Новости за 18.10.2017

Billy Joel is going to be a dad for the third time. The 68-year-old told The Belfast Telegraph that his fourth wife, Alexis Joel, is pregnant with their second child and the couple is due next month. Billy Joel’s spokesperson confirmed the baby news to CNN. The “Piano Man” and his wife welcomed a daughter, […]

When the wildfires roared through Santa Rosa, California, it burned the picturesque Hilton Sonoma Wine Country hotel, perched high on a hilltop, to the ground. One hundred and thirty jobs burned up with it — including that of Lenora Olson, the hotel’s human resources director. But she still went right back to work: finding jobs […]

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says players aren’t trying to be “disrespectful to the flag” when they kneel during the National Anthem. But the league still believes they should stand. Goodell, speaking to reporters after a two-day owners meeting in New York, announced no plans to change the league’s policy. It says that players should stand […]

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch called a recent report that led to the withdrawal of President Donald Trump’s drug czar nominee “complete baloney” Wednesday. Hatch, a Republican, set aside a moment during Attorney General Jeff Sessions appearance before the Senate judiciary committee to address a weekend report from The Washington Post and CBS’s “60 Minutes” that […]

President Trump has said that Twitter allows him to eschew a press corp he routinely decries as dishonest. But those tweets have led to plenty of bad headlines, and poor marks from the American public. A study released on Wednesday by Pew Research Center found that most stories that included one of Trump’s tweets “were […]

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday faced tough questions from his former colleagues on the Senate judiciary committee — forcing him to once again repeatedly deny any improper contacts with the Russian government during the presidential campaign. “My concern is you were part of the Russian facade and went along with it,” Vermont Democrat Sen. […]

They are the dueling imps hovering over President Donald Trump’s shoulders, whispering in his ear, cajoling, enticing, threatening as they stretch their president and their party in wildly divergent directions. And incredibly, you can see the influences of Steve Bannon and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell compete in the President’s mind as he ping pongs […]

It started with Ashley Judd. The New York Times story that unearthed the first of what would become more than 40 accusations of sexual harassment, and in some cases assault, against movie titan Harvey Weinstein started with an account from Judd. The actress told the story of an encounter that happened more than two decades […]

The United States is watching the humanitarian disaster unfolding inside Myanmar and will not be silent in the face of mounting atrocities, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday. “We really hold the military leadership accountable for what’s happening with the Rakhine area,” Tillerson told an audience in Washington, referring to the area in western […]

Fashion designer and popular “Project Runway” contestant Mychael Knight has died, family spokesman Jerris Madison told CNN on Wednesday. Knight, 39, died Tuesday outside Atlanta, said Madison, a photographer and founder/creative director of Obvious magazine. No cause of death was released. Madison shared a statement from Knight’s family: “We are still processing the untimely death […]

He was for it before he was against it. President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly crushed hopes of a bipartisan health care with the stroke of a tweet that recategorized a deal he had praised less than 24 hours earlier as a “very good solution” into something he “can never support.” The sudden reversal came […]

On Tuesday afternoon at a news conference with the Greek Prime Minister, President Donald Trump was asked about the Affordable Care Act and his decision to end subsidies to insurance companies to incentivize them to cover lower-income Americans. Here’s what he said: “If you look at insurance companies and you take a good, strong look […]

As the smoke over Raqqa slowly clears, questions about the governance of the Syrian city and its stability will soon need answering. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces — with support from the US-led coalition — have recently announced the full capture of what was until recently the de facto capital of ISIS’ self-declared caliphate. While […]

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey squashed any speculation of a potential 2020 presidential bid in a Wednesday interview on “CBS This Morning.” “There will be no running of office of any kind for me,” Winfrey said after host Gayle King teased about narrowing her shortlist of vice presidential candidates. “People ask it all the time,” King […]

Treasury Secretary Steven Munchin, speaking on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the 1987 market crash, predicted stocks will plunge if Congress fails to overhaul taxes. “There’s no question in my mind if we don’t get it done you’re going to see a reversal of a significant amount of these gains,” Mnuchin told Politico […]

This week, first lady Melania Trump will participate in a time-honored Washington tradition dating back more than 100 years — gifting her inaugural ballgown to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “Mrs. Trump had a passion for design starting at very young age, and had a very precise idea of what she wanted to […]

When I first met Diana Aponte, she had just lived through Hurricane Maria. She’d spent part of the storm huddled on the floor with her husband, afraid they would be killed and their hilltop home destroyed. But when the terrifyingly strong winds eased, her fears did not. Her husband of 50 years, Miguel Olivera, who […]

Kevin Smith got his big break courtesy of Harvey Weinstein and the famous filmmaker is no longer happy about that. In the wake of the Weinstein sex scandal, Smith said he will donate the future residuals from the projects he did with the now disgraced mogul to a women’s organization. Weinstein is the subject of […]

Somehow, one defensive answer by the President at a news conference has turned into an ugly dispute over what he said to the grieving family of a fallen soldier. It’s a case study in how President Donald Trump’s deflection on an issue and his unwillingness to back down on basically anything created a macabre news […]

After Hurricane Maria toppled the bridge that connects him to the rest of civilization and ripped the roof and walls off his house here in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, Ramón Sostre raised a weathered American flag above the wreckage. His message to the world: I’m alive, and I’m American. It worked, if temporarily. […]

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked President Donald Trump’s new travel ban, finding it still tainted by religious discrimination. US District Judge Theodore D. Chuang — who also blocked travel ban 2.0 — did not go as far as the judge in Hawaii on Tuesday and has only extended his order to “individuals with […]

Ford is recalling 1.3 million F-series pickup trucks, the best selling vehicle in America, for a door latch problem that could allow the door to open while the truck is moving. The affected models include some of the model year 2015 F-150’s, as well as some 2017 Super Duty pickups. In addition to the problem […]

Google, a company that’s built everything from a search engine to a self-driving car, will now try its hand at a city neighborhood. Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, is teaming with Toronto to begin planning a neighborhood designed as a model for urban life in the 21st century. […]

One of the world’s biggest mining companies and two of its former top executives are in trouble for allegedly overstating the value of a mine in Africa by billions of dollars. Authorities in the U.S. and the U.K. have accused Rio Tinto, its former chief executive Tom Albanese and former finance chief Guy Elliott of […]

I’m just starting my career and my 401(k) is invested in a diversified portfolio of stocks that tracks the overall stock market. I’m trying to decide whether to simply increase my contribution to my company plan or start investing outside my 401(k) so I can earn a higher return by focusing on specific sectors of […]