Новости за 14.05.2016

The mother of James Holmes, the gunman who fatally shot 12 people and injured 70 others in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012, spoke out about the incident for the first time Friday. In an interview with KGTV San Diego, Arlene Holmes said she thinks often about the victims, who were attending a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises.

For months, BuzzFeed News has been all over Donald Trump's history of disturbing public comments about women. Now, The New York Times gives us a glimpse at his private interactions with the opposite sex, via dozens of women who have worked with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington wasn't supposed to tell a soul about the much-hyped fate of his character, Jon Snow. That's not quite how it played out, as Harington told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.

Don't expect to see Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the Supreme Court — not to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat and not further down the line, either.

FIFA appointed Fatma Samoura as the secretary general of soccer's international governing body Friday. The former United Nations diplomat is the first woman and the first African to hold the title, Quartz reports.

The German government expects to spend roughly $106 billion — 93.6 billion euros — on costs associate with the refugee crisis by the end of 2020, according to weekly news magazine Der Spiegel, which cited Saturday a draft from the federal finance ministry for negotiations.

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Conservative politicians were quick to slam President Obama's directive that public schools allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity rather than biological sex, with Texas officials even going so far as to hint at a lawsuit. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest responded by pointing out the directive is merely "guidance" for how schools can prevent discrimination, and that it doesn't add any legal requirements, though non-compliant schools may be at risk of losing federal funding. Читать дальше...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of the Phoenix area, known nationally for being notoriously hard on unauthorized immigrants, was found to be in contempt of court Friday for disobeying a federal judge's order in a racial profiling case, The New York Times reports.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to reform the system for holding police officers accountable for misconduct, he wrote in a Chicago Sun-Times essay Friday. Emanuel outlined replacing the Independent Police Review Authority, which has been criticized for being lenient on cops, with a new civilian investigative agency.

Granite Springs, New York. This converted barn built in the 1780s has a great room with a 23-foot, cedar-planked ceiling. The six-bedroom house features exposed chestnut beams, an updated kitchen, a fireplace, and an in-law apartment with a kitchenette.

"One of the biggest challenges with smartwatches is trying to navigate through apps on a relatively tiny screen," said Ben Popper at The Verge. To solve that problem, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a technology that turns the skin on your arm and hand into an extension of the smartwatch's touch screen. The system, known as SkinTrack, combines a signal-emitting ring worn on the finger that communicates with a sensing band attached to the watch.

Here are three of the week's top pieces of financial advice, gathered from around the web:

An hour's drive from Wichita, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem.

"Who doesn't like a customized breakfast?" HiConsumption.com asks. With the PancakeBot 3D Food Printer ($300), you no longer have to be a genius with scrambled eggs to make a special someone feel loved. Create a drawing on your computer — using a photo as a tracing guide if you wish — and the food printer will turn the image into a pancake unlike any other. The device, created by a Norwegian robot engineer, uses batter to draw the image on the heated grill. Almost any drawing can become a pancake... Читать дальше...