Новости за 17.10.2022

Records released Monday by the House Oversight Committee reveal how the Trump Organization charged the Secret Service well above the normal government rate to stay at company hotels while protecting former President Donald Trump and his family, multiple outlets have reported.

An elementary school in a St. Louis suburb was found to be contaminated with massive levels of radioactive waste from a nearby dump site, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Associated Press reported Monday. 

The idea of Harrison Ford joining the Marvel universe once seemed unlikely … but never tell him the odds. 

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of disgraced biotech company Theranos who was convicted on wire fraud and conspiracy charges, will get a chance in court Monday to argue for a new trial. 

The U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Monday to sentence Steve Bannon, the one-time chief strategist for former President Donald Trump, to six months in prison and a $200,000 fine for contempt of Congress. 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced an immediate three-week lockdown in two districts as Ebola infections begin to rise again. The announcement on Saturday halted movement in and out of the Mubende and Kassanda districts, aside from cargo trucks, and imposed a curfew, CNN reports. 

Members of the wildly popular South Korean boy band BTS will officially serve in the country's military and reconvene after their service is completed "around 2025."

Republicans have gained a slight edge over Democrats in the battle for control of Congress, as voters remain mainly concerned about the economy and inflation going into November's midterm elections, per a recent New York Times/Siena College poll.  

Kanye West is taking a page out of Elon Musk's playbook by buying a social media platform of his own.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss, in her first substantive act as Britain's leader, unveiled dramatic tax cuts in a mini-budget released Sept. 23. The markets hated her combination of steep tax cuts and higher spending in a period of high inflation, the British pound fell to a record low against the dollar, government borrowing costs shot up, and Truss' approval rating plummeted into single digits. The Bank of England had to step in to prop up financial markets. 

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Gregory Maguire is the author of Wicked, the revisionist Wizard of Oz tale adapted into a long-running Broadway musical. His new novel, The Oracle of Maracoor, continues the adventures of Rain, granddaughter of the Wicked Witch of the West.

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The main topic on Sunday's Last Week Tonight was transgender rights, mostly for children and teens. "We actually first talked about this seven years ago," John Oliver noted, "and the good news is that since then, more people do seem comfortable coming out as trans and gender nonconforming." On the other hand, "as you have undoubtedly noticed, in the past few years, some on the right have truly lost their minds about trans rights," he said, setting some parameters. 

With support for his Liberal Democratic Party plummeting, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday ordered an investigation into the Unification Church, which has ties to several members of the ruling party.

Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor in Arizona, was asked multiple times on Sunday whether she will accept the election results if she loses — and each time, she didn't answer the question.

This week's episode of House of the Dragon features a dueling search for the would-be king, an epic dragon escape, and an absolutely bizarre foot scene. Let's break it all down with some book context: 

On his Truth Social platform, former President Donald Trump on Sunday applauded himself and evangelical Christians for supporting Israel and stated that American Jews need to "get their act together" and "appreciate" Israel "before it is too late."

A fire Saturday at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran has killed four prisoners and injured at least 61, Iranian state television says. People inside the prison told BBC Persian the death toll is actually higher.