Новости за 15.05.2018

Yes, Facebook is still banned in China. No, Chinese advertisers don't care.

North Korea canceled plans to meet with South Korean officials and threatened to cancel the planned summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday.

Florida is home to the world's third-largest coral reef, but it's quickly crumbling away.

Younger Republicans are more likely to believe that human activity is a primary cause of climate change, a Pew Research Center survey found.

Eight-time All-Star Robinson Cano has been suspended for 80 games, effective immediately, for violating Major League Baseball's drug agreement, Z Deportes' Héctor Gómez and The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal report. Cano, who won a World Series with the New York Yankees and now plays second base for the Seattle Mariners, said in a statement: "Recently I learned that I tested positive for a substance called furosemide, which is not a Performance Enhancing Substance. Furosemide is used to treat various... Читать дальше...

The Shot. The Flu Game. The 10-Part Netflix Documentary.

There's no question that Michael Jordan's legend looms large, so ESPN Films and Netflix announced Tuesday that they are producing a 10-part documentary series about the seminal basketball player.

The two companies unveiled the trailer for the project, titled the The Last Dance, which will span Jordan's run with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s. Jordan and the Bulls captured three straight NBA championships from 1991-93, then... Читать дальше...

The Trump administration is apparently moving ahead with its plans to separate children from their parents in cases where the family has crossed the border illegally, The Washington Post reports. The controversial plan is part of a new "zero tolerance" policy announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this month when he said, "If you don't want your child separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally."

Ukraine is alleging that its military dolphins have all died because they went on a hunger strike after their aquarium was seized by Russia during the annexation of Crimea in 2014, The Financial Times' Max Seddon tweets based on a report by Moscow's Gazeta. The report suggests that the dolphins refused to obey their Russian coaches' commands and went on a hunger strike in protest of their new masters, which eventually led to their deaths.

Uber will no longer force riders, drivers, and employees who claim sexual assault and harassment into anonymous arbitration.

President Trump's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel, has issued a statement claiming that she believes the CIA's use of controversial interrogation techniques like waterboarding after 9/11 "ultimately did damage to our officers and our standing in the world," NBC News reports. While Haspel refused in her statement to "condemn those that made these hard calls," she explained that "with the benefit of hindsight and my experience as a senior agency leader, the enhanced interrogation program is... Читать дальше...

President Trump's decision to help a Chinese telecom company bounce back from U.S. trade restrictions may have residual benefits for his family's company, Quartz reported Tuesday.

Influential journalist and author Tom Wolfe died Monday at the age of 88, The New York Times has confirmed. Wolfe was best known for his novel Bonfire of the Vanities, which was adapted into a movie starring Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith, as well as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff.

The crabbing industry in Hoopers Island, Maryland, has been decimated by the Trump administration's visa caps, NBC News reported Tuesday.

The United States has blocked the United Nations Security Council from issuing a call for an independent investigation into the deaths of dozens of Palestinians who were killed Monday along the Gaza border, CNBC reports.

The Supreme Court just paved the way for legalized sports gambling in America — and potentially setting off an internecine fight among conservatives.

Nervous travelers will soon have to rely solely on mini pretzels to quell any flight anxiety.

Attorney Michael Avenatti found himself on the defensive Monday night, after a reporter at The Daily Caller published an email in which Avenatti threatens to sue the publication over unfavorable coverage. Avenatti, who is representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Trump, appeared to take a page from the president's book when he defended himself to CNN's Don Lemon: "All journalists are not ethical just because they're a journalist," he said. "There's good journalists... Читать дальше...

A top Chinese economic official, Vice Premier Liu He, arrives in Washington on Tuesday for five days of trade talks, the South China Morning Post reports. Liu's visit comes following a surprise announcement from President Trump via Twitter that he is working with Chinese President Xi Jinping on helping get Chinese telecom giant ZTE "back in business" after the U.S. banned American firms from selling parts and services to ZTE for seven years as punishment for its failure to respect an agreement on avoiding trade with Iran. Читать дальше...

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The Seattle City Council on Monday passed a scaled back version of the so-called Amazon tax, which will impose a $275-per-employee "head tax" on companies in the city with more than $20 million in gross revenue. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan had threatened to veto the original $540-per-employee tax, saying it would cost too many jobs, but said she would sign the latest version. The city plans to use the tax on big businesses to build affordable housing and alleviate homelessness. The tax... Читать дальше...

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Israeli troops fired on tens of thousands of Palestinians protesting along the Gaza border fence on Monday, killing at least 61 people and injuring more than 2,700, Gaza health officials said. It was the bloodiest day in seven weeks of demonstrations against Israel's blockade of Gaza. Israeli military officials said some of the Palestinians were planting or throwing explosives, and that many of those hurt had merely inhaled tear gas. The violence came in a surge of protest against Monday's opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem... Читать дальше...

On Tuesday, clothing retailer Gap "sincerely" apologized to China for a T-shirt that showed a map of China that did not include Taiwan, the self-ruled island China considers part of its territory, or Tibet and disputed parts of the South China Sea. A photo of the shirt, apparently taken at a Gap store in eastern Canada, prompted outrage on China's Weibo microblogging platform, China's state-owned Global Times reports. Gap said it had already pulled the shirts off shelves in China and destroyed them. Читать дальше...

First daughter Ivanka Trump helped lead the American delegation to Israel to ceremonially open the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, and while she unveiled the official plaque — with her father, President Trump's, name in a conspicuously large font — a few miles away, Israeli forces were firing live ammunition to keep Palestinian demonstrators from crossing into Israel from Gaza. By the end of the day, Israeli forces had killed 58 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,200 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry... Читать дальше...

On Jan. 30, a federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) staffer forwarded an email from another White House official warning that a Health and Human Services Department (HHS) study on a nationwide water-contamination crisis "is going to be extremely painful" to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Pentagon, and the EPA and Defense Department can't seem to get the HHS agency "to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be," Politico reported Monday, citing documents... Читать дальше...

Division in a political party can be a blessing or a curse. And sometimes, it can be both.

We are all familiar with the image of the worthless bureaucrat, the proverbial fussbudget whose real job it is to inflict tedium on the rest of us. The more pointless the mandated task, the more turgid and logic-defying the ad-hoc instructions, the longer the period spent by the unwilling client of the state in anxious befuddlement, the better. Every well-meaning liberal will say that DMV lady is a right-wing myth, not realizing that they say this only because they are incapable of recognizing... Читать дальше...