Новости за 27.08.2021

In 2006, Congress passed the Combating Autism Act. When President George W. Bush signed the bill into law, he said, “I am proud to sign this bill into law and confident that it will serve as an important foundation for our Nation’s efforts to find a cure for autism.” The law’s bipartisan passage was a…

The U.S. job market is rebounding faster than expected and the worrisome inflation consumers are seeing lately is largely under control—and quite temporary. That’s Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s broad diagnosis on the current state of a recovering U.S. economy. While unemployment is still higher than he’d like, Powell said in a rare speech on…

From Impeachment: American Crime Story to Midnight Mass, here are the buzziest fall TV releases

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is struggling to vaccinate its employees. According to the department, an estimated 47% of its members are fully vaccinated under NYPD-administered programs against COVID-19 as of Aug. 24. Even accounting for a percentage of the NYPD’s force who may have been vaccinated outside work and not provided details…

Nia DaCosta's sequel to "Candyman" hopes to provide a different perspective on a long-maligned and now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood

Sometimes a movie arrives at just the right time, as if it were reading society’s collective mind. Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta, and written by DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, is one of those movies, a story rippling with ideas that many thinking people are already grappling with—or at least have finally become aware…

We are in a planetary emergency. Horrific heat waves and fires blaze across North America, Turkey and Russia. Extreme floods wreak destruction and cause death from Europe to Africa to Asia. Ocean temperatures and the amount of carbon in our atmosphere have reached unprecedented highs. July was the hottest month in recorded history. Our planet,…

A new documentary reveals less about Bob Ross the man and more about the struggle to control Bob Ross the brand

As the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more companies are starting to require coronavirus vaccines for their employees. But this week, Delta Air Lines chose a different tactic when it became the first major U.S. company to say it will charge more for health insurance if employees do not get vaccinated. Some may…

The attack raises questions about whether Islamist terrorist groups will yet again find safe haven in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan

Some Paralympic athletes may be at greater risk of COVID-19 complications due to respiratory or immune system issues

The concession announced late Thursday is part of a preliminary settlement of a nearly two-year-old lawsuit

The attacks, which killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 60 Afghans, marked the most gruesome and ignominious moment yet of America's endgame in Afghanistan

Sadly, Asians still see white privilege as the way the world works

Mike says he was struggling with COVID-19 when he felt his breathing getting worse. He did not want to go to the Veterans Affairs hospital near his home, where he believed doctors might put him on a ventilator. And he knew they would not prescribe the treatment he really wanted: a drug called ivermectin. So…

Researchers in China followed COVID-19 patients’ health for up to a year to understand the disease’s long term effects

This fall marks the last time to see Daniel Craig as James Bond—but the first time to see Angelina Jolie as the Marvel immortal Thena