Новости за 04.04.2017

A Senate panel on Monday sent President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Justice Department’s second-ranking position to the full Senate with all but one Democrat voting in favor, giving bipartisan backing to an official set to oversee the investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia.

The conventional wisdom about a Kremlin-friendly White House is dated. Reality forced a change.

The Democratic leader sets a new precedent for the Supreme Court.

Google on Monday unveiled measures meant to help marketers track where advertisements appear across YouTube, in the wake of controversy over the tech company’s placement of ads alongside videos with objectionable content.

Obama’s security adviser sought the name of at least one Trump official in intelligence reports.

If bosses and workers socialize after hours, why not do it in groups of at least three?

Socialist voters are abandoning the party for a hard-left alternative.

Investors have shifted positions, dropping more bullish stances on financial and midcap stocks and turning more bearish on investment-grade bonds and biotechnology companies.

Mandating $15 an hour doesn’t help poor youth. It helps Flippy, the new burger-grilling machine.

Amid growing social and economic anxiety, some Silicon Valley figures who are heavily invested in the automation race support public policy or private-industry moves to guard against a dystopian future.

Why the most ardent racial nationalists are becoming increasingly secular.

Freedom rests on wings of butterflies—and the moral confidence of America.

The term is a polite way of demonizing the Jewish nation.

A newly discovered digital clue links the hacking group blamed for a multimillion-dollar cyberattack on Bangladesh central bank’s account at the New York Fed to a computer in North Korea, according to Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

In a growing number of stock offerings, insiders are winding up with far more votes than shares. Snap’s new shareholders in last month’s IPO got no say in how the disappearing-message app company is run.

Fox News contributor Julie Roginsky filed a lawsuit alleging she was sexually harassed by the cable network’s former chairman, Roger Ailes, and that he and other executives retaliated when she rejected his unwanted sexual advances.

Mylan NV was hit Monday with a lawsuit alleging the drug company overcharged EpiPen patients.

A blast tore through a subway train under Russia’s second-largest city Monday, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more in what officials called a terrorist attack.

Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot debunks a common myth about U.S.-China trade. Photo credit: European Pressphoto Agency.

Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot traces the politicization of Supreme Court nominees back to the 1980s. Photo credit: Associated Press.

Associate Book Review Editor Bari Weiss on a commencement speech to remember.

The league decides it will not send players to next year’s Winter Games in South Korea, ending a two-decade old partnership with the IOC.

South Africa’s credit rating was downgraded to junk status for the first time in almost two decades amid an accelerating drumbeat of calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

President Donald Trump provided a boost to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Monday, giving him a warm welcome to the White House as his administration shifts the U.S. focus in its relationship with Cairo away from human rights while emphasizing security cooperation.