Новости за 24.09.2021

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) offered an explanation on Instagram Friday as to why she cried on the House Floor after changing her vote from “no” to “present” on a bill giving $1 billion to fund Israel’s missile defense system, known as “Iron Dome”—a vote that angered progressives.

It’s not even Halloween yet: Kelly Clarkson, “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You)” - Straight off the bat, I reject this song and its desire to summon the spirit of the holiday season before the first pumpkin has been carved. But after my initial rejection, I find that this is a cute little tune from Clarkson’s…

I feel let down. I was hoping for a fantastic disaster, a pyrotechnical display of ineptitude, an explosion of cinematic diarrhea—something truly memorable in its badness. Instead, Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of the Broadway musical about a biped awkward turtle, Dear Evan Hansen, is simply and intolerably dull. It’s…

On Friday’s airing of The View, Vice President Kamala Harris was set to be the guest of honor, appearing with the hosts at the big glass table. Live television, however, is an unwieldy beast. Twenty minutes into the show, hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were asked by a producer to leave the set and the show was…

The House of Representatives voted 218-210 on Friday to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would effectively codify Roe v. Wade and protect the right to abortion until viability. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) swiftly scheduled a vote on the legislation in response to a new law in Texas that…

The funny thing about siblings is that no matter how different they claim to be, there’s usually that one thing that illustrates they are very clearly related. So when former New York governor Andrew Cuomo was accused of sexually harassing women in his office and chalked it up to his Italian heritage, I began waiting…

It appears that Elon Musk, America’s number one “more of an ideas guy,” is currently having one of the few experiences he could expect to share with the other 333,378,981 less fortunate people who occupy this country: A breakup.

Jennifer Coolidge is a fascinating woman whose sense of goodwill seemingly knows no bounds, as evidenced by this heartwarming tale shared by Melissa McCarthy about how she got her first big break.

In the Shadow of the Empress traces the life of Empress Maria Theresa, the only woman to rule the sprawling Hapsburg lands in her own name, and her daughters—the most famous being her youngest, born Maria Antonia but better known as Marie Antoinette. This excerpt traces one of the many damaging controversies that…

On Thursday, New York City lawmakers passed a package of six bills that will establish minimum working conditions for app-based food delivery workers—making it the first major U.S. city to regulate the food delivery app industry. Integral to the passage of the legislation was the work of Los Deliveristas Unidos, a…

The latest reminder that we must be living in the worst possible timeline comes in the form of a casting announcement from Nintendo about the upcoming animated Super Mario Bros. movie: action man Chris Pratt will inexplicably be voicing beloved tiny Italian plumber Mario. Now, not only is this casting utterly…