Новости за 26.01.2022

The stars of West Side Story in a new interview have addressed the sexual assault allegations against the film's male lead, Ansel Elgort. 

Former President Donald Trump's fundraising team lost no time in capitalizing on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's reported plan to retire at the end of the current term.

President Biden treated himself to a bit of retail therapy on Tuesday afternoon while at the Washington, D.C. small business HoneyMade, "a store located in Barracks Row that sells handcrafted or locally made goods," reports DCist.

So Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after all.

The gnashing of teeth and rending of garments on both the left and center-left about his irresponsibility probably only served to firm up his conviction that he had to stick around until the noise died down so as not to politicize what is, ultimately, an entirely sensible decision independent of any hope he might harbor of being replaced by someone ideologically similar to him.

That hope, though, is something Breyer's critics on the left ought to share more than they do. Читать дальше...

The incoming Supreme Court vacancy has left us with a lot of questions, chief among them — who will President Biden tap to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer? And secondly, how might the confirmation hearings unfold? Will Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), a duo who have repeatedly put the kibosh on Biden's agenda, throw a wrench in the nomination plan? 

In a different world, Senate Republicans could let President Biden fill the vacancy created by Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement from the Supreme Court. Conservatives would still enjoy a 6-3 majority. Wednesday's news did not create a situation like the deaths of Justice Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, where the balance of the court was in play. Whatever is going to happen this year with abortion, affirmative action, and a dozen other hotly contested issues remains just as likely to happen. Читать дальше...

Meghan McCain is opening up about her COVID-19 battle, describing the "sad and pessimistic" thoughts she had after getting far sicker than she expected. 

President Biden is in serious trouble in 2024 — if his opponent is Generic Republican.

Now that Justice Stephen Breyer has reportedly decided to retire from the U.S. Supreme Court, the speculation over who President Biden could tap to replace him has officially taken on new life.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is reportedly planning to announce his retirement. 

Libertarians often aspire to rise above partisanship. They care about liberty, and Republicans and Democrats alike have mixed records on defending individual freedom. But remaining above the political fray has grown more challenging in our era of hyperpolarization, with some libertarians falling in behind former President Donald Trump's Republican Party, others championing an anti-Trump position, and dwindling numbers continuing to resist choosing sides.

The votes are in. The Boston Red Sox (and earlier Minnesota Twins) slugger David Ortiz is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. San Francisco Giants (and earlier Pittsburgh Pirates) star Barry Bonds is not.

Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly has spoken out in defense of his fellow Democratic congressional colleague Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who, following her opposition to filibuster reform, was censured at the hands of the Arizona Democratic Party (ADP), the Arizona Republic reports.

After conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed Tuesday to have pleaded the Fifth "almost 100 times" during his testimony before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, panel member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has publicly taken issue with the flawed strategy.

The last time U.S. inflation was raging, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan promised that cutting income taxes and business regulation would stabilize the volatile American economy, then get it growing like gangbusters. Voters believed the GOP nominee enough that they gave him a landslide victory over President Jimmy Carter in 1980. Now, with prices soaring again, it seems President Biden is promising much the same thing — though he claims his version of "supply-side economics" is different from Reagan's. Читать дальше...

From a certain point of view, The Mandalorian's third season just arrived sooner than expected. 

Peter Robbins, the actor known for voicing Charlie Brown in the 1960s, has died. He was 65. 

The U.S. and its European allies are readying troops and sending armaments to Ukraine or NATO's eastern flank to deter, or respond to, Russia's possible invasion of Ukraine. At least most of them are. "In recent days Germany — Europe's largest and richest democracy, strategically situated at the crossroads between East and West — has stood out more for what it will not do than for what it is doing," The New York Times reports.

A tweet from a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University announced on Tuesday that graduate students at the school will receive substantial raises for the following academic year, and a statement from the university's office of communications later confirmed the news. Graduate students who currently earn $36,570 over 12 months (plus a waiver of tuition charges amounting to tens of thousands of dollars a year) will soon be earning $45,600.

The last time I used a No. 2 pencil for anything more extensive than marking a wall to hang a picture was undoubtedly on my high school SAT exam. For generations now, the test's bubbled answer sheets and stern instructions (remove everything from your desk except your No. 2 pencils ... ) have been the stuff of recurring nightmares for those of us who ran the cumulative gauntlet of American education — as well as the stuff of debate for educators, whose claims about the dubious value and fairness... Читать дальше...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday withdrew its emergency use authorization for two monoclonal antibody treatments shown to be ineffective against COVID-19's Omicron variant. With Omicron now making up more than 99 percent of U.S. coronavirus infections, the FDA said, the Regeneron and Eli Lilly antibody cocktails are "highly unlikely" to help COVID patients. 

In President Biden's widely-panned press conference last week, one of his most criticized moments was when he spoke candidly about the situation in Ukraine.

President Biden called Fox News reporter Peter Doocy a "stupid son of a bitch" after Doocy asked an inane question Monday. "Hey, listen, if Biden's next three years are going to be 'Grandpa at Thanksgiving,' sign me up," Jimmy Fallon joked on Tuesday's Tonight Show. "All the networks were reporting on the exchange, but I saw that the far-right network OAN accidentally added insult to injury for Peter Doocy," he added. "'Peter Douchy'? Biden was like, 'Thanks, I'll have to use that one tomorrow.'"

Yup... Читать дальше...

The coronavirus is working its way through the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, with LAPD Chief Michel Moore saying COVID-19 is having "a substantial impact on our deployment."

JoCho Sippawat took a walk on the wild side, and found a new species of tarantula.