Новости за 29.03.2022

As the rest of us continue to watch, rewatch, and discuss what happened at Sunday's Academy Awards (i.e. Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) has offered up his take on the situation. 

On this episode of "Is This Real, Or Is The Simulation Getting Way Too Advanced?", House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is reportedly setting aside time to speak with Rep. Madison Cawthorn following remarks in which the North Carolina Republican claimed he's seen cocaine use in Washington and been invited to orgies by D.C. insiders, CNN and Politico report.

Jim Carrey was "sickened" by Will Smith's infamous Oscars slap, and not just because of the actor's actions. 

On Monday, the Biden administration released its proposed budget for the next fiscal year, and it shows a president and a party tracking rightward, toward the political center, just seven months out from the midterm elections. That marks a significant departure from the two most recent Democratic presidents.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized a second booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for use in adults ages 50 and older, NBC News reports.

Ohio Republican Senate candidate JD Vance on Monday night defended his "friend" (and supporter) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) by claiming "she did nothing wrong" in speaking at a white nationalist's conference last month, HuffPost reports.

Will Smith flipped-turned the Oscars upside down, and his mom was just as shocked as everyone else.

White House records turned over to the Jan. 6 committee reportedly show a gap of more than seven hours in former President Donald Trump's phone calls from that day.

"The Jan. 6 select committee continues to do their work, and today they got some good news" when "a federal judge ruled that the former president 'more likely than not' committed a crime in trying to block the confirmation of [President] Biden's win," Stephen Colbert said on Monday's Late Show. "I believe he sided the legal precedent of No S--t v. Sherlock. The bombshell is part of the ongoing investigation into disgraced lawyer John Eastman," who's been claiming attorney-client privilege to shield records and emails from the Jan. Читать дальше...

Prince Andrew has made his first public appearance since settling a lawsuit against his sexual assault accuser — and he returned to the spotlight side-by-side with the queen. 

"What are your sleep goals and how are you trying to achieve them?"

It's the central question posed by sleep-tracking devices and relaxation apps, and it might seem innocuous and well-intentioned enough. After all, in a world often characterized by busyness and lack of downtime, who wouldn't want to try and sleep better? But the fixation of these devices and apps on goals and achievements betrays how they ironically end up devaluing sleep.

For years, experts have been sounding the... Читать дальше...

Transport a conservative intellectual forward through time from 1982 to 2022 and one of the first things he'd notice is that his present-day counterparts talk an awful lot about class.

President Biden on Monday unveiled his budget blueprint for next fiscal year, and he promoted it on social media as "cutting in half the deficit from the last year of the previous administration and delivering the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in U.S. history." 

After two summers of spotty (at best) opportunities to see live music in large venues, 2022 promises plenty of opportunities for fans to find post-COVID grooves. But surging gas prices and other hiccups in the economy may temper your ability to cure cabin fever. How can savvy concertgoers find value for their entertainment budgets?

Meta's new safety tools for Instagram rolled out earlier this month, and they'll become available in the Family Center for other apps, inluding Facebook, and the popular Oculus virtual reality headsets later this year. Parents of younger users — in theory, this means teenagers over 13, which is Meta's minimum user age, but in practice it includes younger kids, too — will be able to monitor and limit their children's content choices and app time.

Sunday's Academy Awards started out with the kind of great musical performances "that make you feel like you're having a moment with all of America," Amber Ruffin said on Monday's Late Night. "And then, here's a sentence we will say for the rest of our lives: 'Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.'" She melodramatically described the the slap and its personal aftermath, but then "I scrolled Twitter and I read jokes and think pieces and opinions about it, and while I felt like I had seen something horrible and private that made me feel great shame... Читать дальше...

Police in Hilo, Hawaii, arrested actor Ezra Miller early Monday and charged him with disorderly conduct and harassment after incidents at a bar, police said. Miller, who stars as the titular character in the upcoming DC movie The Flash and in April's Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, paid $500 in bail and was released. 

In just four years, Chloe Campbell went from waiting tables on weekends at The Coffee Pot to owning the cafe.

Health officials in Malawi diagnosed polio last month in a 3-year-old girl who is now paralyzed, in the first wild polio case in southeastern Africa in 30 years. "And yes, you should care," Joanne Kenen writes in Monday's Politico Nightly newsletter. Malawi's small outbreak is an important reminder that "diseases that we scarcely think about and no longer fear, like polio or measles, can and do re-emerge."

Jared Kushner is expected to appear this week before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, several people familiar with the matter told CBS News.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack voted unanimously on Monday night to recommend Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino be referred to the Department of Justice for criminal contempt of Congress charges.

Will Smith has apologized for his "inexcusable" behavior at the 2022 Oscars. 

New milestone, just dropped.

According to a new Monmouth University poll, a majority of Americans — 52 percent — now say they've contracted COVID-19, The Washington Post reports. In January, that number was at 40 percent.

More specifically, the new poll found that just over 4 in 10 Americans said they'd tested positive or had been definitively diagnosed with the virus, while 10 percent said they weren't diagnosed but know they had it.

Notably, this "appears to be the first... Читать дальше...