Новости за 27.03.2017

President Trump is expected to sign a bill making it easier for states to require drug testing for recipients of unemployment benefits. Critics say drug testing doesn't save the government money. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Elizabeth Lower-Basch of the Center for Law and Social Policy about drug testing as a condition for federal assistance.

Large anti-corruption protests swept across Russia Sunday. Many of them were organized by opposition leader Alexei Navalny who has now been arrested. These protests were the biggest since 2012 when tens of thousands came out against the Kremlin over allegations of widespread vote fraud. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to independent Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner who is in Moscow.

Voting in the controversial Turkish referendum that led to the nasty spat between President Erdogan and Western European leaders starts in Germany. It's home to the largest ex-pat European community outside Turkey. It goes on for several weeks.

President Trump is expected to ditch the Clean Power Plan this week. The CPP regulations would reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that warm the planet. Without it, the U.S. won't live up to its pledge, made in Paris in 2015, to make deep cuts in emissions. That could jeopardize the Paris deal, in which nearly 200 nations made similar pledges.

Speaker Paul Ryan said on Friday that his party was going through "growing pains" as the Republican health care bill failed. Now Republicans have to figure how to pick up the pieces and figure out how to govern, or risk another leadership crisis in the House.

A special congressional election in Georgia is becoming a focus point for Democrats and Republicans eager to chart their parties' political futures.

The Oakland Raiders will no longer be the Oakland Raiders. The team will be moving to Las Vegas, and fans are feeling jilted, again.

How does President Trump recover from his first legislative failure? He may be able to draw some lessons from the last president who tried and failed to reform the health care system.

Proposed White House budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies will end federal spending on Great Lakes clean-up. That includes axing work on invasive species like Asian carp and a public health program that protects drinking water from toxic algae for 11 million residents around Lake Erie.

The Associated Press tallied up business lost because of the controversial law, based on interviews and public records. The AP says its estimate of $3.76 billion over 12 years is probably low.

PHOENIX — With the phrase, “Our owners approved overwhelmingly the move,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made it official, the Oakland Raiders will become the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 upon completion of the new stadium being built in the “entertainment…

PHOENIX — With the phrase, “Our owners approved overwhelmingly the move,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made it official, the Oakland Raiders will become the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 upon completion of the new stadium being built in the “entertainment…

PHOENIX — With the phrase, “Our owners approved overwhelmingly the move,” NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made it official, the Oakland Raiders will become the Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 upon completion of the new stadium being built in the “entertainment…

Mark Davis willing to give money back to Oakland fans on day team's relocation to Las Vegas approved.

For Kabul political science student Rahmatullah Amiri, shot three times in a Taliban raid on the American University of Afghanistan last August and still on crutches, restarting classes is the best possible answer to his attackers. "The only thing I can do to tell those terrorists that what they have done is wrong is come back to this university," Amiri, who saw a friend die in front of him in the attack that killed at least 16 people, told Reuters at the campus Monday. The attack shattered the... Читать дальше...

Sarah Silverman wants to get to know the real America.

The comedian will star in a new topical talk show called I Love You, America, Hulu announced Monday.

BREAKING: @SarahKSilverman topical talk show I Love You, America is coming to Hulu. Read about it at @Deadline: https://t.co/RgUEBCq5yr pic.twitter.com/CaFJJWQufe

— hulu (@hulu) March 27, 2017

The 10-episode series, from Funny or Die, will be a weekly half-hour topical show to discuss the current political/emotional landscape of the country. Читать дальше...

Smiths Detection wins British Ministry of Defense contract for security screening solutions.

This is the second time team has left Oakland, and it will receive $750 million in public funding.

The US officials will discuss enhancing ceasefire agreements reached by Russia, Iran and Turkey at Astana talks during the visit of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Ankara later this week, the State Department senior officials announced on Monday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's finance committee has approved more than half-a-dozen bills designed to curb opioid addiction.

"Welcome to Indiana basketball, Archie."

The delegation of the US European Command (EUCOM), headed by Deputy Director of Plans, Policy, Strategy, Partnering and Capabilities Directorate Brig. Gen. Dawne Deskins, arrived in Armenia on Monday, a press service of the Armenian Defense Ministry said.

Miami owner Stephen Ross felt franchise didn't exhaust all options to remain in Oakland.