Новости за 18.03.2018

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — The 158 employees at Anderson-Tully Lumber Co. are expected to lose their jobs in the wake of the company's sale to an unnamed company. The Vicksburg Post reports the company, which has been in Vicksburg since 1889, announced the sale in a press release Friday. The sale is expected to close May 15. Company officials said in an email they do not know if the new owners will keep the Anderson-Tully name at the mill. Company President Richard Wilkerson says it's their hope that... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — Andrew McCabe, the onetime FBI deputy director long scorned by President Trump and just fired by the attorney general, has turned over to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators personal memos describing interactions with the president that are similar to the notes compiled by dismissed FBI chief James Comey, the Associated Press has learned. Mueller’s team of investigators has been examining Trump campaign ties to Russia and possible obstruction of justice. Читать дальше...

YEKATERINBURG, Russia (AP) — Vladimir Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday isn't in doubt. The only real question is whether voters will turn out in big enough numbers to hand him a convincing mandate for his fourth term — and many Russian workers are facing intense pressure to do so. Polls opened at 8 a.m. Sunday in Russia's Far East regions of Chukotka and Kamchatka. Voting will conclude at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT; 2 p.m. EDT) in Kaliningrad, the Baltic exclave that is Russia's westernmost region. Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A data analysis firm employed by President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign tapped the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, allowing it to capitalize on the private social media activity of a large portion of the U.S. electorate, newspapers reported Saturday. One of the largest data leaks in Facebook history allowed Cambridge Analytica, which had ties to Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon, to develop techniques that formed the basis of its work on the Trump campaign... Читать дальше...