Новости за 26.10.2021

As basketball fans crammed into stadiums, U.S. counties with universities that hosted "March Madness" games saw a jump in COVID-19 cases earlier this year, new research shows.

A Colorado man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud as part of a scheme to falsify clinical trial data.

Legenday Pictures tweeted Tuesday that "Dune: Part 2" has been greenlit. "Dune: Part 2" opened Oct. 22 in the U.S. in theaters and on HBO Max.

Treatment with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs does not boost recovery in people with severe COVID-19 and may increase their risk for death from the virus, a study published Tuesday by PLOS ONE found.

A man who found a 1948 high school class ring while exploring with his metal detector was able to return the ring to the family of the man who lost it 73 years earlier.

A federal judge in New York has set a deadline for British Prince Andrew to be questioned in a lawsuit in which he's accused of sexual abuse.

A new spike in fuel prices in Lebanon is spurred by the inability of the central bank to provide hard currency for fuel imports, the national currency in free-fall again and the rise in global oil prices.

The United States on Tuesday backed Taiwan re-entering the United Nations on the heels of the anniversary of its formal expulsion 50 years ago.

The CW and TBS announced Tuesday that they will simulcast the Critics Choice Awards on Jan. 9 on both networks.

A New York art collective announced it will be selling 1,000 Andy Warhol sketches for $250 each -- but 999 of them are elaborate forgeries.

Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could allow robots to be taught to think like humans, researchers said Wednesday.

A group of boaters journeying about a mile off the Florida coast ended up rescuing a lost dog they spotted swimming aimlessly in the ocean.

Justin Jefferson of the Minnesota Vikings and Stefon Diggs of the Buffalo Bills lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butlers Top 50 fantasy football wide receiver rankings for Week 8.

A Colorado search and rescue team said a hiker lost on a mountain trail for about 24 hours didn't answer phone calls from the team because they assumed the calls were spam.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated the Federal Communications Commission's acting chairwoman, Jessica Rosenworcel, to fill the post permanently -- putting her on track to be the agency's first female chief.

An international operation targeting drug trafficking on the dark web has led to the seizure of $31 million in cash, 500 pounds of drugs, and the arrest of more than 150 people.

A new mobile game based on "RuPaul's Drag Race," titled "RuPaul's Drag Race Superstar," has been released for iOS and Android devices.

K-pop duo Super Junior-D&E released a preview of their video for "Zero," the title track from their album "Countdown."

In an effort to increase safety for children, YouTube says that it will begin to demonetize channels next month if they encourage negative behavior or are overly commercial in content that's aimed specifically at kids.

Ed Sheeran performed his new single "Overpass Graffiti" and four other songs during an at-home stream for NPR.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is set to star in a new comedy from writer and director Nicole Holofcener titled "Beth and Don."

A restaurant manager in Britain broke a Guinness World Record when he arranged chairs into a stack that reached 17 feet high.

"A Man Named Scott," a documentary film about singer and rapper Kid Cudi, is coming to Amazon Prime Video in November.

An activist in Hong Kong known as "Captain America," for holding the superhero's shield during protests, has become the second person to be convicted under China's controversial national security law.

Drew Barrymore and her ex-husband Tom Green looked back at their honeymoon Tuesday on "The Drew Barrymore Show."