Новости за 03.04.2018

An MSNBC panel on Tuesday called out EPA Director Scott Pruitt for corruption and defying the White House by giving raises to his favorite aides. After it was reported on Monday that Pruitt might be the next Trump administration official to be fired, President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff John Ke...

True to his word, the United States President Donald Trump fired the opening shots of a likely trade war. His primary target is none other than China, the world’s leading trading nation, which is well on its way to becoming the world’s biggest economy in coming years....

Queen Elizabeth II’s 96-year-old husband Prince Philip was admitted to hospital in London on Tuesday for planned surgery on his hip, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. “His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital in London this afternoon, for pla...

On the outskirts of Collinsville, Illinois, in the early hours of April 5, 1918, a small group of men lynched German immigrant Robert Paul Prager. Born in Dresden, Prager had come to America in 1905 looking for opportunity. Traveling through the Midwest, he worked as a skilled union baker, and durin...

If you use Google or Facebook, you may have wondered just how much of your personal data these big internet giants have access to. This is a good question to ask in our modern era of Big Data, constant connectivity and rapidly decreasing personal privacy. Some people, like Washington State Chief Pri...

A Dutch attorney was sentenced to 30 days in prison as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia. Alex van der Zwaan, who pleaded guilty in February to lying to investigators, became the first person sentenced in the sprawling probe of Russian at...

Could “fake news” have helped determine the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Social media users and intensely partisan news broadcasts disseminated a massive number of messages during the campaign. Many of these messages demonized candidates and seriously distorted the facts presented to v...

A group of U.S. states on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration from asking people filling out their 2020 census forms whether they are citizens. The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court, and challenged the U.S. Department of Commerce’s alleged “unconstitutional and arbitr...

An aide at a Christian day care facility in North Carolina has been fired and is facing child abuse charges after she was caught on video tearing a clump of hair out of the head of a toddler she was supposed to be supervising. According to WBTV, Rebecca Nicole DeGregory, 23, has been charged with on...

CNN Money editor Richard Quest on Tuesday started sounding the alarms about the problems that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is causing for global financial markets. Even though the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been trading higher on Tuesday, Quest nonetheless said that trad...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave special counsel Robert Mueller the authority to expand his investigation less than two weeks after President Donald Trump said that probing his finances would be a “red line.” In July 2017 interview with The New York Times, Trump was asked if a...

A wall in the town of Florence, Alabama which depicts President Trump shooting school children with a pistol in graphic detail has stirred the ire of neighbors. The graffiti showed up overnight on a graffiti wall that’s located on private property in the middle of the tiny downtown, reports Hu...

Antarctic underwater glaciers are eroding at an alarming rate, with eight of 65 observed glaciers retreating at an “extreme” pace, new research has found. According to the study, 1,463sq km of ice melted between 2010 and 2016, an area slightly smaller than the Greater London area....

Roger Stone, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, is now being sued for defamation by a Chinese billionaire. The Miami New Times noted Stone has had problems in the past “keeping his mouth shut,” and the most recent consequence is a hefty $100 million lawsuit. Guo Wengui, known in...

Robert Mueller, the U.S. Justice Department’s special counsel, is specifically authorized to investigate allegations that Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, a court filing showed late on Monday. The...

A Georgia woman opened fire on a real estate photographer she mistook for an intruder. The homeowner had hired a real estate consulting company to help sell her Winston home earlier this year, and she apparently forgot the photographer was coming when she awoke Feb. 2 and heard someone inside the ho...

The editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal took President Donald Trump out to the woodshed on Tuesday morning for his ill-considered tariffs on China that have rocked the U.S. stock market and have the potential to devastate American farmers. According to the Journal, Trump has talk...

Donald Trump is not backing away from his lie about Amazon costing the postal service money. “I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy,” he tweeted Tuesday morning. “Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and ...

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara made what must have been a tempting suggestion to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: Buy Twitter and shut down President Donald Trump’s account. Amazon lost $53 billion in market capital recently after Axios reported that the president wanted to “go after”...

US special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating a private consulting firm established in Israel and is linked to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Wall Street Journal reported. In a report published on Monday, the newspaper cited individuals familiar with the case as saying that the firm, Wikis...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday U.S. foreign aid to Honduras and other countries was at risk unless they stop a so-called caravan of more than 1,200 Central American migrants headed to the U.S. border with Mexico. Trump’s latest salvo against the migrants’ journey comes as the president has s...

The politics that divide Americans has more to do with sports than it does with complex political issues, a new study revealed. According to reporter Zaid Jilani, writing for The Intercept, Americans are more motivated by labels or “teams” like “liberal” and “conservati...

A CNN panel on Tuesday broke down the latest revelations about the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — and the conclusion was more bad news for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. CNN political director D...

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman on Tuesday warned that American democracy is in danger because President Donald Trump “is a disturbed person.” While appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, co-host John Heilemann reminded Friedman that he had recently written a column which decla...

A man who was part of a group who were attacked by an axe-wielding man in San Francisco last week told a court on Monday that their assailant yelled anti-Hispanic racist slurs at them before he allegedly killed one of them by ramming them with his van. According to KTVU, Mark Dennis, 33, has been ch...