Новости за 25.02.2016

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R) took himself out of the running to be President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court Thursday, just a day after it became public that the White House was considering him to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died earlier this month.

Apple filed a motion Thursday asking a federal magistrate to vacate the order that it unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone. The company says the FBI seeks "dangerous power" in its request in the investigation of the Dec. 2 attack that killed 14 people.

David Duke, a white nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, sees voting for anybody but Donald Trump as the equivalent of committing "treason to your heritage."

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz thought the Lone Star State was his turf for the taking — but then, Donald Trump has an irritating habit of proving his competitors very wrong.

Jeb Bush is doing...okay. It had been iffy there for a while — his campaign tailspin ended in a brutal resignation to the fact that he would not be president, or even the Republican nominee. But since getting back to Miami, things have been looking a little brighter. In a call to donors on Wednesday, a "tired-sounding" Bush reported he'd been to the gym and was "sleeping really well," The New York Times writes.

Oscar season is finally at an end. For months, studios have spent countless hours pushing their biggest and buzziest movies for a shot at collecting some Oscar gold — and on Sunday night, we'll see who campaigned hardest.

After reviewing the data from more than one million college syllabi, Time published a list of the top 100 female authors read in college classes. Kate L. Turabian and Diana Hacker, both authors of writing manuals, topped the list, appearing in 3,998 and 3,889 curricula respectively. There was, however, a strange inclusion near the end of the list. Coming in at number 97 was Brideshead Revisited author Evelyn Waugh, who, despite his name, is not actually a woman.

Citing concerns about the Girl Scouts' support for transgender and homosexual rights, St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson cautioned church members against picking up a box of their cookies, The New York Times reports.

Donald Trump clobbers Hillary Clinton in a national match-up — among regular viewers of The Apprentice, that is. According to new poll results, loyal Apprentice fans from Trump's hosting years prefer him to Clinton by a margin of 28 points, while those who never really watched the show favor Clinton by 15 points.

Even in his home state of Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio doesn't seem to stand a chance of defeating Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. A new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows Trump with a robust 16-point lead on Rubio in the Sunshine State, with 44 percent to Rubio's 28 percent, ahead of the March 15 primary.

The Republican presidential candidates head into Thursday night's debate with Donald Trump's nearest rivals, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, needing breakout moments to disrupt the frontrunner's momentum before the Super Tuesday nominating contests next week.

In the first federal case in which photographing or filming cops was not deemed protected by the First Amendment, a Pennsylvania district court judge ruled against two people who were arrested while attempting to record police activity. One of the two plaintiffs took a photo of a group of officers outside a house party, and the other filmed cops arresting fracking protesters.

Vice President Joe Biden will introduce Lady Gaga's performance of her Oscar-nominated song "Till It Happens to You" at the Academy Awards Sunday night, White House officials announced Thursday. And after introducing the pop star's song about campus sexual assault, the VP will give a presentation advocating for the administration's "It's On Us" campaign about raising awareness about the problem of sexual violence on college campuses.

CNN's Jake Tapper spoke with commentators S.E. Cupp and Ana Navarro on The Lead yesterday about the very real possibility of Donald Trump becoming the Republican nominee. Although they didn't say it outright, both Cupp and Navarro were clearly worried about such a prospect — and optimistic about Marco Rubio's electability in the general election.

Faculty members at the University of Houston are speaking out about a new law in Texas that will allow public university students to bring guns into classrooms, The Associated Press reports. The opponents of the law claim sensitive topics will become entirely untouchable if there is a risk of riling someone up.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) is making a last-ditch effort to defeat Donald Trump by urging either Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to drop out of the Republican presidential race. The House Republican circulated a letter among his Republican colleagues in Congress Wednesday night, asking them to sign on to his push for Cruz and Rubio to join forces so conservatives can unite behind one candidate.

For the first time, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) no longer leads in his home state of Texas. A recent poll by WFAA-TV released just six days ahead of Super Tuesday reveals the Texas senator is now tied with Donald Trump for first, each with 32 percent. "He's fading," Southern Methodist University political science professor Cal Jillson said of Cruz.

1.

Apple engineers are working on security upgrades to make iPhones even harder — even "impossible" — to break into, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The changes involve methods like the ones federal investigators want help bypassing to access data on a locked iPhone used by one of the killers in the 2015 San Bernardino attack. The security upgrades could create a major new hurdle for law enforcement agencies even if the FBI wins its current court fight for an iPhone backdoor that... Читать дальше...

Death-by-selfie is an especially embarrassing and tragic way to go, but it is becoming less and less unusual as people seek out extreme and clever shots without paying attention to their surroundings. Mumbai, India, is the selfie-death capitol of the planet, with 19 of the world's 49 selfie-linked deaths having occurred within its limits since 2014, The Associated Press reports. Not coincidentally, Mumbai is also one of the world's largest cities, with nearly 12 million citizens and a rapidly expanding smartphone market. Читать дальше...

Death-by-selfie is an especially embarrassing and tragic way to go, but it is becoming less and less unusual as people seek out extreme and clever shots without paying attention to their surroundings. Mumbai, India, is the selfie-death capitol of the planet, with 19 of the world's 49 selfie-linked deaths having occurred within its limits since 2014, The Associated Press reports. Not coincidentally, Mumbai is also one of the world's largest cities, with 1.25 billion citizens and a rapidly expanding smartphone market. Читать дальше...

1.

The Republican presidential candidates head into Thursday night's debate with Donald Trump's nearest rivals, Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, needing breakout moments to disrupt the frontrunner's momentum before the Super Tuesday nominating contests next week. Trump has won in three consecutive states — New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada — and polls predict he'll dominate on Super Tuesday. Rubio, who narrowly beat Cruz for second place in Nevada, said Wednesday that once the... Читать дальше...

A glaring lack of diversity in children's books has lead Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers to launch an imprint centering on Muslim characters and stories, The New York Times reports. The brainchild of Zareen Jaffery — who recalls growing up as a Pakistani-American Muslim unable to relate to Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume — the new imprint will not emphasize theology or Islamic doctrine but instead the experience of being Muslim.

More Americans support than oppose Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' proposal to replace America's current private health care system with "a single government-run and taxpayer-funded plan like Medicare for all Americans that would cover medical, dental, vision, and long-term care services," according to an Associated Press/GfK poll released Thursday. The 38 percent plurality that back Sanders' plan — 33 percent oppose it — shrinks, however, when the pollsters said it would raise... Читать дальше...

There's still time for Republicans to stop Donald Trump, but not much. Super Tuesday is in just a few days, and if the polls are correct, Trump is going to romp through those primaries winning everywhere, with the possible exception of Ted Cruz's home state of Texas. After that, his nomination will go from "likely" to "nearly inevitable." And what will those Republicans who have been fussing and fretting over Trump do then?

Congratulations! You've made it through approximately 793 debates, thousands of soundbites, endless nasty mudslinging, and multiple forests worth of campaign mailers to finally land on the person you want to vote for for president. Now, you just need to convince other people to throw their support behind your candidate.