Новости за 31.10.2023

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer was left stunned on Tuesday as an Israeli Defense Forces spokesman confirmed that Israel was responsible for the bombing of a refugee camp in Gaza.

A hedge fund billionaire and GOP megadonor has a message for voters: stay clear of Trump.

President Joe Biden’s stance on Israel has caused his support levels among Arab Americans to plummet, a result that could cost him a key swing state (or several) in the 2024 presidential election.

Senate Democrats have finally taken the first steps to address the ethics crisis rocking the Supreme Court.

On the morning of October 7, over 2,000 Hamas terrorists marched into Israeli towns and kibbutzim in the south of Israel, entered the houses, killed their inhabitants, burned the houses of those who were hiding in safe spaces, and kidnapped over 230 Israelis, including babies, children, old people, and women. Many of those who were killed, burned, and kidnapped were left-wing peace activists: three volunteers who used to drive Gazan patients to Israeli hospitals, one of the founders of Women Wage... Читать дальше...

A onetime Trump attorney thinks the former president’s social media addiction might be the end for him in his legal trials.

Ron DeSantis was knocked back on his heels by a new allegation, and his attempts to sidestep the matter failed miserably.

What more can be said about Annie Ernaux, novelist, memoirist, leftist, reluctant member of the French literary elite? Since she won the Nobel Prize in literature in October 2022, she’s been fêted and interviewed, profiled and praised. Best known for her short, spare memoirs, she has been credited with reinventing the genre. While many other memoirists may work like stenographers, describing life in exhaustive detail, Ernaux, the critic Alexandra Schwartz has observed, “is more like a diver, glimpsing... Читать дальше...

“Christ calls us to be ‘wise as serpents and harmless as doves,’” wrote Mike Johnson on a Creationist website in 2015. Johnson, who became Speaker of the House last week, was counseling his fellow Christians on how to live in a new and “hostile world,” as he put it, where the Supreme Court had just recently recognized the right of same-sex couples to marry. He positioned himself and fellow believers as members of a persecuted minority, who would need to present themselves carefully if they were going to prevail. Читать дальше...

There’s been enough big news in the past week that you may have missed Glenn Youngkin’s “Red Vest Retreat” in Virginia, headlining Mike Pompeo and featuring a hundred or so millionaires and billionaires. Ostensibly, the gathering is to add to the GOP war chest as critical state elections loom in Virginia. But the army of fatcats did not come to Virginia Beach simply to save the state. They were there to advance the potential presidential campaign of Virginia’s governor. Reports are that Rupert Murdoch fancies Youngkin... Читать дальше...