Новости за 13.09.2016

When Ethiopian runner Feyisa Lilesa raised his hands and crossed his wrists above his head in a defiant political gesture as he approached the finish line at the Rio Olympic marathon, it put the spotlight on his home nation. “Crossing my wrists in Rio has already had a great impact on my life,” he said. […]

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said Tuesday that he did not defend Roger Ailes when he was accused of sexual harassment, which is not true. In an interview with NBC’s ‘Today’ show, O’Reilly said he had only expressed support for Ailes as a boss, but never addressed the lawsuit brought by his former colleague Gretchen […]

Russian hackers broke into the World Anti-Doping Agency database, stealing medical data of athletes competing at the Rio Olympics, the agency said Tuesday. The cyber criminal group, known as “Tsar Team” and “Fancy Bear,” publicly released some of the stolen data and threatened to leak more in the future. The same group is thought to […]

A Virginia gun rights group is suing the makers of the recent documentary “Under the Gun,” including Katie Couric, alleging defamation and seeking $12 million in damages. The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court in Richmond by the group as well two of its members acting as individuals, alleges “actual malice” on the part […]

Joe Garcia, a former Florida Democratic congressman who is running to re-claim his old seat, apologized Tuesday for a bizarre and suggestive comment he made over the weekend about Hillary Clinton. During an event held Saturday at a campaign office in Key West, Garcia told supporters that Clinton “is under no illusions that you want […]

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday that as a “young prosector in the 1990s,” she and many of her colleagues “thought we had gone too far” when it came to the policies used to battle the drug epidemic, particularly those enacted under President Bill Clinton’s 1994 crime bill. Now, Lynch says she can see the […]

A former State Department IT staffer who was involved in setting up and servicing Hillary Clinton’s private email server refused to answer questions from a second congressional committee Tuesday, sparking anger among Republican committee members. Bryan Pagliano, who worked for the State Department during Clinton’s tenure but was also paid separately by the Clinton family […]

The middle class may have finally gotten a raise, but the gender pay gap is as stubborn as ever. Women working full-time made about 80 cents for every dollar that men made last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Census Bureau. That was up from 79 cents last year, a difference the bureau […]

Conservative House Republicans pressed a resolution Tuesday that forces a House vote to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. Louisiana GOP Rep. John Fleming? went to the House floor and notified members that he intended to call up a so-called “privileged resolution.” Under House rules, the body has to take action on the measure within two […]

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Backpage.com must hand over documents to a Senate committee that is investigating its alleged role in facilitating child sex trafficking. The Center for Missing and Exploited Children has identified Backpage as a primary online marketplace for child sex trafficking ads on the internet. The website was subpoenaed nearly a […]

Ivanka Trump is set to appear with Donald Trump at a campaign event in Pennsylvania Tuesday night, where the Republican nominee will deliver a speech outlining his childcare policy, according to the campaign. A Trump campaign official said that Ivanka, who will introduce her father in Ashton, Pennsylvania, has spent “considerable” time working on the […]

Indian entrepreneur Byju Raveendran knows the power of a shoutout from Mark Zuckerberg. Not only did the Facebook CEO recently praise Raveendran’s edtech firm BYJU’s — and consequently bring significant buzz to the startup — Zuckerberg just gave it a very large investment. The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative — founded by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan […]

Wells Fargo will stop setting the sales goals that employees say led to pressure to open millions of fake customer accounts. The embattled bank says the change, announced early Tuesday, will be effective Jan. 1. “We are eliminating product sales goals because we want to make certain our customers have full confidence that our retail […]

Facebook has lost its bid to stop a lawsuit by a 14-year old girl whose naked photo appeared on the platform. The girl, who cannot be named because of her age, is suing Facebook and the man who repeatedly posted her photo on the social network. A judge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, rejected Facebook’s request […]

The Israel Defense Forces have rejected Syrian military claims to have downed an Israeli warplane and drone over southwest Syria Tuesday morning as “completely false.” The General Command of the Syrian Armed Forces said in a statement that the incident occurred at 1:30 am local time Tuesday (6:30 p.m. ET Monday), after Israeli warplanes attacked […]

Hillary Clinton isn’t the only presidential candidate to fall ill on the campaign trail. But she’s the first to have her stumbles go viral after being captured on Twitter. The Democratic nominee’s pneumonia, diagnosed on Friday, wasn’t disclosed for two days until questions swirled about her early exit from a 9/11 commemoration ceremony and a […]

A new MH370 clue… A new low in the campaign… And a new reason to be wary of sugar (maybe). It’s Tuesday, and here are the 5 things you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. MH370 Blaine Gibson, the Seattle lawyer who’s self-funding a search for the missing Malaysia Airlines […]

Republican donors worried Donald Trump’s campaign is putting the House of Representatives in play are writing checks to the super PAC aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan, fueling a record-breaking haul this cycle. “There is uncertainly at the top of the ticket and we have a significant group of donors who want to make sure […]

A cavalry of top White House Democrats — President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden — are arguing Hillary Clinton’s case this week as the Democratic nominee herself is convalescing from pneumonia and absent from the trail. In Philadelphia Tuesday, the President makes his first solo campaign appearance of the […]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign will be in barber shops and beauty salons, at rec centers on college campuses and outside African-American churches running “souls to the polls” programs. Donald Trump’s backers will be collecting names and contact information from thousands of supporters at his massive rallies, as party foot soldiers plan massive door-knocking operations. November 8 […]

A conversation between dolphins may have been recorded by scientists for the first time, a Russian researcher claims. Two adult Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, named Yasha and Yana, didn’t interrupt each other during an interaction taped by scientists and may have formed words and sentences with a series of pulses, Vyacheslav Ryabov says in a […]

A dispute over water in India’s silicon valley has claimed its first victim: a demonstrator shot by police who opened fire amid violent protests. Demonstrators vandalized shops and set fire to more than 100 cars, buses and trucks in Bangalore, Karnataka Monday, after days of tension following a Supreme Court order to release water from […]

A British filmmaker’s artistic journey has taken an unusual turn after the huge container ship she was traveling on became stranded in the Pacific Ocean. The vessel isn’t stuck because of bad weather, pirates or an equipment failure. No, this is a case of bankruptcy playing out on the high seas. Filmmaker Rebecca Moss boarded […]

It was a bit of a rough landing. An Indonesian cargo plane slammed into the runway and skidded for just under a mile (1 kilometer,) tearing off its landing gear, while attempting to land on Tuesday morning. The Trigana Air Service plane was touching down at Wamena airport in West Papua, Indonesia, at about 7.30am […]

The politician who led the charge to impeach Brazil’s former President Dilma Rousseff has himself been ousted from power. Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, was removed from office Monday night by a landslide vote in the chamber of 450 votes to 10 with nine abstentions. Lawmakers decided overwhelmingly that Cunha […]