Новости за 01.11.2018

A combination of machine learning, big data and tens of millions of satellite images of the planet each day is bad news for carriers of Iranian crude oil trying to evade U.S. oil sanctions. Here’s why.

Last year, Didi Taihuttu sold almost everything he owned, poured it into bitcoin and moved his family into a trailer park. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Thomas Di Fonzo goes on a year-long journey with the “Bitcoin Family” as they bet everything on a decentralized cryptocurrency future.

State Sen. Laura Kelly (D), Republican Sec. of State Kris Kobach, and independent Greg Orman are vying for the Kansas governor seat. The WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains why this race is worth watching. Photos: AP and Getty

The EPA extended by two years its approval of XtendiMax, a version of the herbicide dicamba made by Bayer, which some farmers and researchers have blamed for damaging millions of acres of crops.

Friedrich Merz, a corporate lawyer and former Conservative party chieftain, said he would aim to renew the party and establish close ties with Western democracies but wouldn’t push for a radical overturn of current policies.

The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to halt the war in Yemen, a move diplomats and U.S. officials said is fueled by concern over the humanitarian toll and by eroding support in Congress for Saudi Arabia heightened by the slaying of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest mining company by market value, announced a stock buyback and special dividend. The miner is under pressure from activist investor Elliott Management.

‘Is the child of a Gypsy born in Pennsylvania a citizen?’ a senator asked in 1866. The answer is yes.

The latest research shows the losers from a $15 minimum wage.

Why the fall from super-high values shouldn’t hurt the larger economy.

Belgian authorities said they stopped an Iranian émigré and his wife on their way to a conference outside Paris in June and found a device that contained a powerful explosive. The allegation of a plot on French soil is jeopardizing Europe’s support for the Iran nuclear deal.

Rep. Steve Stivers rebukes a colleague for canoodling with the ugly right.

Every half-awake Democrat will pretend each midterm vote cast is against him.

In key Senate races, the numbers so far suggest a major GOP swing since 2016.

If you want to cut middle-class taxes, go where the money is: Social Security.

Anti-Semitism is a politics of misdirected blame. Today its most frequent target is the state of Israel.

Trump’s critics misread the text and history of the 14th Amendment.

A Pakistani Christian mother whose death sentence for blasphemy sparked an international outcry was freed by the country’s highest court.

Desperate refugees spread malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue and tuberculosis to neighboring countries as health-care system implodes.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office says encrypted cellphones and tablets continue to hinder its investigations, preventing local prosecutors from solving crimes and winning cases.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he aims during a meeting next week with North Korea to arrange a second Trump-Kim summit early next year that could yield a ‘substantial breakthrough.’

The Treasury said it would boost the size of its debt auctions to meet funding needs caused by swelling budget deficits and a shrinking Federal Reserve portfolio.