Новости за 10.01.2023

A relentless onslaught of winter storms have pummeled California, leaving 16 people dead—more than the number of people who have died from California wildfires in the past two years. Now, as more rain looms, some 34 million Californians are under flood watches, or about 90 percent of the state’s total population and 10 percent of the country’s.

Serial fabulist George Santos maintained Tuesday that he has done “nothing unethical,” even after being hit with two ethics complaints in as many days.

After the fifteenth round of voting, when Kevin McCarthy finally accomplished his decade-long quest to become speaker, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, one of the most ardent anti-McCarthy votes, didn’t quite concede defeat. She issued a statement titled “Congresswoman Boebert’s Full Statement on the Historic Victories House Conservatives Secured” that celebrated the concessions McCarthy gave to win over the holdouts. McCarthy had effectively watered down the speakership to get Boebert, Congressman Matt Gaetz... Читать дальше...

After a handful of classified documents were found at President Biden’s former private office, Donald Trump, his allies, and even some of the mainstream media are stumbling over themselves to equate it with Trump’s hoarding of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. But the two cases are nowhere near the same.

Lynette Hardaway, better known as “Diamond” in the ultra-pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk, passed away Monday night, the pair’s official Twitter account said. She was 51.

John R. Moore and Tanner Mansell are facing up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Their crime, according to the West Palm Beach jury that convicted them last month, was freeing 19 sharks and a Goliath grouper from a commercial fisherman’s net in federal waters and for stealing the gear, costing the owners of the rig about $1,500 in fishing longline and several thousand dollars’ worth of catch—a fraction of the money Moore and Mansell could now be forced to pay.

Transgender Americans have every reason to fear the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

After decades of decline, labor unions have enjoyed a new burst of energy and enthusiasm over the last few years. 2022 saw the most new National Labor Relations Board elections—votes by workers to unionize their workplaces—since 2005 and the highest rate of successful elections in more than two decades. Major companies like Amazon and Starbucks are fighting tooth and nail to halt unionization drives, but polls show that roughly two-thirds of Americans now support unions—a roughly 20-point rebound since the Great Recession. Читать дальше...

If you have glanced at the news—or stepped outside—in recent years, the ravages of change climate have been hard to ignore. From colossal flooding in Pakistan to unprecedented heat waves in China, even to the rapid proliferation of spotted lanternflies across the United States, the consequences of a changing climate have come into terrifying focus in recent months. As he drafted his most recent book, the historian Douglas Brinkley lamented the signs around him. On television, he could see images... Читать дальше...

“Hey, Hey, Ho Ho! Ben Sasse has got to go!” 

The chant begins afar, faint and rhythmic, somewhere out on the humid, Spanish moss–draped campus. It drifts into the conference room on the second floor of the University of Florida’s Emerson Alumni Hall. Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, clad in a de rigueur blue suit, sits at a table before about 100 students and answers their questions, many of which the faculty has asked in a meeting in the same room during the previous hour.

Sasse is... Читать дальше...

On Monday, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a pseudo-hype video celebrating herself and the GOP House majority after the caucus made history in hosting the longest House speaker election since before the Civil War.

Supporters of former far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro attacked the nation’s Supreme Court, Congress, and presidential palace in hordes on Sunday. And Brazil’s government—led by new President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—has minced no words on the attack.