Новости за 16.09.2016

The Daily Dot, the five-year old, Austin-based digital media company, was hit by significant layoffs on Friday, with at least 15 staff members reportedly let go. It is unclear how many of the roughly 70 employees will ultimately be let go. The layoffs were first reported by Politico. Nicholas White, the editor-in-chief and CEO of […]

First Lady Michelle Obama took sharp aim Friday at those who questioned her husband’s eligibility for office, arguing a potential commander in chief should set a better example for the country’s children. “There were those who questioned and continue to question for the past eight years up through this very day whether my husband was […]

Joe Coors Jr., a businessman and one-time congressional candidate whose great-grandfather founded the Coors family beer empire, died Thursday from stroke complications. He was 74. “The entire family is deeply saddened by Joe’s death,” his brother Pete Coors, the vice chairman of Molson Coors Brewing Company, said in a statement. Coors was deeply involved with […]

Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein will not participate in the first presidential debate, and their running mates will not be in the vice presidential debate, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday. The decision means Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump will be the only two candidates on the stage […]

Donald Trump on Thursday re-introduced his plan for economic growth into a presidential campaign that has so far been light on policy. And while the Republican nominee didn’t reveal too many additional details, we now have a better picture of the kinds of economic policy changes he would pursue if elected president. But the reality […]

Stargazers will have one last chance to see an eclipse this year when the last lunar phenomenon of 2016 occurs Friday night. The eclipse will be difficult to observe, with the Earth only casting a slight shadow on the moon. But when the Earth completely blocks the sunlight, the moon will appear red or orange. […]

A Georgia judge has found Nick Gordon legally responsible for the death of his girlfriend, Bobbi Kristina Brown. Gordon failed to show up to a civil hearing at the Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Friday. This is the second hearing he’s missed. As a result, Gordon was found in contempt of the order […]

Nearly five years after Occupy Wall Street’s eviction from a small Manhattan park, the movement that shined the spotlight on the 99% has spread its seeds across America. From the shade of honey locust trees in Zuccotti Park near the New York Stock Exchange, the group’s creed against income inequality, corporate greed and the influence […]

Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager rejected Donald Trump’s claim Friday that the campaign was responsible for the “birther” movement. “The campaign, nor Hillary, did not start the birther movement. Period. End of the story,” Patti Solis Doyle told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. She did say, however, that a volunteer coordinator in Iowa in late 2007 “did […]

In-Gee Chun had to come from behind to win her first major title — but the South Korean golfer is leading from the front as she bids for her second this weekend. Chun took a two-shot advantage Friday at the halfway stage of the Evian Championship, the fifth and final major tournament of the women’s […]

Any decision by Donald Trump to publicly say whether he believes President Barack Obama was born in the US is only up to him, campaign senior adviser Boris Epshteyn said Friday in a heated exchange with CNN’s Chris Cuomo. “Since the statement (issued Thursday night), he has not been asked the question.” Epshteyn said on […]

Ten-year-old Tavon Tanner was sitting on the porch eating potato chips in early August when a stray bullet hit him in the back. “I’m burning! I’m burning!” he screamed. His twin sister, Taniyah, was inside the house at the time of the shooting. She sensed something happened to her brother and rushed to his side, […]

Donald Trump Jr. vigorously denied that he was referencing the Holocaust when he sarcastically cited “warming up the gas chamber” in an interview this week, saying Friday that he “didn’t say anything about the Holocaust” and that the controversy was an example of media bias. Trump Jr. was asked about his remarks in an interview […]

When Donald Trump appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” he allowed the host to mess up his hair.

Sen. Bernie Sanders sarcastically dismissed a statement from Donald Trump’s campaign saying that the Republican nominee now believes President Barack Obama is a US citizen, arguing that the “birther” movement is about “delegitimizing the first African-American president in the history of our country.” Appearing Friday on “New Day” on CNN, Sanders offered a caustic rejection […]

Jamaat-ul-Ahra, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attack at a mosque on Friday that killed at least 16 people and injured 35 others, according to the group’s spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan. The attack took place at one of the biggest mosques in Mohmand Agency, a district in Pakistan’s […]

For more than 60 years, European integration has proceeded apace, often muddling through when apparently insoluble problems assailed it. Now, though, things look different. For the first time, a member state has decided to leave. And the particularly toxic blend of complex problems and decreased room for compromise make it impossible to see how all […]

Harry Reid fired back against Donald Trump on Friday, as the two political opponents continue their war of words. The Senate Minority Leader, a former boxer, often serves as his party’s attack dog, and he has pulled no punches when going after the Republican presidential nominee. Friday morning, the Nevada Democrat responded to a slight […]

Election 2016 took a detour through the doctor’s office this week: Dr. Lisa Bardack. Dr. Harold Bornstein. And, it seems only fitting, Dr. Mehmet Oz. Donald Trump’s decision to deliver his long-hyped health records release on Dr. Oz’s show is as strange as everything else about this election. Yet, much like the key decisions that […]

Musician Leafar Seyer has a message for Latinos who might feel singled out by what he sees as the divisive rhetoric in this presidential campaign: “Unidos jamas seran vencidos,” which means: “United, we will never be defeated.” Seyer, whose real name is Rafael Reyes and who fronts the two-person electronic duo that is Prayers, said […]

A leak has caused the closure of a crucial pipeline that carries gasoline to the eastern United States, a disruption that threatens to drive up prices and leave service stations without fuel to sell. A section of the Colonial Pipeline, which runs from Houston to New York, has been closed since Sept. 9 after a […]

The financial crisis is still haunting Deutsche Bank. The U.S. Justice Department wants the bank to pay $14 billion over allegations it packaged up toxic mortgages between 2005 and 2007. But Germany’s biggest lender says the huge sum demanded by the U.S. government is just the opening move in what’s likely to be a lengthy […]

As sounds of bombs and shelling remain mostly absent in Syria following a ceasefire deal, the outcry is getting louder over the lack of access for humanitarian convoys. The Syrian government has not issued permits to allow convoys delivering aid to access some of the hardest-hit areas, the United Nations said Thursday. “The good news […]

Two senior Republican senators influential in national security and foreign policy said Thursday they are seeking changes to a bill — which has already cleared Congress with broad bipartisan support and faces a presidential veto — that would allow 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the terrorist attacks. The potential […]

“I smacked my head on the bathroom floor,” a bloodied and bandaged President Barack Obama says, “as I was so shocked by North Korea’s hydrogen bomb detonation!” This is satirical political comedy, Pyongyang style. A recent episode of the snappily named “The stage of optimism that Songun presented — Volume 11,” which airs on state-controlled […]