Новости за 25.08.2022

Florida residents Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander on Thursday pleaded guilty to stealing President Biden's daughter's diary, among other possessions, and selling it to conservative group Project Veritas as the 2020 election wound to a close, Fox News reports.

In the aftermath of the FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump is out here doing what he does best: playing golf, playing politics, and playing the part of doting Florida host to friends and guests, Politico reports Thursday.

Tennis star Novak Djokovic is set to miss yet another tournament because he's still not vaccinated against COVID-19. 

Disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein may argue for overturning his 2020 rape conviction before the New York Court of Appeals, a judge has ruled.

Vanessa Bryant has won a lawsuit against Los Angeles County over leaked photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and daughter. 

Depressed after his 2008 presidential flop, Rudy Giuliani and his third wife, Judith Giuliani, secretly moved into a bungalow across from Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump's club in Palm Beach, Florida, where Giuliani recovered from his political humiliation and started to drink heavily, according to a new book by Andrew Kirtzman. The bungalow was connected to Mar-a-Lago by a tunnel underneath South Ocean Boulevard, Kirtzman writes, according to The Guardian, which read an advance copy.

Students who survived the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and their families are preparing for the new school year. Parents say they are concerned that not enough has been done to secure the city's schools since the massacre, and many of the children are afraid to go back to the classroom. Here's everything you need to know:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is done being the nation's punching bag.

The Justice Department on Wednesday released a secret 2019 memo laying out a legal rationale for not charging former President Donald Trump with obstruction of justice for impeding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation. A federal appellate court, siding with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), had ordered the department to release the unredacted memo, written by two top DOJ political appointees for then-Attorney General Bill Barr.

The Uvalde, Texas, school district board of trustees voted unanimously Wednesday night to fire school police chief Pete Arredondo, three months after the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, one of the deadliest in U.S. history. Arredondo was one of the first officers at the school after an 18-year-old gunman entered adjoining classroom sand started shooting, eventually killing 19 fourth graders and two teachers. Police did not enter the classrooms and confront the shooter for more than an hour. Читать дальше...

Residents of the 2Life senior community in Brighton, Massachusetts, have a new pep in their step, thanks to James Humphries.

The California Air Resources Board will vote Thursday on a measure banning new gasoline car sales in the state by 2035.

Gen Z has officially entered the 2022 midterms group chat. 

Twenty-five-year-old progressive activist Maxwell Frost has officially won the Democratic House primary in Florida's 10th Congressional District, pushing him one step closer to becoming the first Gen Z member of Congress, NPR reports.

Notably, the open seat is also considered "solidly Democratic," NPR writes, having been vacated by Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) — meaning Frost's spot in Congress is almost a given. He will run against Republican Calvin Wimbish in November. Читать дальше...