Новости за 03.09.2023

The front-runners for their party’s presidential nomination, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, are barely campaigning in crucial early-voting states as the primary season enters the fall rush. Their rivals are busy answering voters’ questions at town halls across South Carolina, glad-handing with business owners in New Hampshire and grinding to hit every one of Iowa’s 99 counties. Biden is attending a union parade in Philadelphia on Monday. But he's held just one campaign rally in the... Читать дальше...

Disney wants to narrow the scope of its federal lawsuit against Gov. Ron DeSantis to just a free speech claim that the Florida governor retaliated against the company because of its public opposition to a state law banning classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades. Disney on Friday asked a federal judge for permission to file an amended complaint leaving to a state court lawsuit questions about the legality of agreements it signed with Disney World’s governing district made up of Disney supporters. Читать дальше...

A statement on Jimmy Buffett's website has disclosed the cause of the singer-songwriter's death: a rare, aggressive skin cancer. The statement says the 76-year-old had Merkel cell cancer and died at his home in Sag Harbor, New York. The statement was posted after initial news of the “Margaritaville” singer's death emerged Saturday. He had been fighting the cancer for four years while continuing to perform. The federal National Cancer Institute and the Mayo Clinic say that Merkel cell carcinoma is very rare and tends to spread quickly. Читать дальше...

It seemed wistfully appropriate that news of Jimmy Buffett’s death emerged at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend, the point of every American summer’s symbolic end. Because for so many, the 76-year-old Buffett embodied something they held onto tightly. That was the promise of an eternal summer of sand, sun, blue salt water and gentle tropical winds. He was the man whose devil-may-care attitude became a lifestyle and a multimillion-dollar business. It was also a connecting filament between the suburbs and the Caribbean, via the Florida Keys.

The remote fishing village of Horseshoe Beach, Florida, took much of the pounding from Hurricane Idalia when it struck as a Category 3 storm last week. The storm flattened some homes and knocked others from their foundations and into canals. The damage left behind in the quiet town of less than 200 people is exposing a gulf between haves and have-nots as cash-strapped residents could be forced to leave the quaint community. Locals worry that those unable to afford insurance will struggle to reconstruct homes that must comply with modern... Читать дальше...

For small businesses that rely on summer tourism to keep afloat, extreme weather is replacing the pandemic as the determining factor in how well a summer will go. The pandemic had its ups and downs for tourism, with a total shutdown followed by a rush of vacations due to pent-up demand. This year, small businesses say vacation cadences are returning to normal. Tourism-related businesses have always been at the mercy of the weather. But with heat waves, fires and storms becoming more frequent and intense... Читать дальше...

A studded headboard for your dorm bed? Or how about a custom-made cabinet that covers your mini-fridge? Over the past couple of years, furnishing a dorm room has become a competitive sport for those college students willing to spend thousands of dollars to outfit their 12 feet by 20 feet of space. Some are even hiring interior designers, inspired by social media platforms like TikTok, where students showcase their dorm room redesigns. But the soaring costs for college tuition are dividing a larger... Читать дальше...

As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean and its crashing waves. The inscription below the towering Cold War relic reads: “May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges.”

India’s space mission says the moon rover has completed its walk on the lunar surface and been put into sleep mode less than two weeks after its historic landing near the lunar south pole. The Indian Space Research Organization said late Saturday the rover is now safely parked because daylight on that part of the moon is nearing an end. There was no word from the space agency on the outcome of its searches for signs of frozen water on the lunar surface. Earlier this week, it said the moon rover confirmed... Читать дальше...

A vigorous debate is under way over a U.S. Forest Service proposal to rename the 390 square-mile Wayne National Forest after Ohio's state tree, the buckeye. The public comment period closes Monday. Gen. Anthony Wayne was a founding father that Americans of an earlier era celebrated as an “Indian fighter.” The name change proposal comes amid a sweeping review of derogatory place names undertaken by the Biden administration in 2021. Supporters call it a reasonable accommodation to Indigenous people with ties to the land that go back millennia. Читать дальше...

If a baby was taken from their parents four decades ago during Argentina’s military dictatorship, what would that person look like today? Argentine publicist Santiago Barros has been trying to answer that question to help people make contact with missing relatives. Barros uses artificial intelligence to create images of what the children of parents who disappeared during the dictatorship might look like as adults. The project is not aimed at replacing the task of identifying grandchildren headed... Читать дальше...

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now, their descendants are getting the land back. Minnesota is taking the rare step of transferring the Upper Sioux Agency State Park back to the Upper Sioux Community in southwestern Minnesota. In recent years, some tribes in the U.S., Canada and Australia have had their rights to ancestral lands... Читать дальше...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — As sirens blared across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and cell phones lit up with alerts of an active shooter, Micah Baldonado cried quietly at his desk while his teacher proceeded with the lecture.

A judge says that a Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution. The state judge said Saturday the plan is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice. The judge sent the plan back to the Florida Legislature with instructions that lawmakers should draw a new congressional map that complies with the Florida Constitution. Читать дальше...

From Key West, Florida, and beyond, the world became an extension of Jimmy Buffett's musical kingdom of “Margaritaville.” With the passing of the beach-bum balladeer at the age of 76, legions of his fans are celebrating the music he left behind. Buffett’s eponymous hit song has long been the anthem of Florida’s Key West, where Buffett once lived and built his enduring legacyr. The community there planned a remembrance Sunday along Duval Street, home to some of Key West’s most well-known eateries and music venues... Читать дальше...