Новости за 20.10.2020

KYIV, Ukraine — About 3,000 retirees rallied in the Belarusian capital of Minsk for a third straight Monday to demand the resignation of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko as mass protests of a disputed election continue to roil the country. They marched through the streets of Minsk carrying flowers and chanting for Lukashenko to “Go away!”...

A United Kingdom man has died from what his family believes were the long-term effects of COVID-19 two months after he was released from the hospital. Roehl Ribaya, 47, spent more than a month being treated for the virus in Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s intensive care unit, where he was placed on a ventilator, the Blackpool...

Sweden’s top infectious disease expert hasn’t budged on the country’s no-mask approach to the COVID-19 pandemic despite the number of new infections trending higher. Anders Tegnell — Sweden’s equivalent to Dr. Anthony Fauci — defended the decision not to mandate face coverings in the country, which also resisted lockdowns, leaving most schools, restaurants and businesses...

The fiancée of slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has filed a federal lawsuit in the hopes of holding Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman accountable for her loved one’s brutal murder. The suit, filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C. on behalf of Hatice Cengiz, accuses the Saudi kingdom’s de facto leader of personally ordering the execution...

Shocking footage captures the moment a Michigan driver opens fire on a fellow motorist in a broad-daylight road-rage squabble. Abdulhadi el Hadi said the guy behind the wheel of a green Honda Accord cut him off in Dearborn, Michigan, on Sunday afternoon  — so he began recording video as he pulled alongside the driver to...

A modified virus being used in four COVID-19 vaccine contenders -- called adenovirus 5 (Ad5) -- has been shown to increase transmission of the AIDS virus in the past.

Jeffrey Toobin’s alleged masturbation on a video work call is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of his reported sordid sex past. The New Yorker magazine star and top CNN legal analyst — who is suspended from the publication and on leave at the network after being accused of performing manual labor in...

Sure, he ran a sex-slave cult — but what a serve! Dozens of supporters penned glowing letters of support for Nxivm leader Keith Raniere ahead of his sentencing for sex-trafficking next week — and a surprising number of adherents gushed about his penchant for late-night volleyball games. The letters, unsealed Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court,...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection. Painfully, they recall times when they were sexually assaulted and then beaten up when they asked to be paid — as...

A poll credited with being one of the only accurate national surveys in 2016 has found a sudden tightening in the race between President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The Investor’s Business Daily tracking poll results released Tuesday have Biden ahead nationally by just 2.3 percentage points, at 48.1 percent to Trump’s 45.8 percent...

“You may be right, I may be crazy.” Singing along with Billy Joel after telling friends/foes that the Dodgers beat a better team in the NLCS than the one they’ll face in the World Series. Crazy? Sure. But thought the Braves were that good. LA and Tampa Bay did finish the regular season with league-best...

Scientists have discovered two planets orbiting a red dwarf, including a “Super-Earth,” just 120 light-years from Earth. The research, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, notes that exoplanets TOI-1266 b and TOI-1266 c take just 11 and 19 days to orbit their star. Red stars, which are significantly smaller than the sun, are also cooler and...

Bettors no longer have to wonder how big an underdog the New York Jets will be in Week 8 when they meet the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium. The answer — 21 points — could be found in the lookahead lines released Tuesday by the Westgate SuperBook of Las Vegas. Surprised it’s not higher?...

How many Fs does Erika Girardi give now?

An impartial third party will do the work.

Maria Taylor will not be intimidated by hateful messages, nor will it stop her from doing the job she loves. On Monday, the ESPN reporter shared a lengthy message she received in response to previous comments about Bills rookie quarterback Jake Fromm, who said in a previous text exchange that only “elite white people” should...

The map draws elements from the current "static" subway map from 1979, and the infamous "diagram" designed by Massimo Vignelli in the early 70s.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas’ voting rules that call for signatures on absentee ballots to be verified. In a Monday order, the court blocked a U.S. District Court injunction, noting that the lower court’s decision “minimize[d]” Texas’ interest in election integrity, emphasizing the heightened need for security as greater numbers of mailed...

Can't watch The Bachelorette on Tuesday night? No problem! You can stream it Wednesday morning!

"I blocked her at one point. It was my only weapon."

A new photograph has emerged of Democratic nominee Joe Biden posing with Hunter Biden and Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakh oligarch who reportedly worked with the former veep's scandal-scarred son.

Whether Randy Arozarena is a legitimate star is a big issue moving forward for the Rays. You know who else that is true about? The Yankees. Tampa Bay’s winning percentage has climbed in each of the last four seasons to .667 in the abbreviated 2020 campaign as they outdid the Yankees to win first the...

A woman foiled a kidnappers' plot to shake them down by mouthing "help me" to a stranger in a New Jersey parking lot, police said Tuesday.

If you can’t get enough of Mike Pereira’s rules interpretations during NFL and college football broadcasts, Fox also wanted to install him in a similar role for MLB games. Pereira revealed in a podcast appearance on Monday that former MLB chief baseball officer Joe Torre “nixed” Fox’s plan years ago to have the former NFL...

A black Indiana high-school student was only identified as “BLACK GUY’’ in a caption in the yearbook, forcing local education officials to publicly apologize for what they called a “truly reprehensible error.’’ The caption accompanied a photo of the basketball team at the predominantly white Brown County High School in Nashville, Ind., outside off Bloomington...