Новости за 06.06.2017

As Jason Gayler was looking through old family pictures before his daughter Brittany graduated high school, he found a special photograph. It showed Jason walking 5-year-old Brittany to her first day of kindergarten. Jason knew he had to recreate it. So on Brittany’s last day of school in Alvord, Texas, her father walked her to […]

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday President Donald Trump’s tweets are indeed official statements. “The President is the President of the United States, so they’re considered official statements by the President of the United States,” Spicer said, when asked during his daily briefing how they should be characterized. Spicer did not indicate whether […]

Betsy DeVos said Tuesday that student debt is “of grave concern.” But Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee slammed DeVos, claiming that her concern for student loan borrowers is not reflected in the Department of Education’s proposed budget. Released two weeks ago, it calls for a 13.5% cut to funding for the department next year […]

The oil industry’s most powerful lobbying group met on March 23 with President Trump’s interior secretary at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. It also happened to be the same day the administration killed a rule that oil companies opposed. The location of the meeting is raising eyebrows and ethical questions. The Trump International […]

It seemed like Mother Nature was doing her utmost to help Kristina Mladenovic at the French Open Tuesday but she just couldn’t take advantage. Indeed this time there was no comeback for France’s top hope to end a 17-year singles drought at Roland Garros as the 13th seed was defeated by Timea Bacsinszky 6-4 6-4 […]

Is this the beginning of the end of autoplay? You know those pesky, annoying videos that automatically start playing when you open up a new web page, causing you to mute your computer and search feverishly for the pause button, or just close the browser altogether? Or, even worse, those intrusive pop-up ads that block […]

A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US bomber over the Baltic Sea in international waters on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry that was published on state news agency TASS. “On June 6 Russia’s airspace monitoring … identified an air target flying along Russia’s state border over the international waters of […]

Gold often does well during times of turmoil. So is it any surprise that the price of the yellow metal is up 13% this year and approaching $1,300 an ounce? Qatar. The latest terror attacks in London. The upcoming U.K. election. More drama in the Trump administration as former FBI director James Comey is set […]

All eyes will be on former FBI Director James Comey as he testifies before the Senate intelligence committee on Thursday. This is his first time testifying before the committee since he was fired by President Donald Trump. Here’s how to stay up to date and watch it on CNN. What’s happening? Comey is scheduled to […]

Police in Paris shot and injured a man who tried to attack officers with a hammer at the Notre Dame cathedral. Paris police told CNN that a man was shot after attacking an officer with a hammer. The attacker was wounded but not killed, police said. Police earlier tweeted that they were responding to an […]

Raqqa is the last city of any consequence still held by Islamic State in either Syria or Iraq. But after being pummeled by airstrikes for months, ISIS’ de-facto capital is now surrounded by US-backed rebels on three sides. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of mainly Kurdish and Arab fighters, launched the final phase […]

Scott Pruitt is the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Six days ago, with his strong approval, President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris climate accords — making America one of only three countries, along with Nicaragua and Syria, to do so. Given that context, you might think that Pruitt and Trump […]

Diamond Reynolds didn’t just watch her fiancé die at the hands of a police officer. She made sure the world watched, too. There was nothing Reynolds could do to save Philando Castile. As he bled, the officer kept his gun pointed into his car. Reynolds’ only recourse was to broadcast the shooting’s aftermath on Facebook […]

A “Friends” revival may be a dream for the show’s biggest fans, but it appears to be a nightmare for at least one of its stars. Matthew Perry is having some sleepless nights over how well received a new “Friends” show would be. “When I’m asleep, I have this nightmare that we do ‘Friends’ again […]

United Airlines says passengers are being involuntarily bumped from its flights far less often — a sign that new rules are working after a man was dragged off a plane two months ago. CEO Oscar Munoz told CNN’s Richard Quest that involuntary bumpings were down 80% in May compared with a year ago. “This is […]

The death toll from one of Afghanistan’s worst terrorist attacks in years has risen to at least 150, President Ashraf Ghani told reporters Tuesday. The huge suicide blast ripped through rush hour traffic in the Kabul diplomatic quarter on May 31, near the Germany Embassy and the Afghan presidential palace. At least 300 people, including […]

India has hit back at US President Donald Trump, after he accused the country of receiving “billions” of dollars in return for signing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. “First of all, there is absolutely no reality [in what Trump alleged],” India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told reporters Monday. “India signed the Paris agreement not […]

Diamond Reynolds, who saw a police officer fatally shoot her fiancé, Philando Castile, during a traffic stop last summer, will return to the witness stand on Tuesday. She testified briefly on Monday, shortly after the opening arguments in the manslaughter case of the officer Jeronimo Yanez. She cried on the stand after seeing a photo […]

London’s Metropolitan Police have admitted that one of two men identified in Saturday’s attack was known to them, but the investigation had been downgraded as there was no evidence to suggest he posed an imminent threat. Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley told journalists that Khuram Shazad Butt was known to police and MI5, but […]

US President Donald Trump’s war of words with the Mayor of London continued Monday, with the two men trading barbs even as the city mourns the victims of Saturday’s terror attack. Speaking to the UK’s Channel 4 News, London Mayor Sadiq Khan reiterated that he thought a planned state visit to the UK for Trump […]

So much for the eclipse of the Steve Bannon wing of the Trump administration. Barely weeks ago, after President Donald Trump described his firebrand political guru in a Wall Street Journal interview as just “a guy who works for me,” speculation was rife that Bannon was on his way out of the White House. But […]

The future is looking pretty sour for a major Chinese dairy firm. China Huishan Dairy says it’s missing most of its cash — about $357 million — following the disappearance of a top finance executive. The company, which says it runs more than 80 dairy farms, has been sinking deeper into crisis since its stock […]

It’s the biggest political crisis to hit the Middle East in years. Qatari nationals are now officially on notice to leave neighboring countries within two weeks after an unprecedented diplomatic freeze of the nation by key allies and neighbors. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and the Maldives said that from Tuesday […]

A Humvee screams into the field clinic a few kilometers from western Mosul’s current front line. A teenage girl is carried out, listless. An elderly man is in complete shock, unable to utter a word, and is helped towards a bed. A woman struggling to breathe is quickly given oxygen. Ten-year-old year old Mariam Salim […]

A former terror suspect with a “long record of violence” took a sex worker hostage in a suburban Australian apartment building Monday, in what police say may have been an attempt to lure law enforcement to a gunfight. One man was killed, and three police officers injured, as a result of the hostage standoff in […]