Новости за 12.12.2023

Rudy Giuliani just can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

The former Trump attorney got grilled by a federal judge on Tuesday, who argued that Giuliani’s post-court tirade, during which he espoused more of the 2020 election lies that he’s on the stand for to begin with, could warrant more defamation charges.

America’s mayor is currently on trial to determine how many millions he owes a pair of Georgia poll workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Giuliani was already found liable in August... Читать дальше...

Florida Representative Matt Gaetz was recently surprised with an award at an Ohio GOP event, congratulating him for his dedication to using Venmo to allegedly pay underage girls for sex.

Two-thirds of Republicans apparently have no problem with reelecting someone who attempted to overthrow the government.

Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was left flabbergasted when asked to back up his wild claim that Democrats used fake electors in the 2020 election.

The 20-week marker is one of the most important milestones of a pregnancy. For most expectant mothers, the ultrasound that is usually first performed then is their first chance to see what their baby looks like. Hands and feet are identified. Those familiar black-and-white photographs are printed out and shown to friends and family. Everything suddenly feels more real.

In some ways, Pervez Agwan is exactly the kind of progressive the left wants to see in Congress. Unlike his opponent, the oil lobby-funded and AIPAC-endorsed Democrat Lizzie Fletcher, who currently represents Houston’s 7th District, Agwan refuses PAC money, received endorsements from the local DSA and Sunrise chapters, advocates for Medicare for All and a “Green New Houston,” and made his staunch support for Palestine a centerpiece of his campaign. But working with Agwan is a different story.

It isn’t normal for a young woman to be shot because she pulled into the wrong driveway. It isn’t normal that every day, more than a hundred Americans drop dead from taking a drug designed to dull the senses and facilitate the withdrawal from life. It isn’t normal for citizens to storm government buildings in the desperate hope of keeping their chosen leader in power.

As the U.N. climate talks in Dubai enter their final hours, negotiators have fixated on one particular term: fossil fuel phaseout. The United States has insisted that the final Global Stocktake, or GST—the document summarizing where we stand on implementing the goals of the Paris climate agreement and what should come next—include language about phasing out fossil fuels, albeit with plenty of caveats. The most recent draft of that text was released on Monday without those words. The State Department... Читать дальше...

Brutality, in all its physical and psychological dimensions, has long been Yorgos Lanthimos’s cruel mistress. In The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the characters look at each other with chilling blankness and paranoid squints, while aerial shots and visions from a distance make it seem the action is being watched by a stalker, a hunter, a vengeful divine force. Lanthimos’s two other English-language films, The Lobster and The Favourite, are darkly comic treatments of people trapped by custom and society first, by fate second. Читать дальше...

A Texas woman who was pleading the courts for an emergency abortion—and who was personally and repeatedly targeted by Attorney General Ken Paxton—has been forced out-of-state in order to receive critical care.