Новости за 24.02.2017

Nina Ragusa

In early 2016, travel blogger Nina Ragusa set a lofty goal for herself: Sock away $15,000 (or more) in savings.

And she did it — boosting her savings account by over $17,000 in just 10 months.

Ragusa, who chronicles her adventures on her blog, Where in the World is Nina?, has been traveling the world for over five years, and she recently spent a year living in Australia with her boyfriend on a working holiday visa.

Despite Australia's high cost of living... Читать дальше...

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US President Donald Trump's deputy assistant has ties to Jobbik, a far-right political party in Hungary, according to a report published Friday in Jewish media outlet Forward.

That deputy assistant, Sebastian Gorka, is a naturalized American citizen born in the United Kingdom to Hungarian parents. He once worked for Breitbart, the far-right publication that Stephen Bannon, White House chief strategist, used to run. He went to one of Trump's inauguration balls... Читать дальше...

Nicholas Eckhart

A tidal wave of store closures is about to hit the US, experts say, and the result could be catastrophic for hundreds of lower-tier shopping malls.

JCPenney announced Friday that it would close up to 140 stores in the next couple of months.

That follows decisions by Macy's and Sears to close a collective 218 stores in the first half of the year. Other mall-based stores including American Apparel, The Limited, Bebe, BCBG, and Payless have also recently announced... Читать дальше...

via U.S. Marine Corps

Since the days of Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock and his exploits in Vietnam, the image of Marine Corps Scout Snipers has struck fear in the hearts of America’s enemies.

And for good reason.

The Corps has one of the most comprehensive — and toughest — training schools for its sniper teams, with a grueling curriculum of long-range shooting, covert reconnaissance and advanced camouflage.

And that’s the problem, Corps infantry leaders say.

Marine... Читать дальше...

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Uber said it is not involved in efforts to collect personal, and potentially unflattering, information about Susan Fowler, the former engineer that published a tell-all blog post about sexism at the company. On Friday, Fowler tweeted that someone was doing research for a "smear campaign" against her, warning her friends to beware of anyone seeking personal information about her.  Many people on Twitter immediately suspected Uber as the source of the research into Fowler... Читать дальше...

Energy stocks across the board are down on Friday amid record US crude inventories.

Newsweek

The man who made offers others couldn't refuse once refused the movie industry's heftiest honor.

On March 5, 1973, Marlon Brando declined the best actor Academy Award for his gut-wrenching performance as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather." He did so for an unexpected reason.

In the 1960s, Brando's career had slid into decline. His previous two movies — the famously over-budget "One-Eyed Jacks" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" — tanked at the box office. Some critics said "Mutiny" marked the end of Hollywood's golden age... Читать дальше...

Snap

There is more than $10 billion of demand for Snap's hot IPO so far, according to people familiar with the situation who declined to be named because the information is private.

Snap's public offering is the biggest tech IPO in recent memory. 

The company is seeking to raise as much as $3.2 billion at a valuation of as much as $22 billion. Given the more than $10 billion in demand, that suggests there is at least $6.8 billion in orders over what Snap is seeking in its sale. Читать дальше...

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President Donald Trump fired up the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday with a speech that echoed remarks from his chief strategist, Steve Bannon, from the day before.

Over two days, the pair hammered away at the news media, touted economic nationalism, and decried the forces they said they believe are in favor of a global world order.

Bannon, who was the head of Breitbart News — an unabashedly pro-Trump outlet — before joining the campaign in August... Читать дальше...

The NFL's 2017 salary cap is projected to be $168 million, up from about $155 million last season. Based on that number (along with rollover cap space from last season) the 32 NFL teams combined have $1.2 billion in cap space to spend when free agency opens on March 9, according to data collected from OverTheCap.com.

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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have put the Affordable Care Act, the law better known as Obamacare, on the verge of repeal, but one of the law's biggest programs has continued to gain overwhelming support.

A new tracking poll released on Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy organization, found that a significant majority of Americans support the new Medicaid program expanded by the ACA. 

According to the poll... Читать дальше...

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On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and a third person, Ronald Wayne founded the Apple Computer Company. After just 12 days, Wayne decided that the company could open him up to too much liability, so he sold his 10% stake in Apple and had his his name taken off the paperwork.

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Two Alabama doctors face up to 20 years in prison for running an opioid "pill mill" out of their two mobile clinics.

On Thursday Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch were found guilty of over-prescribing addictive and sometimes deadly pain killers to their patients, receiving illegal kickbacks from drugmaker Insys Therapeutics, and engaging in insurance fraud.

The doctors were arrested back in 2015 in an ongoing, wide-ranging investigation called... Читать дальше...

Summit Entertainment

Oscar voting ballots are already in, but with the awards on Sunday imminent, everyone seems to suddenly have a strong opinion about who's going to win, and perhaps more importantly, who should win.

This year, the tug of war that's emerged is between the movie musical "La La Land," which ties the record for the most Oscar nominations ever, and "Moonlight," a critically beloved and smaller indie drama about a black man in three parts of his life.

Basically... Читать дальше...

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• Trump press secretary Sean Spicer said the Department of Justice may step up enforcement against states that have voted to legalize recreational marijuana, comparing it to the opioid crisis.
• While researchers do have questions about marijuana, most data shows it's linked with far fewer risks than opioids.
• Marijuana doesn't cause overdoses like opioid drugs, it's not nearly as addictive, and doesn't seem to be a "gateway" to opioid use.
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The Pentagon is kicking former President Barack Obama's preferred nomenclature for the so-called Islamic State to the curb.

While the Obama administration often used ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, to describe the terror group, a new memo from the Pentagon's executive secretary says the department needs to start using ISIS.

"The Department of Defense will use the term Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, when referring to this threat," wrote Executive Secretary Michael Bruhn... Читать дальше...

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Reporters from The New York Times, CNN, Politico, and several other outlets were reportedly blocked from attending a press gaggle with the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, on Friday.

The White House Correspondents' Association protested the decision.

"The WHCA board is protesting strongly against how today's gaggle is being handled by the White House," the association said in a statement.

"We encourage the organizations that were... Читать дальше...

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As promised, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has released the results of an investigation into factory working conditions, after a worker publicly complained, alleging that employees were underpaid, forced to work overtime, and regularly suffered injuries at the company's Fremont facility. 

Musk sent a scathing email to the troops saying that the employee's account of the situation was "untrue" on all fronts, published in full by Electrek's Fred Lambert. Business Insider confirmed the authenticity of the email. Читать дальше...

Selena Soo

Approaching important people can be awkward.

They're busy. They're successful. And they probably don't want to talk to you — right?

On Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income podcast, Flynn asked business and publicity strategist Selena Soo, "How do you respond to somebody who says, 'Selena, I'm too afraid to go up to somebody?'"

Soo, who calls herself "a really big introvert" explains that she tells herself two things:

First, "the moment you put someone on... Читать дальше...

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It's been a rough year for veteran MLB pitcher Jake Peavy.

As detailed by ESPN's Jerry Crasnick, Peavy is currently unsigned and waiting to sort out some personal matters before joining a team.

According to Crasnick, last February, Peavy fell victim to a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by a financial investor named Ash Narayan, who took money that was supposed to go into "conservative investments" and funneled it into a failed ticketing business.

The investigation... Читать дальше...

Associated Press

On February 13 in a Malaysian airport, two women allegedly sprayed poison onto Kim Jong-nam — the exiled half-brother of North Korea's ruler, Kim Jong Un — leading to Jong-nam's untimely death.

South Korean and US officials believe North Korean agents assassinated Jong-nam, according to Reuters, and on Friday, Malaysian police said they'd found VX nerve gas on his eyes and face.

"VX is the most toxic substance known – 10 milligrams of the oily liquid on your skin... Читать дальше...

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As TV networks plot to get a new generation of viewers hooked, YouTube stars are snagging “premium” TV deals like never before.

Many of these YouTuber-led shows are popping up on streaming services, from Netflix to Verizon’s Go90, but traditional stalwarts like HBO have also jumped into the game.

“We talk about it a lot in comedy development,” HBO EVP Amy Gravitt, who has developed original comedies like “Veep” and “Silicon Valley,” told Business Insider. Читать дальше...

Nordstrom reported fourth-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations on Thursday, and the stock is up 6.51% at $46.80 a share.