Новости за 13.05.2017

Finance chiefs from the world’s largest industrialized economies sounded a note of cautious optimism this weekend on U.S. plans for a tax overhaul, and agreed to bolster the financial system against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

A look at Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, a conversation with singer/songwriter Michele Williams, and where moms can get free stuff this Mothers Day.

Live coverage of President Donald Trump's commencement address at Liberty University.

Governments and executives scrambled to recover from a cyberattack that wreaked havoc on computer systems around the world, as the list of victims grew.

Celebrating Mass in Saturday morning, 100 years after three shepherd children in Fátima reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary there, Pope Francis canonized two of the visionaries as saints, saying Mary had given them a still-timely warning and message of hope.

Anna May Dutton makes time to shred at her Wyoming skate park for hours, even on work days.

Urgent discussions between the European Union and the U.S. will continue next week over possible plans by Washington to expand its laptop ban in air cabins on flights to America from Europe.

America’s main military ally in Syria agreed to let Islamic State fighters escape from a key battle earlier this week without conferring with its U.S. partners who targeted the extremists as they tried to flee, Pentagon officials said.

Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. on Friday filed briefs supporting a U.S. regulator’s lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. that argues the chip company used its dominant position in cellphone chips to force customers to accept unfair terms.

President Donald Trump's provocative tweets about former FBI Director James Comey and the ongoing Russia investigation are drawing more attention to a probe that continues to disrupt the Trump administration. WSJ's Shelby Holliday has the story. Photo: Getty

The Governor wants to grab a company’s ‘excess’ profits.

Bethune-Cookman’s president stands up for Betsy DeVos.

What we’ve learned in the Comey-White House maelstrom.

Research is often a wise investment of tax dollars—but agencies also fund ridiculous boondoggles.

Retails sales were so-so in April, and there are good reasons why people won’t spend. But that may be changing.

Amazon.com is making a major push into furniture and appliances, including building at least four massive warehouses focused on fulfilling and delivering bulky items. Furniture is one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. online retail.

A judge’s unusual recommendation for federal prosecutors to investigate allegations that Uber Technologies and a top executive stole Google’s driverless-car trade secrets casts a new shadow over one of Uber’s most critical initiatives.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has continued his predecessor Mike Bloomberg’s war on automotive traffic.

A college president explains why she won’t be giving a long commencement speech.

How many members of the opposition party did the previous administration surveil?

Anthem Inc. said it would finally give up on its ill-starred deal for Cigna Corp., setting the stage for a rancorous court battle between the companies over billions in potential damages.

A massive cyberattack disrupted computer systems in dozens of countries on Friday, with computer-security experts saying unknown hackers targeted a software vulnerability that had allegedly been exploited earlier by the NSA.

‘Mindshift’ author Barbara Oakley on the science and practice of learning—and finding love at the South Pole.