Новости за 21.06.2016

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Police say 18 people were arrested after protesting outside the headquarters of the National Rifle Association in Virginia.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Police say a cache of weapons has been found inside a van that was stopped at the Holland Tunnel, which connects New Jersey to New York City. No link to terrorism is suspected.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Republican congressman is trying to block the Treasury from redesigning U.S. currency, a move that could prevent the government from replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

A new, bipartisan proposal to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists got a major boost Tuesday after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agreed to allow it to come to a vote on the Senate floor as early as this week.

How paltry is the Trump campaign's $1.3 million in cash on hand?

Of the 28 U.S. senators running for re-election, just two of them had less cash on hand than Trump. Neither of those lawmakers, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), are facing robust challenges for re-election.

Idaho officials on Monday dismissed reports making the rounds on far-right news sites that a group of Syrian refugees gang-raped a child at knife-point in the town of Twin Falls.

ATLANTA (AP) — As a national debate rages on gun rights and gun control, a federal appeals court is mulling a Florida law that restricts doctors from talking about gun ownership with patients.

Donald Trump questioned Hillary Clinton's faith on Tuesday, claiming there's "nothing out there" about the former secretary of state's religious beliefs, according to a video captured by a conservative minister.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A moderate Republican senator was seeking broad support Tuesday for a compromise to block guns from suspected terrorists, a day after the chamber split along partisan lines to derail each party's more sweeping proposals.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage is threatening to halt Maine's administration of the federal food stamp program if he can't ban recipients from buying products such as Mars bars and Mountain Dew.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Members of a federal appeals court expressed skepticism Tuesday that North Carolina's 2013 major rewrite to voting laws, requiring photo identification to cast in-person ballots, doesn't discriminate against minorities.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's Rikers Island jail has entrenched problems dealing with sexual abuse, including emergency hotlines that don't work, confidential complaints read by fellow inmates and investigations that don't interview alleged attackers, according to an internal review obtained by The Associated Press.

Updated at 1:37 p.m. ET

In a speech on the economy on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump for not releasing his tax returns and wondered out loud what he is trying to hide.

"You have to ask yourself, what's he afraid of?" she asked, musing that he may have avoided paying taxes. "Or maybe he isn't as rich as he claims."

Clinton's speech comes the day after new FEC filings showed Trump's campaign with a paltry amount of cash on hand for a major party presidential... Читать дальше...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A jury has convicted a Pennsylvania congressman on trial in a racketeering case that largely centered on various efforts to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan.

The Republican National Committee on Tuesday denied that new financial reports showing that Donald Trump’s campaign lags behind Hillary Clinton's by tens of millions of dollars were a cause for concern.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky clerk who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has asked a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit against her because of a new state law that will take effect next month.

Aside from being stone broke, I want to note another problem Trump has made for himself.

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by eight points in the key state of Florida, according to a Quinnipiac University swing state poll released on Tuesday.

After election records released Monday showed Republican Donald Trump's fundraising dwarfed by Democrat Hillary Clinton's, the New York businessman vowed to put up "unlimited" cash if need be.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Routine commercial use of small drones was cleared for takeoff by the Obama administration Tuesday, after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and free the benefits of a new technology.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's last nuclear power plant will close by 2025 under an accord announced Tuesday, ending three decades of safety debates that helped fuel the national anti-nuclear power movement.

Hillary Clinton will deliver a speech on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. ET to slam Donald Trump as a danger to the United States economy.

Frustrated by flagging donations and criticism from GOP leaders on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he “may go a different route” in funding his general election campaign if need be.

Republican Donald Trump's campaign announced a "speech regarding the election" on Wednesday, sparking speculation that the presumptive nominee would announce his running mate.

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