Новости за 12.02.2017

Neighborhood opposition and environmental regulations, many dating from the 1960s and 1970s, routinely bog down ambitious projects. The required reviews and frequent legal challenges will likely constrain the administration’s plan to spend $1 trillion on ‘highways, bridges, tunnels, airports.’

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday blasted President Donald Trump for failing to keep his campaign promises to American families, tapping into growing discontent against a number of initiatives by the new administration.

In a crowded and broadly successful weekend box office, “The Lego Batman Movie” beat out the sequels “Fifty Shades Darker” and “John Wick: Chapter 2.” It was the first time in seven years that three movies opened to more than $30 million on the same weekend.

President Donald Trump’s advisers are considering an industry proposal to send a manned spacecraft to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope within the next few years.

The Trump administration looks likely to change a foundational principle of America’s tech ecosystem. And consumers are going to love the government’s possible first steps at dismantling net neutrality, writes Christopher Mims.

Cybersecurity specialists have found evidence suggesting that recent attacks on institutions in Poland are part of an international hacking effort targeting financial institutions—an attack that shares traits with the 2014 attack on Sony Corp.

President Donald Trump’s threats to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement and build a wall at the U.S southern border are causing a reckoning for the Mexican economy before a single cinder block has been set or trade negotiation scheduled.

A band of self-proclaimed patriots in India is urging millions of countrymen to give up cash and use e-payments instead, to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign to fight counterfeiting and tax evasion. Video/Photo: Karan Deep Singh/The Wall Street Journal

Swiss voters rejected a corporate tax overhaul plan backed by the government, casting uncertainty over hopes to bring the country’s tax policies in line with international norms while maintaining global competitiveness.

Even as auto makers bristle against national emissions standards, California is arguably a bigger challenge, with its mandates that more cleaner cars be produced though they remain a tiny share of overall U.S. car sales.

The UFC has its first champion of the newly formed featherweight division following Germaine de Randamie’s unanimous decision victory over Holly Holm.

The UFC has its first champion of the newly formed featherweight division following Germaine de Randamie’s unanimous decision victory over Holly Holm.

Philippine officials on Sunday warned survivors of a powerful earthquake in the country’s south to ensure their homes and buildings are sturdy enough before venturing back amid continuing aftershocks.

Former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected president, taking on the prestigious but largely ceremonial position months before rival Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a big election test.

Mexican officials at a meeting in Phoenix called for support for a plan to jam U.S. immigration courts, while their undocumented compatriots urged lawmakers to make deep reforms at home.

A Romanian prosecutor and her team’s anticorruption investigations have drawn fierce resistance from the government, sparking the nation’s biggest protests since the fall of Communism.

Japanese companies are raising their earnings forecasts thanks to the recent sharp weakening of the yen, although many are wary of being knocked off course by the trade policies and comments of U.S. President Donald Trump.

The former Goldman Sachs executive and commodities trader has moved into position as President Donald Trump’s most powerful economic policy maker during the early days of the administration. Mr. Cohn is capitalizing on a vacuum created while other top posts sit vacant.

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau will visit President Trump in Washington on Monday seeking common ground despite some policy differences.

As President Donald Trump upends bilateral relations with Mexico, its leftist presidential hopeful Andrés Manuel López Obrador is gaining momentum on the back of a nationalist backlash against the U.S.

Whale lovers in New Zealand finally got some good news after more than 200 stranded whales managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away.

U.K. Defense Minister Michael Fallon said the British-American defense partnership has never been stronger and that Trump has likely galvanized the two countries’ efforts to strengthen NATO and to push allies to contribute more to mutual defense.

President Donald Trump gave no indication of how the U.S. would respond to North Korea, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the launch was “absolutely intolerable.”

The U.S.-educated Mexican economists who negotiated the trade pact in the 1980s are worried more about their own country’s protectionist tendencies than about Donald Trump.