Новости за 22.11.2022

Donald Trump nominated three justices to this Supreme Court, but that fortunately hasn’t stopped the court from ruling in favor of the basic idea that nobody, not even Trump, is immune from the law.

White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci spent his last public briefing, on Tuesday, urging people to please get their COVID-19 shots and boosters if they haven’t already.

Dr. Anthony Fauci gave his last press briefing as a government advisor Tuesday, and Republicans ruined the moment by spreading falsehoods about him and the Covid-19 pandemic.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and the other U.S. negotiators at the U.N. climate talks showed no sign of budging at a meeting with nongovernmental organizations last week: In accordance with long-held U.S. positions, there would be no dedicated fund for loss and damage established at COP27. “That’s just not happening,” Kerry had told reporters for the umpteenth time the week before.

It turns out that Sam Bankman-Fried’s failed cryptocurrency exchange was actually a thriving real estate business this whole time.

In the days since a gunman opened fire in a queer club in Colorado Springs, Herschel Walker has released an anti-trans ad and gone off on deeply anti-trans rants.

Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo claims the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Randi Weingarten, is the “most dangerous person in the world.”

Amber Alleman was in fifth grade when her parents got divorced. The couple had been together for 15 years when Alleman’s dad decided to leave. He hired a lawyer and kicked Alleman’s mother out of the house. Her mom was a stay-at-home parent, and her dad had all the financial resources. When he initially refused to pay child support, her mother went on welfare. Alleman remembered watching her mom struggle to afford legal help. “This is not right,” Alleman told me she’d thought. “Why does he get to control everything?”

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Yale University has the most elite law school in America, an institution so central to the production of future Supreme Court clerks and legal bigwigs that, in the space of a few months last year, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker all published lengthy features about whether one of its professors served drinks to students at a dinner party. So it made the news last week when Yale Law School Dean Heather K. Gerken issued a public statement declaring that the school would no longer willingly participate in the influential U.

For nearly an hour on Saturday, FIFA president Gianni Infantino sat behind a lectern and oscillated between channeling John Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Andrew Cuomo, and Jesus—all in the name of defending the World Cup’s host country, Qatar, which has rightfully come under fire for its grotesque treatment of migrant workers, women, and LGBTQ people.

Climate circles have been quietly humming in the past couple of weeks with a dangerous conversation: that maybe, just maybe, it’s time to give up on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and switch instead to a goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius. At COP 27, the United Nation’s climate summit in Egypt, negotiations closed Sunday with a silver lining—that rich nations, including the United States, would help fund an institution to address climate-related loss and damage in vulnerable nations. Читать дальше...

A quarter of the way through Ken Burns’s new book, Our America, a plainly dressed woman appears in a photo from the 1880s. She is peering out from the branches and brambles along a road that winds through overgrown countryside, past a split-rail fence and stacked logs. The caption—just a date and location—says that this is Walpole, New Hampshire.

Outgoing Oregon Governor Kate Brown on Monday pardoned 45,000 state residents with minimum marijuana offenses.

The massacre late Saturday night at the Colorado Springs, Colorado, queer venue Club Q has taken five lives, injured dozens of others, and shattered the sense of safety felt by members of the queer and transgender community in the city. Promo flyers for the weekend’s events at Club Q give a sense of what that community had built: a punk and alternative drag show followed by a birthday dance party that night, with an all-ages drag musical brunch and drag show welcome to new performers planned the... Читать дальше...

On November 17, the Department of Labor announced that Krispy Kreme would be paying nearly $1.2 million in back wages and damages to 516 workers “to resolve overtime violations in multiple locations.” In other words, there was massive wage theft at the doughnut company and now they have to pay up.