Новости за 13.03.2023

J. Heduvan and J.M. Harán, Diplomat
With economic pressure building for a change, Paraguay's presidential race could determine the future of Taiwan's presence in South America.

As Trump pushes forward with his 2024 campaign, incidents from before, during and after his term in office are under intense legal scrutiny.

How musical rivalry in Lesotho gave birth to gang violence.

Atlantic Council, Atlantic Council

US interests in the Gulf are more secure if the nations that surround it are actively working to de-escalate mutual tensions. That was the case when a

Max Boot, Foreign Affairs
How the Iraq War taught me about the limits of American power.

EVERYONE is looking for ways to save money on their weekly food shop amid the cost of living crisis.

Divyanshu Jindal, TNI
Strengthened by internal strategic cohesion, Riyadh is transforming into a tech hub for competing global technologies.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US. Learn what to do in an emergency.

NASA will discuss its allocated budget for fiscal year 2024 during a news conference on Monday (March 13), and you can watch it live.

When The Ottawa Hospital could not give a precise timeline for surgery on a brain aneurysm, Marco Rushton went to America. It cost him $570,000.

The South Korean and U.S. militaries launched their biggest joint exercises in years Monday while North Korea said it tested submarine-fired cruise missiles in an apparent protest of the drills it views as an invasion rehearsal.

Historic wins for Michelle Yeoh and "Everything Everywhere All at Once" are balanced by dismay at who was left out

While humanities majors get stereotyped as navel-gazing eccentrics, the collapse of the humanities poses a grave threat to the American republic.

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The 1982 NCAA tournament witnessed the rise of many who would become legends | Photo by © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

This is a pretty great look into the past.

RYAN GILES might be following his manager’s mantra of not looking too far into the future, but the Middlesbrough full-back is confident his side can maintain their fine recent form for the remainder of the season and leapfrog Sheffield United into the second automatic-promotion spot.

The project of young authors Monika and Marek Ivanko from the Monmar atelier tries to find an answer to the question of how to combine the life of a young family and work. Therefore, they designed a house that, in addition to the primary living area, also creates space for their atelier. The realization also serves as a "showroom" of their work. "We are not afraid to bring the client to our home and show him how the house could look and have a function" the authors add. A simple rectangular house with a gable roof... Читать дальше...

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Three years into the pandemic, scientists are getting a better idea of how long Covid works and how to treat it. | Getty Images/iStockphoto

Long Covid isn’t as much of a mystery as it used to be.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was in Iowa last week, ostensibly promoting his new book—The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival—but rather clearly putting himself on display for a new state’s set of old white people who might want to vote for him. The Florida Man’s push into the Hawkeye State came at a moment when pundits are also casting for a new protagonist in the next season of America’s Next President. DeSantis has drawn demonstrably more enthusiasm and attention... Читать дальше...

President Biden unveiled his budget last week, and everyone immediately pronounced it dead on arrival. This is because the proposal has—gasp!—tax increases. The Republican Party won’t tolerate them, so the budget is dead.

The biggest takeaway from the trove of embarrassing text messages released as part of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News isn’t that Tucker Carlson hates Donald Trump. Of course, Fox News’s biggest star does hate Trump: “passionately” so, according to texts he sent to co-workers. He also thinks the former president is a “demonic force” and a “destroyer,” despite his network’s fawning coverage and credulous treatment of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election being “stolen.”

Over the last two years, the Supreme Court’s six conservative justices have wielded tremendous power over federal decision-making by striking down a wide range of consequential policies: the Centers for Disease Control’s national eviction moratorium, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Covid-19 testing mandate, and a moribund Obama-era rule on power-plant emissions. If the justices likewise nullify President Biden’s executive order on student debt relief, they will use the same mechanism as in those prior examples... Читать дальше...

Perhaps it’s time for a family swear jar.

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