Новости за 06.06.2016

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky is facing a recall effort after he sentenced Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, 20, to just six months in jail for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster near campus. Critics are calling Turner's sentence a "slap on the wrist" and a "mockery of the seriousness of his assault." Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, who is leading the campaign for Persky's removal, says that the judge, a Stanford alum, "bent over backwards to make... Читать дальше...

Attention fellow cereal lovers: There's soon going to be a new cereal on the market. General Mills, the creator of breakfast staples like Cheerios and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, announced Monday that after 15 years without a new offering, it will release a fresh product for America's breakfast bowls: Tiny Toast.

Hillary Clinton was making a name for herself before she'd even graduated from college. At the ripe young age of 21, Clinton — then just Hillary Rodham — was chosen to give a commencement address on behalf of her graduating class of 1969 at the women's liberal arts school, Wellesley College. On Monday, for the first time ever, Clinton's alma mater released the audio of that speech:

Stephen Curry has taken himself out of the running to play on the U.S. Olympic basketball team at this summer's Rio Games, the NBA MVP announced Monday. The Golden State Warriors guard cited "several factors — including recent ankle and knee injuries" as the basis for his decision. Though he called his previous experiences with U.S.A. Basketball "incredibly rewarding, educational, and enjoyable" and said the opportunity to wear the country's jersey is "an incredible honor," Curry wrote in a statement... Читать дальше...

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters announced Monday that the family of the child who fell into the gorilla habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo last month — resulting in the killing of an endangered gorilla to protect the boy — will not face criminal charges. The incident, which was captured on video, occurred after a 3-year-old boy "scampered away" from his mother and fell into the gorilla enclosure, where he encountered the 17-year-old, 400-plus-pound gorilla Harambe. After Harambe grabbed the boy... Читать дальше...

President Obama reportedly can hardly wait to get back on the campaign trail. After months of staying mum on the presidential election, Obama is now in "active conversations" with Hillary Clinton's campaign about how he can help her cause, The New York Times reports, and Obama's communications director Jennifer Psaki told the paper that the president "has indicated he wants to spend a lot of time on the campaign trail."

Donald Trump's campaign operation is in disarray, NBC News reports, and that disorganization has led to one missed opportunity after another. Case in point: Trump's top adviser Paul Manafort landed the candidate a "raft of endorsements from local supporters" in California, news which was supposed to be announced via a press release last week. But that release never came, as campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and press secretary Hope Hicks "vetoed draft after draft," according to NBC, evidence... Читать дальше...

BuzzFeed will renege on an ad deal with the Republican National Committee because of the nature of Donald Trump's candidacy, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced Monday morning. BuzzFeed had signed an advertising agreement with the RNC in April, before Trump became the Republican Party's presumptive nominee. Peretti said that while BuzzFeed does not "expect to agree with the positions ... of all our advertisers," Trump's controversial statements — such as his suggestion to ban Muslim immigration or his comments toward women and immigrants ... Читать дальше...

On Monday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough unleashed on Donald Trump and slammed the Republican Party for endorsing a "racist" man, after Trump publicly questioned the ability of Muslim and Mexican judges to rule impartially against him. Last Thursday, Trump said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a civil lawsuit against Trump University, had an "absolute conflict" and should recuse himself from the case because of his Mexican heritage; Trump has called for a wall along... Читать дальше...

Days after former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, 20, was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault on an unconscious woman, a letter written prior to his sentencing by his father, Dan Turner, has come to light. In the letter, Dan defends his son, highlighting his athletic accomplishments and bemoaning the fact that his "life has been deeply altered forever by the events of January 17th and 18th." Rather than calling those events rape, Brock's father instead labels them as a mere... Читать дальше...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is just like us — at least, when it comes to using the same password for logging in on multiple sites. On Monday morning, Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts were broken into after a hacker allegedly found his information from the LinkedIn data breach back in May that revealed 117 million user passwords. According to the hacker, Zuckerberg's LinkedIn password was also the key that unlocked a couple of his other accounts.

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Stock futures edged up on Monday ahead of a speech from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. Investors will be looking for indications from Yellen on whether Friday's disappointing jobs report will cause the Fed to delay raising interest rates. U.S. stocks closed down, but only slightly, at the end of last week after the Labor Department reported that the economy added just 38,000 jobs in May, far below expectations. The market now sees only a 4 percent chance the Fed will raise rates... Читать дальше...

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Hillary Clinton won decisive victories over Bernie Sanders in Sunday's Puerto Rico Democratic primary and Saturday's Virgin Islands caucus, putting her within 26 delegates of clinching the party's presidential nomination. Clinton is expected to declare victory on Tuesday when nominating contests in California and five other states put her over the 2,383 delegates needed to secure the nomination. Sanders said he "absolutely" plans to keep fighting to the party's July convention because... Читать дальше...

On Monday, the U.S. Navy ordered all 18,600 sailors stationed in Japan to remain on base and refrain from drinking alcohol, following an alleged drunk driving incident on Saturday. That incident, in which Okinawa police say U.S. Petty Officer 2nd Class Aimee Mejia hit two cars and injured two people while driving on the wrong side of the road, is the latest in a string of events that have strained relations between the U.S. military and Japanese communities. It occurred during a 30-day period... Читать дальше...

The Whaletone Royal Digital Piano (from $110,000) "resembles a water polished sea creature," says Uncrate.com, so of course it contains no strings or hammers under its soaring, fin-like lid. The newest and largest Whaletone, it includes a sound processor that mimics the tone of an acoustic concert grand but can vary that tone in dozens of ways. Polish designer Robert Majkut dreamed up the Whaletone several years ago, and "it's doubtful that even he could fully imagine how striking it would be."... Читать дальше...

The decision by Senate Republicans to not even hold hearings on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, has garnered some attention, but the Senate has also left about 10 percent of U.S. district court vacancies unfilled, or 67 of 673 district judge seats. That's twice as many vacancies as George W. Bush at this point in his presidency, and 50 percent more than Bill Clinton or George H.W. Bush, The Washington Post reports, citing data from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Читать дальше...

Violence is now an established feature of Donald Trump's politics. He regularly threatens, valorizes, and incites it. His rhetoric and argument are baldly racist, and his signature policy is an overtly racist border wall. Trump himself admitted the truth of this last week, when he argued that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing various lawsuits against Trump University, has a conflict of interest with Trump due to Curiel's Latino heritage and Trump's infamous wall. This obviously... Читать дальше...

Allergies suck.

Indeed, for far too many people, seasonal allergies manage to ruin the long-awaited spring and summer seasons. We can't picnic in the park or go for a lovely stroll through a meadow — at least not without begging, "Pass the eye drops and the tissues, please!"

Why must it be like this? Surely humans didn't evolve over millions of years so that stepping outside to enjoy the fresh air, smell the flowers, and lay in the grass would carry a punishment, right?

Here's... Читать дальше...

Most of us have had at least one or two terrible bosses — the yellers, the credit-stealers, the sexual harassers, or the ones who possess that magical combination of confidence and incompetence. But would you want to work for Donald Trump?

Two years before Donald Trump declared his candidacy for president, he took to Fox & Friends to discuss Edward Snowden's then-recent revelation of the unconstitutional mass surveillance of innocent Americans by the National Security Agency (NSA).

I guess there's a reason they call them "super" heroes. Because even in monstrously violent battles against seemingly unbeatable villains, the good guy always manages not just to win, but to do it without breaking a sweat or suffering even a scrape. This is quite common in superhero movies; the violence and destruction is casually massive, but the damage to our heroes is weirdly negligible.

Friday's job report was a study in whiplash.

The unemployment rate dropped a remarkable 0.3 percentage points: It was 5 percent in April, and fell to 4.7 percent in May.

Which sounds great!

But only 38,000 jobs were created last month. That's absolutely abysmal. It's likely the Verizon strike temporarily eliminated 35,000 to 40,000 jobs in May, which will return now that the strike is over. But even that would've only brought May's count to just under 80,000 new jobs. By comparison... Читать дальше...

Inside Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Learning, engineers pore over everything from vibrating insoles to DNA microscopes. But in Radhika Nagpal's computer engineering group, it's the whiteboards that hum. There, you'll see Root, a small robot that looks like an oversized hexagonal hockey puck. In seeming defiance of gravity, Root glides up and down whiteboards, drawing, erasing, beeping, and flashing — and it could end up changing the way people of all ages learn to code. Читать дальше...

Brent Stapelkamp loves lions.

In 1995, at the age of 17, the Zimbabwe native began working with lion cubs at an African wildlife orphanage. Inspired, he purchased a camera and began documenting his experience with the beautiful big cats.

Oct. 12, 2012 | Cecil and his lioness. | (Brent Stapelkamp / Courtesy of Anastasia Photo)

Stapelkamp is now a lion researcher with Oxford University's Wildlife Conservation Research Unit. His team has been studying lions at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park since 2008. Читать дальше...

Birthrates in Europe have been dwindling for decades. And now, America's birth rate is slowing, too. The U.S. had 3.98 million births last year, a dip of 0.3 percent from 2014. Meanwhile, the U.S. death rate rose in 2015 for the first time in a decade.