Новости за 15.12.2023

Even many Republicans in Florida don’t want the state’s restrictive abortion ban, with thousands of conservative voters signing on in support of a constitutional amendment that would enshrine the right to abortion in the Sunshine State.

A 10-inch thick binder of highly classified raw data regarding Russian election interference went missing in the final days of the Trump administration, a new report reveals.

Donald Trump’s former lawyers and co-defendants in the Fulton County, Georgia, case wrote single-sentence letters apologizing to Georgia voters for their role in trying to overthrow the 2020 election.

When Kate Bond, a Los Angeles-based actress who served as a strike captain alongside fellow members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television, first learned that her union’s national board had made a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, or AMPTP, after four months on strike, she was relieved. It had been a long year for the entertainment industry, which had been brought to a standstill by near-simultaneous strikes by both the actors’ union and the Writers Guild of America. Читать дальше...

Bill Ackman, chief executive of the giant hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, is getting a lot of bad press right now for his vicious campaign against Harvard president Claudine Gay, and deservedly so. He’s just about the perfect example of a particular social type: the plutocrat who thinks that being very rich entitles him to run more or less everything. 

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year, there has been a scramble in the states to either further limit or protect access to abortion, with outcomes largely determined by which party controls the levers of state government. This, in turn, has led to a wave of lawsuits pushing back against particularly restrictive state laws.

Mona Ainu’u is the minister of natural resources for Niue, an island nation of about 1,600 people in the South Pacific. On Monday, she was reportedly in tears as she reacted to the latest draft produced by the U.N. climate conference, which omitted the words “fossil fuel phaseout.” “My 12-year-old, what am I going to say to her when I come back?” Ainu’u asked. Niue is particularly vulnerable to sea-level rise, which could easily jeopardize its fresh water supplies.

Are you a “Fishes” person or a “Forks” person? To some extent, many of the best (and some of the worst) TV shows of this past year existed in the tortured gap between these two standout episodes of The Bear’s second season. Two episodes, two moods, two difficulty settings. “Fishes” was the emotional Grand Guignol of the show’s sophomore outing. It’s a Christmas flashback episode that fleshes out protagonist Carmy’s tense family dynamics and efficiently gives us context for lots of his motivating traumas. Читать дальше...