Новости за 16.11.2018

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' revamped campus sexual assault plans, more than a year in the making, are here.

A delivery robot crosses the road in Tianjin, China. | (REUTERS/Stringer)

Three months out from the 2019 Academy Awards, and Oscar season is already in full swing.

This weekend, retired Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jeff Rohrer will marry Joshua Ross, making Rohrer the first known current or former National Football League player in a same-sex marriage, reports The New York Times.

A federal judge will allow veterans with mental illnesses who were denied Veterans Affairs benefits to file a class-action lawsuit against the military, The Associated Press reports.

As if evacuating northern California's Camp Fire wasn't enough, more than 140 survivors staying at nearby shelters are now facing norovirus symptoms.

Could President Trump be looking to boot Vice President Mike Pence off his re-election ticket?

This week's question: A new study has found that vegetarians report lower self-respect and derive less pleasure from life than omnivores, possibly because they are made to feel odd or different by meat eaters. Please come up with a term for the prejudice faced by vegetarians in a society dominated by carnivores.

It looks like Mira Ricardel, the former deputy national security adviser whose firing first lady Melania Trump publicly requested, was not interested in the other job the White House had lined up for her.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is stepping down as Senate Judiciary Committee chair, paving the way for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to lead.

CNN just won a major victory in its lawsuit against President Trump. A judge said on Friday that the White House must restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press pass.

Amazon's HQ2 means up to 25,000 new workers could end up in New York City. It also means there will be nearly 5,000 fewer homes for city's residents.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is still receiving constant protection from the taxpayer-funded U.S. Marshals Service, and the security detail is now expected to cost nearly $20 million through September 2019, NBC News reported Friday.

William Goldman, the award-winning screenwriter behind The Princess Bride, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and All the President's Men, has died at 87, Deadline and The Washington Post reported Friday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended an inspection of what state media there is describing as an "ultramodern tactical weapon," The Washington Post reports Friday.

President Trump last week floated the idea of a "new election" in Arizona. But now, it's Democrat Stacey Abrams who may be pushing for that option in Georgia.

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Apple has signed a multi-year deal for original movies with hit indie studio A24, Variety reported Thursday. The iPhone maker previously set aside $1 billion to start producing original TV shows and films. A24's films include Moonlight, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017, as well as Room, Lady Bird, The Florida Project, The Disaster Artist, and The Witch. Founded in 2012, the studio has had at least one film nominated at the Oscars for the past three years, and in 2019... Читать дальше...

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Florida's secretary of state on Thursday ordered an unprecedented statewide hand recount of ballots cast in the state's Senate race between incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, outgoing Gov. Rick Scott, after a machine recount showed little change to Scott's 12,600-vote, 0.15 percent lead. Florida law requires a hand recount when a race is within 0.25 percent. Republican Ron DeSantis held onto his 0.41 percent lead over Democrat Andrew Gillum in the gubernatorial race after the machine recount... Читать дальше...

In a video posted Thursday, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) is captured saying at a Nov. 3 campaign stop: "And then they remind me that there's a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don't want to vote. Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that's a great idea." Hyde-Smith, appointed earlier this year, is in a Nov. 27 runoff election against Democrat Mike Espy to fill the remaining two years of former Sen. Thad Cochran's (R) term.

Britain and the European Union have a Brexit deal. Sort of.

As you surely know, back in June 2016, the British populace shocked the world by narrowly voting to leave the European Union. This was seen as potentially catastrophic for England's economy, as leaving the EU would drastically curtail the free movement of people, goods, and services that has been so critical to the U.K.'s economic growth. Since the vote, Prime Minister Theresa May and her fellow lawmakers in the U.K. and EU have... Читать дальше...

This is the editor’s letter in the current issue of The Week magazine.

Imagine a wealthy man who has an unhealthy obsession with ensuring he'll be safe everywhere he goes. Maybe he learns a range of martial arts and trains himself in the use of firearms that he stockpiles in his home and his car. Then he purchases the most advanced form of body armor he can find. Soon he's spending many times more than any of his neighbors on his own security — yet he nonetheless concludes that he's in mortal danger and must spend far more just to mollify his fears.

The American electoral system is a mess.

Well over a week after Election Day, multiple states are still counting ballots, while the president makes baseless and dangerous accusations of fraud to try to stop them. Even worse some voters waited in long lines for hours at the polls while others likely were disenfranchised altogether.

Maybe worst of all: We're patting ourselves on the back for the highest midterm turnout in more than a century, but it still may not reach 50 percent.

Do you hear that? That ugly splooshing sound is the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of the British people's faith in their prime minister.

The strangest thing about Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — the latest film set in the Harry Potter universe, out Friday — is how adult it wants to be.