Новости за 09.08.2022

Over the course of the summer, a House Committee investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election has, using documents and testimony from many administration officials, laid out an overwhelming case that the former president attempted to use every option at his disposal—from the legal system to a violent mob—to hold on to power. On Tuesday, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s compound at Mar-a-Lago. There is a possibility that their search warrant was executed as part of a related criminal investigation. Читать дальше...

There is not much to say about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday itself since we know relatively little about it. The New York Times reported that it was related to former President Donald Trump’s alleged removal of classified documents after leaving the White House last year, not the January 6 investigations or any of the former president’s other legal woes. Some accounts indicate that the search was narrowly focused on specific materials; Trump would have received a copy of the search warrant he was issued... Читать дальше...

Among the many items in the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, which passed the Senate over the weekend, was one that Democrats had sought for decades: giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. One portion of their original draft didn’t make it into the final bill, however. Senators dropped a requirement over the weekend that would have essentially capped annual price increases for drugs if they go beyond the inflation rate.

The campaign by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis against LGBTQ people has escalated over the last week, roping in the state’s health and law enforcement officials. On Thursday, DeSantis removed State Attorney Andrew Warren from office, citing Warren’s pledge not to use the resources of his office to criminalize gender-affirming health care for minors or abortion. The next day, the state Board of Medicine voted to consider banning gender-affirming health care for trans kids, after the state Department... Читать дальше...

In May, Palestinian American student Nooran Alhamdan graduated from Georgetown University. A few weeks before the ceremony to receive her diploma, she learned that United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken would deliver the commencement address. She and other students began to think of ways to stage a protest against the United States’ support for Israel. They decided on a form of “silent protest”: When the day came, she held up a Palestinian flag and refused to shake hands with Blinken.

Flames engulf the American flag. This inescapable image blazes on the five enormous screens in the Trinity Ballroom in Dallas’ Hilton Anatole. In every direction, fire crackles over the speakers and the music swells. The video smash cuts to a statue of George Washington splattered with red paint as if mauled by some rough beast’s blood-soaked paw—an ursine murder scene frozen just before the inevitable aftermath of our founding father torn down and dashed to pieces on the pavement. An instant later... Читать дальше...

Walking along the narrow shoulder of a busy road in Brandenburg State—about twenty miles outside of Berlin—you’d be hard-pressed to know you’re looking at what many consider the future of capitalism. Every so often, bright red buses whip around the bend as they ferry workers to and from the expansive, rapidly-growing campus of a Tesla “Gigafactory,” the company’s European mothership now reportedly churning out as many as 1,000 electric cars a week. The buses, however, run on diesel.

In Fleet Street, August used to be called “the silly season.” Families were on holiday, Parliament was in recess, political leaders were away, and the papers carried frivolous stories, because “nothing happens in August.”