Новости за 17.02.2023

Now that Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and the state’s congressional delegation has finally admitted they need more help from the federal government, the Biden administration is deploying more resources to East Palestine in the wake of a disastrous Norfolk Southern train derailment.

Rick Scott insisted Friday that he never intended to sunset Social Security and Medicare, but his plan to socially and economically overhaul the United States would still affect other laws.

Fox hosts including Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity all thought conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential election were a bunch of baloney. At least, that’s what their own words express in newly-surfaced texts released by a $1.6 billion lawsuit against the network.

Rick Scott wants everyone to know that when he said “all federal legislation” should sunset after five years, he didn’t mean programs such as Medicare or Social Security.

On paper, Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who recently was appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to sit on the board of a small Sarasota liberal arts college whose curriculum the governor dislikes, presents his credentials as impeccable: Georgetown University for undergrad and “a master’s from Harvard,” according to his biographical page on the Manhattan Institute’s website.

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will be the first member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet to resign; he’s leaving to become executive director of the NHL Players Association, at an annual salary of $3 million. We’ve known this for 10 days, but now it’s official. He’ll be gone in mid-March. Time to think about who’ll replace him.

Steven Donziger, an embattled environmental lawyer and activist, has spent the last two decades of his life battling an oil company for despoiling part of the Amazon rainforest and disrupting the lives of thousands of its inhabitants. He enlisted activists and celebrities, pressured local officials, sought to bring international attention to his cause, and brought a class-action lawsuit through the courts of Ecuador to hold Chevron, the firm that earned his enmity, accountable.

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the death of 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah. Three years ago, a coroner’s report made Ella the first person in the United Kingdom to have air pollution listed as her cause of death. Nitrogen dioxide levels in Ella’s neighborhood in southeast London, coroner Philip Barlow concluded, exceeded legal limits, while the levels of particulate matter exceeded World Health Organization guidelines. Citing the strong, well-established scientific link between such pollution and asthma risks... Читать дальше...

It may be moot if Joe Biden runs for the Democratic nomination unopposed, but, at the moment, the 2024 primary schedule is poised to be a complete mess. And if the president decides at the last minute that he is not seeking a second term, the calendar chaos threatens to confuse voters and disadvantage the Democrats at a time when the Republicans are anointing their 2024 nominee.

A survivalist traps a man in a hole. The survivalist is leery, but he agrees to bring the man into his heavily fortified home for food and shelter. They are, it turns out, both survivors of a plague. The survivalist cooks the man dinner, they play the piano, they share a kiss, they sleep together. Soon, they grow old. They suffer, they heal, they find peace in each others’ arms until their last breaths. It’s a bit maudlin, sure, but it’s also moving. The story of these men and their life together is not the core narrative... Читать дальше...

David Malpass, chosen by Donald Trump to head the World Bank in 2019, has announced he will step down ahead of schedule on June 30. Though Malpass claims to have made the decision on his own, his departure follows months of controversy over his comments equivocating as to whether fossil fuels cause global warming. President Joe Biden, whose Cabinet didn’t exactly hide their distaste for Malpass, is now reportedly champing at the bit to appoint a successor. White House advisers told Axios that... Читать дальше...