Новости за 08.11.2016

Yo dawg, Maine heard you like voting so it put a voting initiative on your ballot so you can vote while you vote — which is to say, Maine's Question 5 asks voters to consider switching to a ranked voting system for state and federal offices in future elections.

Buddy Dyer, the mayor of Orlando, announced the city has reached a deal with the owner of Pulse and will buy it for $2.25 million. The nightclub will be turned into a memorial to remember the victims in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

A Colorado woman cast her ballot Friday while in labor and in transit to the hospital. Sosha Adelstein planned to vote on Election Day, but her baby had other plans.

Donald Trump's campaign has filed a lawsuit against Joe P. Gloria, the registrar of voters in Clark County, Nevada, on the grounds that Las Vegas area voters were allowed to continue casting their ballots "two hours beyond the designated closing time."

Early results from Politico/Morning Consult's exit polling find Americans are unusually interested in presidential strength this year. More than a third of voters say they want "a strong leader" and nearly as many desire "a vision for the future" — but just 16 percent said they are voting for a candidate based on whether that person "cares about people like me" or "shares my values."

Along with gun control and legalizing marijuana, voters in several states will be able to weigh in on capital punishment this year.

Nearly 3,000 people in Newark, New Jersey, are homeless at any given time, and many local charities, religious organizations, and individuals provide the food they need to get along. But under city code, feeding the homeless is technically illegal unless you get a permit from local government in advance.

As U.S.-supported Iraqi forces press ever closer to Mosul, the last major city controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq, retreating ISIS fighters have taken hostage some 1,500 families and about 300 former Iraqi soldiers.

On Tuesday, Eric Trump, the son of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, wanted everyone to know that he cast his ballot for his dad. As proof, he took a photo of his ballot, with a darkened bubble above his father's name, and posted the photo on Twitter.

A Texas state trooper named Michael Tice has come under fire after two women, Tayler Myers, 18, and Courtney Palacios, 19, say he roughly attempted to remove their nipple rings by the side of the road during a traffic stop on Oct. 31.

This election spells the end of the world as we know, warn America's preppers, the survivalists who build secluded homes and stockpile seeds, canned goods, gold, solar panels, generators, and weapons to sustain and protect their families in the event of a national or global catastrophe.

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Throngs of women are visiting the Rochester, New York, grave of suffragette Susan B. Anthony today to commemorate the first election in which Americans have the opportunity to choose a female president. Anthony's modest tombstone is plastered with "I voted" stickers, and the cemetery will stay open late Tuesday evening so more voters can stop by.

While Hillary Clinton cast her ballot amid a crowd of excited supporters in Chappaqua, New York, this morning, Donald Trump had a more contentious voting experience. As Trump headed to his polling place in New York City, the Republican nominee was met by a crowd that mixed cheers with audible boos.

Voters in California, Maine, Nevada, and Washington are expected to approve gun control-related ballot initiatives Tuesday. The most expensive contest of the four is in Nevada, where Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety has dropped $14 million in favor of a universal background check initiative and the National Rifle Association has spent $4.8 million against it.

A giant sinkhole spontaneously appeared in Fukuoka, Japan, Tuesday morning, swallowing a busy intersection in a pit that grew to half the size of an Olympic swimming pool. No injuries or deaths were reported.

President Obama headed to Fort McNair, a small U.S. military base in Washington, D.C., for a casual game of basketball with friends and prominent supporters Tuesday morning.

NATO is preparing hundreds of thousands of troops in Eastern Europe to quickly mobilize against Russia, Jens Stoltenberg, the alliance's secretary-general, told The Times of London in an article published Monday.

A Canadian commercial diver named Sean Smyrichinsky was searching for sea cucumbers near British Columbia when he found a mysterious, large object he initially guessed might be a UFO.

Donald Trump ended his final campaign rally in Michigan after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, but he still called in to Fox & Friends a few hours later. "It's very exciting," he said when Brian Kilmeade asked how he is doing on Election Day. "I'm a little bit superstitious," Trump added. "So when you said please call, I said I'll call. But I won many primaries speaking to you first thing in the morning, so I'm going to keep that string going."

Accompanied by her husband, Bill, and surrounded by a press of journalists and screaming fans, Hillary Clinton cast her ballot at a local elementary school in Chappaqua, New York, early Tuesday morning.

In December of 2012, New York real estate magnet Donald Trump called in to Fox & Friends to talk about immigration reform — and specifically, why he believed it to be key to future Republican victories.

Election Day is here, and "this is supposed to be our moment," Samantha Bee said on Full Frontal, in a intermittently NSFW history lesson. "Girls that were born before women could vote will have their chance to cast their ballot for a woman." And yet, she said, "none of us has gotten to savor this historic election like we should. It's been like running a marathon while a bear is chasing you — we might be really proud, but it kind of gets lost in all the mortal terror, because apparently, a critical mass of Americans find a normal... Читать дальше...

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U.S. voters go to the polls on Tuesday, following a frenetic final day of campaigning by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in swing states on Monday. Brushing aside the FBI's clearing of Clinton over her emails, Trump said the FBI's handling of the issue proved the judicial system is "rigged" in Clinton's favor, and urged voters to "deliver justice at the ballot box." In Pennsylvania, Clinton accused her Republican rival of running a "negative, divisive, hateful" campaign... Читать дальше...