Новости за 06.08.2018

It's green. It's sparkly. It's the size of a baseball. And it's 4.6 billion years old. Meet "Northwest Africa 11119," the meteorite that's helping scientists learn about the early days of our solar system.

Alex Jones doesn't even have a platform to share tin foil hat DIY instructions anymore.

President Trump had a long track record of calling people "stupid" — until he put "president" in front of his name.

President Trump doesn't see anything wrong with a little election meddling. On Monday, the president tweeted support for Kansas gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach, casting aside the opinions of his advisers and GOP officials, reports Axios.

President Trump has reimposed harsh sanctions lifted under the Iran nuclear deal. The European Union already wants to tear them apart.

Facebook wants to enter the final frontier of user data: finance.

The platform has asked major banks to share financial information about customers, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, in an effort to gather more data for new features.

The company proposed the idea to JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and U.S. Bank over the last year, the Journal reports. Facebook was interested in collecting information on card transactions and account balances, in order to show users their balances within Facebook Messenger. Читать дальше...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is the latest politician to invite Russian officials to the U.S., and he got a very definite "yes."

A small-town newspaper, The Robesonian of Lumberton, North Carolina, has stopped publishing the Sunday comics because the Trump administration's trade war has made it too expensive.

Not that collusion is a crime, but if anyone is guilty of it, President Trump faults Hillary Clinton.

Where once plastic surgeons would be handed an image of a celebrity to inspire their work, now patients are bringing in their own selfies modified by a flattering social media filter.

The Trump administration on Monday restored punitive sanctions on Iran that were previously lifted under the terms of the nuclear deal from which President Trump withdrew the United States this year. Additional sanctions will be renewed in coming months, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo indicated they'll be around a while.

MoviePass is slapping yet another patch on its money-leaking company.

Subscribers will soon be limited to just three movies per month, CEO Mitch Lowe told The Wall Street Journal on Monday. That's quite a downgrade from MoviePass' current service, which lets users see one movie every day for a flat monthly rate. Last Monday, MoviePass said it would increase that monthly price to $14.95, but it will now remain at $9.95, Lowe said.

MoviePass reported a $45 million deficit in June,... Читать дальше...

Conspiracy-monger Alex Jones has been on thin ice for a while, and tech companies have finally had enough.

Robert Redford is ready for his last (sun)dance.

The storied actor is rounding off his 60-year career with the upcoming film The Old Man & The Gun, he told Entertainment Weekly. There's a chance the 81-year-old will pick up some directing gigs, and he promised to "never say never" about acting again, but Redford told EW he's pretty set on going out with this "upbeat and positive" film.

Redford's role in The Old Man & The Gun, which is scheduled for a late September release, isn't too different from his actual life. Читать дальше...

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Chinese state media on Monday targeted President Trump with a rare public scolding over his trade policies, saying he is behaving like he's starring in a "street fighter-style deceitful drama of extortion and intimidation." The ruling Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper said Trump's threat to continue raising tariffs on Chinese goods was creating friction and endangering the credibility of the U.S. "Governing a country is not like doing business," the paper said. European and... Читать дальше...

The U.S. is participating in two wars in Yemen: supporting and aiding a Saudi-led effort to defeat the Iran-backed Houthi Shiite rebels and an older push to eliminate al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the terrorist organization's most dangerous surviving branch. The latter mission seems to take precedence, because the U.S. has frequently looked the other way as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and their Yemeni allies secretly pay al Qaeda militants to leave occupied areas, declare victory... Читать дальше...

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President Trump acknowledged on Sunday that top campaign aides, including Donald Trump Jr., met at Trump Tower in 2016 with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer hoping to "get information on an opponent." The comment, made via Twitter, amounted to an admission that Trump had dictated a misleading statement released by his son last year saying the discussion focused on the adoption of Russian children, not dirt on Hillary Clinton, as was widely reported. Trump said the meeting was "totally... Читать дальше...

Voters in Ohio's 12th congressional district are electing a replacement for former Rep. Pat Tiberi (R) on Tuesday. President Trump won the district by 11 points and Republicans have held the seat almost uninterrupted since 1920 — Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) unseated the rare one-term Democrat in 1982 and easily kept the seat until 2000, when Tiberi took over — but polls show an unexpectedly tight race between Republican state Sen. Troy Balderson, 56, and Democrat Danny O'Connor, 31.

This past Friday brought news that the U.S. economy added 157,000 jobs in July, dropping unemployment to 3.9 percent. The unemployment rate has only gotten that low twice before in the last 50 years.

China does not make life easy for non-Chinese companies. The latest example is Google, which simply avoided the Chinese market for years, but now may be developing a search app that complies with the country's strict information rules. More broadly, President Trump is in a major spat with China over everything from trade balances to market access to intellectual property.

The American West is once again on fire.

Huge blazes in California have destroyed over 1,500 homes and killed at least eight people, with others raging in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon. Overall, fires burn twice as many acres today as 30 years ago.

Wildfires are also raging across Europe, with fires 43 percent above average. At least 70 people in Greece have been killed and hundreds more were temporarily driven into the sea, while Sweden has asked for help with its own infernos. Читать дальше...

In these crude and dispiriting times, it's always worth celebrating when a rare blow for decency is struck anywhere by anyone. Following fast upon their recent triumph on behalf of children's welfare over the international smartphone lobby, French legislators have just approved a package of laws that make it a crime for louts to harass women in the street with catcalling and lewd comments. Le jour de gloire est arrivé!

Do you know about the Broad Channel bridge?

You probably do if you live in southern Queens or the eastern reaches of Brooklyn. You might if you've been hitting the Rockaways this summer, or if you frequent the Belt Parkway. Maybe you're just a lifelong New Yorker.

But if you're like me — you're a transplant who lives in northwest Queens and works in Midtown, and you don't own a car in the city — the reason you might know about the Broad Channel bridge is from the New York City subway's Twitter account. Читать дальше...

The federal government was phasing out private prisons until the Trump administration took office. Why the reversal? Here's everything you need to know:

August always reminds me of Idaho: the smell of just-harvested mint on the breeze, the corn rows I counted on the way to my grandparents' house, petting baby goats at the county fair, and watching my cousin during the rodeo barrel race competition.