Новости за 13.10.2022

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. won't be spending any time in prison after pleading guilty in his forcible touching case. 

It's a bad day to be former President Donald Trump.

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the former president's request to intervene in the ongoing dispute over documents seized by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago mansion.

More specifically, Trump had last week asked the justices to reconsider a portion of a lower court's order that exempted 103 of the recovered documents from a special master, or outside third party, review. The Justice Department then argued that allowing an outside... Читать дальше...

Netflix is about to get cheaper for subscribers, assuming they don't mind ads. 

Starbucks customers can now start racking up points toward their next vacation. CNN reports that Starbucks has partnered with Delta Air Lines to combine their membership rewards programs.

A jury on Thursday recommended life in prison without parole for Nikolas Cruz, the gunman behind the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha has warned that the U.S. should be prepared for a spike in COVID cases this coming winter due to more indoor gatherings, reports NPR. The warning comes as Europe has started to see a rise in cases again, a pattern that will likely also reach the U.S.

The Social Security Administration has announced an 8.7 percent increase in benefit checks for seniors in 2023 in response to rising inflation. This is the largest increase in the last 40 years. This change is known as a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), explains The Washington Post. 

On Thursday, Oct. 6, President Biden announced he would pardon thousands of people convicted of simple marijuana possession weeks ahead of the midterm elections. Biden's executive action will pardon citizens convicted in federal courts for simple marijuana possession between 1992 and 2021, which officials have estimated to be around 6,500 people, The New York Times reports. Biden stopped short of federally decriminalizing marijuana as he promised during his presidential campaign, which would require congressional approval. Читать дальше...

It's been said that the new Star Wars series Andor has little to no Easter eggs, but that isn't entirely true — you just have to know where to look for some delightful references to the franchise's lore. Here are the series' best Easter eggs for die-hard fans thus far: 

Nigeria's presidential election, taking place in 2023, has taken an interesting turn. Peter Obi of the Labor Party, an outsider in Nigeria's political sphere, is currently leading in the polls. Here's everything you need to know:

Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been saying for months that he is part Native American, but he stepped up the claim at a campaign stop in Forsyth on Sept. 28, telling his supporters he's quarter Cherokee, HuffPost noted Wednesday evening. "My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee," Walker said. "So I'm Native American!"

An employee of former President Donald Trump has told the FBI about moving boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago "at the specific direction of the former president" before federal agents searched the Florida club on Aug. 8 and discovered 103 classified documents, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the investigation. The witness initially denied handling sensitive documents or boxes that may contain such files, but that story "changed dramatically" in followup interviews... Читать дальше...

Nury Martinez, the former Los Angeles City Council president, resigned her seat on Wednesday, following outrage over a leaked recording of her making racist remarks.

Infowars founder Alex Jones and parent company Free Speech Systems have been ordered by a Connecticut jury to pay $965 million in damages to the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook shooting. This is the largest amount to date that Jones has had to pay for spreading falsehoods about the 2012 shooting, The Washington Post reports.