Новости за 20.08.2018

Michigan's top health official will go to trial for manslaughter charges in the wake of the Flint water crisis.

Lunar vacations are inching closer to reality.

Astronomers have discovered ice deposits on the moon's north and south pole, a report published by the National Academy of Sciences on Monday reveals. The findings are the first "direct and definitive evidence" of water ice, the report explains. If humans return to further explore the moon, the frost patches could prove to be a source of water.

The Earth's moon, along with Mercury and the dwarf planet Ceres, were long thought to hold water on their airless surfaces. Читать дальше...

Scientists have long theorized about the origins of life on Earth. But thanks to new research from England's University of Bristol, there are some new clues to factor into the question of how our world came to be.

The Eagles' greatest hits are now the entire music industry's greatest hits.

This year's hot back-to-school trend? Bulletproof backpacks, jackets, and undershirts. Yes, MC Armor has designed reinforced clothing perfect for sending your precious kids off to learn, and the line received some airtime during Monday's Mornings with Maria on Fox Business Network.

The Republican National Committee announced Monday that it received unprecedented financial support last month, raising $14.2 million and breaking a record for July donations in a non-presidential election year, reports CBS News.

President Trump may hate the media, but his West Wingers sure love Meet the Press.

Rep. Beto O'Rourke's (D-Texas) campaign is heating up, in part thanks to his odious opponent.

College students who've swapped degrees for a life of video gaming can't be shamed anymore. The University of Akron is also swapping out 80 of its degree programs, building three state-of-the-art gaming spaces for its new esports teams instead.

A 16-year-old girl identified in court filings as C.R. was traveling with her adult sisters on a family trip to Mexico last fall when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents stopped her at the San Ysidro pedestrian port in Southern California. A drug-sniffing dog had alerted to C.R., and the agents demanded she undress, relinquishing even her sanitary pad, and squat "while officers probed and shined a flashlight at her vaginal and anal areas." No drugs were ever found.

A memo for Democratic candidates from debate strategists Ron Klain and John Neffinger advises an aggressive approach to messaging in the 2018 midterms. The document, obtained by Axios, advises Democrats to stay on the offensive this year, to "smile ... and attack."

The cloud of corruption surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is closing in.

President Trump's personal attorney and sufferer of chronic foot-in-mouth syndrome Rudy Giuliani made headlines Sunday when he declared "truth isn't truth." Early Monday, Giuliani hopped on Twitter to try to walk it back:

President Trump on Monday launched into a tirade against Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation he is leading into whether the Trump campaign was involved with Russian election interference. He claimed without evidence that Mueller has been "disgraced and discredited," writing on Twitter that the probe is "looking for trouble" while ignoring corruption within the Democratic Party.

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Greece on Monday officially emerges from $360 billion in bailout loans from its European partners and the International Monetary Fund. The conclusion of Greece's third bailout in eight years ends a debt crisis that included intense loan negotiations, austerity programs, and suspense over whether Greece would exit the euro. Greece's economy is slowly returning to growth after one of Europe's most brutal financial crises, and European leaders say the debt crisis that nearly broke up the euro is over. Читать дальше...

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Former CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday he might take legal action to challenge President Trump's decision to revoke his security clearance. "If my clearances and my reputation as I'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent Donald Trump from doing this against other people, to me it's a small price to pay," Brennan said on NBC's Meet the Press. Trump last week yanked Brennan's security clearance, saying it was due to Brennan's role in the "rigged" Russia investigation. Читать дальше...

On Monday, Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics around the world about clerical sex abuse, begging forgiveness for the "suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power, and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons." He called for change to laws and Catholic culture and asked lay Catholics to help effect that change. The Vatican released the letter, a response to a grand jury report from Pennsylvania, as Francis heads to Ireland... Читать дальше...

Crazy Rich Asians beat shark movie The Meg to take top spot in its opening weekend, bringing in $25 million in the U.S. box office versus $21.2 million for The Meg and $13.6 million for the No. 3 film, Mile 22. Crazy Rich Asians is the first romantic comedy in three years to win at the box office and the first major Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club in 1993. The film made $34 million in five days, easily recouping the $30 million it cost to create. "This movie is so... Читать дальше...

At about 5:30 a.m. in Ankara, Turkey's capital, a gunman in a white car fired six shots at the U.S. Embassy, the Ankara governor said in a statement, The embassy was closed for the Muslim Did al-Adha holiday, and nobody was injured in the attack. "We can confirm a security incident took place at the U.S. Embassy early this morning," said embassy spokesman David Gainer. "We thank the Turkish National Police for their rapid response."

Before watching The Last Sharknado: It's About Time, I knew approximately three things about the franchise: First, that the titular "sharknado" is a frightening selachimorphic weather phenomenon that lifts hammerheads and great whites out of the ocean and sends them hurtling across the sky (and space? Unclear); second, that Sharknado 2: The Second One is Syfy's most-watched made-for-TV movie ever; and third, that there are six more Sharknado movies than there ever needed to be.

To all appearances President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have a cordial and professional working relationship. This is in spite of the intermittent abuse directed by our commander in chief at the first elected official of any standing to have endorsed his presidential campaign, the adviser who did more than anyone, with the possible exception of Stephen Bannon, to forge from the raw material of American angst and nostalgia the would-be flaming sword of universal Trumpism.

On NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, Rudy Giuliani finessed his and his client President Trump's "collusion is not a crime" talking point to attempted collusion is not a crime. In the same interview where Giuliani declared that "truth isn't truth," host Chuck Todd asked him about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and Donald Trump Jr., Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner. "The meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about [Hillary] Clinton," Giuliani said... Читать дальше...

"Trade is a subject on which our current president considers himself particularly expert," John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight. The problem is, President Trump "seems genuinely confused" by the basics of trade economics, including tariffs and trade deficits, he said, succinctly explaining both concepts for the edification of viewers and in case a certain president of the United States was hate-watching.

A number of national polls have given Democrats the edge going into the 2018 midterm elections and a new CBS News poll of 57 competitive districts found a big reason Republicans appear to be struggling: women. In those 57 battleground districts, most currently held by Republicans, women say they plan to vote for a Democrat by a 12-point margin, 46 percent to 34 percent. Men, meanwhile, say they plan to vote for the Republican by an 8-point margin, 47 percent to 39 percent.

Taliban militants stopped three buses driving through Kunduz province on Monday and abducted more than 100 passengers, including women and children, Afghan authorities said.