Новости за 09.09.2016

On Friday, Republican leaders flocked to the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of social conservatives, in Washington, D.C., to hear from a long and decorated list of speakers including former Rep. Michele Bachmann, Fox News anchor Kimberly Guilfoyle, Duck Dynasty star Al Robertson, and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

South Korean and U.S. Marines stand in smoke during the 66th Incheon Landing Operations Commemoration ceremony in Incheon, South Korea. | (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

If you've been puzzling over who to blame for North Korea's most recent nuclear test, Donald Trump's campaign has the answer: Hillary Clinton. On Friday, Trump's senior communications adviser Jason Miller released a statement calling North Korea's fifth nuclear weapons test Friday the fault of Clinton's "catastrophic failures as secretary of state." "Clinton promised to work to end North Korea's nuclear program as secretary of state, yet the program has only grown in strength and sophistication," the statement read... Читать дальше...

Update 3:56 p.m.: After a federal judge denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request to block a portion of the Dakota Oil Pipeline on Friday, the U.S. government issued a statement saying they are voluntarily stopping construction due to "important issues raised by the [tribe]." The government said it would only authorize construction once it determined "whether it will need to reconsider any of its previous decisions regarding the Lake Oahe site under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)... Читать дальше...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reported the fourth human case of an antibiotic-resistant superbug. The latest case was found in a 2-year-old in Connecticut, who may have contracted the superbug during a trip to the Caribbean in June. The child had a strain of E. coli that contained the gene mcr-1, which scientists have found to be resistant to the antibioitic colistin, which is the treatment administered as a last resort when patients aren't responding to other antibiotics. Читать дальше...

Americans are feeling the best about the U.S. economy that they have since before the 2008 economic collapse, a CNN/ORC poll released Friday has found. A whole 53 percent of Americans said that the economic conditions in the country are good, and optimism has not been that high since September 2007. Just last June, only 45 percent of the population felt positively about the economy.

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Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh has been accused of being out of touch with the state he hopes to represent in the Senate after this November's election. His Indiana voting status is reportedly inactive and after Bayh left the Senate for the first time in 2011, his permanent address was listed as Washington, D.C. And, well, there was that awkward moment last month when Bayh couldn't even remember his own Indiana address.

Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, delivered a supremely pithy retort via Twitter on Friday to Donald Trump's commendation of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "82 percent approval rating." In response to Trump's controversial praise earlier this week of Putin's "very strong control" over Russia, McFaul sarcastically pointed out that maybe President Obama, too, could be as popular as Putin if he started, say, arresting his detractors and taking control of the media:

On Friday, Congress passed a bill that could allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia over its alleged ties to the terrorist attacks. The House approved the bill with a voice vote, seconding the Senate's vote in May and sending the bill to President Obama's desk.

The Clinton Presidential Library has released 22 pictures of Donald Trump hanging out with Bill Clinton in 2000, following a Freedom of Information Act request from Politico. The pictures come from a June 2000 visit then-President Clinton paid to Trump Tower for a fundraiser, and from the September 2000 U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens, New York.

If the Minnesota Democratic Party gets its way, Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence might not appear on the state's ballot in November. Late Thursday, the party filed a lawsuit with the Minnesota Supreme Court arguing that the Minnesota Republican Party violated election rules by having an executive committee select alternate electors, Talking Points Memo explained:

Hours after North Korea announced its fifth successful nuclear test, President Obama issued a statement Friday morning condemning the test in "the strongest possible terms as a grave threat to regional security and to international peace and stability." He also warned of potential new sanctions against the nation for its actions. "To be clear, the United States does not, and never will, accept North Korea as a nuclear state," the statement read, calling North Korea's test evidence it has "no interest... Читать дальше...

Over the course of the long Labor Day weekend, American bombs rained down on targets spanning nearly 4,000 miles across the Mideast and North Africa.

How much wilderness is left on planet Earth? The answer to that question could determine a lot about how the globe bounces back from the effects of climate change, but the results of a new study do not paint a promising picture. While most conservation studies specifically document losses such as deforestation, conservation biographer James Watson has looked at the vanishing "wilderness" on the planet, which is "defined as pristine landscapes mostly free from human disturbances, including roads," Science writes. Читать дальше...

Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein should be excluded from the general election debates, Republican nominee Donald Trump told Larry King in an interview Thursday. "I'd rather it be Hillary and myself," he said, because "we're the only two with a chance at winning."

.@mikebarnicle: What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo? @GovGaryJohnson: And what is Aleppo? https://t.co/ZbqO5RAEsk

On Thursday night, NASA space probe OSIRIS-REx departed from Cape Canaveral on its mission to collect a sample of the asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft is expected to reach the asteroid, located more than 100 million miles from Earth, by 2018 and take samples of the asteroid's dirt before returning to Earth in 2023.

Hillary Clinton's poll numbers are dropping due probably to what an exasperated Washington Post editorial board calls "a minor email scandal" that has dragged on for more than a year. A recent CNN/ORC poll, for example, found that 50 percent of likely voters view Donald Trump as more honest and trustworthy — including 11 percent of Clinton supporters — while 35 percent of voters say the same of Clinton. In the same poll, voters don't seem hesitant about a female in the Oval Office, with 56 percent... Читать дальше...

Donald Trump made a controversial appearance on the Russian state-owned TV network RT on Thursday, where he defended Russia from accusations it launched a cyber-attack against the Democratic National Committee. "Who knows, but I think it's pretty unlikely," Trump told Larry King in the RT exclusive interview, while also criticizing U.S. foreign policy and the American media.

Donald Trump has pushed Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz to make his first-ever political donation. In an article published Friday on Medium, Moskovitz announced that he and his wife Cari Tuna are donating $20 million to Democratic Party organizations to help ensure Trump and the Republican Party's "zero-sum vision" doesn't see a victory in November. "So, for the first time, we are endorsing a candidate and donating," Moskovitz wrote. "We hope these efforts make it a little more likely that... Читать дальше...

Fifteen years ago Sunday, America and the world changed forever when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on a clear September morning in New York City. Soon, nearly all airplanes across the nation were grounded except for the one that harbored George W. Bush from the unknown and unfolding threat.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users might need to find a new travel companion. On Thursday — a week after Samsung recalled the smartphone because of problems with its battery exploding or catching fire — the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a warning against passengers turning on, charging, or stowing their Galaxy Note 7 in checked bags. Though the FAA has previously warned about the dangers of fires caused by cellphone batteries aboard planes, The Associated Press reported that it's "extremely... Читать дальше...

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Federal regulators said Thursday that Wells Fargo & Co. would pay $185 million to settle complaints that bank workers opened deposit and credit-card accounts without customers' approval to meet sales targets. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the bank opened more than 2 million such accounts. Wells Fargo fired 5,300 employees over the bogus sales. The CFPB's $100 million portion of the payments will be its largest fine ever. The rest of the money will go to the Office... Читать дальше...

On Wednesday night, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump "held, like, a mini debate, like an appetizer debate, an amuse-douche, if you will," Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show. "It was the first time the two of them were in the same room since Trump's wedding." And since they were both on the USS Intrepid at the same time, "a lot of people were tempted to just cut the lines and let it drift out to sea," he said. Donald Trump kicked off his part by lying about supporting the Iraq War, but... Читать дальше...