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The American poet Louise Gluck became the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. According to the committee's official statement, the prestigious award went to the Pulitzer-winner «for her distinctive poetic voice,» transforming «individual existence into universal.» Gluck will also receive a prize of SEK 10 million (over $ 1.1 million). Previous Nobel Prize winners in Literature include Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Bob Dylan, Wole Shoinka, and Kazuo…
In 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world was on the verge of financial collapse: states are borrowing more and more, people are losing their jobs at record rates, entire industries are on the verge of collapse — while the incomes of the world's richest people continue to grow. According to a new report by the Swiss bank UBS, in 2020 the number of billionaires has grown from 2,158…
A New Jersey postman was arrested after throwing away hundreds of letters — including nearly a hundred ballots sent by voters who voted by mail. According to the prosecutor, 26-year-old Nicholas Boshen, whose route included Orange and West Orange, allegedly dumped 1,875 letters in dumpsters on October 2 and 5. Among them there were 99 ballots addressed to the DEC. The discarded mail was returned back to the delivery system…
A father from Las Vegas (Nevada) preferred money to the welfare of his one-year-old daughter — and did not allow the dying baby to be saved from a hot car. Police said Sydney Deal was more worried about the cost of a broken car window than about her daughter trapped there on a hot day. Deal, who allegedly forgot his car keys inside, refused to help his brother and offer…
The classic Cinderella story will get a new face next year thanks to the debut project of Disney Publishing: a modern and body-positive reimagining of a fairy tale. If The Shoe Fits is the latest book by Julie Murphy, author of the bestselling Pyshechka, which is the basis for the Netflix series of the same name. It will be the first in the Meant to Be series for adults, designed…
The California wildfire has reached such proportions that it is now classified as a gigafire. To date, it has covered over a million acres of land. As of Monday, October 5, Cal Fire has declared the August Complex Fire the largest in California history. Now it burns in several districts at once. “More than 16,400 firefighters continue to work on localizing 23 major forest fires and one large-scale forest fire….
When Twitter user The Science Femme (or @piney_the), who claimed to be a female scientist, spoke about how he prevented his superiors from publishing a statement condemning racism, he himself was accused of racism. To this, «Lady» found a convenient answer: she allegedly belonged to racial minorities and, moreover, was an immigrant. Sounds weird? And for good reason. Soon, internet detectives claimed that Science Femme was not a racial minority…
A small child who disappeared from his Missouri home last week was able to safely return to his family thanks to a homeless pit bull he stumbled upon on the street. The dog guarded the boy until he was noticed by one of the local residents, who hurried to the kid to help. A woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said that she was walking her dogs in one of…
Two former prison officers and their warden were charged with mistreatment after it was revealed that they forced inmates to listen to the song «Baby Shark» on repeat as punishment. Gregory Cornell Butler Jr., 21, Christian Charles Miles, 21, and Christopher Raymond Hendershott, 50, are accused of conspiracy and ill-treatment of at least 4 prisoners. According to authorities, the «inhuman» incidents occurred in November and December last year in the…
