Новости за 14.03.2018

Oklahoma is set to become the first state in the country to use nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty, The Oklahoman reports. Executions in the state have been on hold since 2015 due to a series of problems with lethal injection drugs, including a particularly disturbing 2014 case in which an inmate "began to twitch and gasp" after the drug was administered, ultimately dying from a heart attack.

Libertarian Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested Wednesday that he is considering filibustering President Trump's nomination of Mike Pompeo for secretary of state and Gina Haspel for CIA director, Politico reports. "People complain sometimes about the filibuster, they complain about trying to obstruct," Paul told Politico. "I think the debate over whether or not America is a country in favor of torture or not is an important one. I'm going to do everything I can to block them."

President Trump has chosen economist and media analyst Larry Kudlow to direct the National Economic Council, Politico reported Wednesday. Kudlow will replace Gary Cohn, the Goldman Sachs executive who resigned from the post amid disagreements over Trump's steel and aluminum import tariffs.

Thousands of students across the country walked out of their schools at 10 a.m. on Wednesday to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The students — who left from elementary schools, universities, and every grade in between — called for stricter gun laws using signs like "I wanna make it to graduation" and "no more silence." According to organizers, people at more than 2,800 schools and universities signed up to participate. Читать дальше...

Three students were injured when a math teacher fired a semiautomatic handgun at the ceiling of a classroom during a firearm safety course on Tuesday at Seaside High School in Monterey County, California, NBC News reports. "It's the craziest thing," said Fermin Gonzales, whose 17-year-old son was apparently bruised by a bullet fragment. "It could have been very bad."

CNN's Chris Cuomo, who is known for his frequent explosive interviews with Trump administration officials, will reportedly be moving to the network's 9 p.m. spot to directly compete against MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Fox News' Sean Hannity, The New York Times reports based on conversations with insiders.

New York Post staffers likely never anticipated that they were broadcasting details of the future president's sex life when they published a 1990 headline that read "'BEST SEX I'VE EVER HAD,'" alongside a grinning Donald Trump.

A Florida Department of Citrus employee has been arrested for improperly using the agency's computers to mine for cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, the Tampa Bay Times reports. The computers are typically reserved for matters having to do with the promotion and regulation of the local citrus industry.

Facebook has decided to unfriend the unfriendly.

The company removed pages belonging to far-right U.K. group Britain First for repeatedly posting "content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups," Facebook explained in a blog post on Wednesday. The social media site said the group had ignored a final written warning asking it to stop sharing content that violates Facebook's hate speech community standards. The group's leaders, who were jailed last week after being convicted of religiously aggravated harassment... Читать дальше...

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday that the United Kingdom will expel 23 Russian diplomats, the most since the Cold War, as well as suspend all planned high-level bilateral contacts with the Kremlin, NBC News reports.

Health care was the top issue for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district voters, who seemingly elected Democrat Conor Lamb over Republican Rick Saccone in a dramatically close special election on Tuesday, Public Policy Polling found. Fifty-two percent of voters said health care was a top issue in their decision and "among voters who said health care was the most important issue for them, Lamb beat Rick Saccone 64-36, and among a broader group of voters who said it was either the most important or a very important issue... Читать дальше...

President Trump aims to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion of Chinese imports, primarily in the technology and telecommunications sectors, Reuters reported, citing a source who discussed the issue with the White House. Another source said the list could include 100 targeted products.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson claimed he was "as surprised as anyone" to find out his office had ordered a $31,000 dining set, although emails released following a Freedom of Information Act request by liberal watchdog American Oversight appear to show Carson and his wife personally selected the furniture, CNN reports. An email from a career staffer with the subject line "Secretary's dining room set needed," sent in August to Carson's assistant, references "printouts of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Читать дальше...

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Walmart is expanding its grocery delivery service to about 800 stores in 100 cities by the end of the year, the giant retailer said Wednesday. The move, which will affect markets that reach 40 percent of the U.S. population, marks an escalation in Walmart's battle with Amazon, which recently expanded its new Amazon Prime grocery delivery service to six cities, and is adding other Prime benefits for shoppers at the Amazon-owned Whole Foods. Other grocery chains such as Kroger and Target... Читать дальше...

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President Trump said Tuesday that he had pushed out Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and would nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him. The move marked a major shakeup of Trump's national security team ahead of an unprecedented plan for the president to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after escalating tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Tensions had been bubbling up between Trump and Tillerson for months over differences on key policies, such as the... Читать дальше...

Norwegian musher Joar Leifseth Ulsom won the 2018 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Wednesday when he crossed the finish line in Nome, Alaska, just after 3 a.m. local time, the Anchorage Daily News reports. It is Leifseth Ulsom's first time winning the nearly 1,000-mile race, although his time — 9 days, 13 hours, and one minute — is almost half an hour shorter than his previous slowest Iditarod run in 2013. He claimed the slowest winning time since 2009.

The special House election in Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district was, among other things, a test of political messaging going into the 2018 midterms. It did not go well for Republicans. Democrat Conor Lamb declared victory early Wednesday. Though he held a lead of just under 700 votes, NBC News projected him the winner.

The idea that personal virtue creates economic success is often associated with conservatism. But the Democrats' 2016 presidential nominee just showed that liberals have their own warped version of this bogus myth, too.

The results of Tuesday's Pennsylvania special election should be an unbearably loud fire alarm for national Republicans about the state of public dissatisfaction with their party. If they aren't covering their ears and sprinting for the exits, they are making a fatal error.

In a completely unexpected development, the House Intelligence Committee announced this week that its exhaustive investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election has concluded, and there is no evidence of collusion between anyone in the Trump campaign and Russia. Case closed! What a relief.

It's difficult to imagine how Rex Tillerson might have survived any longer as President Trump's secretary of state.

At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, students at schools across the U.S. and as far away as Australia and Germany plan to walk out of class for 17 minutes to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed in that shooting, and most of the students participating will be protesting for stricter gun laws, though the protests will take different forms at different schools. According to organizers, students at more... Читать дальше...

On Tuesday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert explained the curious circumstances surrounding President Trump's tweet-sacking of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. But "Tillerson's firing today is just the latest in a massive purge of the Trump administration," he noted, listing off the biggest of the fallen Trumpites. "For those of us in the media, the constant turnover has been amazing to watch: the drama, the fireworks, the winners, the losers, the losers, the losers. It's like something out of The Hunger Games. Читать дальше...

Secretary of State and "human Grumpy Cat" Rex Tillerson was just one of three Trump administration officials fired on Tuesday alone, Trevor Noah said on The Daily Show. "Working for the White House is basically like being in a Saw movie: You show up, you get tortured for a while, and then you get killed off." It's not clear why Trump decided to fire Tillerson now, Noah said, but he summed up their fraught relationship with the "serious mind games" Trump played with Tillerson on North Korea. "It's... Читать дальше...

President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday. "The strange part about this is ... everything," Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday's Late Show. "But strangest of all is how Trump told him, via tweet. ... What could be worse than learning you got fired from your boss' tweet? Oh, maybe seeing that 86,000 people 'liked' it. 'I lost my job but I am #trending,'" Colbert joked. "It's too bad Twitter wasn't around when Trump ended his first two marriages — back then he had to do it by... Читать дальше...