks early Monday over Musk's unsolicited bid to buy the company for $43 billion, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal report. Twitter's board met Sunday morning to discuss Musk's $54.20-a-share offer, and while the board was originally expected to rebuff the bid outright, Musk's disclosure that he had put together commitments to finance the deal was "a turning point" for the board, the Times says.

While Jinx isn't the first celebrity-turned-politician to wind up impeached, she is the first cat to do so.

Last Week Tonight is "off this week, but I wanted to briefly come back to talk to you about something important, and that is rules," John Oliver said Sunday night. Specifically, "I want to talk about rules as they apply to 1997's Air Bud, a movie that is quietly about grief but is loudly about a dog playing basketball."

Preconceived notions were shattered during Annis Waugh's hair-braiding class for dads.

After a rocket was fired into Israel from Lebanon early Monday, the Israeli military said it responded by hitting several targets in the area where the projectile was launched.

About 1,000 firefighters are battling 20 wildfires in New Mexico, with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) announcing on Sunday that at least 200 structures have burned down and 900 more remain threatened.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Sunday called House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) a "liar and traitor," criticizing him for saying "one thing to the American public and something else in private."