Новости за 15.09.2017

It was a crisp, bright fall morning in Parsons Green on Friday, and as usual, trains on the District line were ferrying commuters from the well-heeled suburbs of west London into the center of the city. But at 8.20 a.m., just as the latest city-bound service pulled into the station, there was a loud bang […]

Our weekly roundup of the news, notes and chatter about the prospects for the next Democratic presidential race: How seismic a shake-up would California deliver to the 2020 Democratic race if — in a move lawmakers could approve Friday — it shifts its primary to the first Tuesday in March, slotting the state in right […]

Jason Maloni, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s spokesman, testified Friday at the US District Court in DC to before a grand jury as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Arriving at the courthouse, Maloni was asked if he was ready to testify. “Hell yeah,” he responded, giving a thumbs up. Maloni testified as […]

Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke signed an order Friday morning aiming to expand access for hunters and fishers to public lands and monuments. In what is being described as an “expansive” secretarial order, Zinke’s rule would ultimately allow broader access across the board to hunters and fishers on public lands managed by the Interior Department, […]

A day after Amnesty International accused Myanmar’s military of deliberately torching Muslim-minority Rohingya villages near the Bangladesh border in a campaign of “ethnic cleansing,” another rights group is leveling the same charge. “Our field research backs what the satellite imagery has indicated — that the Burmese military is directly responsible for the mass burning of […]

Talk about a sod story. An 11-year-old boy who asked the White House if he could mow the property’s lawn was granted his wish Friday. Frank Giaccio told CNN’s “New Day” he even waived his usual $8 fee for President Donald Trump — even though anchor Alisyn Camerota noted that the billionaire chief executive could […]

When Hurricane Irma ravaged the island of Barbuda in the Caribbean, the ferocious storm “extinguished” the isle’s way of life and left the beautiful spot “uninhabitable.” And, now, for the first time in a few centuries, no one lives there. “The damage is complete,” Ronald Sanders, the Antigua and Barbuda ambassador to the United States, […]

President Donald Trump, with a volley of Friday morning tweets, showed why claims that he could lose his impregnable political following over a proposed immigration deal with Democrats are probably off base. Trump seized on a new terror attack in London to fire off criticisms of “loser” terrorists, earning a rebuke from UK police. While […]

Francia Raisa was happy to give her best friend Selena Gomez the gift of better health. On Thursday, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” star shared the photo of her and her BFF holding hands in the hospital, shortly after Gomez went public with the news that she received a kidney from Raisa. Raisa […]

The blast of an improvised bomb Friday on a London Underground train brings the number of terror incidents in the United Kingdom this year to at least five. The explosion, which injured at least 23 people during the morning rush, is being treated as terrorism, London’s Metropolitan Police said. “My thoughts are with those injured […]

Formula One team McLaren is to end its partnership with its Honda at the end of the 2017 season, the British team confirmed Friday. McLaren and the Japanese manufacturer joined forces in 2015, renewing a partnership that had yielded four consecutive constructors’ titles in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the team has struggled […]

Up to 400,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and are seeking refuge in Bangladesh, according to the United Nations. The Rohingya, an ethnic minority, have been denied citizenship by Myanmar for generations. Food and basic safety are constant worries for the refugees as they flee Myanmar. There are several organizations on the ground […]

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has demonstrated a unique ability to draw negative headlines. He was at it again on Thursday when, in a conversation with Politico’s Ben White, he took himself out of the frying pan and jumped right into the fire when trying to knock down reports that he had used a government plane […]

Even as British police were still sorting out exactly what had happened in the London Underground on Friday morning, President Donald Trump was using the incident to prove a point. “Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.” he tweeted. “These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must […]

Even as British police were still sorting out exactly what had happened in the London Underground on Friday morning, President Donald Trump was using the incident to prove a point. “Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.” he tweeted. “These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must […]

China’s bitcoin crackdown is wreaking havoc on the virtual currency. Two of the country’s most prominent bitcoin exchanges, BTC China and Via BTC, said they will halt trading this month. BTC China has also stopped registering new users, it said in a statement posted on social media. Both exchanges said the decision to cease trading […]

Well hello, Bette Midler, it’s so nice to have you back where you belong. The 71-year-old actress took a spill Thursday night during a Broadway performance of “Hello Dolly.” Fans were alarmed when Midler tumbled while onstage. “An hour into @HelloDollyBway & a tech snafu has just led 2 the amazing @BetteMidler toppling off a […]

Elizabeth Warren wants to make sure Equifax doesn’t profit the data breach that left millions of its customers’ personal information exposed. A new bill introduced by Warren and Senator Brian Schatz, both Democrats, would force Equifax and its competitors to provide free credit freezing and unfreezing. “Credit reporting agencies like Equifax make billions of dollars […]

Mother Nature has had a hectic past couple of weeks of hurricanes, an earthquake, wildfires and flooding. But while our attention has been turned to these humanitarian crises, Earth ducked a cosmic bullet the likes of which could have crippled human technological civilization. Over the last week or so, the sun has experienced a series […]

President Trump has a new target in the media — ESPN. The president said on Twitter on Friday morning that ESPN “is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth.” He was apparently referring to ESPN anchor Jemele Hill, who in a […]

Contact has been lost with the Cassini spacecraft after it completed a “death dive” into the upper atmosphere of Saturn and transmitted its final signal, according to NASA. The spacecraft deliberately sank into Saturn’s upper atmosphere at a high speed and plunged itself into the planet just after 6:30 a.m. ET Friday. Given the amount […]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked “Do the women get to talk around here?” during the White House dinner on Wednesday night over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to a report in The Washington Post. The Post reported that during the dinner, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross asked the 11 people at the […]

After a dramatic dive into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is gone, according to NASA’s projected timeline for the end of the mission. The spacecraft deliberately sank into Saturn’s upper atmosphere at a high speed and plunged itself into the planet just after 6:30 a.m. ET Friday. Given the amount of time it takes signals to […]

Consensus is building in Washington for a deal that would pair border security and a solution for young undocumented immigrants — but that doesn’t mean anything will be easy. There’s a reason the failed 2013 “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill ended up topping 1,100 pages: Reaching a deal on anything to do with immigration […]

President Donald Trump on Friday again called for the implementation of his travel ban in the wake of an overseas terror incident, railing against “loser terrorists” behind the London Tube explosion. “Another attack in London by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be […]