Новости за 27.06.2022

Over 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican party over the last 12 months, in what The Associated Press, which ran the analysis, is calling a "dire warning" for the Democratic Party.

Fifty-six percent of Americans oppose the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, while 40 percent support the decision, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

Adding to concerns about the risks of pregnancy in the U.S., the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade Friday and The Guardian says "without abortion access for those who need it, there will likely be more deaths." 

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in favor of former high school football coach Joseph Kennedy, who was fired for leading postgame prayers on the 50-yard line.

How rude! 

Full House star Jodie Sweetin is speaking out after she was shoved to the ground by police during an abortion protest in Los Angeles, California. 

Photographer Michael Ade shared video on Instagram that showed Sweetin, who was carrying a megaphone, being pushed by police and falling to the ground during a protest against the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion.

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In the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, Billie Joe Armstrong claims he's leaving the United States and "renouncing" his American citizenship. 

The last several decades have seen a record-breaking drought in the American West, and "the Southwest is actually going through its driest 22-year period since 800 A.D.," John Oliver said on Last Week Tonight, marveling that some "dweeb" was keeping records that far back. "And this drought has had massive impact on the Colorado River in particular, which is a key source of water for most of the Southwestern states."

Millions of women use fertility or period-tracking apps to monitor their menstrual cycle, some hoping for help getting pregnant and others trying to avoid pregnancy. Some of those apps are now working on updates to anonymize user data in response to the Supreme Court's decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and open the door to criminalizing abortion, The Wall Street Journal reports. Each state is working out how abortion will be restricted or not in post-Roe America.

Lightyear is struggling to soar to infinity and beyond. So why hasn't this origin story generated the buzz Disney hoped? 

Members of the Jan. 6 committee said recently they might subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence to testify about the pressure he faced from then-President Donald Trump to overturn President Biden's victory in the 2020 election. Witnesses have testified to the panel that Trump called Pence on the morning of Jan. 6 to urge him one last time to stop the certification of Trump's loss to Biden when Congress met to finalize the Electoral College results. "It started off [in a] calmer tone ... and... Читать дальше...

In Chris Pavone's new novel, Two Nights in Lisbon, a vacationing American searches for her enigmatic younger husband after he vanishes from their hotel room. Below, the best-selling author of The Expats names his favorite novels of the current century.

Sen Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told reporters last week he "had no hand" in an effort to deliver illegitimate "alternate" Electoral College ballots to former Mike President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021. Now he says he coordinated the attempted delivery with a Wisconsin attorney and was given the fake electors by Rep. Mike Kelly's (R-Pa.) office, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Kelly's spokesman called Johnson's allegation "patently false."

Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a central figure in the scheme to overturn former President Donald Trump's electoral defeat, called the police on an employee at a ShopRite grocery store in Staten Island on Sunday. Giuliani told the New York Post he had just exited the men's room and was greeting supporters when "all of a sudden, I feel this, 'Bam!' on my back."

At least six people were killed and more than 200 injured on Sunday when several stands collapsed at a venue holding a bullfight in El Espinal, Colombia.