Новости за 07.02.2023

A train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed on Friday in East Palestine, Ohio, resulting in a large fire, and to prevent an explosion, crews this week began to expel the chemicals from the train cars in a "controlled release," reports The Washington Post.

"Politics," it's often been said, "is the art of the possible." It is, to crib another famous phrase, a constant tension between campaigning in poetry, while governing in prose — and perhaps nowhere more so than in the White House, where a president's every action (and inaction) is scrutinized for signs of deeper significance and political import.

The World Health Organization warned that more than 20,000 people may die following a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, as freezing temperatures and winter weather continue to hinder rescue efforts. 

"City of Stars" is headed to the city that never sleeps.

A Broadway musical based on the Oscar-winning film La La Land is in the works, Lionsgate has announced. Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, whose previous work includes South Pacific, will direct, while the book will be written by Matthew Decker and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar. It will also feature music by Justin Hurwitz, composer of the film, and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the movie's songs. 

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Food vendor Aramark has apologized for the "unintentional insensitivity" of the menu offered at a New York middle school on the first day of Black History Month. The apology is reminiscent, NBC News writes, of "similar apologies [Aramark] has made for more than a decade amid backlash over racially insensitive menus."

One person in Washington state is the recipient of a life-changing prize after they won a $754.6 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said Tuesday.

Turkey and Syria were hit by a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Monday that caused widespread damage and left over 5,000 people dead. But what exactly caused the tremor and why was it so destructive?

Hogwarts Legacy reportedly includes a first for J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. 

Is Kevin Costner's John Dutton about to ride off into the sunset? 

The wildly popular Western drama series Yellowstone is expected to end "in its current form," according to a bombshell report from Deadline. The series could wrap up as soon as the end of its current season, but the report said it would effectively be replaced by a new show, with Matthew McConaughey in talks to star. Several Yellowstone cast members are reportedly expected to migrate over to that new series. 

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The Memphis cops who kicked and punched the life out of Tyre Nichols had been properly trained. In the "Reimagining Policing" reforms the city adopted in 2021, officers learned how to de-escalate conflicts whenever possible, limit the use of force, and report any abuses by colleagues. But on the streets, police warrior culture trumped that training and the race of the officers who pulled Nichols over. For allegedly driving erratically, they treated a terrified, compliant young man like a war criminal. Читать дальше...

Republicans in Florida's House of Representatives introduced legislation Monday that would halt a plan to dissolve the special tax district set up for Walt Disney World, as mandated under a plan Florida Republicans pushed through last year. Instead, Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District would be renamed the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, and rather than the Walt Disney Co. picking the board of supervisors, it's five members would be chosen by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and approved by the GOP-led state Senate. Читать дальше...

Is China buying up U.S. farmland? And is that a threat to America's food supply? The issue has become a "flashpoint" in relations between the two countries, The Wall Street Journal reports. In Congress and in a growing number of U.S. states, there is a movement to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land so that "the U.S. food-supply chain is protected and that China and other foreign adversaries aren't able to use U.S. land as a perch for spying." But some critics suggest that such efforts... Читать дальше...

The 2022-2023 avian influenza outbreak is officially the worst on record. Since last winter, some 208 million birds worldwide have died from H5N1 or been culled, raising the price of eggs and chicken globally. In recent days, scientists have sounded increasingly worried that a mutation could cause a "spillover" event, in which H5N1 becomes more efficiently transmitted from human-to-human. 

The Chinese suspected spy balloon the U.S. shot down Saturday was huge — about 200 feet tall, carrying an array of equipment the size of a regional airliner and weighing more than 2,000 pounds — but North American air defenses still missed previous balloon flights over U.S. territory, Gen. Glen VanHerck said Monday. 

Federal prosecutors in Baltimore on Monday announced the arrest of two neo-Nazis who allegedly planned to knock out Baltimore's power grid in an attack motivated by racial bias. An FBI informant had recorded conversations with the two defendants, Brandon Russell and Sarah Clendaniel, starting when they were in separate prisons in Florida and Maryland, respectively.

The death toll from a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey on Monday morning continues to grow, with officials in Turkey and Syria saying at least 3,800 people were killed between the two countries.

Just 36 percent of U.S. adults think President Biden has accomplished a "great deal" or "a good amount" since taking office, a new poll from The Washington Post and ABC News has found. Sixty-two percent of Americans think the president has accomplished "not very much" or "little to nothing."