Новости за 14.08.2018

The Washington Nationals have not been super great in the ballpark lately, so fans of the beleaguered team are looking to celebrate alternate expanses of grass and dirt.

Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and White House leaks.

American millennials may have ruined mayonnaise, but at least they haven't launched an avocado black market.

Former senior White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman promises to keep whistleblowing.

The cells in our body are constantly changing and mutating, and it's specific harmful types of mutations that can cause cancer. Logic would suggest that larger organisms, which have larger volumes of cells, should develop cancer a lot more often than smaller ones.

You might want to keep a close eye on your bank accounts, because something wicked this way comes.

Paul Manafort's lawyers on Tuesday opted not to present a case nor call any witnesses, resting the defense for the former Trump campaign chairman just one day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team finished two weeks of prosecution, reports CNN.

If former FBI agent Peter Strzok had any money problems, the #resistance has almost certainly helped solve them.

President Trump is no stranger to Shakespearean comparisons, but they're usually not as favorable as the simile Howie Carr shared on Fox & Friends.

There's a new argument in the Apple vs. Android rivalry. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday urged Turks to stop using iPhones as a way to stick it to the U.S., reports The Guardian.

The names of more than 300 Catholic priests facing child sex abuse allegations in Pennsylvania will be revealed Tuesday — and some of them are still in service.

If you're a Republican candidate looking to throw a fundraising dinner, the location of choice in 2018 is a Trump-branded property.

At least 23 people died and another 14 were injured when a bus crashed near Quito, Ecuador, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Two in 3 Americans are ready for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to wind down his probe into Russian election meddling efforts and alleged Trump campaign collusion. In fact, a new CNN poll finds, they'd like him to be finished by the midterms.

At least 22 are dead after a bridge collapsed in the Italian city of Genoa on Tuesday, Italy's deputy prime minister told Reuters.

It's unclear what prompted President Trump's mean tweet about former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday morning, but he sent this short diatribe exactly 12 minutes after CBS This Morning posted a new recording from Manigault Newman that purports to lend credence to her claim that the president was recorded saying the N-word.

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European stocks bounced back from days of losses on Tuesday after the Turkish lira surged by 7 percent off of historic lows after a three-week decline. The lira still has lost two-fifths of its value this year in the country's ongoing financial crisis. The relief over the lira's positive swing combined with reassuring German data to offset signs of slowing growth in China. U.S. stock index futures climbed early Tuesday. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 were up by 0.4 percent... Читать дальше...

On Monday night, former Trump campaign officials Lynne Patton and Katrina Pierson unequivocally denied a claim in Omarosa Manigault Newman's White House tell-all, Unhinged, that they participated in an October 2016 conference call to discuss the potential fallout from a video of then-candidate Trump saying the N-word. On Tuesday morning, Manigault Newman dropped a new tape.

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Senior FBI agent Peter Strzok, who criticized President Trump in texts, has been fired for violating bureau policies, his lawyer said Monday. Strzok's dismissal came after the FBI's inspector general found he had sent text messages to FBI lawyer Lisa Page expressing contempt for President Trump. Strzok was involved with the investigation into Russia's election interference, but testified last month that his personal views did not influence his work. FBI disciplinary officials had decided Strzok should be demoted and suspended... Читать дальше...

Aretha Franklin, the legendary soul and pop singer, is in hospice care at her home, gravely ill and surrounded by family, a source close to Franklin tells CNN's Don Lemon. A friend of Franklin, 76, tells People she has "been ill for a long time" and her friends and family have been warned that her "death is imminent." But nephew Tim Franklin was more positive. "She's alert, laughing, teasing, able to recognize people," he told People. "Family is there with her" at home, he said, adding: "She's watching TV... Читать дальше...

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Vermont are holding primary elections on Tuesday. Republicans in key races in the upper Midwest have been battling over who can most forcefully renounce their former criticisms of President Trump, while Democrats are fighting to reverse recent losses in Wisconsin and hold off a Republican challenge in the race to replace outgoing, unpopular Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D).

90 Day Fiancé is totally trashy. It is also utterly fascinating.

90 Day Fiancé is a "documentary" series on TLC, following couples — one person is an American, the other is from a foreign country — who want to get married, and under the K-1 visa, have just 90 days to wed before the visa expires and the non-American must return home. The show premiered in 2014, and there are now two spin-offs, 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? and 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days. Yes, we can now follow along at literally every step of the journey. Читать дальше...

We yell, we fight, we argue, all in pursuit of a nebulous goal. Fires burn everywhere, insults are hurled across the room, and friendships are splintered.

Turkey is in crisis. And things will probably get considerably worse before they get better.

At a little after 7:30 Tuesday morning in London, a car crashed into a security barrier outside Britain's Parliament building, injuring at least two pedestrians, neither seriously. There was a large and rapid response from armed police officers, and the male driver was arrested without incident. "While we are keeping an open mind," Scotland Yard said in a statement, "the Met's Counter-Terrorism Command is leading the investigation into the Westminster incident." Parliament is not in session, but... Читать дальше...