Новости за 17.12.2015

How you view a debate depends greatly on where you watched it from and who you watched it with, whether you were at home, on the move, or following it via Twitter. The commentary and spin in the aftermath also bend the conclusions of every viewer, whether we realize it or not. I again had […]

Former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis has long been immortalized in books and museums and as a fashion icon. Her classic elegance served as inspiration for fashion designers, first lady successors and women across the globe. The late widow of President John F. Kennedy will be portrayed by actress Natalie Portman in the feature film […]

A man who owns an upstate New York food store has pleaded guilty to trying to provide material support to ISIS, including by recruiting would-be jihadists to go to Syria and fight alongside members of the militant group. In a plea agreement filed Thursday in a federal court in New York state, 31-year-old Mufid A. […]

A major identity theft protection provider is paying a record settlement over charges that it failed to keep its customers’ personal information safe. LifeLock will pay $100 million to settle contempt charges from the Federal Trade Commission. In 2010, the FTC alleged that LifeLock made deceptive claims when promoting its identity theft protection services. LifeLock […]

Augusto Maxwell was in Havana recently when his daughter called his cell phone. For most people, it would be an ordinary call — she was just checking in on him. But Maxwell’s daughter was in Miami and he was in Cuba — an island with no access to U.S. cell service just a year ago. […]

Ted Cruz, eager to extinguish any lingering liabilities with the conservative base that largely adores him, is quietly inching rightward as he surges into the Republican top tier. Few in the conservative grass-roots question his standing as a true believer. But with one eye on a threatening ideological competitor, Donald Trump, and another on an […]

Rapper Mac Miller, who made waves with his 2011 Billboard-charting hit “Donald Trump,” has put any ambiguity about his feeling towards the billionaire mogul to rest in a bombastic bash, tweeting “Just please don’t elect this m—–f—– man.” The Pittsburgh rapper’s “Donald Trump” hails Trump’s “I’m really rich” attitude and describes one who possesses a […]

Police in Belgium waited hours to launch a search for Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam because of a law that prevented house searches between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., Belgium Justice Minister Koen Geens said. By the time Belgian authorities searched a house in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek on November 16, Abdeslam was not […]

Congress took the first step in clearing a package of government spending and tax bills Thursday when the House approved a $620 billion tax measure. The bill freezes a controversial Obamacare tax and locks in dozens of popular tax breaks for businesses and low-income families that were set to expire. It passed 318-109, mostly with […]

A new hacker group is threatening to take down the PlayStationNetwork and Xbox Live, just in time for people to open their new video games on Christmas. The “Phantom Squad” has been tweeting about its plans for several weeks. The hackers have already claimed responsibility for other outages on the gaming platforms earlier this year, […]

Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli, widely pilloried for jacking up the price of a drug used to treat AIDS patients, now faces federal criminal charges. The charges do not relate to Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company that raised the price of the drug Daraprim by more than 5,000%. Instead, the federal case centers on his time as […]

Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose district includes the city of Baltimore, expressed hope and confidence Thursday that the justice system will ultimately render a guilty verdict in the case of one of the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray. The jury in the case against William Porter, one of the six officers charged in […]

Let us pay homage to the latest rock stars immortal and dig on some of the music that just got them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The pantheon of rock has announced its five inductees for 2016. The ceremony to welcome them will come in April. It took decades for the acts […]

The Communications Workers of America will endorse Bernie Sanders in Washington on Thursday, according to a source with knowledge of the endorsement. Despite a long record of supporting unions and marching on picket lines, Sanders has struggled to lock down national union endorsements. With 700,000 members, the Communications Workers of America is the largest union […]

Pandamonium is set to hit Washington’s National Zoo, as panda cub Bei Bei will make his first public appearance January 16. Panda lovers everywhere have long anticipated this moment. Bei Bei — pronounced “bay bay” — made his media debut Wednesday, as pictures of the 17.5 pound, four-month-old cub were released to the media. Since […]

Putting an end to a week-long mystery, the family of billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson confirmed Thursday morning that it has “purchased the Las Vegas Review-Journal through a wholly-owned fund.” The family said in a statement that it was “proud to announce” the acquisition, and said it never intended to keep the news a secret. […]

The United States recently delivered a new supply of fresh ammunition to Syrian Arab fighters battling ISIS in northern Syria, a U.S. official tells CNN. It is the third such shipment since the United States shifted away from looking to train Syrian rebel forces outside of the country and began providing weaponry directly contingent on […]

Argentina’s currency is set to crash by 30% on Thursday. But don’t panic. It’s all part of new President Mauricio Macri’s larger plan to revive the country’s troubled economy and encourage international trade. Argentina’s newly installed government announced Wednesday that it was removing strict currency controls that had been in place for the past four […]

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was dealt an eye-watering sucker punch by a teenager during a campaign event Wednesday. The young man got up close to the Prime Minister, reportedly asking to take a photograph, before unleashing his left fist into the side of Rajoy’s head. The punch knocked Rajoy’s glasses off of his face, […]

The United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to resume commercial air travel between the two countries for the first time in more than half a century, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge. An announcement is expected today. The deal was finalized last night. The official could not say when flights would […]

An engineer at Mumbai airport died after being sucked into the engine of an Air India plane, the company said. The deadly incident happened late Wednesday as the Airbus A319 was being towed backward from the parking bay in preparation for taxiing out, said Anil Mehta, an Air India official. The engineer, Ravi Subramanian, was […]

What happens next is anyone’s guess now that a mistrial has been declared in the case against a Baltimore police officer in the death of Freddie Gray. William Porter was one of six officers charged in connection with the death of Gray, a 25-year-old who died after sustaining a neck injury while in police custody. […]

Hey Pandora, how about playing a little “Celebration” by Kool & The Gang? Pandora Media shares jumped 20% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the Internet radio service received a favorable ruling on the royalties it’s required to pay record labels. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Board said Pandora must pay 17 cents per 100 streams between […]

Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis; your continued presence is a “nuisance,” the mayor of New Orleans says. And it’s time for you to go. Your statues, that is, if the city council agrees with him and votes to have the Civil War monuments removed — in the vein of the national trend […]

Donald Trump has written many books, but never one for children. On Wednesday night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that may have changed. The late night host told the GOP presidential frontrunner that he “ghost wrote” a Dr. Suess styled children’s book with Trump’s name on it called “Winners Aren’t Losers.” “Winners aren’t losers. They’re winners — […]