Новости за 02.02.2016

Might Bill Cosby’s criminal case be dismissed before it even begins? Here’s what we know so far: The February 2 court date will not be a preliminary hearing in his criminal case. Instead, the court is first going to hear arguments on the defendant’s habeas petition to dismiss the case, and the motion to disqualify […]

The Drug Enforcement Agency announced Monday that an international operation had netted a Hezbollah network using millions in drug money to fund terrorist activity in Syria and Lebanon. The arrests targeted a division of Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant organization, that provides “a revenue and weapons stream … responsible for devastating terror attacks around the world,” […]

“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another — it’s one damn thing over and over.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay I’ve seen the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” again and again and again, but only once on the big screen, a few years after it was in theaters. It was shown in […]

Alphabet pulled back the curtain just a bit on its some of its most secretive businesses. By revealing huge, mounting losses in its non-Google businesses, Alphabet showed that Google is growing stronger than ever. For the first time in its history, Google’s parent company revealed the sales and losses for its experimental and “moonshot” initiatives, […]

Your “BPA-free” plastic product may be no safer than the product it replaced, says a new UCLA study that analyzed the impact of a common BPA alternative on zebra fish embryos. The study joins a small but growing group of similar research sounding the alarm about so called “BPA-free” alternatives. “Our findings are frightening and […]

Amtrak train engineer Brandon Bostian told investigators he doesn’t remember anything prior to last year’s Philadelphia crash that killed eight passengers and sent more than 200 to the hospital, according to documents made public Monday. “I don’t remember anything particularly out of the ordinary,” he said, according to the transcript of his conversation with investigators […]

Five Chinese airlines announced on Monday that they’ll start putting restrictions on “uncivilized passengers,” according to China’s National Tourism Administration. The five airlines — Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Spring Airlines — said in a joint statement that unruly passenger behaviors disrupting airline operations that resulted in administrative and criminal […]

Alphabet pulled back the curtain just a bit on its some of its most secretive businesses, revealing huge, mounting losses in its non-Google businesses. For the first time in its history, Google’s parent company revealed the sales and losses for its experimental and “moonshot” initiatives, including Google Fiber, Calico, Nest, Verily, Google Ventures, Google Capital […]

As a rule, Republican candidates don’t run against Fox. For two decades, Roger Ailes’ cable news network has been one of the most powerful conduits between GOP hopefuls and conservative voters. Nearly every Republican candidate has courted the network in some way or another, and some have even seen their presidential hopes rise or fall […]

Sarah Palin told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Monday that she took issue with recent mailers distributed by Ted Cruz’s campaign to “shame” Iowa voters into caucusing, adding that it “wasn’t a tough decision” to back Donald Trump over the Texas senator. The letters, which came to light over the weekend, gave the recipients, along with […]