Новости за 16.11.2021

Georgia Bureau of Investigation

A terrifying kidnapping ordeal in Georgia ended with the best possible outcome last week when a family was reunited with their missing 1-year-old boy, but police now say an innocent 60-year-old man was shot dead when some of the child’s family members went full vigilante in the chaotic hours after his disappearance.

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Stanley Johnson, an obscure ex-lawmaker who became a national celebrity on account of being British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s father, has breezily dismissed a claim that he smacked a member of parliament “about as hard as he could” on her backside back in 2003.

The Brand House

JERUSALEM—Ten survivors of the Nazi genocide are taking part in the first global contest to crown the winner of the Miss Holocaust Survivor Beauty Pageant.

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Prince Andrew’s lavish lifestyle, conducted on a known income of a naval pension of around £20,000 ($27,000) has long been a true royal mystery. Even when he was receiving an annual stipend from his mother of £250,000 ($340,000), he appeared to live a flashy lifestyle of fancy holidays, fast cars, a $23 million Swiss chalet, and private jets way beyond his apparent means.

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The winter COVID surge has already begun.

A24 Films

Mike Mills makes personal films. Just how personal? That’s the question that he contends with, an ever-evolving relationship with his work that changes over the years between first being inspired to write a script and the movie finally coming out—or, in our case, over the course of an interview.

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When federal election officials announced this month that they closed an investigation into the Trump campaign allegedly coordinating with foreign nationals, they may have unintentionally opened the door to another case.

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Last week, Mark Essick, the white sheriff of liberal, bucolic Sonoma County, California, took to his office’s Facebook page to publicly call out a “racist” attack against a high-ranking officer. The post caught many of Essick’s critics by surprise and has them questioning his motives.

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It took her almost 70 years to escape the big house, and, as the events of this weekend appear to confirm, Queen Elizabeth has no intention of ever returning to her “official home” of Buckingham Palace.

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Natasha Rothwell has had a very big year, from facing off with Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus to stealing scenes in the final season of Insecure. And things are only looking up from here, with two new shows in development at HBO, a third in the works with Disney-ABC, and a mysterious role in the upcoming Wonka movie starring Timothée Chalamet.

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When we think of NASA, we tend to think big, like enormous rockets, sprawling space stations, and massive telescopes that allow us to peer billions of light-years into the vastness of space. Currently, however, NASA is experimenting with a technology that starts out microscopically small, but that may have a huge impact on humanity’s future forays into the final frontier: fungus.

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Years before he helped purge his local elections board, Michigan GOP official Shane Trejo hosted a podcast called Blood Soil and Liberty with a member of a white supremacist group.

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A piece of news that came out on the same day that the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case—at the center of what the NRA has bluntly termed the Republican justices’ “project” to overturn gun safety— revealed how deep the rot goes.

The Match Factory

A three-hour Japanese import about grief, art, and the solace derived from spending time behind the wheel, Drive My Car might not be an easy commercial sell here in the States. Nonetheless, it casts a spell like few other 2021 films.

Gather + Grow

After a shift what is your favorite guilty pleasure to eat? “My go-to guilty pleasure after work would be a cheeseburger. It provides the perfect amount of savory balance after a busy night.”

Comedy Central

The first thing Trevor Noah asked Chris Christie when they sat down for an extended talk on The Daily Show Monday night was, “Are we having a legit conversation or are you going to politician me?”

Essex County Prosecutor’s Office

A teenage girl who disappeared for nearly a month told investigators she’d run away to escape horrific abuse at the hands of her mother, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

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Exactly a week after former New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss unveiled the creation of a hypothetical new “university” stacked with advisers united by “a common dismay at the state of academic and a recognition that we can no longer wait for the cavalry,” two riders in that brave regiment have resigned their commissions.

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MILWAUKEE—With jurors slated to begin deliberating on Tuesday about whether Kyle Rittenhouse should be convicted of killing two people and injuring a third last August, Kenosha residents are bracing for how the verdict will impact their already-scarred Wisconsin town.

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Without fail, every single holiday season I end waiting until the very last second to do my gift shopping, which means the time that I should’ve spent planning and curating the perfect thing for each person is limited. Fortunately, for those of my friends and family who are into beauty (yes, including the men in my life), investing in a one-and-done beauty gift set is the best option that looks like I thought about it more than I actually did, and will... Читать дальше...

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A pregnant woman in Texas sent a series of ominous texts to friends and family minutes before she was fatally shot in the face in the middle of a street.

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What if Joe Biden just doesn’t have what it takes?

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If it wasn’t clear by the setup—50 state flags on the White House’s South Lawn, an 800-person cheering section, the dais loaded with senior congressional leadership, Republican allies, labor bosses, and his own vice president—President Joe Biden had a straightforward message at the signing ceremony for his $1 trillion infrastructure bill: It’s a big fucking deal.

Austin Fire Department

A Texas teen accused of setting fire to an Austin, Texas, synagogue kept a series of handwritten journals suggesting a virulent hatred for Jewish people, and memorialized his alleged Halloween night crime in one entry by scrawling, “I set fire to a synagogue.”