Новости за 05.06.2017

President Donald Trump will not try to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying before Congress, deciding not to invoke executive privilege, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday at the White House briefing. “The President’s power to assert executive privilege is well-established. However, in order to facilitate a swift and thorough examination of the […]

Two people — including landlord Derick Almena — have been arrested in connection with the December fire at Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse that killed 36 people, Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick said Monday. A public announcement is scheduled for 1 p.m. (4 p.m. ET). The blaze broke out during an electronic dance party, […]

Hundreds of businesses are banding together with cities and state leaders to support the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Gap, Adidas and many others signed on to an open letter Monday pledging to move forward with the United State’s earlier commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The move comes less than […]

British police have identified two of the three men behind Saturday night’s terror attack in London as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane. Butt, 27, was a British citizen who was born in Pakistan, London’s Metropolitan Police said. Police and MI5 — the UK’s counterintelligence and security agency — were familiar with him, but there […]

There is a simple reality that often seems lost on many inside the Beltway: The priorities of the mainstream media and Washington elites are not those of the American people. If you’ve watched cable news any given day since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, you’ve been subjected to near-hysterical coverage of the latest “scandal” that threatens […]

Apple kicked off its annual three-day developer conference in San Jose with a dystopian look at the future. Really. A new Apple ad showed what the world could look like without apps, triggered after a hapless Apple employee unplugged something in a server room. Hipsters panic trying to read paper maps, cars pile up in […]

Prosecutors in the Bill Cosby indecent assault trial on Monday claimed the 79-year-old actor knew exactly what he was doing when he drugged and assaulted Andrea Constand in 2004 — while the defense went after Constand and another Cosby accuser’s credibility. With the streets outside the courthouse lined with television trucks, Cosby arrived arm in […]

State police at Clearfield State police received a report about a burglary and theft of items from a motor vehicle that occurred Saturday or Sunday on the Mahaffey-Grampian Highway in Penn Township. During the incident, someone allegedly took a Black Savage Axis 25-06 rifle; a black-barreled Remington shotgun with a camouflage-colored stock; a 440 Stihl […]

Apple kicked off its annual three-day developer conference in San Jose with a dystopian look at the future. Really. A new Apple ad showed what the world could look like without apps, triggered after a hapless Apple employee unplugged something in a server room. Hipsters panic trying to read paper maps, cars pile up in […]

Harvard University has withdrawn acceptance offers to at least 10 incoming freshmen after school administrators discovered the students were sharing explicit memes via a Facebook chat group, according to The Harvard Crimson student newspaper. The memes were shared in a Facebook messaging group that at one point was called “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens.” […]

India is poised Monday to join a select number of countries able to claim membership of the “heavy-lift” rocket club when it fires a communication satellite weighing over three tonnes into space. The launch is being made possible by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III (GSLV Mk-III) — known as “fat boy” on account of […]

President Donald Trump on Monday emphatically referred to his executive order on immigration as a “travel ban” — and said his Justice Department should not have submitted a “watered down, politically correct version” to the Supreme Court. Trump’s suggestion that changes to the ban — which, among other things, temporarily restricts travel to the US […]

Spain may have triumphed over Italy in Saturday’s Champion’s League final, but the tables were turned in both countries’ second passion on Sunday as Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso took the checkered flag at the Italian MotoGP. A total of 98,000 fans at Tuscany’s positively throbbing Mugello circuit were left ecstatic with the Italian rider’s win. Battling […]

Some of the Middle East’s biggest airlines are suspending flights to Qatar as a major diplomatic crisis roils the region. Etihad, Emirates and FlyDubai on Monday announced they are halting all flights in and out of Doha, the Qatari capital, starting Tuesday morning. The news comes after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen […]

A bride-to-be has been named as the first victim of Saturday night’s terror attack in London, while a journalist, two Australians and a French doctor are among those wounded. Canadian Chrissy Archibald died after three men rammed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge. After exiting the vehicle, the attackers stabbed people in nearby Borough […]

On March 11, 45% of Americans approved of the job Donald Trump was doing in Gallup’s daily tracking poll. It’s been all downhill since then. In the intervening 86 days, Trump’s job approval has never again reached 45% in Gallup’s data. In fact, the last time Trump was even at 43% was on April 28. […]

One man has been killed and three policemen shot after a standoff at an apartment building in suburban Melbourne. Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Andrew Crisp told reporters a woman had been held hostage in an apartment Monday and that terrorism was “one line of inquiry.” “At this stage we have not actually confirmed this line […]

It’s the color of the Emerald Isle, the hue of sickness and envy, and a shade associated with grotesque monsters. And its most universal interpretation conjures imagery of nature, a vibrant symbol of the environmental movement and healthy living. Green, the mixture of blue and yellow, can be seen everywhere and in countless shades. In […]

The Republican-led Congress returns to work this week, and once again, the Russia investigation will overshadow the ambitious legislative agenda that includes major overhauls of the health care system and tax code. Former FBI Director James Comey is slated to testify publicly Thursday and is expected to discuss President Donald Trump’s request that he end […]

There are fast-moving developments coming out of London on Monday morning, so let’s get right to what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. You can also get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here. 1. London terror attacks London’s trying […]

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have broken diplomatic relations with Qatar over what they say is the country’s support of terrorism. Bahrain’s foreign ministry issued a statement Monday saying it was suspending diplomatic relations “in order to preserve its national security.” Qatari diplomats had 48 hours to leave the kingdom, and […]

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have broken diplomatic relations with Qatar over what they say is the country’s support of terrorism. Bahrain’s foreign ministry issued a statement Monday saying it was suspending diplomatic relations “in order to preserve its national security.” Qatari diplomats had 48 hours to leave the kingdom, and […]

To the best of my knowledge, I have never used a wrestling reference in this column.  But, considering what Jimmie Johnson has been able to do at the “Monster Mile” that is Dover, it seems very appropriate that I decide to do so. I’ve been a fan of NASCAR since the early 1990’s, about the […]

They’re harder to get into than Harvard, Yale or Oxford. India’s 23 elite engineering schools attract more than a million applications each year and less than 1% of applicants are successful. Traditionally seen as a ticket to a plum job in the US, the appeal of Institutes of Technology (IIT) hasn’t been diminished by US […]

A trove of Chinese trademark applications filed by Ivanka Trump’s namesake business is focusing attention once again on the ethical complications presented by the Trump family’s business ties. At least 14 applications were filed by the Ivanka Trump company on March 28, according to documents reviewed by CNN. Around the same time, Ivanka Trump — […]