Новости за 03.11.2022

For reasons clear to absolutely no one, Johnny Depp will feature in the next fashion show for Rihanna’s lingerie line Savage X Fenty.

Seven years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its coal ash rule, ordering power plants to clean up toxic coal ash waste dumps. But three presidential administrations later, just one out of 292 plants evaluated by researchers has planned a comprehensive cleanup. Ninety-six percent of all plants evaluated have proposed no groundwater treatment at all.

The big news from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday wasn’t that it raised interest rates three-quarters of a point. Everybody knew it was going to do that, just as it had done in May, in July, and in September. The big news was that the Fed is less distressed about the prospect of runaway inflation than potential voters in next week’s midterm elections.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in a Twitter feud with the platform’s new owner Elon Musk, accusing him Thursday of blocking her from viewing her own notifications.

Less than a week before the midterms, two former presidents shared their closing messages. Barack Obama spent his Wednesday evening visiting Arizona, rallying for Democrats and speaking to the fragility of democracy. Meanwhile, Thursday morning, Donald Trump suggested that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell should be impeached if he allows the debt ceiling to be raised.

Maternal mortality in Georgia will increase by nearly a third if the state bans abortion, a new study has found, which it could well do if Brian Kemp is elected governor next week.

Last week, ahead of acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk visited the company headquarters. “Meeting a lot of cool people at Twitter today!,” he tweeted.

Right-wing activists showed up to protest President Joe Biden’s speech Wednesday night warning that the future of U.S. democracy was at stake in next week’s midterm elections.

The roughly three dozen adults at a Sunday afternoon pre-Halloween arts festival in a parking lot in Suitland, Maryland, weren’t expecting a speech. It was more than enough that Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore—on the cusp of a likely landslide victory that could make him only the third Black elected governor in U.S. history—cared enough to come and chat with them individually about affordable housing, mental health services, and shared college fraternities.

There’s no other way to put it: This week’s Israeli election, the fifth in less than four years, was a wipeout for the “coalition of change”—the left, center, and right that joined forces last year to defeat former Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu. Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid has acknowledged as much and has already begun the transition process.

Over the weekend, Barack Obama made headlines for a barnburner of a campaign speech he gave on behalf of Democrats in Wisconsin.

It surely came as no surprise to anyone in the publishing industry when Judge Florence Pan blocked a proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster—the country’s two largest publishers—late on Halloween night. No one had any idea what the proposed entity would be named; surely “Penguin Random House & Simon & Schuster” would prove to be too much of a mouthful, even if it was shorthanded as, say, “PRH/S&S.” No matter: The fate of the proposed behemoth was made clear many months ago in the courtroom. Читать дальше...

I met Anthony Bourdain once, and really only in passing. It was 2013; he was nearing the height of his fame and power, having left his Travel Channel show No Reservations for the deeper pockets and larger audiences of Parts Unknown on CNN. I was the operations manager of a performing arts center in Pittsburgh at the time, and he was doing a live show with his friend and foil Eric Ripert. The performance was titled, cheesily but appropriately, “Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert: Good vs. Evil.”

Few have done more to change the climate paradigm than Rhiana Gunn-Wright. As an architect of the Green New Deal, Gunn-Wright was instrumental in expanding the limits of climate policy and telling a story far larger—and more inspiring—than that of how you can curb carbon emissions by taxing them. The Green New Deal’s vision: affirmative investment in green industries, decarbonization as an engine of economic growth, and racial equity and job creation at the center of the national project. Читать дальше...

On Wednesday, Politico published eight emails showing Donald Trump’s legal team discussing how Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was their “only chance” to stop the certification of the 2020 election.