Новости за 13.12.2024

1. Biden grants clemency to 1,500 people, pardons 39: ‘The most ever in a single day’  The Times of Israel
2. Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 people in biggest single-day act of clemency  The Associated Press
3. Biden commutes sentence of controversial Pa. judge in Kids-for-Cash scandal  TribLIVE
4. Marilyn Mosby, convicted of perjury and mortgage fraud, not pardoned by President Biden  CBS Baltimore
5. Biden's full list of clemency and commutation recipients... Читать дальше...

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Two European countries will become full members of the Schengen free-travel zone, EU interior ministers have agreed.

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Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care system that guarantees everyone adequate medical attention. One particular American’s death has driven that point home. On December 4, a gunman murdered Brian Thompson, UnitedHealthcare’s 50-year-old CEO. The bullet casings from the shooting read More

Tamil or Telugu heritage question dominates chess champion Gukeshs historic win

I worked hard my whole career and retired feeling secure. Then I lost every last dime in a scam. I was left with $1,300 a month in Social Security benefits to live on in an area where monthly expenses run about $3,700. I’m a smart woman, but scams against older Americans are increasing in number and sophistication. Whether More

Elon Musk moves SpaceX HQ to Starbase wants to turn it into a city

As the MK Party prepares to paint the iconic Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban black, green and gold this weekend, it remains to be seen how Jacob Zuma's plan of a reverse takeover of the ANC will play out, writes Amanda Khoza.

Dictators – whether in Spain, South Africa, Romania or Syria —retain power for decades. They can seem impregnable and invulnerable. But they always fall, and when they do fall the world acts surprised. It ought not to be. The demise of dictators is woven into the fabric of history. In his massive, exhaustive, definitive new More

Late at night on December 3, soldiers stormed into South Korea’s National Assembly in armored vehicles and combat helicopters. Assembly staff desperately blocked their assault with fire extinguishers and barricades. South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol had just declared martial law to “eliminate ‘anti-state’ forces.” Outside the National Assembly, people gathered from all over Seoul and beyond. More

In just one election, the MK Party secured more than 2.3 million votes - 14% of the national total - and emerged as the largest political force in KwaZulu-Natal. Qaanitah Hunter examines how the party did it in one year.

A Kodagu court delivered a life sentence to Tarini and her son Dharani Kumar. They were found guilty of murdering Utharkumar in 2020. The duo also received a separate sentence for destroying evidence. Police swiftly arrested them after the crime. Public Prosecutor K.G. Ashwini secured this conviction. Kodagu SP K Ramarajan confirmed the details.

We are told by the mainstream media as well as Israeli sources that October 7 came as a complete surprise to Netanyahu and that he underestimated Hamas’ military capability and had no indication that Hamas had constructed a massive tunnel system in preparation for their attack.  As a challenge to this account, as a follow up More

According to the latest economic forecast by the Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank), the state of the economy has strengthened: several sectors that had previously been struggling have managed to resume growth and the economy will stay on the path of improvement.

Jacob Zuma's move to create the MK Party can be seen as vindictive politics premised on an extremely personal agenda, as well as a logical way to accommodate the political aspirations of the so-called Radical Economic Transformation faction of the ANC after its repeated defeats, argues Ongama Mtimka.

Rafael Barrett was born in Torrelavega in northern Spain, close to the Bay of Biscay. Eldest of two sons, he grew up in a well-to-do, though not extremely wealthy, family and enjoyed the privileges that such families took for granted: travel, good education, social and cultural capital. For reasons made clear in William Costas’s Introduction More

For most people, verbal communication is a seamless, unthinking act. But for individuals with communication disorders — such as stuttering, aphasia, or other speech and language impairments — speech is anything but automatic. They must not only consider what they say but also how they say it, knowing their manner of speaking might elicit judgment, dismissal, or ridicule. And More

Amazon is set to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, matching a similar donation announced by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta this week.

This is the fourth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of President-elect Donald Trump. (This week Trump threatened to imprison those from the January 6th Committee who had challenged his supreme being, especially its More

This fall, Wilderness Watch and other wilderness advocates gathered at the feet of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, in the trees and away from computer screens, to reflect on the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act and talk about where we might go in the years ahead. The conservation movement has excelled at Power Point presentations and More