Новости за 23.07.2017

Pool/Getty Images

President Donald Trump went off on fellow Republicans in a pair of tweets on Sunday afternoon, accusing his party members of doing "very little to protect their President."

"As the phony Russian Witch Hunt continues, two groups are laughing at this excuse for a lost election taking hold, Democrats and Russians!," Trump wrote shortly after 4 p.m.

"It's very sad that Republicans, even some that were carried over the line on my back, do very little to protect... Читать дальше...

Screenshot via CNN

Senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that the ongoing controversy over President Donald Trump and his campaign's possible ties to Russia was "not a big story."

The contentious interview with CNN's "Reliable Sources" host, Brian Stelter, frequently went off the rails.

Stelter asked Conway whether the Trump administration's combative approach toward the press was an effort to appeal to the president's base.

"No, and again, you... Читать дальше...

Reuters

• The ad industry is trying to root out fraudulent digital ads.
• Google has quietly been running tests with media companies such as CBS to gauge how bad the problem is.
• Industry leaders are banking on a new technical solution, ads.txt, to tackle the issue.

The digital-advertising industry is looking to stamp out bogus ad inventory, like websites that claim to be premium brands but are actually sites the average person hardly ever visits.

Google... Читать дальше...

Andrew Boyers/Reuters

Jordan Spieth went on an epic run on the final five holes to win The Open Championship, but it may have never happened if not for his caddie saving the day on the wild 13th hole.

At No. 13, Spieth hit his tee shot about 100 yards to the right of the fairway. After a nearly 15-minute delay, Spieth eventually decided to declare an unplayable lie and take a drop farther back on the practice range. 

While Spieth had a much cleaner lie in the practice area... Читать дальше...

Flickr/Allen Skyy

Imagine the looks on people's faces when someone says, "You don't need to buy a lighter bike. You'd be a lot better off if you lost 10 or 20 pounds."

(We'll get back to that lovely little scene in a moment.)

Many people feel that buying something new — new technology, new devices, new systems, new "stuff" — is the key to success. They're convinced that what they have is not enough. What holds them back are the things they don't have.

But that is rarely true. Читать дальше...

Angel Ulloa/Daily Texan Staff

The Daily Texan is the student-run newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin. In operation since 1900, it is the largest and most award winning student publication in the country.  

On May 20, University of Maryland student Sean Urbanski fatally stabbed Richard Collins III as he waited for an Uber. Collins, a Bowie State University student just days from graduation, lost his life visiting a neighboring school in what is now being investigated as a hate crime. Читать дальше...

Jennifer McLean via AP

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. lawmaker says Chinese authorities have released an American college student who was arrested in their country a week ago after reportedly injuring a taxi driver who was roughing up his mother in a fare dispute.

The office of Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines says police in central China freed 25-year-old Guthrie McLean early Monday, local time.

The University of Montana senior was detained July 16 in the city of Zhengzhou on charges of intentional injury. Читать дальше...

Warner Bros.

"Dunkirk" didn't just mark the first time Christopher Nolan had made a war movie; it was also one of the rare times a filmmaker had ever shot a majority of a movie with an Imax camera.

So, Nolan did a lot of things he didn't know were possible until he actually did them.

And in one instance, a blunder on set led to a fascinating discovery.

In exploring the historic evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk, France, during World War II, the movie highlights... Читать дальше...

Charles Platiau/Reuters

In France, they’ve got baguettes, fancy hats and better conversation.

That’s because it’s a no-no to ask people what they do. A faux pas, if you will.

Jobs are a boring topic, they’ll insist, and it’s gauche—another status-sensitive French word—to derive too much of your sense of self from your work anyway.

“They will be offended, believing you’re trying to put them into a box,” Julie Barlow, co-author of The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed, tells Quartz. Читать дальше...

Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images

Modern advances have made it so many of life's creature comforts can be found at even far-flung military outposts.

For submariners plying the ocean depths, austere conditions remain the name of the game, however.

But two British submarine crewmen reportedly asked UK Prime Minister Theresa May to help them get some relief.

According to The Times of London, the two sailors encountered May at a reception for LGBT community members held at... Читать дальше...

Jordan Spieth won The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on Sunday in dramatic fashion, earning the golfer his third major championship.  

Spieth is the youngest American to ever win The Open. He also joins Jack Nicklaus at the only two golfers to win three legs of golf's grand slam before the age of 24. Spieth won both the Masters Tournament and the US Open in 2015.

Spieth is only one win away from obtaining golf's elusive "grand slam." He'll have his chance in August at the PGA Championship in Charlotte. Читать дальше...

Chris Jackson/Getty Images

When many middle-aged people think back to their childhood, they remember roaming the streets with their friends during long, hot summers.

Our parents threw us out the door in the morning and instructed us not to come back until dinnertime.

Often in charge of younger siblings, we strayed further than we should have, got into trouble and, by the end of the summer, had a collection of triumphs, scars and memories for life.

But surely such memories are just nostalgia? Читать дальше...

Alex Gallardo/AP

In case there were ever any doubts about how Kobe Bryant plans to approach his retirement, an anecdote from billionaire investor and "Shark Tank" personality Chris Sacca illustrated pretty definitively that it will be with the same obsessive competitiveness that defined his basketball career.

Appearing on Bill Simmons' podcast to discuss a slew of topics, Sacca shared a terrific story about his interactions with Bryant.

Sacca said that a few years back, he... Читать дальше...

REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed

AMMAN (Reuters) - At least one person was killed on Sunday in a shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman, a Jordanian security source said.

The source declined to give any details as police sealed off the heavily protected embassy in an affluent part of the capital. Israeli officials declined to comment.

The country has seen an outpouring of public anger against Israel. Jordanian officials have called on Israel to remove... Читать дальше...

Flickr/Henry Burrows

Over a cold beer at a conference in Vienna, I decided to stop flying so much.

I was talking to Charlie, a friend with wild hair and even wilder ideas.

He was describing his adventurous 15-hour train trip from his home northeast of London.

I confessed I’d taken a boring flight from Copenhagen in under 2 hours.

“How do you make your life work without flying?” I asked.

“I decided to stop flying within Europe. It’s doable,” he replied.

Something clicked. Читать дальше...

Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

The summer can be a great time to start a new relationship.

Maybe it's that lingering "school's out" mentality that makes us feel young and carefree. Or, hey, maybe it's that people look better when they aren't bundled up in an oversized turtleneck sweater.

Dating site Match told Business Insider that July tends to be one of its busiest months. Match's chief scientific adviser, Helen Fisher, said that might be because summertime is the mating season in many species ... Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump's new communications director, said on Sunday that one of his first tasks will be to halt leaks and that staff on his team would be fired if the leaks do not stop.

"If we don't get the leaks stopped, I am a businessperson, and so I will take dramatic action to stop those leaks," Scaramucci said on Fox News Sunday.

Scaramucci told CBS's Face the Nation that leakers are "actually un-American," and that he would lead a team meeting on Monday. Читать дальше...

New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci named President Donald Trump as the anonymous source casting doubt on the intelligence community's consensus that Russia interfered in the 2016 election during a CNN interview on Sunday.

Saudi Press Agency

The sudden move by a coalition of Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, in early June to cut ties with and blockade Qatar perplexed US military officials and policymakers.

The Saudi-led coalition has made a series of demands of Doha for dropping the blockade, to which Qatar has shown no sign of assenting.

The spike in tension concerns US officials because of the massive Al Udeid military base in Qatar, where some 11,000 US personnel are stationed and from which... Читать дальше...

Encyclopedia Nordisk Familjebok/Wikimedia Commons

People and pooches may have struck up a lasting friendship after just one try, a new genetic study suggests.

New data from ancient dogs indicates that dogs became distinct from wolves between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago, researchers report July 18 in Nature Communications.

Dogs then formed genetically distinct eastern and western groups 17,000 to 24,000 years ago, the researchers calculate. That timing and other genetic data point to dogs being domesticated just once. Читать дальше...

Andrew Boyers/Reuters

Jordan Spieth won The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on Sunday, overcoming an ugly front-nine and a near-disaster on No. 13 to beat Matt Kuchar to win his third golf major.

At age 23, Spieth is the youngest American to ever win The Open. He also joins Jack Nicklaus at the only two golfers to win three legs of golf's grand slam before the age of 24.

Spieth struggled early on as he bogeyed three of the first four holes and shot 3-over on the front nine. Читать дальше...

Fox News Sunday/Screenshot

In his first days as the newly minted White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci has spent some time deleting old tweets that don't align with his new boss's views.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace said it was an understandable move, and pulled up a 2012 tweet in which Scaramucci advocated for tougher gun control laws.

"We (the USA) has 5% of the world's population but 50% o f the world's guns," the tweet in question said. Читать дальше...

Lyle Stafford/Reuters

Foreign buyers spent a record $153 billion on US housing in the year through March 2017, according to an annual report Tuesday from the National Association of Realtors. 

Although Chinese buyers were the biggest purchasers of American houses for a third straight year, the volume of sales from Canada surged the most among major foreign countries from a year earlier.

Canadians bought $19 billion worth of residential property, 113% more year-on-year.

Isser Gallogly

Full-time professionals interested in continuing their education often face the same worry: Is the loss of income and two years spent out of the workforce worth getting a master of business administration (MBA) degree?

The answer depends on what you aim to get out of business school, according to Isser Gallogly, Associate Dean of MBA Admissions at New York University's Stern School of Business.

"If being fully immersed in your experience in business school is incredibly important to you... Читать дальше...

Blue Apron

Meal kit delivery companies like Blue Apron claim to help people save money on groceries, but potential and ex-customers are citing the cost of the services as a major concern.

According to a new poll by Morning Consult and Money Magazine, 49% of respondents who canceled a meal kit service cited the cost (starting at $8.99 per serving on Blue Apron) as the biggest reason for their cancellation. Additionally, cost was the biggest issue for 59% of respondents who have never tried a meal kit service. Читать дальше...