Новости за 21.03.2023

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, released the synthesis of its sixth reporting cycle, a gargantuan collection of publications that spans three working groups focusing on the physical science of climate change, the impact of climate change, and climate solutions (along with a few “special reports”). This new summary hits with devastating emotional whiplash. Our struggles and actions over the past decade or so to limit emissions are having a detectable effect on... Читать дальше...

The Georgia Senate passed a bill Tuesday banning gender-affirming care for minors and criminalizing medical workers who provide that care.

The investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged hush money payments to Stormy Daniels is all just some frivolous and unjust “political” exercise, but also nobody should protest an indictment if it happens. This is Kevin McCarthy’s running line, as the twice-impeached former president and current leading 2024 Republican candidate faces potential arrest.

A Fox News producer has sued the media company, alleging its lawyers coerced her into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against the network. The move, she argues, is due to a culture of “poisonous and entrenched patriarchy” that targets female staff.

On Tuesday, a union representing 30,000 Los Angeles school custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, special education assistants, and other school staff members began a three-day strike, halting classes for more than 566,000 students.

Protesters descended on Manhattan to support former President Donald Trump, just as he predicted—if he predicted a group of only about 50 people.

In conversations among liberal people about adoption, there is a tendency to insist on the randomness of biology, to argue that an adopted child belongs as much to their adoptive family as any other. Of course this stance is right and true: “Blood” ties have no primacy except that which we socially impose. But is there something suspicious about the fever pitch of such discussions, which often take place among people who have never had—and never will have—direct personal experience with being an adoptive parent or an adoptee? Читать дальше...

All Brian Hueske had to protect himself from the deadliest element of his deployment was a bandana wrapped around his face. Of course, the body armor would do its part to stop any incoming fire, though those sorts of engagements were unlikely. And the transports Hueske’s Special Forces unit used were heavily armored to protect against explosions. That kind of attack was unlikely, too.

The Supreme Court appeared to lean towards allowing a lawsuit about the Navajo Nation’s treaty rights in the Colorado River watershed to proceed during oral arguments on Monday. But the potential majority is a narrow one, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett likely casting the decisive vote, and the final ruling may ultimately tilt back towards the federal government.

South Carolina Republican lawmakers are backpedaling away as fast as possible from a bill that would make abortion punishable by the death penalty, one of the strictest anti-abortion measures that has been proposed since the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last year.

California will cap costs for insulin at $30, and it will begin manufacturing Naloxone, a nasal spray that helps reverse opioid overdoses.