Новости за 11.10.2021

Photo: Casper.

If you've been waiting for the right time to invest a new a mattress, now's the time. Casper's current mattress sale on Amazon means 15% off their best-selling Sleep Element Mattress (valid for all sizes). Regular prices for this coveted mattress range from $395 to $795, but today only they're slashed down to $335-$775 only.

Newsmax

Nearly a year after the fact, former President Donald Trump is still bent out of shape over Fox News correctly projecting on election night that President Joe Biden won Arizona’s vote.

Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images

After two on-campus suicides in just one month, the chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill canceled Tuesday classes, acknowledging the school is in the midst of a “mental health crisis.”

Herika Martinez / AFP via Getty Images

It turns out one way to protect babies from developing bad allergies in life is to give them breast milk from Mennonite mothers who grew up on farms. Yes, that’s for real: a new (peer reviewed!) study published in Frontiers in Immunology found that breast milk from Mennonite moms has a greater abundance in the type of antibodies and other immune systems components that protect babies from common allergies.

Fiona Goodall

Authorities in New Zealand say they have finally located and isolated a COVID-positive sex worker with gang links, but she refuses to cooperate with contact tracing, which Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called “increasingly frustrating.”

LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA

A source close to Prince Andrew says it is “no surprise” that Britain’s Metropolitan police has ignored “media pressure” and will drop their inquiries into the prince’s alleged sexual assault of Virginia Giuffre.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty Images

After a GOP donor accused Corey Lewandowski of sexual misconduct late last month, the former top aide and confidant to ex-President Donald Trump didn’t just lose his cushy job leading a pro-Trump super PAC. He was also fenced off socially—quietly blacklisted at several Trump properties and clubs, MAGA events, and private social gatherings, especially if alcohol is served, The Daily Beast has learned.

Bleecker Street Films

Linda’s son was shy, even as a baby. He didn’t play well with others. Not that he was mean; he just didn’t know how.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty Images

On a sunny Saturday in a Knoxville, Tennessee park, a man with a microphone told a crowd of parents to bar entry to their children’s schools.

Photos AP

The reason eyewitness testimony requires corroboration in a criminal trial is that memory—an internal account that can’t be verified by anyone else, and which may consciously or unconsciously change over time thanks to a variety of factors—is inherently unreliable. Yet in 1990, a jury decided that George Franklin was guilty of the 1969 murder of Susan Nason, the best friend of his 8-year-old daughter Eileen, based solely on the adult Eileen’s claim that, while staring into the eyes of her own child... Читать дальше...

Getty Images

A network of shady political groups at the center of a new class action lawsuit for bilking donors out of tens of millions of dollars appears to be attempting a legal work-around in order to continue pulling in the money and evading government scrutiny.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty

America is coming apart at the seams. Senators are being hounded in bathrooms and airports by the left for pumping the brakes on progressive spending bills. Meanwhile, parents and kids are being harassed by people on the right for wearing masks. It seems like the only thing we can all agree on these days is that there are now two Americas. The logical conclusion, according to some, is to call it quits. To split up. To move out.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photos Getty Images

Does anyone remember how to do Halloween parties? It’s 2021, we’re more than a year into a pandemic, and many of us are trying to remember how to socialize. Now we’re adding costumes to the mix, a recipe for anxiety—or perhaps some good, old-fashioned nostalgia? Thankfully, even this strange year has delivered a wealth of pop culture memes—all of which are excellent fodder for clever, timely Halloween costumes. Whether you want something easy—like... Читать дальше...

Photos Twitter; Getty Images

The Lincoln Project doesn’t do subtle.

The smashmouth, Never Trump super PAC, run by a renegade band of Republican strategists, produced some of the most scathing attacks on the 45th president of the last four years. That’s not compared to just the other Never Trump political groups. That’s compared to all groups, of all political persuasions.

The Lincoln Project spots were acutely personal and had little to do with any policy differences. Much the way Trump... Читать дальше...

Getty Images

If you’ve made a few or many stops along America’s Camino de Santiago of Organic Architecture venerating the relics of Saint Frank, you will know well the fear of accidentally grazing a surface and drawing reprimand from the worshipful scribes. You will encounter a much greater shock early on in your tour of Florida Southern College—in the very first building, a house—an invitation to sit down, in Wright-designed furniture!

Rebecca Tulis

I really didn't want to title last Wednesday's puzzle "Lost in Translation." That was the one about the hit South Korean show "Squid Game," whose English subtitles have been criticized by some Korean speakers as being not great.

The New Yorker

On Sunday night, the 22nd annual New Yorker Festival closed out with a virtual talk between Jon Stewart and New Yorker editor David Remnick.

HBO

On Sunday night, John Oliver used his Emmy-winning HBO series Last Week Tonight to take shots at his corporate overlord, AT&T.

Emilio Madrid

It is time for the Mabry family to go to church, and they are taking us with them. Douglas Lyons’ comedy is directed by Zhailon Levingston, who is not only making his Broadway debut with this play but at 27 is the youngest Black director in Broadway history. Levingston is also director of industry initiatives for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which is leading Broadway’s ongoing reckoning with race, racism, and representation.

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast

Seven years ago, a pair of scientists scouring high-resolution images of space caught fleeting glimpses of a bright round object peeking from a vast cloud of icy objects more than two billion miles from Earth.