Новости за 30.03.2017

Don’t hold your breath for President Trump to save your Internet privacy. The White House said Thursday it supports Congress’ controversial decision to repeal Internet privacy protections, claiming it will create an “equal playing field” between Internet service providers and tech companies. The privacy protections were approved by the Federal Communications Commission in the final […]

Eufaula High School senior Bryce Maine celebrated turning 18 by making a very sweet request — he asked his grandmother to prom. They made arrangements and she even bought a dress — but then the school said no. “She’s never been to a prom so I figured, ‘Why not take her?'” Maine said. “Every woman […]

The Lifetime reality series “Dance Moms” might be better known for its drama than dancing. The series followed the exploits of choreographer and dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, who frequently battled with the mothers of her young students. Miller suddenly announced her departure from the series earlier this week, in true theatrical form. Here’s what […]

Mexico’s contingency plan for President Trump may be working after all. Its central bank raised interest rates for the fourth time since the U.S. election on Thursday, partly in an attempt to save the Mexican peso, which hit an all-time low on January 20, Trump’s inauguration day. Mexico’s central bank raise rates by 0.25 percentage […]

Russian interference with American politics did not stop after the election, and prominent Republicans — including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Marco Rubio — have been targeted by coordinated social media attacks, cybersecurity experts told a Senate panel Thursday. Rubio — a former primary opponent of President Donald Trump — announced at a Senate […]

A mom and dad in Georgia are suing the Georgia Department of Health because they refused to let the couple give their daughter the surname “Allah.” Elizabeth Handy and Bilal Walk’s baby girl is now almost two years old, and she still doesn’t have a last name or a birth certificate. Their chosen name, ZalyKha […]

It’s a dangerous world for pedestrians, and smartphones aren’t helping. A new report estimates that in 2016, the United States saw its largest annual increase in pedestrian fatalities since such record keeping began 40 years ago. “This is unprecedented and, quite honestly, shocking,” Richard Retting, the report’s author, told CNNTech. “I’ve been in the highway […]

The White House said Thursday it was inviting the top-ranking lawmakers on the House and Senate intelligence committees to view materials it said had been uncovered in the course of looking into President Donald Trump’s claims he’d been surveilled by the Obama administration. “We are willing to provide them with information that we have, the […]

Aaron Hernandez’s fiancée testified Thursday in the former NFL star’s double murder trial that she couldn’t recall key conversations she had with him and didn’t ask him what happened to a friend of his who was shot in the face. “I learned to keep my mouth shut in certain situations,” Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez said Thursday, […]

National Republicans are racing into the northern Atlanta suburbs amid fears that an energized anti-Donald Trump resistance and a disengaged conservative electorate could allow Democrat Jon Ossoff to pick off a House seat that has been in GOP hands for decades. The moves come three weeks before a special election to replace former Republican Rep. […]

President Donald Trump appeared to target conservative House members within his own party in a tweet Thursday morning that told his supporters “We must fight” the House Freedom Caucus as well as Democrats next year. “The Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don’t get on the team, & fast. We must […]

A new series of portraits celebrating women and ethnic minorities will soon adorn the walls of Oxford University. Over 20 new portraits — a mix of paintings and photographs — were commissioned in a bid to diversify the range of alumni and staff currently on display in public spaces around the university’s campuses. “We’re not […]

The scale of the task facing UK legislators as they try to extricate Britain from the European Union was revealed on Thursday when the British government set out how the process would work. Unveiling plans to convert EU law into domestic law, the government disclosed that 12,000 EU regulations are in force in Britain. About […]

Virginia Tech Professor Marc Edwards released to CNN the unpublished results of a study that show the Flint water crisis most likely caused the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires disease that killed at least 12 people since 2014. Edwards is the independent Virginia Tech researcher who found lead in Flint’s drinking water back in 2015, when […]

Theresa May is taking a lead from a frequently divorced former monarch in preparing the way for life after the Brexit break-up. In order to deal with tens of thousands of EU laws, regulations, treaties and directives that must be incorporated into UK law on Brexit Day, the British government wants to invoke controversial powers […]

Nine Malaysian citizens barred from leaving North Korea after the murder of Kim Jong Nam have finally been allowed to return home, Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak announced in a statement Thursday. The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s murdered half-brother will also now be allowed to return to North Korea, the statement […]

Santa Muerte, or “Saint Death,” is a Mexican folk religion that combines traditional aspects of Catholicism with ancient Aztec religiosity to form a new faith. As the patron saint of death, Santa Muerte is a kind of spiritual protector for a growing legion of Mexicans who feel unprotected by the state and cast aside by […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has described allegations that his country meddled in the 2016 US election as “fictional, illusory, provocations and lies.” Asked directly on Thursday whether Russia interfered in the election, Putin said: “Read my lips: No.” He was speaking at a panel session in the Russian city of Archangel. Intelligence committees from both […]

The removal of a massive church organ in Rhode Island has uncovered a 170-year-old mystery involving the carved faces of a woman. Workers were removing the 2,400-pipe organ from St. Mary’s Church in Newport for renovation, when they discovered the profile in each corner of the choir loft, Rev. Kris von Maluski told CNN affiliate […]

It isn’t easy for Alex Jones to admit he’s wrong — apparently, it takes a couple tries. Jones, the conspiracy theorist and proprietor of the right-wing website Infowars, offered a rare apology last week for his role in promoting a false conspiracy theory that a child sex ring was being run out of a nonexistent […]

Thirteen people traveling in a minibus bringing senior churchgoers back from a retreat were killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash in the Texas Hill Country, officials said. Two people were injured, including the driver of a large white pickup that collided with the bus, said Sgt. Conrad Hein with the Texas Department of Public Safety. […]

Africans living in northern India are locking themselves indoors in terror after a spate of mob attacks left several hospitalized. Multiple attacks on Kenyan and Nigerian students have been reported this week in Greater Noida, 18 miles southeast of the capital New Delhi. Nine Nigerians were attacked, including five who were wounded and two who […]

As the White House scans Washington for a bounce-back win after the Obamacare imbroglio, the political forecast is promising only heavy weather. An unappetizing list of looming congressional showdowns, complex, months-long legislative challenges and intractable threats to President Donald Trump’s standing threaten to make the failed health care push look like a small setback. Approaching […]

Late Wednesday night, North Carolina lawmakers and the governor reached an agreement to repeal the state’s controversial “bathroom bill,” called HB2. But LGBT groups immediately criticized the deal saying it was a “repeal” in name only with one advocate calling it “HB2.0,” and fails to protect transgender people from discrimination. The repeal goes to a […]

A federal judge in Hawaii granted the state’s request for a longer term halt of the revised travel ban executive order Wednesday. US District Court Judge Derrick Watson blocked the core provisions of the revised executive order two weeks ago, concluding that the order likely violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution by disfavoring Muslims. […]