Новости за 16.10.2017

President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that he would officially make a national emergency declaration to fight the opioid epidemic next week, a move he billed as a “major announcement.” The measure comes after Trump, on the steps of his golf club in New Jersey, pledged in August to declare the opioid epidemic a national […]

The Producers Guild of America has become the latest Hollywood organization to condemn Harvey Weinstein, moving to expel the film mogul from its ranks in a meeting on Monday. The group’s board voted unanimously to “institute termination proceedings” against Weinstein, the Guild said in a statement. Weinstein will have an opportunity to respond before an […]

House and Senate investigators are turning their attention to a Republican operative’s hunt for Hillary Clinton’s private emails from Russian hackers — and his possible connections to senior members of the Trump campaign. The operative, Peter W. Smith, was an Illinois-based Republican activist who during the presidential campaign sought to obtain emails he believed were […]

Aaron Rodgers is one of the National Football League’s best players, and with his potentially season-ending injury, the NFL will be put to the test. Does the league treasure its fervent black supporters as much as it does fans of President Donald Trump and a number of other white Americans, who seem to believe they […]

The 11,000 firefighters battling “one of the greatest tragedies” to ever strike California are starting to gain the upper hand. But as more residents return home, many are discovering they have nothing to return home to. Allison De Toffoli took one look at her parents’ home and sobbed. “They’re 85 years old, and I just […]

President Donald Trump defended the federal government’s response to the disaster in Puerto Rico, and contended difficulty accessing food and water was due to shortcomings on local distribution. “We have delivered tremendous amounts of water, and then what you have to do is you have to have distribution of the water by the people on […]

Anyone who doesn’t understand why so many people have been aroused and inspired by Steve Bannon’s culture “war talk” should listen to the Paul Ryan interview on “Face the Nation” a few weeks back. It offered a perfect example of what frustrates them about the Republican leadership. Prompted by host John Dickerson on the issue […]

President Donald Trump said Monday that he does “believe Cuba is responsible” for the mysterious attacks that sickened at least 22 US diplomats and family members in Havana. “I do believe Cuba’s responsible, I do believe that,” Trump said in the Rose Garden. Investigators continue to examine the circumstances surrounding as many as 50 attacks […]

Daphne Caruana Galizia, one of Malta’s best known investigative journalists, was killed after a powerful blast blew up her car, local media reported Monday. While police would confirm only that the explosion had taken place, Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said based on preliminary evidence, indications are that Caruana Galizia was killed in the explosion. […]

California just became the latest state to reduce the cost of a public college education. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that will make one year free for students at the state’s 114 community colleges, so long as they are residents and new students who are enrolled full-time. It follows similar legislation adopted in […]

A North Korean official reaffirmed Pyongyang’s commitment to developing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching “all the way to the East coast of the mainland US,” on Monday, telling CNN that the rogue nation is currently not interested in diplomacy with the US until it achieves that goal. North Korea is not ruling […]

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did not use a government plane to fly to a meeting with President Donald Trump in New York in August, the agency’s inspector general confirmed Monday. New travel documents provided to the agency’s inspector general show that Mnuchin, along with his chief of staff, and Justin Muzinich, a counselor to the […]

Embattled Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper Sunday to address a myriad of topics including the potential for negotiations with North Korea, his hopes for the future of the Iran nuclear deal and reported tensions with President Donald Trump. Tillerson told anchor Jake Tapper that he […]

President Donald Trump said Monday his administration will start to consider reforming the welfare system in the United States, saying that some people are “taking advantage of the system.” The comment comes as the Trump administration struggles to get any sweeping legislation through Congress, despite Republicans controlling both the House and Senate. Trump failed to […]

The winds are unbearable. Huge waves are battering the coast. Sheds are blowing away whole. The sky has turned colors, from red to yellow, with a sometimes blood-like sun peeking through. But it’s not what’s happening that makes post-tropical cyclone Ophelia so bizarre — it’s where. The storm, formerly a category 3 hurricane, is currently […]

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran remains ill and won’t return to his Senate duties Monday as was expected, his office announced. The 79-year-old’s absence raises doubts about the ability of GOP leaders to pass a key budget resolution — a vote is planned later this week — that is needed to advance tax reform, a […]

The sky turned orange across parts of the UK on Monday as dust and smoke from fires in southern Europe swept north. The reddish tint was a side effect of the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia and the wildfires that have been raging across Portugal and northwest Spain since Friday. Smoke and debris from the fires […]

A video of Courtney Love warning young actresses about Harvey Weinstein has been burning up the internet. The video, which was first surfaced by TMZ, was shot in 2005 on the red carpet for the Pamela Anderson Comedy Central Roast. Love is asked if she has any advice for “a young girl moving to Hollywood.” […]

President Donald Trump said Monday his administration will start to consider reforming the welfare system in the United States, saying that some people are “taking advantage of the system.” “People are taking advantage of the system and then other people aren’t receiving what they really need to live and we think it is very unfair […]

Israeli archeologists say they have made a dramatic discovery adjacent to the Western Wall in Jerusalem after unearthing what they believe could have been a theater dating from ancient Roman times. Excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority are currently taking place underneath Wilson’s Arch, which stands next to the holy site in the heart of […]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is scheduled to have lunch Monday afternoon with President Donald Trump after a tumultuous several months in which Trump has attacked the Senate’s Republican leader by name and the President’s former adviser Steven Bannon has threatened all-out war on rank-and-file Republicans up for re-election. The meeting comes as pressure on […]

Wildfires ravaged northern California in the past week, leaving at least 40 dead, but even in the darkest of times, a glimmer of hope can be found. That’s what one Santa Rosa family learned after they found their dog, Izzy, still alive where their house once stood. “She’s doing great,” Jack Weaver told CNN’s Chris […]

The crippled Weinstein Co. may have a buyer — and he happens to be a close friend of President Trump. On Monday the movie and TV studio announced a financing deal with Tom Barrack’s private equity firm Colony Capital. The deal will help the studio stay afloat in the short term. But more significantly, Weinstein […]

President Donald Trump has made pretty clear he’s not going to release his tax returns, but that hasn’t stopped Democrats from scheming ways to make him do it. They thought they had a winning idea in California — just require public release of tax returns as a prerequisite for getting on the 2020 ballot. (Similar […]

Pollution affects us even in the womb: Women who are exposed to air pollution during pregnancy have babies with shorter telomeres (a genetic biomarker), a study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found. The length of telomeres — caps at the end of chromosomes, similar to shoelace tips — is considered a marker of biological aging. […]