Новости за 19.09.2017

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the central Mexican state of Puebla on Tuesday afternoon, leveling buildings as far away as the capital, about 75 miles away. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) east-northeast of San Juan Raboso and 34.1 miles (55 km) south-southwest of the city […]

Three congressmen were among a group of protesters arrested outside Trump Tower on Tuesday, where they were participating in a demonstration in support of immigrants and protections recently ended by the Trump administration. Democratic Reps. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Raul Grijalva of Arizona and Adriano Espaillat of New York were arrested on civil disobedience charges […]

As peaceful protests gave way to violence in St. Louis over the weekend, a group of police officers were heard repeating a familiar chant. Whose streets? Our streets. Whose streets? Our streets! To many, it was startling. The chant, most often used as a rallying cry for people protesting oppression, had been appropriated by those […]

Those on the west coast will no longer have to stay up late to see the viral antics of “Saturday Night Live.” The 43rd season of the NBC variety show will broadcast live coast-to-coast, which means viewers on the west coast will be watching “SNL” as the same time as those watching on the east […]

Republicans are in a down-to-the-wire push to repeal the Affordable Care Act one last time before the clock runs out at the end of the month, and a proposal from GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy appears to be that last effort. Due to procedural rules under reconciliation, Republicans can currently pass a health […]

What do you do if you have just a single catchphrase — like, say, “You’re fired!” — and you need something fresh, something resonant, to hold the public’s interest? If you are President Trump, you borrow a song title from Elton John — “Rocket Man” — and start using it as a nickname for North […]

For millions of displaced refugees living in camps, the ability to survive and rebuild their lives often depends on transportation. Without it, refugee families are unable to get to hospitals, send children to schools, go to local job centers, even shop for food and everyday necessities. “Lack of transportation robs refugees of their dignity and […]

I first sat down to write a piece like this three years ago, when my city, St. Louis, was wracked with the initial convulsions of what would later be known simply as “Ferguson.” I didn’t submit it for publication then. I wasn’t sure it would make a useful contribution. I didn’t know if it would […]

On Monday, Senator Rand Paul said the Graham-Cassidy bill will not repeal Obamacare. This is the same faulty argument I heard from a few self-proclaimed principled conservatives in 1996 when we successfully challenged President Bill Clinton to keep his promise to end welfare as we know it. They said we promised in the election to […]

It usually takes several days to a week for a tropical storm to grow into a hurricane. But if conditions are just right, a powerful major hurricane can develop in just hours. The process, known as “rapid intensification,” has happened four times in the last month with hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and now Maria. A […]

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the central Mexican state of Puebla on Tuesday afternoon, the US Geological Survey said. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) east-northeast of San Juan Raboso and 34.1 miles (55 km) south-southwest of the city of Puebla, according to the USGS. It was felt in the center of Mexico […]

President Donald Trump’s maiden speech to the UN General Assembly was a confusing hodgepodge of tropes, themes and threats that made one unmistakable point: There is no coherent Trump Doctrine. He awkwardly tried to reconcile the notion of “America First” with a global outreach and planetary humanism designed to appease and placate his largely international […]

Republicans are in a down-to-the-wire push to repeal the Affordable Care Act one last time before the clock runs out at the end of the month, and a proposal from GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy appears to be that last effort. Due to procedural rules under reconciliation, Republicans can currently pass a health […]

If Maria’s track holds, Puerto Rico will take a direct hit. That’ll make Maria the first Category 4 or 5 hurricane to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years. In 1932, the San Ciprián hurricane made landfall in late September, pummeling the island for eight long hours. At the time, the population of Puerto […]

The NFL is finally back in Los Angeles. But so far Los Angeles isn’t showing up. The Rams played in front of tens of thousands of empty seats on Sunday, and the Chargers are playing in a stadium less than half the size of any other venue in the league. It doesn’t help that neither […]

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck the central Mexican state of Puebla on Tuesday afternoon, the US Geological Survey said. Preliminary reports put the epicenter 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) east-northeast of San Juan Raboso and 34.1 miles (55 km) south-southwest of the city of Puebla, according to the USGS. It was felt in the center of Mexico […]

There’s perhaps no clearer snapshot of the disconnect in D.C. than a week in which a small group of Democratic senators comes out swinging for a single-payer healthcare system, only to be blindsided by the news that a far larger pool of Republican senators are coalescing around yet another effort — the disastrous Graham-Cassidy bill […]

Four South Carolina high school students have been punished for sharing a picture on social media that appears to advocate sexual assault. The image shows the Westside High School students spelling the word “rape” with letters spray painted on their chests. The incident occurred Friday at a football game during the school’s annual Breast Cancer […]

Hurricane Maria’s destructive tear across the Caribbean is well underway, with the storm obliterating parts of Dominica, killing at least one person in Guadeloupe and threatening “catastrophic” damage to Puerto Rico. Maria strengthened once again Tuesday afternoon and is now hurling 165 mph (265 kph) winds as it moves in on St. Croix. “No generation […]

No American President has ever spoken to the world like this. In his United Nations General Assembly debut, Trump applied the disruptive, bellicose, nationalistic persona that shattered US political norms and signaled an attempt to transform America’s role in the world and the international system itself. “We must work together and confront together those who […]

Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 500,000 pickup trucks over a possible fire risk. The company said on Tuesday that some Ram trucks may be fitted with a water-pump bearing that could overheat and possibly cause a fire in the engine compartment. The water-pump malfunction could set off a warning light, and worried consumers should let […]

The latest twist in the investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia is that Paul Manafort, former head of the campaign, was wiretapped under secret court orders before and after the election — including while he was working with Trump. The revelation more or less stops there. We don’t know what investigators found, […]

Twitter says it’s getting good at weeding out terrorist-related accounts on its platform. In the first half of 2017, the company suspended about 300,000 accounts found to promote terrorism, according to Twitter’s latest transparency report. Roughly 95% of those accounts were surfaced for review by “internal, spam-fighting tools” — up from 74% in the six […]

Red meat met UN blue. President Trump came to the United Nations Tuesday, his maiden voyage before the international body he has long criticized, with a reputation for plain talk and far-reaching language — the kind of talk rarely heard in UN hallways. He did not disappoint. Teleprompter Donald Trump met domestic speech-giving Donald Trump. […]

French President Emmanuel Macron firmly rejected any military solution to the North Korean crisis and warned against scrapping the nuclear agreement with Iran, in an exclusive interview Tuesday with CNN. Macron warned that Iran risked becoming a rogue nuclear state like North Korea without the deal. “North Korea is a very good illustration of a […]