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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge on Friday asked pointed questions about special counsel Robert Mueller’s authority to bring charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and suggested that prosecutors’ true motive is getting Manafort to “sing” against the president. Manafort’s lawyers argued at a hearing in Alexandria that the tax and bank fraud charges are far afield from Mueller’s mandate to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election and whether any collusion occurred. Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google says it will do a better job of verifying the identity of political ad buyers in the U.S. by requiring a copy of a government-issued ID and other information. Google will also require the disclosure of who is paying for the ad. Google executive Kent Walker is repeating a pledge he made in November to create a library of such ads that will be searchable by anyone by this summer. Google's blog post comes short of declaring support for the Honest Ads Act, a bill that would impose disclosure requirements on online ads... Читать дальше...

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It may not be a White House priority. But rising sea levels are critical to the service’s operations.

Stephen Hawking, the famed physicist who died in March, has delivered his last thoughts about the nature of the cosmos.

Baku/04.05.18/Turan: The trial on the suit of the former head of the Executive Power of the Jalilabad region, Aziz Azizov, against the editor of the site Azel.TV AfganSadygov is postponed for May 11. The trial was postponed due to the poor health of Sadigov, who has been on hunger strike in prison since April 30, Turan was told by his wife SevinjSadigova. At the beginning of the meeting, the judge decided to conduct closetrialat the request of the representative of the plaintiff, who ...

* * *2018 May 04 (Friday) 13:13:55Journalist on Hunger StrikeBaku / 04.05.18 / Turan: The arrested journalist Afghan Sadygov has been on a hunger strike for the fourth day. His wife Sevinj Sadygova told Turan she could not get information about her husband"s health.The journalist protests against unreasonable criminal prosecution and arbitrariness in custody. As Sadygova said, her husband went on a hunger strike on May 1 in ...

Ahead of Mother's Day, stars attend the taping of VH1's "Dear Mama: A Love Letter to Moms" special, airing May 7.

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• The Kentucky Derby is having its 144th run this year on May 5th.
• Wild fashions and large hats have long been associated with the Kentucky Derby.
• Horse racing and mint juleps are also embedded in the culture of the event.

Since the races were first run in 1875, the Kentucky Derby has been drawing thousands of celebrities, politicians, and Louisville locals to the horse track at Churchill Downs.

Started by Louisville Jockey Club founder Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr.... Читать дальше...

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• Low unemployment as reported in April jobs report means that the the job search for recent college grads isn't going to be too stressful.
• Growth industries like medicine, software, and information security are forecasted to grow by more than 30% each in the next eight years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• But job growth is slowing down overall, which will complicate things for the next batches of college grads.

Univision will expand its streaming service to include Spanish-language programming from the likes of Viacom, Televisa and BBC, the company said Friday. The company is positioning the $2.99-a-month service as a “Netflix for Spanish-language content,” it said. The expanded offerings will include both original and dubbed programming. (The actual Netflix already offers dubbed programs in...

Unemployment fell to 3.9% in April, the first time it has been below 4% since late 2000. That's good for workers and wages but could crimp the economy.

New York's iconic Plaza Hotel has two new faces on the top floor.

Kamran Hakim, a major New York City landlord, and Shahal Khan, founder of a Dubai-based venture firm, have reached a $600 million deal to buy a majority stake in the hotel. The deal should close June 25, The New York Times reports.

Talks of new ownership started four years ago, but stalled until the Plaza's current owners hired a brokerage firm in April 2017, per Bloomberg.

The Plaza is the only hotel on the National Register of Historic Places... Читать дальше...

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• Lower-income millennials are driving more than they did in 2001, according to the 2017 National Household Travel Survey.
• But the percentage of higher-income millennials who drive plummeted over the same time period. Across all age groups, a lower percentage of Americans are driving compared to years past.
• These trends could be bad news for luxury car companies.

The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) just released the 2017 National Household Travel Survey ... Читать дальше...

Translated by Ollie Richardson 20:56:01 04/05/2018 smi.pp.ua In the popular Kiev club “Bingo” a concert featuring the cult rock groups “Sokyra Peruna” and “Komu Vnyz” from the Ukrainian far-right scene took place. This was reported by the director of the Ukrainian Jewish committee Eduard Dolinsky on his social network page. Dolinsky also published some photographs from the concert. In the […]

• Marriage is an exciting, romantic concept, but it's also a decision that will change the rest of your life. 
• However, with some introspection, you can better determine whether or nor you are ready for marriage with your significant other. 
• Here are five signs, from experts, that you shouldn't get married to your current partner. 

Although you can probably pinpoint several reasons to marry someone, reasons to not marry someone may not be as apparent. After all... Читать дальше...

GREAT BEND, Kan. - The Bethel softball program (19-24, 10-12) made the 90 minute drive from campus to Great Bend twice over the last two days, in order to compete at the KCAC Championships for the first time in their seven-year program history. Clinching the seventh seed, the Threshers were originally scheduled to take on second seeded Oklahoma Wesleyan (29-17, 16-6) on Wednesday. Severe weather pushed this matchup to Thursday at 1:00 PM, where the Threshers could not put a stop to the inning-by-inning runs the Eagles were able to tack on. Читать дальше...

Marcio Misel Matolias is a real celebrity in Brazil and all thanks to his unusual home. For 22 years the man has been living on a beach near Rio de Janeiro, in a castle - a sand castle.

Der Eurokurs hat am Freitag weiter nachgegeben und ist auf den tiefsten Stand in diesem Jahr gefallen. Am späten Nachmittag kostete die Gemeinschaftswährung 1,1940 US-Dollar. Zuvor war sie mit 1,1911 Dollar auf den tiefsten Stand seit Ende Dezember gefallen. Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) setzte den Referenzkurs am frühen Nachmittag auf 1,1969 (Donnerstag: 1,1992) Dollar fest. Der Dollar kostete damit 0,8355 (0,8339) Euro. 

ATLANTA (AP) — This is not a rant against cheerleading. That's a legitimate sport, played by elite athletes — men and women — who are worthy of admiration for their daring and skill. There might even come a day when cheerleaders are competing for gold, silver and bronze at the Olympics. None of which has anything to do with what happens on the sidelines of an NFL or NBA game. Those are scantily clad performers are often leered at by fans — or, as we're learning, perhaps even worse. The #MeToo era is the perfect time to retire these objectified... Читать дальше...

Arsenal News HQ brings you the latest Arsenal news, match analysis, transfer news, injury news, team news and rumours from trusted media outlets around the World. Arsenal will have to pay Maurizio Sarri’s €8m release clause to pry him away from current club Napoli this summer, according to reports in Italy. One of the leading names for the Arsenal job is apparently Napoli manager Sarri. Tuesday’s Corriere della Sera writes that if he interests the club, they’ll have to pay up though. Sarri has a contract until 2020, and an €8m release clause. Читать дальше...

A surge of around 400 points on Friday afternoon for the Dow Jones Industrial Average has erased a weekly slide for the blue-chip gauge. The Dow was most recently up 397 points, or 1.7%, at 24,322, with less than 2 hours left of regular trade. The daily jump was sufficient to push the benchmark in to positive territory for the week, up less than 0.1%, along with the Nasdaq Composite Index , which was showing a daily advance of 1.9% at 7,219, with a weekly return of 1.5%. Gains for the broader market... Читать дальше...

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