Новости за 23.09.2020

With conservatives looking set to gain another vote on the Supreme Court, the president of the Susan B. Anthony List says she senses a turning point.

Event Rider Masters’ creator Chris Stone has aspirations to run the eventing series at five-star short level in the future. H&H finds out why and garners opinion from riders on the plans...

Nina Turner, former state senator from Ohio and co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential campaign, launched Amare Public Affairs. The new firm aims to bring a progressive voice to the public affairs arena.Preston Rutledge, former...

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump after he said that COVID-19 affects “virtually nobody” even though the death toll has passed 200,000 people in the United States.

Few elections can be cast as resting on a single issue. But no matter whether voters support the president or the former vice president, one issue stands above the others. It is decency.

Should we even be here at the dog shelter, given COVID-19 strictures? Then a police officer pulled up.

The former commander in chief is joining the growing number of celebrities and artists on the text-based platform Community.

The White House stopped the Postal Service from sending masks to every American household. How many people died?

Analysts said trimming of positions by speculators due to muted demand in spot market mainly led to the fall in copper prices here.

A new poll found 39% of likely voters support Proposition 22, compared with 36% who oppose the measure that would allow app-based companies to treat their workers as independent contractors, exempting them from employment law AB 5.

Top stories in the Russian press on Wednesday, September 23

J.D. Power has released its 2020 rankings for "mega," "large" and "medium" airports across North America for overall passenger satisfaction.

The dwelling to upgrade is located on the fifth floor of a building built in 1910 very close to the imaginary border between Gràcia and la Dreta de l’Eixample. Due to the narrowness of the plot, the building has only two floors per floor and a width of less than 6 meters.

Penguins name Rivers “Official Casino” and RSI’s BetRivers “Official Sportsbook” The deal includes a branded, hi-tech BetRivers Sportsbook-Style Lounge

Jeff Hoose was there in Detroit when the FanDuel Sportsbook at Motor City Casino Hotel took its first sports bet in early March.

A partnership of the Keeneland Association and the majority owners of Kentucky Downs has filed an application for a racing license.

Empire City Casino in Yonkers, N.Y. reopened Tuesday, about six months after it was forced to shut down because of the coronavirus.

Via this week's Chemical and Engineering News, this news from Craig Bettenhausen: 

When the staff of Deadspin resigned en masse last fall, it felt like the end of an era of online journalism. The fun internet—best embodied by the old Gawker Media sites and The Awl—was gone, undone by tech companies, private equity goons, and a lawsuit from Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel. These sites were out. What was in? Nothing good.

While Democrats pin their electoral hopes on turning wealthy suburbs blue, Donald Trump tells “Suburban housewives” on Twitter that Joe Biden will “destroy” their “American dream.” But who are suburban voters really? On Episode 16 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene speak with four guests about how the suburbs have transformed since the 1960s and what those changes mean for electoral politics. Katie McDonough, a deputy editor at The New Republic, offers a tour of... Читать дальше...

There are two great losses in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. First and foremost among them is the person herself. The 87-year-old justice was a tireless and formidable figure in American law—an impressive jurist during her nearly three decades on the Supreme Court and a groundbreaking advocate for women’s rights throughout her entire legal career. She is mourned not just by those who respected and admired her but also by those whose lives were made possible by her victories and those who found her... Читать дальше...

Two closing parentheses, a “less than” sign, a “greater than” sign, then two opening parentheses: ))<>((. Anyone who has seen Miranda July’s 2005 feature debut, Me and You and Everyone We Know, will recognize this code at once. In the film, a soulful five-year-old boy, Robby (Brandon Ratcliff), improvises it while typing in an online chat room with a grown woman: “I’ll poop into her butthole, and then she’ll poop it back into my butthole,” he explains to his older brother, who has initiated the first conversation with her. Читать дальше...

I promised myself that I wouldn’t make predictions in 2020. I would write about what I wanted to happen, or what I feared could happen, but I would not play the game of definitively saying what would happen, both in order to avoid common pundit fallacies and (more importantly) to avoid looking stupid.

On an evening in late September at Corona Plaza, an open-air commercial hub in Queens, the bachata blaring from a Boost Mobile competes with the noise of trains clattering overhead; kids on scooters dart around clusters of teens taking selfies; and inescapable franchises like McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts share real estate with makeshift vending food carts hawking tacos, tamales, pork rinds, elotes, fruit juices, and arepas. It’s a busy scene, and the kind of place people conjure up when they think about New York City. Читать дальше...