Source: Prominent Trump Supporters Back Rick Scott for Senate Leader | Newsmax.com Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent supporters are backing Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to be the next U.S. Senate majority leader. Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tucker Carlson, and Vivek Ramaswamy all called for Scott to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., …
Source: WSJ: Justice Sotomayor Has No Plans to Resign | Newsmax.com Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has no plans to resign despite calls from some Democrats to do so before Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate in January. The 70-year-old Sotomayor, nominated by then-President Barack Obama in 2009, is the oldest Democrat-appointed justice on …
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/susie-wiles-trump-profile 被任命为唐纳德·特朗普新任白宫办公厅主任的苏西·威尔斯将成为第一位担任总统看门人这一角色的女性，这一职位通常会产生巨大影响力。 幕僚长一职通常是当选总统任命的第一位任命者，并且可以监督一届政府的过渡。 一旦特朗普宣誓就任总统，怀尔斯还将负责白宫的所有政策，担任密友和顾问，并管理日常事务。 67 岁的威尔斯是佛罗里达州政坛的资深人士，曾负责特朗普 2016 年和 2020 年在该州的竞选活动，并在过去三年中担任特朗普“事实上的幕僚长”，领导他成功连任，并帮助他与律师合作处理他的各种刑事和民事案件。 Susie Wiles, who was named Donald Trump’s new White House chief of staff, will be the first woman to serve in the role as gatekeeper to the president, a position that typically wields great influence. The chief of staff position is usually the first appointee …
Source: Trump inches closer to having all his convictions wiped with twist in hush money sentencing | Daily Mail Online 唐纳德·特朗普现在面临着一个非同寻常的前景：他再次当选后，困扰他的大量刑事案件将消失。 特朗普前律师蒂姆·帕拉托雷告诉《每日邮报》：“通过这样或那样的机制，每一个案件都将消失。” 第一个可以让特朗普自由和清白的进展是，在最高法院做出“豁免”决定后，法官胡安·默尚设定的 11 月 12 日截止日期将决定特朗普在纽约封口费案中 34 项重罪指控的定罪是否应成立。 如果默尚想完全摆脱此案，这将提供一个出路，尽管一些法律专家认为这在实质上站不住脚。 该案的许多细节——特朗普在 2016 年竞选期间通过向律师报销的方式向色情明星斯托米·丹尼尔斯支付的“封口费”——可以被视为超出法院试图保护的总统权力范围的“私人”行为。 但该案中有关于特朗普担任总统期间与前调解人迈克尔·科恩在椭圆形办公室交谈的证词，使得该案发生在他任期内。 Donald Trump is facing the extraordinary prospect of having the raft of criminal cases that have bedeviled him vanish now that he …
https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-election-maduro-edmundo-exile-letter-opposition-3d1ba60444273b7ccb414cdbbd468b44 Venezuela’s former opposition candidate, Edmundo González, on Wednesday said he was coerced into signing a letter effectively recognizing his defeat in July’s presidential election, which electoral authorities claim was won by President Nicolás Maduro. The revelation of the letter is the latest strain to the country’s political crisis, which was exacerbated by the disputed …
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-will-probably-meet-zelenskiy-next-week-2024-09-18/ Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would “probably” meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who will be in the U.S. next week to address a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Russia’s war in his country. “Probably, yes,” Trump said in response to a question from a reporter about whether …
Source: Zelensky: For more than year of work, 70 million tonnes of cargo have been transported through sea corridor For more than a year of operation of our export sea corridor, 70 million tons of cargo have been transported. More than 2500 vessels have left Ukrainian ports. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky in …
Source: Stadium-sized asteroid will pass relatively close to Earth, NASA says | Fox News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is monitoring a “potentially hazardous” asteroid that is moving past Earth on Tuesday. NASA told Fox News Digital that the rocky object, which has been named 2024 ON, is 350 meters long by 180 meters wide, which …
Source: Ursula von der Leyen unveils new European Commission team The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has presented her proposed new team of commissioners after negotiations with the EU’s member states. The European Commission is the EU’s equivalent of a cabinet, and each commissioner is responsible for a different portfolio. Out …
Source: Meta bans RT and other Russian state media networks | Reuters Facebook owner Meta (META.O), opens new tab said on Monday it was banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, claiming the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online. The ban, strongly criticised by the …