Новости за 16.06.2015

“I’m really rich,” Donald Trump informed supporters at his presidential campaign announcement. “I’m proud of my net worth. I’ve done an amazing job.”“I’m really proud of my success. I really am.” “I have the best [golf] courses in the world . . . I have one right next to the White House.” Read full article >>

No one was more pleased by the Food and Drug Administration's decision Tuesday to eliminate artificial trans fats from the U.S. food supply than Fred Kummerow, a 100-year-old University of Illinois professor who has warned about the dangers of the artery-clogging substance for nearly six decades.Read full article >>

The FBI and Justice Department are investigating members of the front office of the St. Louis Cardinals to determine whether the organization hacked the computer network of the Houston Astros in order to steal player personnel information.Read full article >>

A top House Republican Tuesday called on the government’s personnel chief and her chief information officer to resign after saying that she “failed utterly and totally” to prevent the massive hack that exposed the personal data of  4.2 million active and former employees.Read full article >>

The world’s largest underground aquifers — a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people — are being depleted at alarming rates, according to new NASA satellite data that provides the most detailed picture yet of vital water reserves hidden under the Earth’s surface.Read full article >>

At least six people are dead and seven injured after a balcony collapsed in the college town of Berkeley, Calif., early Tuesday, authorities said.Those who survived the collapse from the fourth story of an apartment building are being treated at hospitals for serious and life-threatening injuries, according to an e-mailed statement from Jennifer Coats, a Berkeley Police Department spokeswoman.Read full article >>

Reality TV star Donald Trump announced Tuesday morning that he's running for president.It was an announcement that lived up to the outlandish expectations that Trump's provocative personality promised. He arrived via escalator, insisted that "there's never been a crowd like this" (wrong), said he can build a Web site for $3 (?) and noted "I'm really rich" (mostly right).Read full article >>

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalized a plan to essentially rid the nation’s food supply of artery-clogging artificial trans fat, a move the agency estimates could reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of heart attack deaths a year. Read full article >>

A former high-ranking CIA official wrote memos passed by Hillary Clinton confidant Sid Blumenthal to the former secretary of State before and after the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Blumenthal said Tuesday.Read full article >>

There have only been 9 days this year when the police have not killed somebody.Some news outlets put the number as high as 500 dead in the past six months, according to both The Guardian and Killed by the Police.Net.The Washington Post’s own investigation showed nearly 400 dead as of the end of May.Read full article >>