Новости за 24.01.2023

Classified government documents were found at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence, CNN reported Tuesday.

After Arizona Representative Ruben Gallego announced his candidacy for Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate seat on Monday, most congressional Democrats remained non-committal about who they will back (if not, perhaps, hinting support for Gallego).

Nazi, white nationalist, and Taliban fan Nick Fuentes is back on Twitter.

California Governor Gavin Newsom slammed the Second Amendment as his state reels from its third mass shooting in as many days.

Anti-abortion lawmakers and officials in Kansas are frustrated. They cheered as the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and erased federal protections for abortion rights across the country. They watched as most of their neighboring states took the opportunity to clamp down on the procedure or even ban it outright. They hoped that they could do the same thing in their own backyard.

On Monday, Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego made it official: He formally announced his intention to run in 2024’s Arizona Senate race. The decision is hardly a shock: It has been expected that he would declare his candidacy for many months. Indeed, his likely entry into the primary is widely believed to be the leading reason why Kyrsten Sinema, the state’s widely despised senior senator and fashionista, chose to leave the Democratic Party last month as she knew she was likely lose to Gallego... Читать дальше...

Last week, a Georgia State Patrol officer shot and killed 26-year-old Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, who was camped out in the South Woods Forest to block the construction there of a sprawling, $90 million police and fire training facility known as “Cop City.” Terán—who was nonbinary and went by the name Tortuguita—is the first known forest defender, as these environmental activists are often called, killed by U.S. police. Authorities have argued that Terán failed to comply with demands during a “clearing operation” and fired first... Читать дальше...

“Take care of the luxuries,” said Dorothy Parker, “and the necessities will take care of themselves.” That’s the ethos that guided the rich in 2022 as the stock market tumbled and the rest of us fretted about inflation. Indeed, to the limited extent that inflation remains a problem, at this point a principal driver may be luxury spending by champagne-swilling plutocrats.

Anton Chekhov was probably the least statuesque major Russian writer of his generation. He wrote short stories rather than novels, lived modestly, and rarely boomed out complicated philosophical ideas in large valise-sized volumes, as his contemporaries, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, were wont to do. He came from peasant stock, unlike the aristocratic Turgenev; and his politics rarely got in the way of his fiction, as they sometimes did for Gorky. He was generous, intimate, hardworking, and didn’t express... Читать дальше...

It’s been a day since President Joe Biden has picked Jeff Zients, his former Covid-19 response advisor, to replace Ron Klain as his chief of staff, and the reaction has not been pretty.

In the past 24 years, there have been only three mayors in Chicago: Richard Daley, from 1989 to 2011; Rahm Emanuel, from 2011 to 2019; and Lori Lightfoot since then. Now a field of nine candidates are running to unseat Lightfoot next month and become Chicago’s mayor. Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson sat down to talk to The New Republic about how he’s looking to come out of left field and upset expectations.