Новости за 30.10.2020

The parallels to 2016 are eerie.

We made it another week. Hope you have a restful weekend, and see you on Monday. 

One theory by one justice binds together Supreme Court’s contradictory election opinions  The Washington PostView Full Coverage on Google News

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is good drama, but I have to wonder at some of the choices writer/director Aaron Sorkin made.

Christina Sutton was diagnosed with COVID-19 in July. Although she tested positive for the virus, she had very few symptoms. But even after those went away, Sutton still experienced concentration and memory problems. 

Match Previews

All you need to know ahead of Sunday's fixture

Exeter City Women are back in FA Cup action this Sunday as they face AEK BOKO in the third qualifying round at the Exwick Sports Hub.

Top stories in the Russian press on Friday, October 30

Graham Potter has told Yves Bissouma how he can improve

On the battlefield, any doorway can be a death trap. A special ops vet, and his businessman brother, have built an AI to solve that problem.

Starting next year, Prime 1 Studio is releasing a pair of limited-edition Resident Evil 2 statutes, featuring Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield blasting zombies. The Claire statue is 21.6 inches high, weighing 19 kg, while the Leon one is 23 inches and 21 kg. They are priced at $US1,349...

Peter Suciu

Security, Asia

Pompeo has used strong words, suggesting that the CCP is not a friend to democracy, the rule of law, transparency, or to freedom of navigation in the Indo-Pacific region.

On Tuesday, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made it clear to the government of India that America will support its Asian almost ally. Pompeo offered his support to India while mentioning the Indian soldiers that were killed near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in... Читать дальше...

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - AUGUST 21: The Team Store for the Seattle Kraken, the NHL’s newest franchise, opens for business on August 21, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. | Photo by Jim Bennett/Getty Images

The Toronto Maple Leafs should join them.

It’s one of the most lumbering clichés of American politics. “The American people,” politicians intone, are hurting, tired, angry, or “bitterly divided.” Yet when this election is finished, they will have spoken, as if with one voice.

Nadine Little needed to charge her phone. The afternoon sun was high and bright in South Minneapolis as she headed west, past the rubble and ash of the buildings that had burned just days earlier, toward Powderhorn Park, where she had heard there was electricity available. She arrived to a small flurry of activity on its upper expanse, with people milling around and eating snacks. She approached a group of people standing near a table to ask for a charger; within moments, a bit stunned, Little was tottering further into the park... Читать дальше...

In recent weeks, Texas—long considered reliably red—has become a toss-up in the presidential race. That has interesting implications for one of the most important and under-covered climate races in the country. Engineer and lawyer Chrysta Castañeda is running for one of three seats on the GOP-controlled Texas Railroad Commission, the primary regulator for the state’s expansive oil and gas industry. Castañeda wants to restrict gas flaring, the practice by which drillers burn off fuel they can’t sell, releasing prodigious amounts of methane. Читать дальше...

Voter intimidation is not always easy to identify or to document, something voting rights advocates have emphasized this year. “It is often subtle or context-dependent,” as a fact sheet from Georgetown University’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection advises. It’s also shaped by the kinds of intimidation voters might already experience outside the polling place. Have they been able to get a form of legal identification that satisfies the voter ID requirements in 35 states, without... Читать дальше...

It takes a special kind of gall to quit a six-figure media job in the doomed year of 2020. But that’s just what Glenn Greenwald has done, following in the martyred footsteps of erstwhile New York Times free thinker Bari Weiss. In a 4,000-word Substack post, Greenwald resigned from his healthy perch at The Intercept, a publication he co-founded, explaining, in his typically piqued and exhaustive manner, that he had been “censored.” 

1. Tunisian terrorist migrant grins after arriving in Italy WEEKS before ‘he was freed from detention to kill 3 i  The Sun
2. Macron says France 'will not give in to terror' after Nice attack  Guardian News
3. Tunisian suspect pictured after three killed in French church attack  Metro.co.uk
4. France attack: Three killed in 'Islamist terrorist' stabbings  BBC News
5. Brazil names Nice knife attack victim as Simone Barreto Silva  The Guardian
6. View Full coverage on... Читать дальше...

There are still more questions than answers.

Researchers are expecting a deluge misinformation on Election Day.

The latest TrumPoem, a rhyming account of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, loosely based on his words and acts.

Kyle Rittenhouse is scheduled to be in Lake County court Friday morning for a hearing over whether he will be sent to Wisconsin to face charges stemming from the fatal shooting of two men and the wounding of a third during protests in Kenosha in August.

Rex Huppke: It won’t surprise me if Donald Trump gets reelected.

The fate of Tai’s Til 4, a decades-old Lakeview bar renowned for its late-night party scene, is in the balance on Tuesday as people who live nearby consider whether to vote the area dry.

Early voting has long been the norm for Americans living overseas. This year, they’re poised to turn out in record numbers.