Новости за 21.09.2023

David Brooks is getting absolutely roasted over a picture of a burger. It all began on Wednesday evening when Brooks, a political columnist for The New York Times, shared a photo of his meal at Newark Airport on X, formerly known as Twitter:

Democratic Representative Angie Craig is taking aim at House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the looming Republican-prompted government shutdown with an excellently named bill.

The worst thing that you can say about Rupert Murdoch, who resigned from the board of the Fox and News Corporations on Tuesday, is that no one has had a greater influence on the news over the last half-century. Murdoch’s influence is both incalculable and fantastically corrosive. It is impossible to look at all of the most malignant aspects of the current news environment—its pace, its callousness, its rancor—without seeing his impact. It is also a fully baked cake. Murdoch may be exiting the scene... Читать дальше...

House Republicans failed Thursday to pass a Defense Department budget bill, a sign of how much internal chaos the party is struggling with.

Donald Trump is hoping that House Republicans will use the government shutdown to stop the criminal prosecutions against him.

Rupert Murdoch announced Thursday that he is leaving his role as chairman and CEO of News Corp and chairman of Fox News’s parent company Fox Corp.

Public schools across the country are banning books at a frightening rate—but no state is infringing on academic freedom quite like Florida.

One of the strangest things in the Supreme Court’s history is the antitrust exemption for Major League Baseball. The justices have previously described the judicially crafted immunity as an “exception,” an “anomaly,” and an “aberration,” even as they let it stand on other grounds. Now a group of minor league teams is asking the court to reverse what it describes as a century-long error.

Just after the crack of dawn, a few dozen late-teens and twentysomethings stumble from modest cabins into the cafeteria for coffee and a hot breakfast. Group by group, they bus their trays and head out—first to slather on bug spray and sunscreen and then to pick up their supplies for the day: knee-high rain boots, starter plants, and a fresh pair of gloves. Their job this week is planting mangrove trees, whose stubborn, tangly roots are already helping protect these vulnerable shorelines against erosion. Читать дальше...

The morning commute on Interstate 395 in Washington, D.C., was interrupted twice last month by the climate activist group Declare Emergency. As activists sat across highway lanes blocking traffic, drivers got out of their cars to confront the protesters. “We gotta go to fucking work!” one driver yelled. “We got kids to feed!” Another suggested the activists take their complaints to the White House. When police eventually cuffed and removed the protesters from the scene, the crowd cheered. 

Representative Eric Swalwell called out Jim Jordan on Wednesday for continuing to evade a subpoena to testify before the House January 6 investigative committee.