Новости за 07.09.2022

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama returned to the White House on Wednesday for the unveiling of their long-awaited official portraits, which are not to be confused with those of the Smithsonian Museum from 2018, The New York Times reports.

The Internal Revenue Service will be taking a step toward making electronic tax filing more straightforward and accessible by studying a free option for taxpayers, reports The Washington Post.

House of the Dragon officially has its own "coffee cup" snafu. 

Fans of the Game of Thrones prequel have found a visual effects mistake in the latest episode, and HBO is reportedly working to fix it. 

A viral tweet pointed out that a scene in the episode "Second of His Name" sees King Viserys (Paddy Considine) handing off a letter to be sent to his brother, and turning up the brightness reveals green screen appears to have been left on his fingers. 

Viserys at this point in the show is meant to be missing those fingers... Читать дальше...

Kanye West — who now goes by the name Ye — claimed in a series of Instagram posts this week that he was "offered a $1 billion buyout from his Yeezy brand's venture with Adidas," according to Business of Fashion. West's claim comes amid the ongoing feud he's had with the company since launching Yeezy back in 2015.

Reality star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian is teaming up with a former executive at Carlyle Group Inc, Jay Sammons, to launch the private-equity firm SKKY Partners. 

The White House's COVID-19 Response Coordinator, Dr. Ashish Jha, announced that the FDA has approved updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines that target both the original COVID virus and the two omicron subvariants currently causing the most infections.

Though the Atlantic hurricane season was slow to start, a new major storm is poised to slam the shores of Bermuda. Tropical Storm Earl, which appeared on Sept. 3 near the Caribbean, has been upgraded to a hurricane as of Wednesday morning.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is asking for a new trial, claiming one of the witnesses allegedly expressed regret over his testimony. 

Netflix has settled a lawsuit brought by a real chess champion over a "sexist and belittling" line about her in The Queen's Gambit.

Surveillance video from the election office in rural Coffee County, Georgia, released Tuesday shows a top local Republican Party official escorting a series of conservative activists and election skeptics into the office in January 2021, along with computer experts who copied huge amounts of voting machine data. 

President Biden is going on the offensive against former President Donald Trump and his MAGA base ahead of the fall midterms, trying to help Democrats hold onto their narrow majorities in the House and Senate. "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," Biden said last week in a primetime speech slamming election deniers. On Labor Day, he doubled down on the attacks, saying in campaign rallies in Midwest swing states that... Читать дальше...

A federal judge may have given Donald Trump some breathing room as he dodges an investigation into his post-presidential handling of classified documents. Judge Aileen Cannon — a Trump appointee — on Monday said a special master should review documents seized last month from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. Cannon also ordered the Justice Department not to use the seized documents for investigative purposes until the special master's work is done.

A New York grand jury in Manhattan has indicted Steve Bannon, one-time chief strategist for former President Donald Trump, and he is expected to surrender to prosecutors on Thursday, The Washington Post and The Associated Press report. "The precise details of the state case could not be confirmed Tuesday evening," the Post adds, but the criminal charges will likely mirror federal fraud charges Bannon faced in 2020, before Trump pardoned him right before leaving office. Presidential pardons don't cover state charges. Читать дальше...

Massachusetts Republican primary voters on Tuesday chose former state Rep. Geoff Diehl as their gubernatorial nominee over Chris Doughty, a more moderate businessman. Diehl, who campaigned on his backing from former President Donald Trump, is considered the underdog against state Attorney General Maura Healey, the Democratic nominee. Healey, if she wins, will be the first woman and openly gay person elected governor in Massachusetts.

Among the more than 100 sets of classified material the FBI found in its Aug. 8 search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club was "a document describing a foreign government's military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities," The Washington Post reported Tuesday night, citing people familiar with the matter. "Some of the seized documents detail top-secret U.S. operations so closely guarded," the Post adds, that "only the president, some members of his Cabinet, or a near-Cabinet-level... Читать дальше...

Identity theft is no laughing matter — unless, of course, we're talking about Briton Liz Trussell, who's cracking everyone up by impersonating the newly-appointed U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss on Twitter.

Who has the power now?

The Brazilian government has required Apple to halt iPhone sales that do not include a battery charger, claiming that Apple is selling an incomplete product.

The Justice Ministry ordered Apple to cancel the sale of the iPhone 12 and any newer models and fined the company 12.275 million reais ($2.38 million). Apple must suspend selling any iPhone model that does not include a charger, including older models, Reuters reported.

This issue previously flared... Читать дальше...