Новости за 28.11.2020

One in six U.S. families with children don’t have enough to eat this holiday season, a national emergency exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and the unemployment crisis it has generated. Over the past several days, remarkable reporting in the Washington Post and National Geographic, among other outlets, has explored this alarming trend. “It’s been hard […]

A new viral video released by “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” on Friday offers an in-depth look into President Donald Trump’s ongoing refusal to condemn white supremacy. According to the three-minute YouTube video’s description, it aims to highlight Trump’s “cozy relationship with supremacists.” The video, which garnered more than 700,000 views in less than […]

Wilton Gregory is about to make history: the first African-American to be picked as cardinal is handing out interviews like a Hollywood star and the Catholic world can’t get enough. The 72-year old Washington archbishop, who is currently under quarantine ahead of the big day in the Vatican on Saturday, shows no sign of pre-ceremony […]

Speaking on CNN this Friday, Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio said that Donald Trump’s “buffoonery” in regards to his allegations of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election is consistent with who his is and who he’s always been.” “He is profoundly an incompetent person —  a loser, if you might say,” D’Antonio said. “He’s so incompetent, […]

This story is part of a series on good things that happened in 2020. Read them all here. “They say I’m complicit, I’m the same like him, I support him, I don’t say enough, I don’t do enough where I am,” I heard First Lady Melania Trump complaining in an audio clip recorded surreptitiously by her […]

President Donald Trump may be leaving the White House in the very near future, but it does not look like he will be going away, as promised, anytime soon. The lame duck president is already strategizing for a 2024 presidential run to regain control of the White House, according to The Daily Beast. The publication […]

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, the ultra-wealthy unelected Georgia senator facing a runoff election this January that may determine control of the U.S. Senate, came under the scrutiny of government and Senate investigators this spring amid press reports of stock trades made after she attended a private briefing in January about the coronavirus pandemic. Loeffler argued that she and her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, chair of the […]

Is Donald Trump still attempting a coup with the intention of remaining in power indefinitely? Yes. “I quit” is a phrase that does not appear in the authoritarian’s handbook. Trump has announced his coup in public, which is a major reason why most people are not taking it seriously. The president has repeatedly stated that the […]

She believes in life in the wild.Pop goddess Cher met with the prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, on Friday, to help save Kaavan — known as “the world’s loneliest elephant.”The legendary singer and Oscar-winning actress was celebrating the departure of Kaavan, who’ll soon leave a Pakistani zoo for an animal sanctuary in Cambodia.“Just came […]

The unsigned opinion by the nation’s highest court got it wrong, insisting that restrictions placed on religious gatherings imposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York’s COVID hot spots must be nullified, for they violate the First Amendment.The dissent by the Bronx’s Sonia Sotomayor got it right. The rules, capping gatherings at 10 people or […]

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump’s decision to visit Georgia next week was celebrated as a “Thanksgiving miracle” by the Republican U.S. Senate runoff candidates. But his trip will test how they balance his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud with their all-out efforts to drive up turnout.Even as U.S. Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue […]

ATLANTA — A new report issued this week by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the coronavirus death toll could reach up to 321,000 by the middle of December.According to the CDC’s “COVID-19 Forecasts: Deaths,” models are predicting the number of coronavirus deaths will likely increase over the next four weeks, with […]

MIAMI — While Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday night, in Havana Cuban police forcefully ended a hunger strike by young artists, academics, journalists and activists protesting government repression.The protesters are members of the Movimiento San Isidro, a loose collective advocating for freedom of expression on the communist island. Several of them, including artist Luis […]

New research published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests that grandiose narcissists are more likely to make bad decisions, owing to an overconfidence in their abilities and a tendency to ignore the advice of experts.Grandiose narcissism is characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and entitlement, feelings of superiority over others, and a readiness to […]

A spokesman for Bill Cosby posted a bizarre, 100-second Instagram video Friday equating racist police officers to allegedly biased jurists who in 2018 convicted his client of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman.“In this 21st century, we have witnessed the senseless murders of black men and women at the hands of a few bad law […]

Air Jordan to the rescue.Michael Jordan has donated $2 million of earnings from his critically acclaimed 10-part ESPN documentary series “The Last Dance” to local food banks in the Carolinas and Chicago, Variety reported.“In these challenging times and in a year of unimaginable difficulty due to COVID-19, it’s more important than ever to pause and […]

Los Angeles county on Friday announced a temporary ban on gatherings of people from different households under a new “safer-at-home order” triggered by a spike in Covid-19 cases, with religious services and protests exempt. The order affecting the United States’ second-largest city will take effect Monday and last at least three weeks, until December 20, […]

Mauricio Lopez was deported to Mexico after spending most of his life in the United States. Now he hopes against the odds that Joe Biden’s administration will let him return. The 26-year-old English teacher is one of thousands of migrants known as “dreamers” who as children were taken to the US by their parents. Like many […]

Temperatures topped 40 degrees in parts of Australia on Saturday as a heatwave hit the country’s east.In the late morning, temperatures reached 42 degrees through the inland in the states of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria as well as in South Australia, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).In New South Wales, parts of […]

Iran’s arch-enemies, the United States and Israel, are behind the fatal attack on nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, President Hassan Rowhani said on Saturday.”Once again, imperialism and its Zionist mercenaries caused bloodshed and the death of an Iranian scientist,” he said.According to Rowhani, this “terrorist attack” merely proves the fear of Iran’s enemies about the country’s […]

The head of Iran’s nuclear agency, Ali-Akbar Salehi, has vowed that the killing of nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh will neither stop nor impair progress in the country’s nuclear programme.”Fakhrizadeh’s path is now being continued even more intensively,” Salehi said on Saturday.Communications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi made a similar statement. “Thousands will grow back for […]

At several points during Salon’s recent conversation with CNBC anchor Shepard Smith, he talks about noise. “The noise is just so loud. You’ve got have some quiet time,” he said, referring to the space he carves out for himself during the workday when he retreats to his spartan office, puts his feet up and listens to music […]

Many Never Trump conservatives were hoping that if President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, the GOP would reject Trumpism and return to a more traditional conservatism. Trump lost, and President-elect Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes in addition to defeating Trump by more than 6 million in the popular vote. But author Richard North […]

Journalist Rhonda Garelick, in an article for New York Magazine, observes that there has been a major change in President Donald Trump’s physical appearance in recent weeks: he has let his hair go naturally gray and is no longer coloring it. This change, Garelick argues, offers insight on what Trump is thinking politically — and […]

In an op-ed published by the New York Times on Thanksgiving, Pope Francis defended some of the social distancing restrictions that have been enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — applauding governments that have been “acting decisively to protect health and to save lives” by “imposing strict measures to contain the outbreak.” And some […]