Новости за 16.05.2018

Tom Wolfe, the best-selling alchemist of fiction and nonfiction who wrote “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” “The Right Stuff” and countless other novels and works of journalism, died of pneumonia. He was 88 years old.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to help accelerate long-delayed efforts to modernize the government’s patchwork of aging computer systems.

America has lost one of its greatest men of letters—a journalist, novelist and profound cultural observer.

A bipartisan coalition could reduce the worst farm subsidy.

The city taxes companies for hiring more workers.

Democrats try to rile up millennials about a deregulated internet.

Florida and Texas, the most populous states yet to pursue litigation, join more than a dozen other states in suing opioid painkiller makers, alleging they misrepresented their drugs’ addiction risks.

Gov. Cuomo uses up his state’s electricity margin of safety to advance his career.

U.S. forces are preparing for a battle with Islamic State over a valley that was once the Afghan hub of the group’s campaign to create a world-wide caliphate.

The moral panic over teens and e-cigarettes is clouding judgment.

Senators must balance doubts about the CIA nominee’s record with the agency’s needs.

They want my nectar and pollen. In return, they distribute my pollen and assure my crop’s spate.

If a bill has enough support to pass, House leadership shouldn’t block a vote for partisan reasons.

There is nothing we can do about it, except to build dikes and sea walls a little bit higher.

Producer Dallas Sonnier fled Los Angeles to create “populist entertainment.” In his October release, “Brawl in Cell Block 99,” Vince Vaughn portrayed an unemployed mechanic who kills drug dealers to protect his wife from a forced abortion.

The U.S. imposed sanctions on the governor of Iran’s central bank and another senior bank official, accusing them of funneling millions of dollars to Hezbollah.

Hours before Dita Oepriarto and his family bombed three churches, killing 13, the father hugged one of his sons during predawn prayers at a local mosque. The attacks, and another the next day that wounded 10, are forcing Indonesia to confront a heightened threat from hard-line radicals inspired by Islamic State.

iHeartMedia Inc. Chief Executive Robert Pittman collected more than $14 million in the 12 months leading up to the bankruptcy of the company he leads, his best year since taking the helm of the nation’s largest radio broadcaster.

Foreign governments summon ambassadors and the Palestinian Authority recalls its envoy to Washington. Israel pushes back by defending its right to secure its border and protect its people.