Новости за 16.05.2023

The measure is expected to fail but will force lawmakers to go on the record about the scandal-plagued New York Republican.

Some people consider French basketball player Victor Wembanyama the greatest NBA draft pick of all time. Zach Kram of The Ringer talks about what makes Wembanyama so special.

Doyle Brunson, the "Godfather of Poker," has died at 89. Brunson won 10 bracelets at the World Series of Poker tournament and was known for writing Super System, a popular book about the game.

According to a Marshall Project report, inflation has hit America's incarcerated population harder than it has those on the outside. Alex Arriaga, who wrote the report, talks about what she found.

Three companies say the carbon pipelines they want to build in the Midwest would remove carbon dioxide from ethanol plants and help fight climate change. Some farmers and residents are not so sure.

In December, the University of California, San Francisco apologized for unethical experiments on prisoners half a century ago. It was doctors of color who started demanding change.

President Biden meets House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders as the deadline for lifting the debt limit draws ever closer.

Mifepristone, sometimes known as the abortion pill, is the center of a legal battle underway this week. Some of the people who have taken it share their stories.

Five men have been sentenced in what has been called the most spectacular jewel heist in German history. A crime family network made off with $123 million worth of jewels from the largest treasure collection in Europe.

The sport of paraclimbing may one day make it into the Paralympic Games. Two climbers from Kentucky will show off the sport at a World Cup event.

Portland, Maine, has long been a resettlement hub for asylum seekers, but now the newcomers are overflowing into nearby communities that lack the resources to accommodate them.

R.F. Kuang talks about her new novel Yellowface and why she wanted to write a book about cultural appropriation in the publishing world.

Singer Emma Hardyman and her husband, Nathan Hardyman, who plays bass in the six-person band Little Moon, talk about winning this year's Tiny Desk Contest.

The CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, went before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday and called for regulation of artificial intelligence.

Former top executives at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are set to appear before the Senate Banking Committee after both lenders had to be rescued by the government earlier this year.

A clash between Muslim students trying to build a mosque and residents who oppose it in South Korea's fourth largest city tests the nation's tolerance of increasing diversity.

Agriculture Secretary Tom said it was the largest single federal investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act in 1936.

Taiwan legalized gay marriage in 2019, becoming the only place in Asia that allows it. But until now, those married couples could only adopt children related to one of the partners.

The IRS is working to develop its own free electronic tax-filing system in a potential challenge to commercial products such as TurboTax. The agency plans a pilot test of the program next year.

"I wanted to show people that in life, even though we go a bit slow or fast, we will reach our destination all the same," Cambodia's Bou Samnang said of her rain-soaked, Southeast Asian Games run.

Irby shares almost everything in her new book of essays, Quietly Hostile but, she says, "If I can't have a conversation with a stranger about the thing that I wrote, I won't put it in a book."

Joseph Dituri set out to live underwater back in March as part of a project to see how the human body changes living under extreme pressure.

The Philadelphia singer-songwriter reflects on sobriety, heartbreak and necessary growth in a honey-tinted sonic glow.

We've seen jealous, possessive friends and housewreckers with no boundaries before, though perhaps not quite so thoroughly, unapologetically unlikeable as in Ore Agbaje-Williams's debut novel.

No major breakthrough is expected at the meeting, the second between President Biden and congressional leaders over the debt limit.