Новости за 11.08.2016

If watching the Perseid meteor shower isn't in your Thursday night plans, consider a revision. Scientists expect this year's shower to be particularly dazzling.

Hillary Clinton taunted Donald Trump with the Olympics during her economic speech Thursday in Warren, Michigan. While contrasting her trade position with Trump's, Clinton suggested the Republican nominee simply lacked the courage to compete in a challenging global market. "If Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room, afraid to come out to compete," Clinton said, referring to the gold medal-winning swimmer and gymnast.

Hillary Clinton isn't buying Donald Trump's promise that he'll look out for the "little guy." And, she said at a Thursday rally in Warren, Michigan, the tax proposal Trump outlined earlier this week is proof her hunch is right.

The Drug Enforcement Administration will not reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, despite two petitions asking for it be reconsidered. Instead, marijuana will remain categorized with the most restricted drugs, like heroin and LSD, ABC News reports.

Days after endorsing Donald Trump and Mike Pence, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) admitted Hillary Clinton wouldn't be an entirely terrible option for president. Though King, a notoriously conservative Tea Party member, said he and Clinton "don't agree on very much," he said that moments when he's "sat across the table with Hillary Clinton eye-to-eye" have made him confident they could work together despite their partisan differences. "[W]hen you're working outside of staff and outside of the press she is somebody I can work with," said King... Читать дальше...

As summer dwindles to its final days, President Obama gave everyone a peek at what he's been listening to through the Washington, D.C. heat and humidity. On Thursday, he tweeted out his summer playlist, which came in two parts: daytime and nighttime.

Since all six trials in connection to the 2015 death of Baltimore's Freddie Gray ended in mistrial, acquittal, or dropped charges, the officers involved will now return work in Baltimore's police force, pending administrative review.

Reports suggest the NFL is after the British songstress Adele to perform in the Super Bowl LI halftime show in February, following her wildly successful year. "There is nobody bigger in the world than Adele right now and organizers are doing absolutely everything they can to try to persuade her to sign up," an NFL insider allegedly told The Sun. "She's sold out every date on her tour, everyone wants a piece of her and they know they can bank on her bringing in the viewers."

How many ground troops has the United States deployed against the Islamic State? No one knows, because the Pentagon won't say.

It may be time to say goodbye to your local Macy's. As sales continue to sag, Macy's Inc. announced Thursday that it's planning to close 100 of its department stores, adding to another 40 store closures announced earlier this year. Macy's sales have declined six quarters in a row.

Donald Trump blasted President Obama on Wednesday for allegedly "founding" the Islamic State, although he later revised his statement to say that Obama was merely a co-founder, working with Hillary Clinton to start the terrorist group. "[Obama] was the founder of ISIS, absolutely," Trump said.

In less than a month, Americans will begin casting their votes for the next president of the United States. Starting with North Carolina, which mails out absentee ballots on September 9, half a dozen swing states will have the opportunity to vote next month, The Washington Examiner points out — and that could mean serious trouble for Donald Trump, whose general election campaign is still in its early stages compared to Hillary Clinton's vast organization.

A Republican state representative said he showed up to a town hall for vice presidential nominee Mike Pence on Wednesday only to find that he no longer had a place to sit. While State Rep. Niraj Antani (R-Ohio) had initially been seated in a VIP area for elected officials, he says he was relegated to the general admission section because of a tweet he'd written about Donald Trump:

Donald Trump is now openly hostile toward the press, vilifying the "rigged" and "dishonest" media at every event. His supporters agree with him, blaming media bias for Trump's recent slide in the polls. But covering Trump isn't exactly a cakewalk for the journalists assigned to his campaign, either, as NBC News reporter Katy Tur recounts in an essay at Marie Claire. Tur is probably best known for this exchange with Trump over his suggestion on July 27 that Russian hacker find and leak Hillary Clinton's deleted emails:

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Donald Trump has had a rough couple of weeks — and for a man who talks about his #1 quality being "winning," things might be looking a little bleak right now. Speaking on CNBC on Thursday, Trump mostly skirted around the topic of his slipping favor, arguing that "I don't think I've made too many errors" as well as asking the hosts to define "what a mistake means" after being questioned if he regrets his widely-criticized comments on the Khan family.

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Crude oil prices extended their losses early Thursday as fears over a global glut deepened following reports of growing oil stocks in the U.S. and record output in Saudi Arabia. The International Energy Agency, however, issued a report predicting that pent-up demand would absorb oversupply in coming months, steadying prices later in the morning. The IEA also cut its projection for demand growth due to weakening global economic growth in 2017. The glut has dragged oil prices from $115... Читать дальше...

Arianna Huffington, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, announced Thursday that she is stepping down from the media organization to run her new project, Thrive Global.

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An anonymous Secret Service official said Wednesday that members of the agency had talked with representatives of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign regarding his remark on how "Second Amendment people" could stop Hillary Clinton from appointing a pro-gun-control majority to the Supreme Court. Democrats have called the comment a threat of violence against Clinton. Secret Service communications director Cathy Milhoan did not confirm the talks, but said the "U.S. Secret Service is aware of Mr. Читать дальше...

After Donald Trump publicly refused to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in his reelection race, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus reportedly offered Trump an ultimatum: Either he could shape up, or he could lose the support of the RNC's resources. Time, in its cover story out Thursday, described the moment as a sort of "breaking point" between the RNC chair and the Republican Party's presidential nominee:

Turkey has extended an offer to Russia to carry out joint anti-Islamic State strikes in Syria just days after Turkish President Recep Erdogan visited St. Petersburg to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The offer indicates easing tensions between the nations after Turkish forces shot down a Russian warplane along the Syrian border nine months ago.

Are you watching the Summer Olympics? Because NBC is beginning to worry that you aren't; in a year the network had hoped would blow the London 2012 ratings out of the water, NBC is experiencing quite the letdown with Rio viewership:

Fugitive former NSA contractor/whistleblower Edward Snowden may be living in exile in Moscow, but he still gets around. In 2016 alone, he has spoken, via video chat, to audiences at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Comic-Con San Diego, a surveillance symposium in Tokyo, Denmark's huge Roskilde Festival, and two public U.S. universities. For the most part, he's not speaking pro bono, and thanks to an arrangement with an elite speakers bureau, he has pulled in more than $200,000 in fees over the past year... Читать дальше...

"I'm so tired of this politically correct crap," Donald Trump declared back in September 2015 to big cheers from a campaign crowd in South Carolina. That line, or a similar knock on "political correctness," has become a staple at his rallies, and it's always a hit. Like so much of the 2016 race, this election has been about relitigating the battles of the 1990s, and Trump's war on political correctness is as much of a throwback to the Bill Clinton presidency as Hillary Clinton's quip about how... Читать дальше...

How can we solve climate change? One option is obvious, if a bit strange: If dumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is the problem, then we could always suck it back out.

Campaigning for president in 1952, Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson was told by an enthusiastic voter that he had the support of every thinking person in the country. "That's not enough, madam," Stevenson supposedly answered. "We need a majority." Since those were the dark days before smartphones and Snapchat when a candidate could have an unrecorded conversation with a voter, we don't know for sure if it actually happened that way. But the story certainly resonated with Stevenson's image as... Читать дальше...