Новости за 13.05.2019

A recent study published in the Columbia Journalism Review has revealed that Google's algorithm gives most of its Top Stories results to articles from just 20 outlets.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer who is the author of the book, “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil.”

Swedish prosecutors have reopened their investigation into allegations of sexual assault against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Sputnik spoke to journalist journalist John Steppling to find out what does this mean for Assange’s future and when will we see the extradition process begin for him.

A US Air Force task force of B-52 strategic bombers completed its first mission ‒ a training operation ‒ from its new base in Qatar on Sunday. The nuclear-capable warplanes have been sent to the region as part of US muscle-flexing against Iran.

A pilot for an American Airlines subsidiary was arrested Saturday for an alleged triple homicide of a couple and a man who is believed to have been his neighbor.

The Dow Jones Industrial Index fell more than 600 points on Monday, one of its largest drops since early January.

Former US President Jimmy Carter is "recovering comfortably" after a fall Monday morning in which the 94-year-old broke his hip.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Sweden will likely hand over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States given a history of extradition between the two, the website’s editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson, told RT.

The price of oil has recently been rising following news of the US’ increased push to curb Iran’s oil trade and Washington's sanctions against another oil-exporting country – Venezuela, sparking fears of a shortage in crude supply.

San Francisco police raided a freelance journalist’s home Friday, looking for a police report containing salacious details about a popular public defender’s death earlier this year. The report had been leaked to the journalist from inside the department.

There were earlier quite a few attempts to devise “flat” chemical structures from metals, but the structure of gold, for instance, was far too solid to do this. However, Russian physicists’ latest efforts appear to have yielded fruit after they discovered that molybdenum sulphites would be more active with regard to the precious metal’s atoms.

A teacher with Minnesota's Saint Paul Public Schools (SPPS) was recently placed on administrative leave after cellphone video surfaced showing her using a racial slur to refer to students in her classroom.

A fight between two IHOP restaurant employees in Dalton, Georgia, quickly escalated Saturday, resulting in greasy, flying plates, pots and pans.

The newly released documents have indicated that Obama administration officials apparently knew about then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unsecured email system and deliberately withheld information from the public, Judicial Watch says, commenting on 44 pages of records on the Obama White House tracking a FOIA request for Clinton emails.

The statement appeared amid escalating tensions between the two countries after Tehran last week announced its decision to suspend some of its obligations under the nuclear deal. Using the pretext of a possible threat from Iran, Washington deployed an aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf.

Although the gigantic Giza structures are a famed tourist trap, with anyone making their way to Cairo by all means dropping by to see the towering granite and limestone structures, little is known about the logistics behind the construction work as well as exactly which ingredients were used in the concrete mixture to bring together the stones.

The Russian president stressed that the US decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 2019 should be taken into consideration when discussing the future of the country's armed forces.

I watched Andrew Marr’s BBC interview with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and it was the most biased interview I have ever seen and clearly illustrated the point that the BBC is the enemy of the people too.

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who proclaimed himself the interim president of Venezuela in January 2019, earlier admitted that he considers a US military intervention to be a viable option to resolve the ongoing political crisis in his country.

Ignorance is the most potent weapon in the vast armoury of the privileged and powerful. The use of force and prisons to oppress citizens and deny them basic human rights is effective but tends to cause a reaction. People physically oppressed feel the pain and often resist and revolt against their oppressors.

The Irish airline is known as the ‘no thrills’ option for those looking to travel from the UK to Europe on the cheap. Yet, passengers on one flight this week got more than they bargained for when one Englishman temporarily plunged the plane into terror.

The buildings of the Casa Rosada and Argentinian Congress in Buenos Aires have been evacuated, according to the news website Timing Politic.

Ed Taoka and his young daughter live with two pets, Sonny and Cher, two of the world's longest and heaviest snakes – pythons – which are native to South and Southeast Asia.

The probe into the potential "collection of personal information by fraudulent, unfair or illicit means" was launched following a complaint by Le Monde and one of its journalists, whose name appears on the list; anti-pesticide NGOs Foodwatch and Generations Futures are also preparing to lodge legal complaints.

Beijing and Washington signed an accord to improve the mutual certification of civilian aircraft in 2017, but Chinese airliners have still failed to receive approval in the US despite numerous long-lasting attempts.