Новости за 02.05.2018

The former local playwright launches her first weekly drama on Starz and hopes to do another in the city "where I belong."

If you’ve been harboring a faint yet nagging suspicion that white middle-aged men dominate our media landscape — you’re right. We might be living in an era of #metoo and Time’s Up but the disturbing reality is that the gender pay gap and workplace discrimination aren’t the only situations we have to deal with as...

Eight years after the designer's suicide, "McQueen" will explore his rise to fame — and untimely death.

Professor Lilliana Mason appeared on the Ezra Klein Show to discuss her new book on partisan “mega-identities.”

Need some advice for workplace hours if you don't mind.

Partner has worked at her place for over 10 years. Lately she went back from Maternity on agreed hours by both work and her.
Only few months later they decide those hours aren't suitable for them and ask her to change / shift her hours (start earlier finish later or vice versa) but she can't do that due to nursery run etc.
So she told them she can't do it, so they have taken hours off her claiming she has to be 'flexible', causing her to lose money. Читать дальше...

Shaka Ssali discusses Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the White House, on Monday, with Grace Alheri Abdu, VOA Hausa Service Reporter, Rev. Aniedi Okure, Executive Director, Africa Faith and Justice Network, and with Dr. Baba Adam, Ph.D., Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, at Merced College.

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, the newsletter providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by Business Insider Intelligence.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Wednesday and voiced hope for increased Japanese investment in Israel.

Tom McTague & Annabelle Dickson, Politico EU
Sajid Javid's appointment as home secretary will buy Theresa May some breathing space but in reality he's a sign of her weakness.At first blush, the choice of the first U.K. interior minister from an ethnic minority background seems the perfect response to Amber Rudd's resignation after the former home secretary's botched response to the Windrush immigration debacle. In his opening appearance in his new job in the House of Commons Monday, Javid dealt deftly with Labour's attacks... Читать дальше...

Viken Berberian, New York Review of Books
Back in December 2015, Armenia held a constitutional referendum to transform the government from a semi-presidential to a parliamentary system. The ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), a coterie of free-market business elites, oligarchs, and allied politicians, engaged in its usual election habits of vote-buying and other irregularities to make sure the referendum passed. The object was to enable the RPA's leader, the former president Serzh Sargsyan... Читать дальше...

Sherri Goodman & Elisabeth Freese, FP
Put simply, the damn thing melted, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer explained in recent testimony, referring to Arctic ice melt as the trigger for the new U.S. Navy Arctic Strategy that is to be released this summer. What the Navy planned as a 16-year road map is in need of updates after only four years, in part due to receding polar ice caps, which are opening new trade routes, exposing new resources, and redrawing continental maps, but also in part due... Читать дальше...

Suzzane DiMaggio & Gary Sick, Daily News
In a crisis-wracked Middle East, the Iran nuclear deal stands as a rare source of stability.Negotiated by the United States and the world's major powers, the agreement makes it impossible for Iran to produce a nuclear weapon while putting in place the world's most extensive inspections system ever negotiated.With this deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran effectively gave up sovereign control of its own nuclear resources for 10 to 25 years. Читать дальше...

Helena Wasserman, Business Insider SA
The US government has lumped South Africa together with China, its arch trade nemesis, in the latest battle of its global trade war.On Tuesday, the SA department of trade and industry announced that unlike the European Union, Mexico, South Korea, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and Canada - SA will not be exempted from painful taxes on its steel and aluminium exports to the US.Recently, president Donald Trump slapped import duties of 10% on all aluminium imports and 25% on steel. Читать дальше...

Edin Dzeko has equalised for Roma on the night but Liverpool have a 7-4 aggregate lead. Earlier, Sadio Mane and Georginio Wijnaldum scored for Liverpool, either side of James Milner's own goal. GameCast Live

Georginio Wijnaldum's header has restored Liverpool's lead on the night. Earlier, Sadio Mane opened the scoring before James Milner's own goal drew Roma level. Liverpool lead 7-3 on aggregate. GameCast Live

In The Moment ... May 2, 2018 Show 328 Hour 1 Sioux Falls says goodbye to one of its most well known business icons and civic leaders. Sylvia Henkin was the first female president of the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. She was known for her work on television and for her founding of the city's St. Patrick's Day Parade. She was unconventional. Friends say she exemplified the spirit of the city and its flourishing. She died Monday at the age of 96. In January, 2013, Sylvia Henkin joined Dakota... Читать дальше...

Frank Lampard has declared himself ready to move into management once the right opportunity arises. The former England midfielder has

L'idée que l'on se faisait de la formation des étoiles est remise en question par les découvertes d'une équipe internationale d'astrophysiciens, dont certains sont associés à l'Institut de planétologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble, en France.

Some Republican lawmakers have taken an off-hand comment from South Korean President Moon Jae-in — that President Trump can “take...

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• Every US president has their own unique relationship with the press.
• The Associated Press has been documenting the lives of presidents since the early 1930s.
• Here, a look back at how 14 sitting US presidents have handled dealing with the press.

The US president's relationship with the press has long been a complicated one, and it has varied from administration to administration. To name just a few examples, President Lyndon B. Johnson attempted... Читать дальше...

In case you hadn’t already heard, the world’s coral reefs aren’t doing very well as of late. Climate change is warming the world’s oceans, causing coral to die off at an alarming rate and the reefs which are still hanging on have to deal with a relentless assault from human garbage and other waste. Put...

Intéressant ce Grand Prix des 7 ans du Bonneau International Poney qui recensait, pour cette édition 2018, 23 partants, pour la plupart de nationalité française à l’instar des 6 ans (4 Irlandais et 1 Néerlandais seulement). Jeudi, la Néerlandaise Renee Hazeleger avec son hongre par Dexter Leam Pondi, Panfu van de Bisschop, s’était imposée tout comme la Française Elise Gueffier associée […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A rarely displayed lock of American traitor Benedict Arnold's hair will be exhibited at the New York fort he helped capture with the help of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys in the Revolutionary War's opening weeks. Officials at Fort Ticonderoga announced Wednesday that locks of hair from Arnold and his first wife Margaret will be displayed this weekend when the privately owned upstate historic site and tourist attraction opens for the season. Curator Matthew Keagle said the hair... Читать дальше...