Новости за 31.07.2023

Despite Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s desperate efforts to declare the Republican presidential primary a two-person race, a New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday shows a decidedly one-sided competition. Former President Donald Trump is currently crushing the competition, leading the pack of candidates with support from 54 percent of Republican voters. DeSantis, by comparison, earns support from 17 percent of voters—with a bevy of also-rans also running in the low single digits.

Donald Trump has decided that he won’t participate in the first Republican presidential debate.

As temperatures soared in the Florida Keys last week, Andrew Ibarra took his kayak out into the ocean, dived into the water, and started taking pictures in the Cheeca Rocks Sanctuary Preservation Area. Ibarra works as a marine stewardship and monitoring specialist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, where he’s part of a team that tracks seven reefs stretched across hundreds of miles.

Twitter, which owner Elon Musk promised would become a bastion of free speech, has threatened legal action against a nonprofit that studies misinformation and hate speech for highlighting the social network’s flaws.

A Georgia judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to block potential new indictment charges in the investigation into his efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to indict Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election within the next few weeks.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has been holding a lot of oddball hearings lately: on whether President Joe Biden is a criminal, on whether Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached, on whether criticizing an antisemitic remark by Robert Kennedy Jr. constitutes censorship, and so on. Amid all this hyperpartisan performance art, you may have missed a deeply weird hearing last week about little green men.

Is this indictment week?

That’s certainly the buzz. Nobody knows, of course, whether the latest shoe is going to drop in the next few days except for special counsel Jack Smith and his prosecutors. What we do know are these three facts. One, Donald Trump’s lawyers met with people from Smith’s office Thursday. Two, the grand jury met for an unusually long session last Thursday, which increased speculation that an indictment is imminent. Three, the target letter sent to Trump earlier last week apparently mentions three possible charges... Читать дальше...

As fierce as debates over nuclear energy, carbon capture, or, oddly, bananas, can be, perhaps an even more contentious question among people who work on climate is how we should feel about the climate crisis. 

Hollywood is caught up in its own science fiction tale. Actors and screenwriters went on strike seeking a fair share of an entertainment economy now slanted toward streaming. But as writers’ rooms and movie sets sit dark, another fear lurks: that the industry may be on the cusp of a new metamorphosis, involving artificial intelligence, which could usurp the role of writers and actors altogether. Artists and book authors share similar worries and have filed copyright lawsuits against A.I. platforms... Читать дальше...

Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana may not seem to be obvious opportunities for Democrats to win major statewide races. But a new memo from the Democratic Attorneys General Association, first obtained by The New Republic, argues that the upcoming elections in these three states are not only competitive but winnable for Democrats.