Новости за 19.10.2022

If you're planning to dress as someone from a Netflix show this Halloween, it would probably be best to stick to Stranger Things. 

Republican congressional candidate in Pennsylvania Dr. Mehmet Oz is making gains in the final weeks of his contentious Senate race, now polling inside the margin of error against Democratic opponent John Fetterman, Politico reported Tuesday, per a new AARP Pennsylvania poll.

Matthew Perry is "grateful to be alive" after drug abuse nearly killed him four years ago. 

Spirit Airlines shareholders have approved a $3.8 billion takeover by JetBlue Airways, in a deal that looks primed to create the fifth-largest airline in the United States. 

Adam Laxalt, the GOP's Senate nominee in Nevada, has promoted a platform staunchly against DREAMers and illegal immigration — despite his own grandmother allegedly being an undocumented immigrant. 

New York City is set to open the first of a series of temporary tent shelter sites on Wednesday to house the influx of thousands of Central and South American migrants, Bloomberg reports. 

Donald Trump is set to appear for a deposition on Wednesday as part of a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who claims the ex-president raped her years ago.

A new U.S. coin will make history by honoring a trailblazing movie star. 

The U.S. is currently the largest generator of plastic waste in the world — and while plastic recycling is falling, plastic production continues to grow. How does the extensive use and disposal of plastic in our lives affect ourselves and our environment? Here's everything you need to know:

Your Thanksgiving turkey is going to be a lot pricier this year. The avian flu epidemic has taken a terrible toll on the nation's turkey farms this year — "the virus has already eliminated more than 6 million turkeys nationwide, about 14 percent of the nation's total turkey production," The Washington Post reports.

Emmanuel the Emu is sick with the avian flu. 

Who's that? Only the most famous emu on TikTok. He became famous for interrupting videos made by Taylor Blake on the Knuckle Bump Farm in South Florida. (Jimmy Fallon even did a parody.) But Emmanuel is not doing very well these days: Blake announced over the weekend that avian flu has struck the farm with devastating results — killing more than 50 birds, including chickens, ducks, and geese  — and sickening the popular emu. "He is a fighter... Читать дальше...

Alex Jones is likely the most visible and well-known conspiracy theorist in the United States, and his self-founded, alt-right platform InfoWars has become a bastion for a number of debunked myths and bizarre plots. Jones' luck finally ran out last week, though, when he was ordered during a defamation trial to pay $965 million to families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, which Jones has previously referred to as a fake "drill" perpetrated by crisis actors. 

Local and special Florida state police arrested 20 Hillsborough County residents for alleged voter fraud on Aug. 18, and police  body-camera footage released by the Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday shows the confusion and anger of the former felons who say state election workers told them they could legally cast their ballots in 2020. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) touted the arrests at a news conference hours later. "They're going to pay the price," he said.

A federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, acquitted Igor Danchenko of all charges Tuesday, handing Special Counsel John Durham his second — and likely final — courtroom loss in his three-and-a-half year investigation. Durham had charged Danchenko, a Russian-born private researcher, with five counts of lying to the FBI about the sources of the information he passed on to ex-British spy Christopher Steele for a dossier of raw intelligence on former President Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

The Internal Revenue Service announced on Tuesday that in 2023, it is increasing the standard deduction and income thresholds for all tax brackets, meaning many Americans will see an increase in their paychecks starting in January.

Former President Barack Obama was interviewed on the podcast Pod Save America, where he talked about a "mistake" in his presidency and called Democrats "buzzkills." 

A U.S. recession within the year is "effectively certain," a new Bloomberg Economics model has predicted, dealing a perhaps significant "blow" to President Biden's economic platform ahead of the midterm elections.