Новости за 02.04.2018

April 17th is Tax Day in the US and Bitcoin investments are taxed as a capital asset. A capital asset is anything you own, from a house to a car to stocks and bonds — as well as bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies. Sputnik discussed taxes on Bitcoin profits with Mati Greenspan, a senior market analyst.

Schools in Kentucky and Oklahoma closed Monday as teachers in both states went on strike to protest pension reforms and to demand pay raises.

The US Justice Department announced Monday that it plans to sue the US state of California over a state law that gives the Golden State the ability to veto sales of federal lands being either sold or transferred to private corporations.

Financial markets in the United States took another tumble on Monday on the heels of China announcing tariffs in retaliation to US President Donald Trump’s decision to tax up to $60 billion worth of goods imported from China.

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News’ It looks like US President Donald Trump isn’t the only one who thinks media outlets spread “fake news.” A Monmouth University poll reveals that the majority of Americans believe that mainstream news outlets report “fake news” as well.

Lockheed Martin is developing a new nuclear fusion reactor like no other. The US defense contractor says that the reactor is no bigger than a shipping container, but could power 80,000 homes.

China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier is poised to start its first sea trials later in April, according to military sources cited by the South China Morning Post.

Texas' Fort Worth Police Department launched an investigation Sunday after video footage published the previous day showed officers punching and kneeing a suspect who was already pinned to ground.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students returned to stricter security measures when classes resumed Monday after spring break. The new measures are further responses to the mass shooting at the Parkland, Florida, school on February 14 that killed 17 people.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - MHz Networks, the company that broadcast the RT channel in Washington, DC, was ordered by the signal owner to remove RT from the air by February 1, albeit without being given a reason for the demand, the Associated Press news agency reported.

The incident occurred when a group of friends were fooling around with a weapon and the woman accidently pulled the trigger.

While Germany has been on alert amid numerous knife attacks that have occurred on its territory over the last few months, local police officers have demanded a tougher legal approach toward perpetrators.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - China must stop its unfair trade practices instead of imposing retaliatory tariffs on fairly-traded US exports, White House Deputy Secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement.

The so-called “jihadist disease” unexplainably plagued the territories captured by Daesh*, causing its victims to literally rot from the inside out. An Iranian doctor and surgeon, Nasser Dehghani, told Sputnik about this unusual disease.

Local residents have been expressing their discontent with the policy conducted in Raqqa by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US coalition-appointed authorities. They took their protest to the streets on March 27 and organized a resistance militia.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United Nations is not gathering information for an independent probe into Gaza border deaths at this time, spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said during a press briefing.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Football fans have booked almost 50 percent of the tickets for the free trains that will travel between the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia this summer, Director General of Transport Directorate of FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 Kirill Polyakov told Sputnik Monday.

The explosion occurred on Monday evening in Burger King restaurant on the Northern Avenue in the center of Yerevan. There are several victims, the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - US authorities have arrested 28 people for illegally prescribing and distributing opioids and opened 188 active investigations, the US Department of Justice said in a press release on Monday.

This video shows a five-story residential building in the center of the southern Russian city of Sochi engulfed in flames: the fire spread throughout the roof.

Iran's growing influence in the Middle East is triggering deep concerns in Tel Aviv, Riyadh and Washington. Citing a 2007 attack on a Syrian facility which was believed to be an atomic reactor, Israel has made it clear that it will not allow the emergence of a powerful nuclear rival in the region.

The 15-year-old figure skater has revealed what she thinks about boys and her sporting career.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - It may take a few years in order for Facebook to solve the problems associated with third-parties using data from its users in unauthorized ways, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview.

Residents of the civil parish of Barming in Kent, England were celebrating Easter with their families when a part of Broomshaw Road suddenly collapsed, leaving them without water, media reported.